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Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause-a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen-and it could spell doom for the entire world.
22) Desert: poems
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
126 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first collection of original poetry by the renowned nature writer and highly lauded translator of the Chinese classics. David Hinton's poetic sense shines so brightly through his translations of the Chinese poets and in his transcendent prose that one assumes he must write his own verse--and he has indeed been doing so for years, sharing it informally at readings and among his students. Here at last is a collection of Hinton's poetry. The poems...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
417 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become...
25) Desert solitaire
Author
Language
English
Description
This memoir of life in the American desert by the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang is a nature writing classic on par with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey recounts his many escapades, adventures, and epiphanies as an Arches National Park ranger outside Moab, Utah. Brimming with arresting insights, impassioned arguments for wilderness conservation, and a raconteur’s...
In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey recounts his many escapades, adventures, and epiphanies as an Arches National Park ranger outside Moab, Utah. Brimming with arresting insights, impassioned arguments for wilderness conservation, and a raconteur’s...
Author
Publisher
Bear Grylls/Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sophie loves camp--except for all the creepy-crawlies. Getting trapped in the tent with a daddy longlegs is terrifying, and spiders make her scream. It's so embarrassing. But then a mysterious compass transports her to a fiercely hot desert, where Bear Grylls, her guide, is watching. The sun is beating down, and together they must trek to find water and overcome the dangers lurking in the dunes ... Will Sophie find her survival spirit, face up to...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having not spoken to each other in a year, three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other. The brothers wanted to regain their friendship of each other. Their "spiritual quest," however, veers rapidly off-course -- thanks in part to over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray. Eventually the three find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert...
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