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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Saddle up! Fresh from an extensive trip out West, naturalist Jim Arnosky returned to his drawing table bursting with scenes to paint and information to share. He evokes the excitement of seeing buffalo, horses, sandhill cranes, prairie dogs, rattlesnakes, and other amazing animals in their natural settings in some of the best paintings he's ever done. Called "an inspired teacher" by Roger Tory Peterson, Jim Arnosky conveys information and easy, useful...
3) Deserts
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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An introduction to the characteristics of deserts and the plants and animals that inhabit them.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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From the highly acclaimed team of Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall comes the story of a girl who shares her love for desert life as she tells of treasured experiences like dancing in the wind on Dust Devil Day or sleeping outside on a hot summer night during The Time of the Falling Stars. Baylor's radiant prose-poem and Parnall's exquisite illustrations combine to create a joyous celebration of the human spirit.
7) Cactus poems
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
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English
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Poems and photographs depict desert ecosystems in North America.
8) Never
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"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
11) Deserts
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56 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm.
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English
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Presents an introduction to deserts, in simple text with illustrations, and includes information on what they are, its animal life, its plant life, as well as a description of different world deserts, such as the Gobi, the Sahara, and the Mojave.
13) Mojave
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A brilliant suicidal artist, Thomas, attempts to escape his privileged existence by heading out to the desert, only to encounter homicidal, chameleon-like drifter Jack. Their first encounter at a campfire sets up a nonstop, violent duel of physical and intellectual equals, a chase that moves from the spectacular vistas of the American desert to a noir Los Angeles, where Thomas's notoriety as an artist is revealed.
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191 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
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English
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Africa has long evoked tales of tribal peoples, big game, and exotic landscapes. In the year of 2000, globalization aside, the deserts of the "Dark Continent" still retain their mystery. Through his images of these vast, deceptively desolate stretches, geographer and photographer Michael Martin lays bare the cultural and spiritual core of Africa. His travels across the Sahara, the Kalahari, the Namib, and the volcanic wastelands of the Rift Valley...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"Fudge and Einstein are a ferret duo. They're going on a vacation adventure out west, to Arizona. Fudge doesn't want to go. He likes to relax. Einstein likes action and can't wait for their trip. But when they get to the ranch, Fudge experiences the biggest adventure of his life. Maybe trying new things isn't so bad after all..." --
Two pet ferrets named Fudge and Einstein get ready for an Arizona vacation, and even though Fudge is nervous about...
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Criterion collection volume 540
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2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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