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1) Droughts
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55 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm.
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English
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"A discussion of droughts, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant droughts from history"--
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English
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"The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning "5 Under 35" fiction writer. In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that harnesses the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future. Unrelenting...
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Animal stories volume 1
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46 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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One hot dry summer in Africa, the animals try to figure out how to get fruit from a magical tree.
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352 pages : illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end. The watering holes of the Plain are drying up, the fearsome fanghorn grow more numerous, and bad omens abound. Wulfgar, a leader of the Altaii people, must contend with twin queens, warlords, prophets, and magic in hopes of protecting his people and securing their future. Elspeth, a visitor from another world, holds the answers, but first Wulfgar must learn to ask the right questions. But what if the...
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711 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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Hot Iron: "In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard, but keeping it is even harder. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter already wrestling with a slew of problems when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains -- and more trouble finds him. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch,...
9) Parched
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v, 312 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Feeling guilty after her mother's accidental death, sixteen-year-old Tessendra Rockwood leaves the abundance of Eden to fight for survival in the drought-devastated Badlands, but when she joins the rebel group, Kudzu, to fight the tyranny of Eden's government, she is in for some big surprises.
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189 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm
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English
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Defend and fortify your crops, soil, pasture, and livestock against inadequate rainfall -- and even chronic drought -- with strategies from a sixth-generation Kansas farmer and agronomist that will restore soil productivity through grazing, soil microbiology, and cover crops. Dale Strickler shares the lessons he's learned while saving his own family farm from drying up, including installing rain-collection tanks, creating swales, and building retention...
11) The farmer
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 28 cm
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English
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Paul works hard on his farm while those in the village are resting, but when drought comes, friends unexpectedly arrive to lend a hand.
13) The storyteller
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
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Colección Alandar volume 116
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174 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
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Every summer Galshan leaves his city in Mongolia to visit his grandfather in the valley. For weeks the sun and wind raze everything in it's path. The men decide to head north in search of green pastures for their animals.
16) Parched
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154 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water.
18) Skylark
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English
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
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355 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Cynthia Barnett's "Rain "begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science--the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains--with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes...
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
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English
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Guided by a blue hummingbird, Jade brings an offering to the Mountain Spirit who lives near her village in Mexico, and asks if he will send rain to end the drought that threatens the people. Includes information about the legend on which this story is based and facts about corn.
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