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21) Skylark
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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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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.
24) Dry
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390 pages ; 22 cm
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A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive. The drought--or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it--has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't fill up your pool, don't take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly,...
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"In the Pennywort [farm], there is a garden of edible flowers, a garden meant for touching, and one in which the flowers only bloom at night ... Since her mother's death 5 years ago, Olivia has been carrying on her legacy, caring for Pennywort Gardens and running an informal program that provides safe haven to women in exchange for their help with the lush gardens. The townspeople hate having what they call a 'halfway house' around, and Olivia's neighbors...
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307 pages ; 23 cm
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Lyndall Burke, a vulnerable young scientist and free spirit, gets caught up in a battle between ecoterrorists and corrupt public officials over water in the drought-stricken desert Southwest. Lyndall's disappearance leads police officer Susan Brand and private investigator Jake Goddard to rush to her aid, but abduction, deceit, and murder could lead to a cataclysmic ending jeopardizing the entire region. The story is set in Jackson Hole, Wyoming,...
28) Scrublands
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368 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
29) The Rainmaker
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood.
31) Khumba
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A half-striped zebra blamed for the drought in Great Karoo embarks on a quest to earn his stripes by finding the legendary waterhole and saving the animals back home.
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326 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Jae, a sixteen-year-old former slave girl has found magic and broken out of the curse imposed by the ruling class. To free the rest of her people, she may have to lead a violent revolution"--
Jae was a slave girl -- abused, beaten, raped and treated as less than human -- until she found the hidden magic needed to replenish the Well. She has broken out of the curse imposed by the ruling class. But to free the rest of her people, she may have to lead...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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As they prepare to make the traditional, pillowy bread called sopaipilla, Christina's grandmother tells about the time her great-grandfather, aided by a scarecrow, brought an end to a drought and, in the process, helped make the first sopaipilla.
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256 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come,...
37) Utama
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the...
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Mimbreño cousins help their community during a drought and welcome a new boy to the pueblo, knowing that even though he acts rashly, he will learn to use his talents in a positive way. Includes instructions for making talking sticks and lightning sticks.
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231 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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English
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Draws on reports, newspaper articles, and interviews to chronicle the American Dust Bowl, providing photographs to illustrate the catastrophe as well as offer a tribute to man's relationship to the land and his ability to persevere.
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