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Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The waterholes of the Plain are drying up, and Wulfgar, leader of the Altaii people faces many other challenges. This is Robert Jordan's never-before-published first novel, which he wrote before his well-known Wheel of Time series.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After a two-year drought, the Kerrigan ranch is dry as a bone and as dusty as a honky-tonk bible. On the brink of ruin, Kate Kerrigan hires the rainmaker Professor Somerset Lazarus, who promises salvation--in the form of a deluge. Kate is desperate enough to try anything. But when four angry gunmen show up, ready to lynch the phony rainmaker for swindling them out of their money, the Kerrigans have to choose sides fast--before the bullets start to...
45) Utama
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
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...
46) Drought management and its impact on public water systems: report on a colloquium, Sept. 5, 1985
Publisher
National Academy Press
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
48) A dry spell
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In North Dakota, a rain maker is hired by a woman banker to combat an evil spirit, blamed for a drought which has almost destroyed the economy. The result is mayhem--and love.
49) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 870L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the sun baking their Kenyan village for months and no rain sight, Lila learns the trick for making the rains come from her wise grandfather and so heads out to confront the sky in the hopes of saving everyone and everything in the land she loves.
Series
Energy ecology and the environment volume Number 9
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
53) Rainstack!
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
When a terrible drought struck, the animals in the valley turned to a rabbit inventor who said he could invent a robot to make it rain.
55) Skylark
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 5 of a series
Publisher
Sarah Productions
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Series
AWWA manual volume M60
Publisher
American Water Works Association
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
57) Daughter of mine
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge . . . including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
Author
Series
American diaries volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In Texas in 1886, Ellen finds her desire to be a cattle rancher discouraged by family members who do not think it a proper choice for a girl, but she proves her worth when drought threatens the ranch.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
During a dry time, Mama leaves Little One alone while she climbs the highest mountain to ask the skies for rain, but she promises that her love will remain all around.