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1) Desert gold
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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
2) Quicksilver
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Raised in an orphanage, Quinn Quicksilver had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents, fleeing for his life. During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his...
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2023.
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"When Janelle Ortega's cousin from Mexico is found brutally murdered at a remote petroglyph site in Saguaro National Park, she and her husband, archaeologist Chuck Bender, are drawn deep into a threatening web of hostility and deceit stretching south across the US-Mexico border and back in time a thousand years, to when the Hohokam people thrived in the Sonoran Desert"--
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Wolfe family novels volume 2
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"Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization....
6) Cactus Hotel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Tap-tap, tap-tap! A woodpecker welcomes morning to the Sonoran Desert, and with it, award-winning author/illustrator Caroline Arnold starts the clock ticking on one 24-hour cycle of animal activity in the desert habitat. Her cut-paper illustrations and story-like narrative entertains kids and as it informs them about desert life.
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2007
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Creatures of the Namib Desert: This program takes a look at the vast wilderness of the Namib Desert and shows how nature has learned to adapt and flourish. -- Sonoran Desert: Far from a desolate wasteland, the Sonoran Desert's spectacular landscape and varied climate support a diverse community of plant and animal life, such as the Saguaro cactus, the nectar bat and the gila monster
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Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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When her family moves to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Megan keeps a nature journal in which she describes the desert, the changes that occur throughout the seasons, and how these affect the plant and animal inhabitants.
15) The border
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
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After the slaughter of their families in Northern Mexico, teens Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys narrowly escape into the Sonoran Desert, pursued by the La Frontera gang.
17) Sonora
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2017.
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"Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky, Ahlam's imagination reigns. She battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous counterpart Laura, the two fall into infatuated partnership, experimenting with drugs and sex, and watching...
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2021.
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When a chipmunk mistakes Hare for a rabbit, Hare puts him in his place. But actually, the chipmunk is a GROUND SQUIRREL. Or so he says. Ever wondered about the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? Or a sheep and goat? So have Rabbit and Chipmunk--er, I mean, Hare and Squirrel! This hilarious look at dynamic duos in the animal kingdom pokes fun at the lookalike animals we all love, while delivering a gentle lesson on appreciating differences...
20) Saguaro cactus
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c1997
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Describes the size, life, and potential age span of the saguaro cactus and its effect on other desert life.