Product Description: Alone in the arid African desert landscape, danger surrounds you. Can you survive hungry, ferocious lions, herds of stampeding gazelles, and an angry black rhino?

Product Description: Killing is for the living.Skye Fargo has spent weeks with the U.S. Army Camel Corps, trying to create a supply train across the Mojave Desert. But after fighting Indians, bushwhackers, and nature itself, his deadliest foe appears: Pablo “the Scorpion” Alvarez...read more

Product Description: Zagora Pym has always wanted to be a desert explorer. Her father, Charlie Pym, is exactly that, and she's always loved to look over his maps of far away exotic places. One day she'd be trekking through the deserts of Africa and China, discovering hidden treasures from lost tribes...read more

Product Description: Discover the timeless treasures and wonders of the desert with your child in this beautiful picture book. Watch as your children flip through each gorgeous page and take in the marvels of the desert - the landscapes, the history, the people, the animals - in this sweeping tale, while they look in the background for the hidden animals from previous or upcoming pages...read more

Product Description: A stunningly written tale of an isolated girl and the shape-shifting boy who shows her what freedom could be--if only she has the courage to take it.Controlled by her father and bound by desert, Frenenqer Paje's life is tediously the same, until a small act of rebellion explodes her world and she meets a boy, but not just a boy--a Free person, a winged person, a shape-shifter...read more

Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours. “The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different. A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe. Aided by his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Odd will race against time to thwart the gathering evil. His account of these shattering hours, in which past and present, fate and destiny, converge, is a testament by which to live—an unforgettable fable for our time destined to rank among Dean Koontz’s most enduring works.

Product Description: This Advanced Reader Retells A Classic Story. Teaching Focus, Words To Know Before You Read, Comprehension And Extension Activities. Inside Front And Back Cover Parent And Teacher Support.

SHALE is finally free from his greatest enemy. But now, he is responsible for bringing life-giving rain to all the people of the Quartern. He must stretch his powers to the limit or his people will die-if they don't meet a nomad's blade first. And while Shale's own highlords and waterpriests plot against him, his Reduner brother plots his revenge.TERELLE is Shale's secret weapon, covertly boosting his powers with her own mystical abilities. But she is compelled by the strange magic of her people and will one day have to leave Shale's side. No one knows what waits for her across the desert, but her people gave the Quartern its first Stormlord and they may save Shale and his people once again-or lead them to their doom.This is the final volume of the epic Stormlord series.

Product Description: In the fall of 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, embarked on a series of high-energy experiments. No one knows exactly what went wrong, but in the blink of an eye, thousands of possible universes all condensed into a single reality ...read more

Product Description: Maya longs to find brilliant, beautiful color in her world. But when the wind blows, desert sand covers everything, and turns her whole neighborhood the color of dust.With the help of a feathered friend, Maya searches high and low to find the colors in her world...read more

Product Description: Journey to the world of magical horses . . .Meet Shamal, a desert horse with remarkable strength and a mysterious past. When a young girl needs his help but resists it, Shamal must find a way to guide her to safety. Together they go on a journey that bonds them forever.

A wise desert prince imparts his ideas on life and the concerns of humanity

At a bizarre mansion built by a madman amid the stark beauty of the desert, a group of guests--including Albert, the disinherited scion looking for an identity; his beautiful companion, Nadine; and Destina, an indomitable and inscrutable child--joins their odious host, Raoul Meridian, for a weekend of obsession, confusion, and revelation. A first novel. 10,000 first printing.

Janet Wilson has what it takes to be a firefighter--except for the acceptance of the other firefighters--but a string of fires will be the test of her courage and of their willingness to trust her. Original.