Watershed is a contemporary dystopian novel set in a near-future southern Alberta, which has been ravaged by desert-like conditions, as opposed to the northern part of the province, which is warm as well as green and lush thanks to a...
Droughts
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Author:Vanderstoop, DoreenSummary: -
Author:Diaz, HarrySummary:Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The...
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Author:Egan, TimothySummary:The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New...
- Author:Hannah, KristinSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 INDIE BESTSELLER " The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021 . . . Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation of scrappy...
- Author:Hannah, KristinSummary:
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman...
- Author:Bilodeau, StéphaneSummary:
Cette fois-ci, Adria, Sir et Iref décident de retourner en l’an 3000, l’une des époques les plus noires de l’histoire. Souvent mentionnée dans les écrits comme «l’époque malade», elle signifiait plus particulièrement la corruption, le...
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Author:Meadows, RaeSummary:It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions, and...
- Author:Clark, SherrylSummary:
Farm is Mum and Dad, rising early. Farm is milk truck, rumbling over bridge. Farm is me, running wide and free. The family farm is the only life Zac knows. To him it's space, blue skies, cows, hay and the creek. But the drought...
- Author:Slade, Arthur G.Summary:
Robert's brother vanishes and he has to find him. This award-winning book offers a new sophistication to young adult fiction, and a terrifying take on the psychology of fear.
- Author:Wendorff, AnneSummary:
Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of droughts.
- Author:Munteanu, NinaSummary:
Centuries from now, in a post-climate change dying boreal forest of what used to be northern Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in the Exodus, discovers a diary that may provide her with the answers to her yearning for Earth...
- Author:Miranda, MeganSummary:
Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface...and changing everything. "[A] stunning psychological thriller from one of the most insightful...
- Author:Bilodeau, StéphaneSummary:
Je me souviens vaguement d’une aveuglante lumière bleue m’enveloppant de la tête aux pieds, des silhouettes blanches qui accourent vers moi et des cris de panique. Ensuite, c’est le néant total. Maintenant, sans rien com-prendre, je me...
