Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings--cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade...
Deserts
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Author:Beaulieu, Bradley P.Summary: -
Author:Arenson, DanielSummary:The old emperor is dead. His daughter, the sadistic Porcia Octavius, has won a bloodthirsty battle for the crown. But she will not rest easy on her throne. Already her brother sails to foreign lands, seeking to build an army and...
- Author:Childs, CraigSummary:
Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West-as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field...
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Author:Legault, StephenSummary:What if everything you believed to be true about your wife’s disappearance turned out to be a lie? In the third and final Red Rock Canyon Mystery, Silas Pearson finally unearths the truth. It’s been five years since Silas Pearson’s wife...
- Author:Ringland, HollySummary:
After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to...
- Author:VAN DYKE, John CharlesSummary:
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding...
- Author:Schneider, MariaSummary:
Soul of the Desert was shortlisted in 2003 in the Crime Writer's Association's Dagger Debut competition. It's a story about an adopted child on the run, growing up fast and refusing to give in against impossible odds. In 1976, the best...
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Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school, and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose....
- Author:Koontz, Dean R.Summary:
He's odd. Odd Thomas, to be precise. Genius fry-cook at the Pico Mundo Grill, boyfriend to the gorgeous Stormy Llewellyn - and possibly the only person with a chance of stopping one of the worst crimes in bloody history of murder....
- Author:Follett, Ken.Summary:
The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it's an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day.
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Author:Arenson, DanielSummary:The Aelarian Empire, once a humble city-state, sends its tentacles across the Encircled Sea. Now the waters run red with blood. In the kingdom of Zohar, the wealthy Sela family commands the sea's last free harbor. They've carved out an...
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Author:Flanagan, JohnSummary:On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
- Author:Oshiro, MarkSummary:
From award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a powerful coming-of-age fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking...
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Author:Torres, J.Summary:Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for sun hats and desert boots. Explorers Chirp, Squawk, and Tweet get into trouble as they cross the hottest desert on...
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Author:Dekker, TedSummary:Maviah is an outcast, but when she meets a man named Yeshua, he opens her eyes. Because of his teachings, she has gathered her own traveling kingdom of outcasts deep in the desert. But when her growing power threatens the rulers around...
