Desert Song

Desert Song

Author: Tony Johnston

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780871564917

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As the heat of the desert day fades into night, various nocturnal animals, including bats, coyotes, and snakes, venture out to find food.


Way Out in the Desert

Way Out in the Desert

Author: T. J. Marsh

Publisher: Rising Moon Books

Published: 2002-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873588027

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A counting book in rhyme presents various desert animals and their children, from a mother horned toad and her little toadie one to a mom tarantula and her little spiders ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.


Song of Slaves in the Desert

Song of Slaves in the Desert

Author: Alan Cheuse

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1402263147

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Lyrically told and impeccably researched, Song of Slaves in the Desert traces the story of Nathaniel Pereira, a young New Yorker who's called to revive his uncle's South Carolina plantation. Nathaniel is struck by the sobering reality of slavery as he becomes captivated by the young slave Liza. Liza's never known the meaning of freedom, and as Nathaniel plunges into the murky mysteries of slavery, she can see how he might change her life forever. A masterful writer, Cheuse traces the thread of slavery from sixteenth-century Timbuktu and grapples with the wild nature of love.


The Desert

The Desert

Author: Brandon Shimoda

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780998829067

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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Brandon Shimoda's THE DESERT, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book EVENING ORACLE, guides us deep into, and then back out of, a rich yet desolate North American landscape. Divided into seven sections--featuring poems, letters, diary entries, and photographs--the desert's multiplicity emerges through a ranging exploration of its Japanese American incarceration sites, homeless population, flora and fauna, violence, beauty, and how they combine to reflect this poet's contemporary view of history. Written over three years in the deserts of Arizona, the poet introduces us to the souls of the living and dead, their shadows still residing over the landscape and its mythology.


Desert Oracle

Desert Oracle

Author: Ken Layne

Publisher: MCD

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0374722382

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The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.


Desert Song

Desert Song

Author: Constance O'Banyon

Publisher: HarperPrism

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780061082900

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From the acclaimed author of Song of the Nightingale. When Mallory Stanhope set sail for Egypt, she was drawn to a fellow passenger, the strikingly handsome but aloof Lord Michael DeWinter. Once in port, Mallory hoped to forget this troublesome man, but she soon found herself not only nursing his wounds, but also falling hopelessly in love with him.


Desert Songs of the Night

Desert Songs of the Night

Author: Suheil Bushrui

Publisher: Saqi

Published: 2015-08-03

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 0863561853

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A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years. From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colourful stories of The Thousand and One Nights, to the powerful verses of longing of Mahmoud Darwish and Nazik al-Mala'ika, this captivating collection includes translated excerpts of works by the major authors of the period, as well as by lesser known writers of equal significance. Desert Songs of the Night showcases the vibrant and distinctive literary heritage of the Arabs. Beautifully produced, this is the ideal book for lovers of world literature and for those who seek an acquaintance with gems of Arab thought and expression. 'Desert Songs of the Night is a wonderful introduction to fifteen centuries of a literature still largely unknown in the West, without which much of our civilizations would not have developed as they have, from the rediscovery of Aristotle by Arab commentators to the lyric poetry of Europe, from the magical world of the Arabian Nights to the modern revolutionary poets of Palestine. Absolutely essential reading for our troubled times.' Alberto Manguel 'At a time when the world is obsessing about violence and bloodletting in the Arab world, this remarkable anthology, which spans 1,500 years of Arab literary genius, is a stark reminder of the untold story we keep missing about the region.' Hanan al-Shaykh


Listen to the Desert

Listen to the Desert

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 0395672929

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A bilingual poem which describes some of the sounds of nature in a desert.


Sadiq and the Desert Star

Sadiq and the Desert Star

Author: Siman Nuurali

Publisher: Picture Window Books

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1515847381

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When Sadiq's father leaves on a business trip, he worries he'll miss his baba too much. But Baba has a story for Sadiq: the story of the Desert Star. Learning about Baba's passion for the stars sparks Sadiq's interest in outer space. But can Sadiq find others who are willing to help him start the space club of his dreams?


Death in the Desert

Death in the Desert

Author: Paul Iselin Wellman

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780803297227

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The author covers conflicts from 1837 through 1886 in Arizona, New Mexico, and California. Important chiefs covered include Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Victorio, Geronimo, and Captain Jack. Army officers covered include George Crook and Nelson Miles.