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Summary: When a childless couple buries a box with all of their wishes for an infant in their backyard, their wishes are granted. However, their child, Timothy Green, is not all that he appears.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY ODD

Summary: When a childless couple buries a box with all of their wishes for an infant in their backyard, their wishes are granted. However, their child, Timothy Green, is not all that he appears.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ODD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ODD

Summary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003

Wright-Frierson, Virginia.

Summary: The author/artist describes many of the animals and plants and their surroundings that she has sketched in the Sonoran Desert.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1996

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 574.9791 WRI

Messner, Kate

Summary: "Over the canyon, the sun scalds the air, and bakes the desert mud to stone. But under the shade of the canyon hides another world, where bighorn sheep bound from rock to rock on the hillside, roadrunners make their nests in sturdy cacti, and banded geckos tuck themselves into the shelter of the sand. This book takes readers on a journey through the wonders concealed in the curves of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021

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Grey, Zane

Summary: He was a solitary prospector in the vast Sonoran Desert, but on a shelf of rock he left a little tin for his daughter ... Richard Gale's idle sojourn in the West came to a screeching halt when he arrived in an Arizona border town and plunged into the life of a border ranger. Yet when he met Nell Burton, he realized for the first time why the West had beckoned him. But Nell's background wasn't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1913

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Castro, Rachel

Summary: Provides information on some amazing desert landscapes around the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.41 CAS

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 551.41 CAS

Lazaroff, David Wentworth

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.754 LAZ

Gagne, Tammy

Summary: An introduction to desert ecology, discussing what lives in a desert, what a desert ecosystem is, and more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wonder Books, an imprint of The Child's World 2023

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Summary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIL

Yolen, Jane.

Summary: Presents the natural life and habitat of the Sonoran Desert.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's Sons 1996

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 508.315 Yolen

Grylls, Bear

Summary: "Sophie loves camp--except for all the creepy-crawlies. Getting trapped in the tent with a daddy longlegs is terrifying, and spiders make her scream. It's so embarrassing. But then a mysterious compass transports her to a fiercely hot desert, where Bear Grylls, her guide, is watching. The sun is beating down, and together they must trek to find water and overcome the dangers lurking in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Grylls/Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2017

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRY

Sappho.

Summary: "A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

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