Adams, Taylor
Summary: "James and Elle Eversman are a young couple travelling through the Mojave desert on their way to a new life. When their car mysteriously breaks down they are stranded in the middle of nowhere without much water and no cell-phone reception. A mile away a deadly sniper has them in his cross-hairs. They are pinned down behind their broken-down car, surrounded by open ground in all directions....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joffe Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF OKOWinton, Tim
Summary: "A new novel about a man trying to survive in the wilderness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINGrylls, 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...
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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 GRYDoeden, Matt
Summary: "Could you survive being lost in the desert? Imagine being attacked by a rattlesnake in North America's Sonoran Desert, wild dogs in Africa's Kalahari Desert, or a redback spider in the Australian Outback. How far would you be willing to go to save your own life? Would it work? Flip through these pages to find out!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DOECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DOEKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery, abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It saved his life when two government agents showed up in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run, fleeing for his life. During a shoot-out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTStevenson, Robin
Summary: Jayden ends up in the unforgiving Australian outback, fighting for his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2012