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41) The dry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
43) Skylark
Publisher
Sarah Productions
Pub. Date
2002, c1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm
Author
Series
End times novels (Jerry B. Jenkins) volume 1
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After a 17-year drought, multiple earthquakes, and uncontrollable wildfires, the state is desolate. The United States President declares the state uninhabitable and irreparable, directing California's 39 million citizens to relocate. From the air, California looks like a vast abandoned sand box, but to a few groups of people, it's their home. With less than 1% of the population remaining in California at their own risk, the holdouts encounter a clash...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 192 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Yan Lianke"Chinas most feted and most banned author" (Financial Times)is a master of imaginative satire, and his prize-winning works have been published around the world to the highest honors. Now, his two most acclaimed novellas are collected here in a single volumemasterfully crafted stories that explore the sacrifices made for family, the driving will to survive, and the longing to leave behind a personal legacy.
46) Rain
Publisher
Lolafilms Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in contemporary America's heartland, Rain tells the story of murder, sex, and redemption set against the backdrop of a dead-end town suffering through a severe drought.
47) The cave
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
165 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As drought and the Depression threaten to destroy her family's South Dakota farm, twelve-year-old Christine discovers a wondrous cave, which becomes both her own private delight and a possible salvation for the family.
48) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
49) Khumba
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A half-striped zebra blamed for the drought in Great Karoo embarks on a quest to earn his stripes by finding the legendary waterhole and saving the animals back home.
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color, Dolby surround ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sarah, plain and tall: In this heartwarming, enormously popular family film, a mail-order bride travels to Kansas in 1910 and teaches a lonely family to love again.
54) Parched
Author
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water
Series
Publisher
Distributed by NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Targets preschool-age children, with the main goal being to inspire a love of reading. The theme revolves around WordFriends and WordThings characters and items comprising the letters that spell them in the correct order
56) Drylongso
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
54 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm
57) Bravo, Tavo!
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Tavo dreams of nothing but being a famous basketball star, and getting new shoes so that he can practice better, but his village in Mexico faces a serious drought and Tavo and his father must work to convince the other people that the old way of irrigation will save their crops
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
142 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Cincinnatian Grace Morgan is fed up with the unkempt boy who harrasses her quiet cousin, but she sees things differently when their town is hit by a serious drought and she and her family get a taste of poverty
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
85 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children
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