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2) Skywater
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An aging husband and wife observe a band of coyotes who, faced with a diminishing water supply, set out across the Southwestern desert in search of the mythical source of all water.
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"Single parent Bea Rivers discovers that her new job at Shandley Gardens is less than idyllic-- the board president has been murdered, and every one of the members of the small staff and board are suspects. Through sizzling and beautiful days of a Sonoran Desert summer, someone keeps dropping odd botanical clues, and Bea discovers just how tangled the relationships at the Gardens really are" --Page 4 of cover.
9) Desert gold
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The beauty of Mercedes won the Texas Ranger and the ruthless bandit Rojas. With the help of the Ranger's friend, Mercedes is able to escape into the desert followed by Rojas and his band. Only a bloody showdown could end things.
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Both literary anthology and hands-on field guide, The Sonoran Desert is a groundbreaking book that melds art and science. It captures the stunning biodiversity of the world's most verdant desert through words and images. More than fifty poets and writers-including Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ken Lamberton, Eric Magrane, Jane Miller, Gary Paul Nabhan, Alberto Ríos, Ofelia Zepeda, and many others-have composed responses to key species...
12) Quicksilver
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"Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery--abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, 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 helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on...
13) Shalako
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Traveling north from Mexico in 1882, Shalako meets up with a group of touring Europeans in Apache country. He warns them of the Apaches, and they refuse to believe him until they are attacked. The tourists allow Shalako to take them to cover as the Apaches continue to battle them and the U.S. Army, which has been alerted. The final battle is between Shalako and Tats-ah-das-ay-go. Shalako wins, the remaining Europeans return to safety with the U.S....
14) Kid Rodelo
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Joe Harbin and his men break out of prison and must trek across fifty miles of desert to retrieve the gold they stashed away, but success depends on surviving the desert heat, Yaqui Indians, and their own greed and suspicion.
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