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A desert road, a desperate man, and a dark force converge…When a day trip out of Las Vegas with his wife takes a turn for the worse, Jack is sure that he has the ability to get them home. But he drove into something far beyond reason.Rescue comes in the form of a desert hermit, but hope fades as the couple comes to realize that the nomad has no intention of letting them leave. A chance encounter with a kidnapped runaway and her crazed abductor leads...
2) Mojave
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"Micah Bishop is rescued in the Mohave Desert and hired to escort two dozen brides to the mining town of Calico, but he soon finds that things are not as they seem"--
4) Calico
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"There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert... The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge--and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for...
5) Sundial
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"You can't escape what's in your blood... All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. Far from her childhood home, Sundial, hidden deep in the wild Mojave Desert. But beneath the veneer, Rob is terrified for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind....
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009, ©2008
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English
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From their first meeting on a New York City subway, the lives of two very different people--Sebastian, an adolescent growing up with a reclusive father, and Maria, a young single mother of two--are changed forever by their relationship.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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What kind of crazy man would lead eighteen stolen mules into the searing heat of the Mojave Desert? The Mojave is out of the jurisdiction of Sheriff Ned Cody, but his two best friends are belly down across the backs of two of those mules. When the gunsmoke clears, Cody will either rule the desert sands of be buried in them.
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Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"When Tallulah Jones was thirteen, her grandmother plucked her from the dank Oakland apartment she shared with her unreliable mom and brought her to the family ostrich ranch in the Mojave Desert. After eleven years caring for the curious, graceful birds, Tallulah accepts a job in Montana and prepares to leave home. But when Grandma Helen dies under strange circumstances, Tallulah inherits everything - just days before the birds inexplicably stop laying...
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Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Young Daniel Boone Trewick, caught with a young woman, flees Missouri believing he has killed the girl's father in a fight. He joins a freighting outfit on the Santa Fe Trail, and in Taos he meets Thomas L. "Pegleg" Smith and is invited to join an expedition to California to steal horses and mules. Meanwhile in California, Juan Medina, a young vaquero in trouble for consorting with the ranch owner's daughter, is framed and jailed. After the ladrones...
10) Breathe the sky
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Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Two strangers start out saving animals and end up rescuing each other in this heartwarming romance from the author of Unbreak Me. Mari Tucker is a wildlife biologist who scoops bunnies and endangered tortoises out of harm's way on construction sites. Still haunted by her past, she takes the most remote jobs in the Mojave Desert to avoid people and hide from her ex. It's a simple, quiet life filled with sweet animals and solar-powered baking until...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Even though she is suffering from memory loss and hallucinations, Rylie must unravel her family's secrets in order to save herself and find her missing friend.
When her dad died, Rylie left a lot of memories buried in the sand of the Mojave Desert. Memories about her dad, her old friends Nathan and Lily, and most of all, her grandfather, who cut ties with Rylie's family before he passed away. When her mom's new work assignment means their family...