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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...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009, ©2008
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Troublemakers, cowards and deserters are sent from combat units to disciplinary barracks in the Mojave Desert and are driven to the breaking point in an effort to reshape them into real combat soldiers. However, the arrival of four new prisoners provides a deadly confrontation that could destroy this savage kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"One summer day in 1987, middle-aged desert tour guide Johnson went on his daily walk into the Mojave. Finding a small bobcat kitten, injured, orphaned, and desperately in need of help, he took it home for the night. For the next nineteen years Trooper became a part of the Johnson family and their community"--
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
Why did a brilliant, self-taught rocket scientist who just wanted to be left alone go off the rails when a cop showed up? What happens to people when the American dream is stripped away? And what is it like for the men who are sworn to protect and serve? Donald Kueck, a desert hermit who loved animals and hated civilization, gunned down beloved deputy sheriff Steven Sorensen when he approached his trailer at high noon on a scorching summer day. As...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A cocky businessman and big-game hunter hires an earnest young guide to take him hunting in the Mojave Desert. Far from civilization, the unthinkable happens when another outdoorsman is mistaken for game and accidentally shot. Things take an even worse turn when the guide refuses to be drawn into the dishonest cover-up, and must now run for his life before the hunter - and the elements - do him in."--Container.
