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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "fresh, genre-bending thriller” (Los Angeles Times) set in the near future when water is scarce and a spy, a hardened journalist and a young Texas migrant find themselves pawns in a corrupt game.
"Think Chinatown meets Mad Max." NPR, All Things Considered
In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts”
2) Dry
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A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
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"For fans of Jane Harper's The Dry or Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, a searing debut crime novel set in the Australian outback, where the grief and guilt surrounding an unsolved disappearance still haunt a small farming community...and will ultimately lead to a reckoning"--Provided by publisher.
4) The forests
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"Corentin's childhood felt like an aimless pilgrimage. Unwanted, he was moved from one temporary home to another, until the day he ended up in the care of an old woman, Augustine. Deep within the Valley, the remote region where Augustine lives, Corentin's life is renewed. Years later, Corentin fully immerses himself in the dazzling pleasures and distractions of urban life while around him the world is on fire. Temperatures continue to rise, causing...
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Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and...
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"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
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"They were fire and terror to the Western world, while in the East the dragons brought life-giving rain. Now, no longer hailed as gods and struggling in the overheated pollution of Beijing, only the Eastern species survives. As drought plagues the aquatic dragons, a mysterious disease--shaolong, or 'burnt lung' - afflicts the city's human inhabitants. Jaded college student Xiang Kaifei scours Beijing streets for abandoned dragons, distracting himself...
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It's 2096. Scientists work to protect a baking planet. What a drought-stricken Europe needs is rain. What it gets is a messiah. Eli is born in a suburb of Prague. A rainstorm heralds Eli's birth. He dies young. Was he for real? Eli's brother Marek is now old. He works at spreading his brother's teachings. When a young woman joins Marek's community she startles him with the joys of the body. But what's the worth of human love when the world is collapsing?"--Publisher....
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"An unrelenting sun beats down, bringing drought and hardship to the farmers in the valley. As if lost crops weren’t enough, a series of suspicious barn fires pushes the community to its limits. In this novel, the sequel to Casting Demons Into Swine, Malcolm Cromarty, DVM, once again gets caught up in a complex web of suspense, strung across a deceptively tranquil valley, known for its singular culture and terrain. As the dry spell and fires continue,...
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He said "I do" to saving the town. Will he say the same about staying there? Alan White Eagle hasn't returned to Forever, Texas, since he left for college eight years ago. But when a lingering drought threatens the town's existence, the irrigation engineer vows to help. An unlikely ally appears in the form of his childhood nemesis, the headstrong, intelligent and beautiful Raegan. In fact, their attraction is challenging Alan's anti-romance workaholic...
11) Godshot: a novel
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"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it’s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret “assignments,” to bring the rain everybody is praying...
13) The devil's rope
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Rocking R Ranch western volume 2
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"The Ridgeway family faces their greatest challenge when a devastating drought threatens to spark an open range war, forcing them to fight for their ranch, their dream--and their lives . . .It's the summer of 1883. A severe drought threatens to bankrupt the Ridgeway's Rocking R Ranch and every rancher in northwest Texas. The cattle are thirsty and hungry. The ranchers are getting desperate. And a simple new invention called barbed wire--the devil's...
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"From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives....
15) Water witches
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"Patience Avery is a dowser—a 'water witch.' Her natural gifts enable her to locate lost items, missing people, and aquifers deep within the earth. This last skill is more in demand than ever, as her home state of Vermont is in the grip of the worst drought in years. Patience knows better than most that this crisis is only the start. Yet Patience’s opinion means little to her brother-in-law, Scottie Winston. Scottie’s spent the long, dry summer...
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"Hot Iron. In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard, but keeping it is even harder. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter already wrestling with a slew of problems when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains and more trouble finds him. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and...
17) Scrublands
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"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
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"Lila y Miguel, una pareja de trabajadores obsesionados con el dinero y la clase social, dejan atrás su cómoda vida en la gran ciudad y terminan varados en un lugar idílico frente al mar, aunque recientemente asolado por una gran sequía. Allí esperan la llegada de Antigua Padilla, una buscadora de agua de quien se dice que tiene el poder de atraer a los jaguares. Atrapados en un tiempo sin medida, oyen hablar acerca de curanderas con pies de...
19) Inland: a novel
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"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
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