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Colfer, Eoin

Summary: "Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COL

Benanav, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966 BEN

Summary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLI

Fabiny, Sarah

Summary: "Imagine over three million square miles of sand dunes that are as tall as a ten-story building. That place is real -- it's the Sahara Desert! Vast, yes! And home to fascinating creatures such as ostriches and fennec foxes as well as amazing plant life. Readers will also learn about the famous trade routes of the past with caravans of up to 10,000 camels, European explorers to the region (some...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 966 FAB

Madassane, Ahmoudou

Summary: "Zerzura offered an opportunity to try something new, taking Tuareg guitar into noise, drone, and ambient. This free-form session forgoes the creation of 'songs, ' for the creation of the soundscapes. Maybe not surprisingly, these ambient pieces were already present in the genre, hiding in plain sight. Ahmoudou developed and drew on the 'practice notes' or segue that come before a song;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ZER

Okorafor, Nnedi

Summary: Niger, West Africa, 2077. Welcome back. This second volume is a breathtaking story that sweeps across the sands of the Sahara, flies up to the peaks of the Aïr Mountains, cartwheels into a wild megacity—you get the idea. I am the Desert Magician; I bring water where there is none. This book begins with Dikéogu Obidimkpa slowly losing his mind. Yes, that boy who can bring rain just by thinking...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKO

Group Doueh

Contents: Zayna jumma -- Ishadlak ya khey -- Zaya koum -- Met-ha -- Jagwar doueh -- Aziza -- Ana lakweri -- Wazan doueh.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sublime Frequencies 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN GRO

Okorafor, Nnedi

Summary: In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKO

Hama

Contents: Terroir -- Houmeissa -- Dounia -- Bororo -- Wassa -- Takamba -- Touareg -- Baoura -- Takamba (remix) -- Yeta yeta.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN HAM

Coonts, Stephen

Summary: When Rip Cantrell, a seismic survey worker in the Sahara, spots a glint of reflected light in the distance, he investigates-and finds a piece of metal apparently entombed in the sandstone. Before long, Rip and his colleagues uncover a flying saucer that has been resting there for 140,000 years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COO S #1

Summary: A security expert is sent to investigate the disappearance of a research team drilling deeper into the Sahara desert's surface than anyone has attempted before.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gone to Hell Ltd. 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIN

Summary: As the immense journey unfolds, the Sahara exposes not just extremes of temperature and a vast emptiness of endless sand dunes, but a diverse range of landscapes, including lakes, waterfalls, crocodile-infested rivers and extraordinary mountain ranges. There are also a wide variety of cultures and a long record of civilization, trade, commerce and conquest stretching from the ancient Egyptians...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SAH

Franchino, Vicky

Summary: "Explore the Sahara Desert and learn all about what it's like to live in this biome, from what kinds of plants and animals are found there to what kinds of weather it receives"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577 FRA

Summary: "Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt. Soon the three are in for the ride of their lives as they cross the blistering North African terrain, pitting thier skills against ruthless...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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Langewiesche, William.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.6 LAN

Lappi, Megan

Summary: Photographs, detailed maps, charts, and activities describe the climate and people of the Sahara Desert.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 916.6 LAP

Ballard, J. G.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2002

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Maden, Mike.

Summary: "A brutal conflict in Mali and an international race for rare elements sets the stage for Troy Pearce and his drone technology to rescue an old friend in this adrenaline-fueled series. Blue Warrior is set in the remote Sahara Desert, where a recently discovered deposit of strategically indispensable Rare Earth Elements (REEs) ignites an international rush to secure them. Standing in the way are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAD

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Maden 2014

Summary: Three intrepid adventurers set out to claim a massive treasure and foil the efforts of a cadre intent on world destruction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAH

Gilman, Dorothy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Crest 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIL

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Three brothers join the French Foreign Legion to escape a dark past. But their troubles are quickly forgotten as their courage, duty and devotion is put to the test when they are forced to fight against all odds in this acclaimed film classic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BEA

De Villiers, Marq.

Summary: In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of dunes and gravel plains and at certain times waterfalls cascade from their peaks. Even the sand amazes: Massive dunes can appear almost overnight, and be gone just as quickly. We think we know the Sahara, the largest and most austere...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.66 DE

Gilman, Dorothy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIL

Maden, Mike.

Summary: A recently discovered deposit of strategically indispensable Rare Earth Elements (REEs) in the remote Sahara Desert ignites an international rush to secure them. Standing in the way are the Tuaregs, the fierce tribe of warrior nomads of the desert wasteland, who are fighting for their independence. The Chinese offer to help the Malian government crush the rebellion by the Tuaregs in order to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAD

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