"Set in a secondary world reminiscent of Saharan Africa, Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy's epic quest to bring water back to his city and save his mother's life. They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City of Lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of Lies. But would you believe what they say in the City of Lies? In the City of Lies, they cut out your...

Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings--cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert. There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule. Or so it seems, until Çeda, a...

"From the thick green stems of cacti to the fluffy jackrabbits, the desert is teeming with life. Narrative text and you-are-there photos put the reader in the middle of this misunderstood biome and critical habitat"--

A horrifying sickness has spread across the West Texas desert in this alternative history. Infected people-- shakes-- attack the living, and the surviving towns are only as safe as their perimeter walls are strong. The state is all but quarantined from the rest of the country. Glory, Texas, is a near ghost town. Seventeen-year-old Willie has managed to keep her siblings safe, even after the sickness took their mother. Then her good-for-nothing...

"A Sophie le encanta el campamiento, salvo por las arañas y los insectos. Cuando se encuentra atrapada con una araña de patas largas no puede evitar gritar de miedo. Qué vergüenza, Pero entonces, aparece una brújula misteriosa que la transporta a un desierto abrasador donde le espera su guía, Bear Grylls. Juntos deben encontrar agua bajo el sol abrasador y sobrevivir los peligros escondidos en las dunas..."--Back cover.

When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause—a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the entire world.

An original graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced, feature-length screenplay follows scruffy everyman Mac, who wakes up in an unfamiliar town and is chased across the desert of the American Southwest by all manners of man and beast of unimaginable proportions.

Maya, who lives in the dusty desert, opens her eyes wide to find the colors in her world, from Papi's black hair and Mami's orange and purple flowers to Maya's red swing set and the fiery pink sunset. Presented in English and Spanish.

Three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India to find themselves and bond with each other. They find themselves stranded alone in the middle of a desert and a new unplanned journey begins.

When an amateur entomologist becomes stranded in the desert, he is persuaded by locals to take shelter for the night with a widow who lives in a hut at the bottom of a large pit where he finds himself trapped, tricked into being her helper in the task of digging sand for the villagers.