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2018.
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English
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While his father fights in the war for water, eleven-year-old Auden and his mother move to Cambridge, where Auden and his new friend Vivi discover his dead uncle's last, unfinished scientific achievement--a poetry-spouting robot seeking his purpose.
23) The four winds
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English
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"[A]n epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with...
24) Water witcher
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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After learning that his grandfather had the rare and mysterious gift of finding underground water with a forked stick, Dougie is determined to see if he, too, can find water on his family's drought-stricken farm in Australia.
25) Dry
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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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[2013]
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English
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Bernice Notenboom leads an expedition from the Himalayas to the plains of India, following one of the most famous river systems in the world - the Ganges. Fresh water sources from the Himalayas that provide water to over 1 billion people are under threat, but just what is happening here and how fast is what Bernice sets out to find out. In this film, she witnesses black carbon in glaciers, visits a village that was caught in a flash flood, explores...
27) Lapvona
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2022.
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English
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"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
28) The dry
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Aaron Falk goes back home to his drought-stricken town to attend a tragic funeral. However, his return reopens the door to the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
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2014.
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Español
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A long time ago, people lived in villages and farmed the land with the help of the animals. One year, there was a huge drought. After the wind did not respond to the calls of the people to bring the rain, the animals went but failed, until the turtle went. With patience and perseverence, the turtle succeeded in bringing the wind which in turn brought the rain and saved the crops.
Hace mucho tiempo, la gente vivió en pueblos y cultivó la tierra...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
36) L.A. weather
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2021.
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English
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"L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters--Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia,...
37) Rainstack!
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
When a terrible drought struck, the animals in the valley turned to a rabbit inventor who said he could invent a robot to make it rain.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que el matrimonio es la única opción de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la dirección de su vida. Con su reputación arruinada, solo le queda una opción respetable: casarse con un hombre al...
40) Droughts
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2020.
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English
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Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text explore the science behind how droughts form, where they most commonly occur, and how people can best stay safe during one.
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