Books with title Ghost in the Desert

When Leina Skyvola, an eighteen-year-old girl who grew up on stories and dreams, is forced to leave her secluded forest home, curiosity draws her to the Desert. Little does she know, this land is the very source of the darkness and ignorance that plague her World. What she finds there will change the trajectory of her life forever. Determined to defeat the arrogant boy dictator she despises, Leina turns to a mysterious outcast Agency that is said to exist only in legend. The first installment in an epic fantasy that is as deeply personal as it is sweeping, this is an adventure not to miss.

The story that you are about to read is narrated by two sisters, affectionately called M&M. M&M had an unusual winter in the desert one year, and they want you to think about the possibility of there being snow in a most unlikely place. Do you think it can snow in the desert? Enjoy this story-poem as you discover what you may have never thought was a possibility in nature. Strange things can happen in our habitat, as you will see. Listen and learn as you take this journey.

I love a good ghost story but this one took me completely by surprise. I expected to be scared, but instead I was inspired. I met families unlike any I'd ever met before, and they touched my heart. I experienced the grief felt by a mother that loses a child, and the joy when that child is found. I reveled in acts of courage, honesty, and integrity. I shared the triumph of victory, and I cried in defeat. I loved meeting Empress Ane, Mary, Myra Alor, Bobby, and Grandpa Gary. Ghost in the Dark is a masterpiece that will grip your heart and never let go. It will inspire young readers and old alike to always follow their dreams. Dennis McDonald Author, 13 Nightmares

The History of the American West Collection is a unique project that provides opportunities for researchers and new readers to easily access and explore works which have previously only been available on library shelves. The Collection brings to life pre-1923 titles focusing on a wide range of topics and experiences in US Western history. From the initial westward migration, to exploration and development of the American West to daily life in the West and intimate pictures of the people who inhabited it, this collection offers American West enthusiasts a new glimpse at some forgotten treasures of American culture. Encompassing genres such as poetry, fiction, nonfiction, tourist guides, biographies and drama, this collection provides a new window to the legend and realities of the American West.

The Pool in the Desert, originally published in 1903, is a collection of four stories that illustrates the blend of sympathy and ironic detachment with which Sara Jeannette Duncan portrayed the British presence in India. Explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here—"The Pool in the Desert," "A Mother in India," “An Impossible Ideal,” and “The Hesitation of Miss Anderson”—Duncan's women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire “The Pool in the Desert represents the climate of desire that defined the New Woman, and that animated Sara Jeannette Duncan in her striving for personal and professional achievement.” - Misao Dean, University of Victoria

A great roar of British voices pierced the jewelled curtain of the Indian night. A toast with musical honours was being drunk in the sweltering dining-room of the officers' mess. The enthusiastic hubbub spread far, for every door and window was flung wide. Though the season was yet in its infancy, the heat was intense. Markestan had the reputation in the Indian Army for being one of the hottest corners in the Empire in more senses than one, and Kurrumpore, the military centre, had not been chosen for any especial advantages of climate. So few indeed did it possess in the eyes of Europeans that none ever went there save those whom an inexorable fate compelled. The rickety, wooden bungalows scattered about the cantonment were temporary lodgings, not abiding-places. The women of the community, like migratory birds, dwelt in them for barely four months in the year, flitting with the coming of the pitiless heat to Bhulwana, their little paradise in the Hills. But that was a twenty-four hours' journey away, and the men had to be content with an occasional week's leave from the depths of their inferno, unless, as Tommy Denvers put it, they were lucky enough to go sick, in which case their sojourn in paradise was prolonged, much to the delight of the angels.

In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here―“The Pool in the Desert,” “A Mother in India,” “An Impossible Ideal,” and “The Hesitation of Miss Anderson”―Duncan’s women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire, but they also must negotiate their way through a landscape dominated by the constraints of small military societies. The stories that result combine a delicacy of manners and movement that recalls Henry James, with a wit and sharp eye for small town foibles that bring Stephen Leacock to mind.