The Red Saguaro
Title | The Red Saguaro PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Llewellyn |
Publisher | Wheatmark, Inc. |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2018-01-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1627875751 |
On a scorching June day in Buckeye, Arizona, thirteen-year-old Juan Miguel Quilantan discovers a body impaled on a saguaro. The authorities quickly link the crime to radical Islamists who are planning an attack on the four million citizens of the Phoenix area, using some undetermined weapon of mass destruction. Three people stand between the terrorists and a vulnerable metropolis: C. Ronald Cannon, a professor whose wife and children were murdered by ISIS; Laura Fatopoulos, a Muslim and FBI special agent who has dedicated her career to eradicating extremist factions; and boy-genius Juan Miguel, an illegal immigrant whose understanding of the electric grid exceeds that of most law enforcement professionals. Together, they travel to Austria and back—in only thirteen hours—to stop the terrorists from plunging the Valley of the Sun into chaos and anarchy. Learn what the terrorists already know and your role to help alleviate this real-life threat by reading The Red Saguaro: A Novel of National Import.
The Saguaro Cactus
Title | The Saguaro Cactus PDF eBook |
Author | David Yetman |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2020-02-25 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0816540047 |
The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape—its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human—has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity. This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant. Gathering everything from the saguaro’s role in Sonoran Desert ecology to its adaptations to the desert climate and its sacred place in Indigenous culture, this book shares precolonial through current scientific findings. The saguaro is charismatic and readily accessible but also decidedly different from other desert flora. The essays in this book bear witness to our ongoing fascination with the great cactus and the plant’s unusual characteristics, covering the saguaro’s: history of discovery, place in the cactus family, ecology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, and ethnobotany. The Saguaro Cactus offers testimony to the cactus’s prominence as a symbol, the perceptions it inspires, its role in human society, and its importance in desert ecology.
The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus
Title | The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus PDF eBook |
Author | Lara Hawthorne |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2024-01-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 153623284X |
Hawthorne delivers an exquisitely illustrated picture book about the Saguaro cactus which grows in the Sonoran desert in Arizona and its flower, which blooms only one night a year. Full color.
Cactus Hotel
Title | Cactus Hotel PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Z. Guiberson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1991-05-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780805013337 |
"Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers."--Title page verso.
Saguaro Cactus
Title | Saguaro Cactus PDF eBook |
Author | Conrad J. Storad |
Publisher | Lerner Publications |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780822530022 |
Discusses the physical characteristics and life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus
Desert Giant (pb)
Title | Desert Giant (pb) PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Bash |
Publisher | Gibbs Smith |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2002-09-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781578050857 |
A venerable saguaro cactus stands like a statue in the hot desert landscape, its armlike branches reaching fifty feet into the air. From a distance it appears to be completely still and solitary--but appearances can be deceptive. In fact, this giant tree of the desert is alive with activity. Its spiny trunk and branches are home to a surprising number of animals, and its flowers and fruit feed many desert dwellers. Gila woodpeckers and miniature elf owls make their homes inside the saguaro's trunk. Long-nosed bats and fluttering white doves drink the nectar from its showy white flowers. People also play a role in the saguaro's story: each year the Tohono O'odham Indians gather its sweet fruit in a centuries-old harvest ritual. In this first volume of Sierra Club Books' Tree Tales series, a simple, easy-to-read text and appealing drawings document the life cycle of this amazing cactus tree and the creatures it helps to support. Readers will come away with a better understanding of and a lasting respect for this accomodating giant of the desert.
The Seed and the Giant Saguaro
Title | The Seed and the Giant Saguaro PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Ward |
Publisher | Cooper Square Pub |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780873588454 |
A packrat, carrying fruit from the giant saguaro, is chased by various desert animals and inadvertently helps spread the cactus's seed. Includes information on saguaros.