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1) Mysterium
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Language
English
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"The story of a dangerous expedition up Mount Sarasvati in India that tests all of the climb's members"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
A century after a yeti captures Lady Agatha Farlingham and takes her to a hidden valley to raise his motherless children, tourism threatens their peaceful existence and young Con and Ellen take these educated and civilized yetis across Europe to Lady Agatha's home in England.
Author
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R. J. MacCready novels volume 2
Language
English
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"Looks like Schutt and Finch are filling the void left by the passing of Michael Crichton."--James Cameron, director/writer/explorer
In the wake of World War II, zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready is sent to the frozen mountain valleys of Tibet to find a creature of legend that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future-or the key to its extinction-in this explosive follow-up to Hell's Gate.
It is 1946, and the world is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon"--a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of the doomed world.
Author
Series
Alexander Cold trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
437, 30 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
At a remote Tibetan monastery, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must find a powerful and ancient artifact before it falls into the wrong hands.
A luxury ocean liner on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic, awash in wealth and decadence...
An ancient Tibetan box, its contents unknown, sealed with a terrifying warning...
An FBI agent destined to confront what he fears most—himself...
A luxury ocean liner on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic, awash in wealth and decadence...
An ancient Tibetan box, its contents unknown, sealed with a terrifying warning...
An FBI agent destined to confront what he fears most—himself...
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 6
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old djinn twins John and Philippa travel from the Himalayas to Yellowstone National Park seeking to uncover and protect five holy men before the wicked djinn responsible for upsetting the balance of the world's luck finds them.
8) Himalaya
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
153 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Orrie and her older brother tell the story of a doomed mountain-climbing expedition in which they, their younger brother, their divorced father, and his girlfriend attempt to climb Island Peak in Napal.
Author
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
400 p. : chiefly ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first volume of Tesuka Osamu's fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha. Introduces Chapra, a slave boy who tries to escape his fate; Chapra's slave mother, who sticks by him no matter what; Tatta, a crazed wild child pariah who communes with animals; and Naradatta, a monk attempting to decipher strange portents of the Buddha's birth.
Author
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
411 p. : chiefly ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This second volume of the fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, covers his upbringing and early manhood. Unhappy with the injustice of the caste system, the prince leaves his life of luxury to find a way to fight it. He marries and fathers a child, but unable to live in his luxurious palace, he cuts off his hair and departs into the wilderness to become a monk.
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