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"A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror. It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix...
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2022.
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"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient...
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In the autumn of 1938, Germany's reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler, is growing frustrated at the British using their regional power in India to block the passage of an SS expedition to Tibet. Determined to spite them, he plots to steal something the British hold dear and have failed for the seventh time that spring to achieve--a first summit of Mount Everest.Seventy years later, seasoned mountain guide Neil Quinn's ninth visit to the top of the world's...
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2014.
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"In this mesmerizing debut, a young American discovers he may be heir to the unclaimed estate of an English World War I officer, which launches him on a quest across Europe to uncover the elusive truth. Just after graduating college, Tristan Campbell receives a letter delivered by special courier to his apartment in San Francisco. It contains the phone number of a Mr. J.F. Prichard of Twyning & Hooper, Solicitors, in London -- and news that could...
6) Sold
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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Everest volume 3
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[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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"Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. But they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. Supplies are low. Conditions are extreme. One of the kids is trying to sabotage the others. And then the storm hits ..."--P. [4] of cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Geronimo Stilton's true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse island, his books are bestsellers, his stories are full of fun-tastier than Swiss cheese and tangier than extra sharp cheddar. They are whisker licking-good stories and that's a promise. When his old Professor von Volt called to ask for help he agreed even though it meant trekking halfway around the world to Mouse Everest! The trip was long...
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Sigma Force novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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"A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany ... and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland." "A continent away, madness...
11) Above all else
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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"Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Tate are best friends and climbing buddies, and now they are embarking on the greatest climb of all--Mount Everest; but as the climbers encounter physical and emotional challenges the higher they go, the expedition starts to slide toward disaster, testing the teens' courage, determination, and their feelings for each other."--Provided by publisher.
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Everest volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Who will be the youngest person ever to climb Mount Everest? It's the ultimate test of endurance and skill. The mountain has claimed the lives of many adults. Now kids are going to compete to break the record. Some are not ready for what they will face. And some will stop at nothing to get to the top.
18) Breathless
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2022.
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"Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She's come to Mount Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She's given up everything for this story--her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she's made with her climbing failures in the past--but it's a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track....
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2017
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Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, ex-adrenaline junkie Simon Newman undertakes two life-risking ventures, one in the notorious Cwm Pot caves and another scaling Everest, forcing him to test the limits of his morality and wits in order to survive.
20) Above All Things
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2013.
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A tale inspired by the life and mysterious fate of George Mallory traces the experiences of his wife, Ruth, who in 1924 maintains a hopeful vigil in war-ravaged England during Mallory's fateful third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.