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1) Mysterium
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English
Description
"The story of a dangerous expedition up Mount Sarasvati in India that tests all of the climb's members"--
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 1
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
Author
Language
English
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.
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R. J. MacCready novel volume 2
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready journeys to post-World War II Tibet to search for a legendary creature that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future.
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Physical Desc
437 pages ; 20 cm.
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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.
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Language
English
Description
"Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross the world's highest mountains and face hunger, exhaustion,...
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Creature Keepers volume 3
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
In this book, Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon travel to the snowy Himalayas to find the Yeti and save the world. Our heroes will need to find the Yeti first--and hopefully avert another catastrophe.
Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon travel to the snowy Himalayas to find the Yeti before their nemesis does and hopefully save the world.
Physical Desc
411 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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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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259 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
High in the Himalayas, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General's harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. But now it sits abandoned; windswept and haunting. The General's son bestows the palace to the Sisters of Mary, and 'the House of Women', as it was once known, becomes the Convent of St Faith. Close to the Heavens, the nuns feel inspired, working fervently to establish their school and hospital....
12) Karma of the sun
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English
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"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau -- civilization's final survivors -- are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches...
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