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Boxcar children mysteries volume 9
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English
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A family starts out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. In fact, it becomes an adventure for the former "boxcar" family. They unearth some mysteries and have a fine time in the process.
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663 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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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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334 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Sisters Evelyn and Sophie, estranged after Evelyn's affair with Sophie's husband, must confront their tumultuous past while attempting to summit the unclimbed 8,000-meter peak Yama Parvat, where their survival depends on their ability to forgive and trust each other once more.
7) Everest
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204 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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As part of a group of young climbers trying to climb Mount Everest, the reader must make decisions that will ensure survival and success in reaching the summit.
10) Seventeen
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xii, 352 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Seventeen years after an air disaster of unprecedented scale occured near his newspaper office, reporter Kazumasa Yuuki makes good on a promise he made during that supercharged week and solves a mystery.
1985: Kazumasa Yuuki, a reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. When an air disaster occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff is united by an unimaginable horror--...
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1126 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
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English
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When three climbers attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest they find a trail of mysteries left by the previous expedition. Not only are questions raised about what happened to the climbers of that expedition, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, but they also feel a sense of dread as they realize someone, or something, is following them. The race for the top becomes a race for their lives.
12) The white road
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290 pages : map ; 25 cm
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English
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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, that force him to test the limits of his morality and wits in order to survive.
13) Lily's mountain
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English
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Unable to believe their father died while climbing Mount Denali, twelve-year-old Lily and her older sister, Sophie, climb the mountain in order to rescue him.
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6 audio discs (360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The woodshed mystery: The Alden children are staying at the New England farmhouse where their grandfather grew up and find a surprising secret. The lighthouse mystery: When the Alden's take a summer trip to the New England coast, they have a fun place to stay: a lighthouse! Mountain top mystery: The Alden's climb a mountain and find a mystery.
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319 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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"A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined...
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(Heather M.).Even the darkest stars volume 1
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427 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Kamzin dreamed of becoming one of the Emperor's royal explorers, the elite climbers tasked with mapping the wintry, mountainous Empire and spying on its enemies. Then River Shara, the greatest explorer ever known, arrives and demands to hire Kamzin -- not her older sister Lusha, as everyone had expected -- for his next expedition. River's mission to retrieve a rare talisman for the emperor; it means climbing Raksha, the tallest and deadliest mountain...
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