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2) The summit
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Everest volume 3
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English
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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.
3) Sold
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English
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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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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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Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 13
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17 unnumbered pages, 101 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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English
Description
When a plane goes missing over Mount Everest, Jack and his fellow agents must brave the highest mountain on Earth to recover its cargo--the first true yeti skull ever recovered.
10) Breathless
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341 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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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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Children of the lamp volume 3
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ix, 373 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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Twelve-year-old djinn twins Philippa and John and their friend Dybbuk have further adventures as they travel the world in search of a priceless talisman.
12) Everest
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204 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
Description
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.
13) 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.
14) Namaste!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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Whenever Nima meets someone on her long walk to the market village in Nepal, she brings her hands together with her fingers almost touching her chin, bows her head slightly, and says "Namaste," which means "the light in me meets the light in you." Includes information on the geography, culture, and people of Nepal.
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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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349 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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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...
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411 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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English
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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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167 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumber, the world is vastly different from what he remembers. Arrogant and bombastic, he comes down the mountain expecting an easy conquest: the wealthy, spectacular city-state of Kathmandu, ruled by the all-knowing, all-seeing tyrant Al Karma. To his surprise, he finds that Kathmandu is a cut-price paradise, where citizens want for nothing and even the dregs of society are distinctly...
19) Tintin in Tibet
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62 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm.
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English
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Tintin searches the mountains of Nepal and Tibet for his friend, victim of an airplane crash.
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