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1) Mysterium
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English
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"The story of a dangerous expedition up Mount Sarasvati in India that tests all of the climb's members"--
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Pendergast novels volume 8
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English
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Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast agrees to take up the search.
The trail leads him and Constance to
...3) Lost horizon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Hilton's bestselling classic about a man who stumbles on the world's last great hope for peace: Shangri-La Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again-this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane. When his plane crashes high in the Himalaya mountains, Conway and the other...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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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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Children of the lamp volume 6
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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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.
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R. J. MacCready novels volume 2
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English
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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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English
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"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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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 26
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English
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"Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine...
10) Two Sherpas
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Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An Englishman has fallen from a ridge in Nepal. His guides kneel at the edge, exchanging the odd word, waiting for him to move. They must make a decision to descend. In those minutes, Two Sherpas expands dizzyingly to encompass Mount Everest's place in the imagination of imperialists, Nazis and others; ambition, exploration and exploitation; a mysterious encounter in a beach resort in a distant land; a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,...
16) The lastling
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Having traveled to a war-torn area of the Himalayas with her uncle to hunt exotic game, fourteen-year-old Paris befriends a lost twelve-year-old Buddhist monk and a young yeti, from whom she learns about humanity and friendship.
17) Avalanche alert
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Series
Wild rescue volume 7
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
A snow leopard and her cubs have been separated from their territory by an avalanche in the Himalaya Mountains, and it is up to Ben and Zoe to find the rare cats and guide them to safety before the local villagers poison them.
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
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English
Description
Ex-Israeli operative turned private investigator, Dotan Naor--to settle a bet--agrees to locate the missing son of former acquaintance, now ruthless Israeli arms merchant, Willy Mizrachi. Willy, who does not hesitate to sell killing machines to the most heinous players in the world, is desperate to find his only son, Itiel, who has headed to an ashram in the Himalayas. The Himalayas are also host to groups of young Israelis who have completed their...
19) The devil's sea
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 26
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....