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Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
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While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
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"When Abigail Holland awakes to the sound of a nighttime intruder in her rambling Denver Victorian, she knows exactly what the black shrouded figure is after—the map she recently inherited from her grandfather. Whoever he is, the man who grapples with her, then escapes, is willing to kill for the location of a treasure King Farrell hunted for more than ten years. The Devil’s Gold has claimed hundreds of lives, and it was her grandfather’s obsession....
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How to catch-- volume 16
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A very clever yeti eludes the traps of children as he hides in the snow-covered mountains he calls home.
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A series of unfortunate events volume 10
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HarperCollins
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In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
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401 p. ; 24 cm.
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Living in a tiny 1950s Carpathian mountains village isolated from the communism of Eastern Europe, Pavel Botev attends a school taught by an exiled alcoholic who quietly orders him to kill the new Party Secretary, an event that changes the course of the boy's life.
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Race the wild volume 6
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While on the last leg of their race, Russell and his friends must choose between a rescue mission and an attempt to win the race.
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Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work, and Bobbie's reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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The discovery of a body in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains dredges up mysteries that have lingered from Revolutionary Virginia through the Civil War and beyond, in a supernaturally thrilling new tale from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. A trial is underway in Albemarle County, where Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her trusty crew of two- and four-legged friends hope to catch a killer--who may not be the person accused...
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August in Taylorsford, Virginia finds library director Amy Webber and her new husband, dancer Richard Muir, settling into married life--and a new project. Richard and his dance partner, Karla, are choreographing a suite based on folk music and folk tales, while Amy scours the library's resources to supply background information on the dance's source material. But the mellifluous music comes to a jarring halt when an unknown woman's body turns up in...
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Sheriff Bo Tully mysteries volume 1
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
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272 p. ; 23 cm.
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Idaho sheriff Bo Tully's hopes about a rekindled romance with his high-school sweetheart are challenged by his father's upcoming seventy-fifth birthday celebration and a ranch murder involving numerous possible suspects.
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Skye's West volume 14
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With his wife critically wounded in a Blackfeet raid, Barnaby Skye struggles to reach her home village for help and is challenged by a band of Yankee traders who are attempting to sell illicit liquor to the Native Americans.
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While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon"-a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of doomed world. It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise...
16) Hold your breath
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Search and rescue (Katie Ruggle) volume 1
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As the captain of Field County's ice rescue dive team, Callum Cook is driven to perfection. But when he meets new diver Louise "Lou" Sparks, all that hard-won order is obliterated in an instant. Lou is a hurricane. A walking disaster. And with her, he's never felt more alive...even if keeping her safe may just kill him.--cover.
17) The snow leopard
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
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A guardian spirit in the form of a snow leopard looks over a small village in the Himalayas, and chooses a human successor, whom she trains to sing songs that will protect the villagers from soldiers who search for gold and slaves.
18) Fractured truth
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Bone Gap travellers volume 2
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When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives...
Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-Marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a lone cross-country skier stumbles across the mutilated body of...
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Choose your own adventure (Chooseco) volume 13
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Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2005]
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116 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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The reader, as an expert mountain climber, embarks on an expedition in the Himalayas to find the Yeti and rescue a fellow climber. By choosing the specific pages, the reader determines the outcome of the plot.
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Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
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