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1) One by one
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English
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Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold. The clock is ticking on the offer, and with the group irrevocably split, tensions are running high. When an...
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes a powerful novel about the intersection of redemption, forgiveness, and love....On a spring afternoon in 1920, Swandyke-a small town near Colorado's Tenmile Range-is changed forever. Just moments after four o'clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path. Meet the residents...
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English
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Award-winning novelist and cult favorite Graham Joyce transports readers to a mysterious world of isolation and fear with a hypnotically dark story about a young couple trapped by an avalanche in the remote French Pyrenees. . . a daring and powerful novel about love, loss, and rebirth.
In the French Pyrenees, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing. Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig their way out from under the...
In the French Pyrenees, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing. Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig their way out from under the...
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Dog's day volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After avalanche rescue dog Ava, a chocolate Labrador retriever, finally gets to help her handler, Nate, with a real rescue, she realizes that her job at the ski resort includes other important tasks, too.
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Language
English
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"In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time as a miner ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, and Sven flees even further, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a loyal dog, he...
8) Avalanche
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A rhyming alphabet book in which a boy tosses a snowball to his dog and starts an avalanche that engulfs the entire universe until it has to reverse itself and become a snowball again, ending up in the dog's mouth.
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Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
While Axel, his father, Dag, and his dog, Grits, are testing the snow in the Teton Mountains' Glory Bowl, Axel's snowboarding rival, Kelly, starts showing off and triggers an avalanche.
10) Buried alive
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
11) Peak survival
Author
Series
Take it to the extreme volume 2
Publisher
Walrus Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jake, Peter and Moses are looking forward to heli-skiing and snowboarding in the backcountry, but just after they are dropped off a helicopter crashes. It's up to them to rescue any survivors.
12) The retreat
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Publisher
Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"She came looking for inspiration. Instead, disaster strikes. Maeve Martin arrives at the High Water Center for the Arts, a gorgeous lodge nestled deep in the Rocky Mountains, determined to do one thing: begin her own dance company. A retired performer and mother of two, time is running out for her to find her feet again after the collapse of her disastrous -- and violent -- marriage. And at first, there's a thrill to being on her own for the first...