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Author
Series
I survived volume 22
Language
English
Description
"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
2) Avalanche
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professor Monroe, did you kill your wife?Professor Robert Monroe's wife has vanished from their 5-star hotel in Gstaad, and no one saw a thing. Was she kidnapped? Or did she run off with the handsome Italian she and Robert partied with the night before?
3) Avalanche!
Author
Series
Survivor diaries volume 02
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries them in icy white. It will take all of their knowledge and grit to survive. With seventeen years of hands-on experience and training in remote areas, survival expert Terry Lynn Johnson...
4) Avalanche
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
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.
5) Avalanche!
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the maiden run of Amtrak's newest, fastest and sleekest train, the Desert Wind encounters force of nature so powerful it stops the train cold. High in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, xtreme cold and high altitude are starting to take their toll on passengers and crew. The avalanche that buried the Desert Wind, like the City of San Francisco decades earlier in the Sierra Nevada's, is about to meets its match. The railroad industry learned a...
6) Avalanche
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Matt was looking for a fun adventure that he'd never forget; back-country skiing in the Rocky Mountains sounds perfect. But after an avalanche hits, leaving one skier dead and another severely injured, the group must find a way to survive Mother Nature. Now Matt and Leah are battling hypothermia-- and mountain lions-- in order to make it out of the mountains and find help for the others.
7) Avalanche
Author
Series
Sheriff Bo Tully mystery volume 02
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While leading a would-be killer into the open, Sheriff Bo Tully also pursues a seventy-five-year-old missing persons case in which a pair of gold miners (a two-man drilling team known as a double-jack) mysteriously disappeared just as they hit the motherlode in a remote part of Blight County.
Author
Series
Air dragons volume 3
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A dragon shifter series set in the same world as the bestselling Bride Hunt books
Avalanche finds himself in the deep, dark recesses of the earth. It's nothing like he ever imagined it would be. All he needs to do is to survive long enough to win the prize.
Contains mature themes.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It is 1944, and Private Steve Wilkins is waiting to go to war. A new recruit to the mighty Desert Rats, he is billeted in Norfolk as the Allies meticulously plan the attack to open up the Second Front. Being nineteen and away from home for the first time, Steve, along with his fellow recruits, must find something to keep his mind off what lays ahead. The Saturday hop at King's Lynn, with its dancing and local girls, is the perfect distraction. Steve,...
10) Avalanche
Author
Series
Secret world chronicles volume 05
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Ultima Thule has been destroyed but not before destroying Metis. The Metisians that escaped the destruction of their secret city must find somewhere safe without getting snapped up by various world governments. Now attacks are happening all over the Earth. The heroes of ECHO and CCCP have to save the world but first, they have to save each other. And the avalanche has begun"-- Provided by publisher.
11) Avalanche alert
Author
Series
Wild rescue volume 07
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
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.
Author
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follow along with Piper, a friendly border collie who came to the mountain as a smart but timid shelter dog, terrified by everything, as she confidently heads off to school on a chairlift to meet her canine classmates. Over a season they romp together through the snow, learning and practicing the skills they need to be avalanche rescue dogs and earn their rescue certification. You'll also learn the warning signs and conditions that cause an avalanche,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When snow comes tumbling down a mountain without warning, it can bury anything and anyone in its path. From well-known avalanches around the world to those that are lesser known, learn about victims who got caught in these disasters and about the valiant attempts to save them. You'll be on the edge of your seat as you discover the details of what makes a successful rescue, from fierce determination to the right equipment.
Author
Language
English
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Description
From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche.
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped—but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny
17) Prince avalanche
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An odd couple of sorts, introspective and stern Alvin and his girlfriend's brother, Lance, dopy and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer of 1988 repainting traffic lines on a desolate country highway where the surrounding areas have been ravaged by wildfire. The men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"On January 20, 2003, a thunderous crack rang out and a 100-foot-wide tide of snow barreled down the Northern Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. More than a dozen skiers and snowboarders were thrust down the mountain, buried beneath several tons of rock-hard snow and ice in the Durrand Glacier Avalanche. A heroic search and rescue ensued. Among those buried was Craig Kelly - 'the Michael Jordan of snowboarding' - a man who had propelled...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A personal account of the author's failed efforts to have a child discusses the agonizing realities of infertility and modern scientific approaches, recounting her struggles through various therapies before making the decision to end treatment and redirect her love elsewhere,"--NoveList.
At the age of 38, acclaimed novelist Julia Leigh made her first visit to the in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic, full of hope. So started a long and costly journey...