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1) Frostfire
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English
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"Chosen for the honour of bonding with a frostsliver, a fragment of the sentient glacier that crests her icy home, Sabira embarks on the dangerous pilgrimage to the top of the mountain. But when a huge avalanche traps her on the glacier and destroys the pass, Sabira is determined to find another way home. In order to survive, she must face up to the merciless mountain, but there are dark and fiery secrets hiding in its depths..."--Page [2] of cover....
2) Blood lure
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 9
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English
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The latest entry in the bestselling series featuring Anna Pigeon. Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park-Annarsquo;s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out,...
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Montana rescue volume 2
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English
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When Deputy Sam Brooks and impulsive, bleeding heart Willow are thrown together in Glacier National Park, they must work together to save their lives and those of several frightened teenagers.
Deputy Sam Brooks believes Sierra Rose is the perfect girl for him. Safe, practical, and organized, she's nothing like her hippie, impulsive, bleeding heart sister, Willow. He doesn't know Willow's been in love with him for years. To purge Sam from her heart,...
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Montana rescue volume 3
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English
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Champion backcountry snowboarder Gage Watson left the limelight behind and remade his life as a ski patrol in Montana's rugged mountains, as well as serving on the PEAK Rescue team. Senator and former attorney Ella Blair spends much of her time in the limelight. She has a secret-- one that cost Gage his snowboarding career-- and she wants to atone. When Ella's brother goes missing on one of Glacier National Park's most dangerous peaks, Gage isn't...
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When four year old Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the following months, a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back. This true story, retold by his father but using Colton's uniquely simple words, offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as...
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Montana rescue volume 1
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English
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Search-and-rescue pilot Kacey Fairing returned home to Montana determined to put the past behind her and start a new life. But that won't be easy: her new partner is the man who broke her heart.
Search and rescue pilot Kacey Fairing is home on leave in Mercy Falls, Montana, twelve years after she joined the military to escape the mistakes of her past. With a job waiting for her as the new lead pilot of Peak Rescue in Glacier National Park, Kacey...
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"It Happened Like This is, on the surface, a memoir about what it means to live and love in one of the wildest places on the planet. But the love described is not a simple one; it's a gritty, sometimes devastating, often blood-pumping kind of feeling played out in the rugged Alaska wilderness. In an authentic and honest voice, writer Adrienne Lindholm recounts her move to Alaska as a young woman eager to begin her career in environmental and wildlife...
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"When her business partner is accused of serious financial crimes, superstar influencer Cat Cranwell -- an engineered marvel of beauty, energy, and fun -- falls from her penthouse perch. Desperate to get away from the online trolls and paparazzi documenting her disgrace, Cat accepts her uncle's offer to work with him in Kannery National Park, Montana. About as far as possible from life as she's known it. Cat's world shifts from the swirling haze of...
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A riveting adventure biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a focus on his harrowing three-year journey to the top of the world. A celebrity among the ranks of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton at the turn of the twentieth century, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was still undiscovered territory, he attempted to make it to...
11) A grave denied
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 13
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English
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After the body of handyman Len Dreyer is found frozen solid in the path of a receding glacier with a shotgun wound in his chest, Kate Shugak agrees to help Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin by digging into Dreyer's background.
12) Glaciers
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Describes what glaciers are, how they are formed, and how they move and shape the Earth.
13) Glaciers
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Series
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Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1986
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English
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Discusses the formation of glaciers and icebergs, the way they shape the earth, and why scientists study them.
17) The edge
Publisher
Lerner Sports
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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A teenaged gang member accused of various crimes finds redemption working and snowboarding at a ski lodge in the mountains surrounding Canada's Glacier National Park.
18) Yosemite
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Creative Education
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A young explorer's introduction to California's Yosemite National Park, covering its mountain landscape, plants, animals such as black bears, and activities such as rock climbing"--
19) Secrets of the national parks: the experts' guide to the best experiences beyond the tourist trail
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In time for the National Park's 100th birthday, this guide is updated with all new text, 300 photographs and 80 maps, and design. National Geographic writers hit all 59 national parks--including Pinnacles, the newest in the crown--for intensive on-the-ground research. Practical and comprehensive coverage includes engaging, individual park descriptions and brief history, travel planning tips, itineraries and directions, activities, park lodges and...