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1. At the mountain's base

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Author:
Sorell, Traci
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480L
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English
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"At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war."--Amazon.

2. A Boy of Heart Mountain: Based on and Inspired by the Experiences of Shigeru Yabu

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Author:
Bazaldua, Barbara
Publisher:
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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Experiences of Shigeru Yabu as a boy and being interned at a relocation camp for Japanese during World War 2 at Heart Mountain, CA.

3. P.D.Q. Bach: Music For An Awful Lot Of Winds & Percussion

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Author:
Schickele, Peter
Publisher:
Telarc International Corp
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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4. The Ill-Conceived P.D.Q. Bach Anthology

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Author:
Schickele, Peter
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Telarc International Corp
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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5. The giver of stars

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Author:
Moyes, Jojo, 1969-
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English
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call...

6. Year of wonders: a novel of the plague

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Author:
Brooks, Geraldine
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1080L
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Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life events in seventeenth-century England. A first novel. "When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine...

7. Eight below

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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2006]
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An American geologist flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base. Once there, he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard and his best friend, Cooper. The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight other valuable friends -- a pack of sled dogs he's worked with for years, who have rescued him from a number of tight spots. As the three men explore a frozen mountain region, an unexpected accident coupled...

8. One by one

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Author:
Ware, Ruth
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Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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"When an off-site company retreat meant to promote mindfulness and collaboration goes utterly wrong when an avalanche hits, the corporate food chain becomes irrelevant and survival trumps togetherness. Come Monday morning, how many members short will the team be?" -- goodreads.com.

9. The night watchman: a novel

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Erdrich, Louise
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...

10. Lone survivor: the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10

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Author:
Luttrell, Marcus
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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction
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On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive. This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation...

11. Only the brave

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.

12. A wolf called Wander

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Author:
Parry, Rosanne
Series:
Voice of the Wilderness volume 1
Lexile measure:
670L
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English
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5 stars
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"Swift, a wild wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains. When a rival pack attacks, Swift and his family scatter, and Swift sets out on an incredible journey through dense forests, into barren wilderness, and across flowing water. The trip is dangerous and full of peril, and Swift encounters fire, hunger, hunters, and highways as he wanders. Will Swift find the courage to survive? Will he ever find a place to call home?"--

13. Widowmaker: a novel

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Author:
Doiron, Paul
Series:
Mike Bowditch mysteries volume 7
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English
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"After a mysterious woman gives Mike Bowditch disturbing news, the game warden goes looking for a family secret in a Maine ski town and discovers a vigilante who seems to be targeting sex offenders."-- Amber Langstrom claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort. She also claims that Adam is the illegitimate son of Jack Bowditch, Mike's dead...

14. Stone Fox

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Gardiner, John Reynolds
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In spite of tremendous odds, a ten-year-old boy and his dog are determined to win a dogsled race and the five-hundred-dollar prize.

15. Go tell it on the mountain

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Author:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Series:
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Lexile measure:
970L
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English
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"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...

16. The year of the rat

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Author:
Lin, Grace
Series:
A Pacy Lin Novel
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730L
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English
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In the Chinese Year of the Rat, a young Taiwanese American girl faces many challenges: her best friend moves to California and a new boy comes to her school, she must find the courage to forge ahead with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and she must learn to find the beauty in change.

17. The curse of Pietro Houdini: a novel

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Miller, Derek B., 1970-
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"August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...

18. The revenant

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Punke, Michael
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"The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men’s encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes—like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...

19. In the shadow of the mountain: a memoir of courage

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Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia
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"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for...

20. Lost on a mountain in Maine

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Author:
Fendler, Donn, 1926-2016
Lexile measure:
910L
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English
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A twelve-year-old describes his nine-day struggles to survive after being separated from his companions in the mountains of Maine in 1939.
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