Download or read book Nightmare Mountain written by Peg Kehret and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as Molly arrives at her aunt and uncle's ranch in rural Washington, things start to go very wrong. Her cousin hates her on sight. Her aunt falls into a mysterious coma. Then, left alone on the huge property, Molly and her cousin discover an intruder lurking in the barn! Armed and desperate, he drags them to the top of a nearby mountain--and triggers an avalanche with a gunshot. Can they make it down the mountain alive?
Download or read book Nightmare Mountain written by Peg Kehret and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was supposed to be a wonderful vacation--Molly was spending a month with her aunt and uncle who own a llama ranch in Washington State. But everything goes wrong and Molly finds herself thrust into a struggle for survival. A edge-of-the-seat thriller praised by ALA Booklist as "Fast-paced mystery-adventure with a heroine who shows courage and resourcefulness".
Download or read book Mountain Nightmare written by David Thompson and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As mountain man Nate King and his family struggle to live free in the untamed country of frontier America, Nate and his neighbors have begun to find tracks and other signs of a being the Indians know as the "Old Ones, " a half-man, half-breed creature that preys on humans and kills simply for the sake of killing.
Download or read book Dorie written by Florence Cope Bush and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorie's story begins with her childhood on an isolated mountain farm, where we see first-hand how her parents combined back-breaking labor with intense personal pride to produce everything their family needed--from food and clothing to tools and toys--from the land. Lumber companies began to invade the mountains, and Dorie's family took advantage of the financial opportunities offered by the lumber industry, not realizing that in giving up their lands they were also letting go of a way of life. Along with their machinery, the lumber companies brought in many young men, one of whom, Fred Cope, became Dorie's husband. After the lumber companies stripped the mountains of their timber, outsiders set the area aside as a national park, requiring Dorie, now married with a family of her own, to move outside of her beloved mountains.
Download or read book Five Pages a Day written by Peg Kehret and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peg Kehret, who told of her childhood battle with polio in Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, now shares the story of her writing career. It began at the age of ten when she wrote and sold the Dog Newspaper. The paper was supposed to feature the tales of local dogs, but mostly it was about her own dog, B.J. After four issues, it folded. But Peg learned a valuable lesson: If she wanted people to read what she wrote, she had to write something interesting. Peg went on to write radio commercials, prize-winning contest entries, magazine articles, plays, and adult nonfiction books before she discovered her true voice as a writer in books for young people.
Download or read book Vampire Mountain written by Darren Shan and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--the gut-wrenching first book in The Vampire Mountain trilogy.
Download or read book A Death on Diamond Mountain written by Scott Carney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson’s death echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations—and undertake it in illusory ways—can tangle with madness. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson’s wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University, where Thorson died. Carney unravels how the cultlike practices of McNally and Roach and the questionable circumstances surrounding Thorson’s death illuminate a uniquely American tendency to mix and match eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces in a quest to reach an enlightened, perfected state, no matter the cost. Aided by Thorson’s private papers, along with cutting-edge neurological research that reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain and stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals, and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes, A Death on Diamond Mountain is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger.
Download or read book Beyond Collective Memory written by Cullen Goldblatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it.
Download or read book Nightmare Mountain written by Paperny, Myra and published by Markham, Ont. : Overlea House. This book was released on 1988 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wilderness hike turns into a terrifying nightmare for Cassie and Jordie when they interfere with the activities of a gang of ruthless poachers.
Download or read book Acolytes of Cthulhu written by Robert M. Price and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted Lovecraftian scholar R.M.Price assembles this unique Lovecraft-influenced collection of twenty-eight rare tales, from such diverse authors as Neil Gaiman, Jorges Luis Borges, Manly Wade Wellman, and Gustaf Meyrink. Spanning from the 1930s to the 1990s, this kaleidoscopic collection is a triumph of interdimensional threats, ritual magic, and cosmic horrors.
Download or read book My Side of the Mountain written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book
Download or read book At the Mountains of Madness written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miracle on the Mountain written by Mike & Mary Couillard and published by Avon. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a cold yet breathtakingly beautiful day in January 1995 when Mike Couillard, a United States Air Force officer on assignment in Turkey, took his son Matthew skiing. As they rode the T-bar to the magnificent peaks of the 7,300-foot-high Kartalkaya Mountain, there was nothing to foretell the nightmare that was to come.It was the middle of the afternoon when they reached the top and, although it had started to snow, they still had time to ski. An experienced skier, Mike made note of his surroundings and kept the overhead line in sight as they glided downward. But suddenly the snow fell harder, visibility decreased, hidden rocks sent them plunging into the snow, and dense stands of pine trees forced them off the trail. Desperately, they looked for the lift line - or anything familiar - and saw nothing but white. They were lost.In the days that followed, Mike and his son desperately fought cold and hunger, while U.S. and Turkish teams were conducting a massive search and the story was making headlines throughout the world. But as hope for survival dwindled, their family and friends could do nothing but pray. Mike a Matt also asked for God's help, as Mike made the most difficult decision of his life - on that could mean death or salvation.
Download or read book Devil s Mountain written by John Riley and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the adventure of a lifetime in Devil's Mountain: An Allen Ross Novel. For Professor Allen Ross, today is the last day of his book tour. The day is quiet and he is preparing to return home for a much needed rest. But before he leaves, an old friend pays the professor a visit, offering him the opportunity of a lifetime to find a legendary beast. At first the professor is reluctant to take the offer, but when he is told that a woman from his past needs him, he agrees. Everything seems normal on the assignment, until members of his team go missing deep in the mountains of Northern California. Suddenly it becomes a race to survive the night. About the Author: John Riley lives in Salinas, California, where he is writing the next Allen Ross adventure. Publisher's website: http: //SBPRA.com/JohnRile
Download or read book A Mountain Boyhood written by Joe Mills and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Mountain Boyhood" by Joe Mills is the coming-of-age story of a boy growing up in the American mountain wilderness. Estes Park is a quaint town in northern Colorado where the tale unfolds. The town is meticulously described to let the setting come to life as a young boy finds adventures out west and how those exciting and detailed adventures can play such a great role in turning him into a man.
Download or read book Thornghost written by Tone Almhjell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Gregor the Overlander and Five Kingdoms will love this alternate-realm fantasy full of heart-racing action Strange things are happening around Niklas Summerhill’s home. A green-eyed beast is killing animals in the woods, and the nightmares that have haunted Niklas since his mother died grow more terrifying with every night. When the beast turns out to be a troll brought to life from his own games, Niklas knows he has to stop it. With the help of his lynx companion, Secret, he finds the source of the magic: a portal to another world. But this realm, once the home of peaceful animals, is also in danger. The evil Sparrow King is hunting down the few survivors from a devastating war, and a dark, blood-thirsty plant is infecting the valley. Niklas must try to save both worlds. But first he has to uncover the truth about his mother’s last words: "I’m a Thornghost." From the author of The Twistrose Key comes a fantasy brimming with intriguing mystery, fast-paced action, and a cast of unforgettable human and animal characters.
Download or read book Locusts written by Caitie McAneney and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just the mention of locusts can strike fear into the heart of a farmer. Locust plagues wreak havoc on crops and have been the cause of millions of people going hungry. This book examines the life of a locust and what happens to cause a swarm to form. Locust swarms can contain trillions of insects and cover hundreds of miles of land, so locust control is essential to countries dependent on crops. This book offers both historical and scientific information on locusts and impresses just how detrimental these creatures can be.
