Summary: Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLAFroderberg, Susan
Summary: "The story of a dangerous expedition up Mount Sarasvati in India that tests all of the climb's members"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FROStryer, Andrea Stenn
Summary: In the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, a deaf Sherpa boy proves himself to his father by rescuing his family's yaks from a dangerous storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bay Otter Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STRSummary: Natalie and Nick don't know each other, but they share lots in common. They're both frustrated in their work lives and in the romance department; Natalie despairs of finding Mr. Right, while Nick's meddling mother is forever trying to set him up. After tossing coins in Hayward Fountain, Nick and Natalie begin dreaming about each other. But there's a catch. They may be perfect for each other,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The critically acclaimed anthology series returns for its third season, this time starring Oscar winner Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVOE TRUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: A psychiatric nurse begins to question the line between fantasy and reality when he begins to lose his own sanity while working at a mental health facility in the Blue Mountains of Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WAKLenz, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENPreston, Douglas.
Summary: "Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast agrees to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PREVijay, Madhuri
Summary: "Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VIJCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIJMorris, Jackie.
Summary: A guardian spirit in the form of a snow leopard looks over a small village in the Himalayas, and chooses a human successor, whom she trains to sing songs that will protect the villagers from soldiers who search for gold and slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC MORRoy, Anuradha.
Summary: In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to all as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with this eccentric, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might be able to forge a new existence away from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYCussler, Dirk
Summary: "Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSMontgomery, R. A.
Summary: By making a series of choices, the reader determines the outcome of the attempt by two mountain climbers to scale the Himalayas in order to photograph the mysterious and elusive abominable snowman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2005
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUBilan, Jasbinder
Summary: "Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BILCussler, Dirk
Summary: In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Cussler 2021Popescu, Adam
Summary: Nima is a young Sherpa woman living in the foothills of the Himalayas, a range so immense and a place so isolated it is impossible to imagine anything existing beyond it. Nima and her sister are both betrothed to Norbu, a local Sherpa, but when Norbu stuns both families by only wanting to marry Nima, Nima flees her father’s wrath and the destiny that had been arranged for all of them. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Unnamed Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POPPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: While on a grand tour Pendergast and Constance learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast takes up the search which leads them to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREVignolli, David Jesus
Summary: The young human girl Vijaya finds refuge in a magical sanctuary beyond the Himalaya Mountains, among immortal beings and mystical creatures, but when the sanctuary is threatened, Vijaya must protect her new friends and home from mankind's violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The year is 1241. The Mongol horde lead by cruel khan Burunda moves west, destroying everything in its path. Reaching the Carpathian mountains, the troops camp right below. However, at night several local hunters, the Berkut brothers, secretly enter the camp and free the hostages. Consumed with rage, the khan decides to take revenge and destroy the Carpathian settlements. A traitor amongst the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RISSummary: A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, which tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTSummary: The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their wordly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLSummary: A chaste love story of sorts, about a couple of depressed outsiders who find each other: David, a divorced 47-year-old Chicagoan reeling from the death of his father, and eleven-year-old Tommie, who has little use for her sullen and neglectful parents and seems to spend her days wandering around acting wise beyond her years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016