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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series, Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his crew are hired by the US government to free Tibet from Chinese control...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Tibet, 1959. A Buddhist artifact of immense important disappeared during the Communist takeover. When National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea more than sixty years...
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English
Description
When her mentor, Hu Chang, tasks her with rescuing an imprisoned journalist in Tibet, shadowy CIA Operative Catherine Ling is pitted against a man so vile that she wonders if she is being used as a pawn in a game of revenge that is not hers to play.
"Catherine Ling: raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she has been a shadowy CIA Operative since she was fourteen years old. Now, years later, Catherine is as lethal as she is beautiful. There are only...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In Water Touching Stone, the sequel to the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra, Shan Tao Yun is cloistered in a remote Tibetan sanctuary when he receives shattering news. A teacher revered by the oppressed has been found slain and, one by one, her orphaned students have followed her to her grave, victims of a killer harboring unfathomable motives. Abandoning his mountain hermitage, Shan Tao Yun, a former Beijing police inspector who has been...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Murders and mysteries abound in a remote Tibetan village in this novel in the Edgar Award–winning series. Shan Tao Yun, formerly an investigator in Beijing, has been asked to help save a comatose man. The man is believed to be guilty of two murders in which the victims' arms were removed-but when the detective arrives, he discovers that the suspect is not actually Tibetan, but Navajo. The man has come here with his niece, seeking the ancestral ties...
12) Soul of the fire
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. But his fear turns to confusion as he discovers he has been chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides. Soon he finds that his predecessor was murdered, and when a monk sets himself on fire in front...
Author
Series
Course of empire ; 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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'Responding to rumors of a disease outbreak, an American spy discovers thousands dead in Tibet as the result of a Chinese weapons test based on genetic traits in the first novel in a new techno-thriller series.' --wordery.com.
In the mountains of Tibet, people whisper of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes. The Chinese government says the rumors aren't...
14) The 13th apostle
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Series
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a wager is placed between a beguiling visitor from the underworld and an angel from one of the highest orders of heaven, it becomes a race to covet the soul of mankind. Realizing his own destiny, one mere mortal here on earth discovers the burden of saving man has fallen to him. A test he learns he's been preparing for his entire life. With the guiding principles of love, honor, courage and faith illuminating his path, Father Joseph leaves the...
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Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator, on parole from a Tibetan gulag. One day, he is ferrying a corpse on mule back over the slopes of Chomolungma-Mount Everest-at the request of a local wise woman who says the gods have appointed this task to him, when he encounters what looks like a traffic accident. A government bus filled with imprisoned Tibetan monks has overturned. Then Shan hears gunfire. Two women in...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
After her parents are arrested by Chinese soldiers because of their religious beliefs, twelve-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam travel from their home in Tibet across the Himalayas to India in order to seek the help of the Dalai Lama. --
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready journeys to post-World War II Tibet to search for a legendary creature that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future." --