Akron Public Library

"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....

Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.

While Axel, his father, Dag, and his dog, Grits, are testing the snow in the Teton Mountains' Glory Bowl, Axel and his snowboarding rival, Kelly, witness an avalanche.

While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.

Tony Jay knows he will win the Silver Falls snowboarding tournament, but when he discovers that his chief competition, Jack Hewitt, cannot even afford to enter, Tony agrees to a one-on-one freestyle contest in the Silver Falls Mountains. But just when the competition begins to get good, an avalanche turns the friendly challenge into a dangerous situation.

The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three... six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...