First There is a Mountain

First There is a Mountain
Author: Elizabeth Kadetsky
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780316890960

The author chronicles her lifelong battle with eating disorders and starvation diets, her journey to India to study at the yoga institute of the renowned B. K. S. Iyengar, and her discovery of a spiritual discipline that helped her find peace. 25,000 first printing.

My Side of the Mountain

My Side of the Mountain
Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2001-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593115007

"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

The Mountain Within: Leadership Lessons and Inspiration for Your Climb to the Top

The Mountain Within: Leadership Lessons and Inspiration for Your Climb to the Top
Author: Herta Von Stiegel
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-08-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071773258

In July 2008, international business executive Herta von Stiegel led a group of disabled people to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity. The story was captured in the award-winning documentary The Mountain Within—and now the expedition has inspired this remarkable work, which blends the gripping tale with powerful leadership lessons and conversations with many of the world’s most influential business leaders: Kay Unger Sung-Joo Kim Dr. Joachim Faber Baroness Scotland of Asthal Marsha Serlin Dr. Karl (Charly) and Lisa Kleissner Martha (Marty) Wikstrom Sam Chisholm Minister Mohamed Lotfi Mansour Karin Forseke President and Lt. General Seretse Khama Ian Khama Christie Hefner Abeyya Al-Qatami Hon. Al Gore and David Blood Dr. Mohamed “Mo” Ibrahim Life may be full of obstacles, but it is the mountain within that most often needs to be conquered. No matter your challenges or where you are on your climb to the top, this unique work helps you become a resilient leader capable of guiding your team to achieve even the most challenging goal.

Beneath a Mountain Moon

Beneath a Mountain Moon
Author: Silver Ravenwolf
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1995
Genre: Grandmothers
ISBN: 9781567187229

The winding plot of this occult fiction turns sharply on a generations-old battle between two powerful families in the small Southern town of Whiskey Springs. There the inhabitants are being manipulated by a dark force that's driving its victims to the local funeral parlor.

A Mountain Alphabet

A Mountain Alphabet
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0887769403

Mountains are an impressive sight anywhere in the world but those of the western mountain region of North America offer riches that are truly unique. This lavishly illustrated picture book presents snowcapped peaks, emerald lakes, tall pines and magnificent maples, and a range of birds and animals that will fill readers of all ages with wonder. The treasures and mysteries of nature are depicted in twenty-six full-color paintings, each with a line of alliterative text. Objects that begin with that letter of the alphabet are waiting to be discovered in each illustration. Complete with detailed information about each setting painted, this is a visually and mentally stimulating experience – from A to Z.

The Sound of the Mountain

The Sound of the Mountain
Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307833658

From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age—about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life. “A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata’s is the closest to poetry.” —The New York Times Book Review By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo’s life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker

A Mountain Too Far

A Mountain Too Far
Author: Karl H. Purnell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A father comes to understand the power and beauty of mountain climbing when he begins the sport to reconcile the tragic death of his son from an avalanche while climbing.

Silence on the Mountain

Silence on the Mountain
Author: Daniel Wilkinson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822333685

Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

At the Mountain's Base

At the Mountain's Base
Author: Traci Sorell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0735230609

A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots. 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. With an author's note that pays homage to the true history of Native American U.S. service members like WWII pilot Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, this is a story that reveals the roots that ground us, the dreams that help us soar, and the people and traditions that hold us up.

About a Mountain

About a Mountain
Author: John D'Agata
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2011-02-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0393076695

Named One of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books Written by the New York Times Magazine, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Editors' Choice. When John D'Agata helps his mother move to Las Vegas one summer, he begins to follow a story about the federal government's plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain; the result is a startling portrait that compels a reexamination of the future of human life.