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Kate Greenaway's Original Drawings for The Snow Queen Kate Greenaway's Original Drawings for The Snow Queen Chris Baker,Geraldine McCaughrean,Hans Christian Andersen,T. Pym,Laura Barrett,Bagram Ibatoulline,Anna Award,Natacha Godeau,Yevgeniya Yeretskaya,Julia Whelan,Sanna Annukka,Daniela Terrazzini,Emilie Majarian,Patricia MacCarthy,Armada Press After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous and magical journey to find him. OL15049616W
L'étoile mystérieuse L'étoile mystérieuse Hergé Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock search in the polar regions for a vast meteorite containing a valuable new metal. OL151095W
Aurorarama Aurorarama Jean-Christophe Valtat In the defense of steampunk comes a literary adventure unlike anything you've read before. 1908, New Venice: An ominous black airship hovers in the sky, and the city is hunting for the author of a ra… OL15587709W
The 7 professors of the Far North The 7 professors of the Far North John Fardell Eleven-year-old Sam finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure when he and his new friends, brother and sister Ben and Zara, set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle an… OL15834290W
Neversink Neversink Barry Wolverton When owls threaten the puffins' way of life on the small island of Neversink along the Arctic Circle, Lockley J. Puffin, helped by a hummingbird and a walrus, set out to save it. OL15991342W
City of ice City of ice Laurence Yep From the islands of Hawaii, Scirye and her loyal companions pursue the villainous Mr. Roland and evil dragon Badik all the way to the city of Nova Hafnia in the icy Arctic Circle, to prevent Roland f… OL16298170W
The snowstorm The snowstorm Jørn Riel In the time of the Vikings, when four friends journey from their Inuit settlement near the Arctic Circle to Helluland (modern Baffin Island) with two dogsled teams, their adventure is disrupted by a … OL16591934W
Iceling Iceling Sasha Stephenson With their scientist parents away on a research expedition, seventeen-year-old Lorna is left in charge of her younger sister Callie, an Arctic Recovery Orphan, or "iceling," who one night builds a mo… OL17871998W
Neversink Neversink Barry Wolverton When owls threaten the puffins' way of life on the small island of Neversink along the Arctic Circle, Lockley J. Puffin, helped by a hummingbird and a walrus, set out to save it. OL17925387W
Immi gift Immi gift Karin Littlewood Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightly-colored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice begins to melt and she drops in a gift of h… OL18713911W
The Terror The Terror Dan Simmons The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic Majes… OL1963316W
Ice whale Ice whale Jean Craighead George In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives. OL19979164W
Waiting for unicorns Waiting for unicorns Beth Hautala "After her mother dies, twelve-year-old Talia McQuinn goes to the Arctic with her father, a whale researcher. Over the course of one summer, and through several unlikely friendships, Talia learns tha… OL19991887W
Blown away Blown away Rob Biddulph An unexpected adventure with his friends and a kite convinces Penguin Blue that he is not built for flying, and that he belongs on solid ice. An unexpected adventure with his friends and a kite conv… OL19994192W
Arctic spring Arctic spring Sue Vyner Spring in the Arctic brings new activity among the fox, seal, and other animals, but the polar bear has a very good reason for remaining firm by her den. OL2442707W
HMS Ulysses ; Force Ten from Navarone ; When eight bells toll HMS Ulysses ; Force Ten from Navarone ; When eight bells toll Alistair MacLean HMS Ulysses: Dramatizes the week-long disintegration of a British light cruiser and its overworked crew on a mission to Murmansk in Arctic Russia during World War II. Force Ten from Navarone: The he… OL24754995W
Icebound Icebound Dean Koontz A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when a team of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massive explosive charge, battle the elements for survival, only to discover … OL263296W
Aurora Aurora Mindy Dwyer After getting lost while following a caribou, a young girl sets off across the Arctic tundra gathering the colors of the sky which become the Northern Lights. OL2650124W
The Time Traders The Time Traders Andre Norton DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USAs greatest adversary on the world stage is sendin… OL473477W
Over in the Arctic Over in the Arctic Marianne Collins Berkes A counting book in rhyme presents various Arctic animals and their offspring, from a mother polar bear and her "little cub one" to a old father wolf and his "little pups ten". Includes related fact… OL94718W
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