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Yak and Dove / by Maclear, Kyo,1970-; Shapiro, Esmé,1992-;
Yak and Dove have almost nothing in common, yet they have many things to learn from each other.LSC
Subjects: Yak; Birds; Friendship;
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Yak and Gnu / by MacIver, Juliette,1972-; Chapman, Cat.;
An adventure in the river with Yak in his kayak and Gnu in his canoe is marked by a safari of unusual nautical sightings, including a goat in a boat, a calf on a raft, and a whole flotilla of whales and gorillas.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Yak; Gnus; Best friends; Personal watercraft;
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Y is for yak / by Claude, Jean.;
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Subjects: Yak; Vocabulary; Alphabet books.;
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My heart is like a zoo / by Hall, Michael,1954-;
Depicts in rhyming text how love can be many different things, such as eager as a beaver, steady as a yak, or silly as a seal.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Zoo animals; Love;
© 2013, c2010., Greenwillow Books,
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My heart is like a zoo / by Hall, Michael,1954-;
Depicts in rhyming text how love can be many different things, such as eager as a beaver, steady as a yak, or silly as a seal.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Zoo animals; Love;
© c2010., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Stand on the sky / by Bow, Erin.;
Aisulu is a Kazakh nomad girl living in Mongolia. She has always been a bit different - she likes girl things well enough and milks the yaks and fetches water as a daughter should, but she also likes math and a fast ride on her horse, Moon Spot, that she tamed herself. But when her brother Selik breaks his leg trying to catch an eagle, and is discovered to have osteosarcoma, everything changes for Aisulu. Her parents rush off to the city with Selik, leaving Aisulu to tend the herds alone. She rescues the dead eagle's chick, moves in with her aunt and her uncle, a former Burkitshi (eagle hunger), and begins to tame the eaglet, which she names Toktar. Soon it becomes clear that Aisulu and Toktar have a special bond, and her uncles begins training her to become an eagle hunter herself, even though she is a girl, and girls do not become eagle hunters. Aisulu is not sure she can do it - but when she finds out that there will be a Festival, and foreigners (from ESPN, a crew filming "the weird sports") have provided a substantial prize, Aisulu changes her mind. The prize can buy her brother an expensive prosthetic leg and allow him to run and ride again. Her uncle begins training her, Toktar and Moon Spot and her aunt enlists the women to create a suitable and special outfit for the competition, something fit for a Burkitshi. The odds are stacked against her, but Aisulu is determined to prove herself and help her family.LSC
Subjects: Hunters; Girls; Eagles;
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Himālaya : exploring the roof of the world / by Keay, John,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Himālaya embraces all of Tibet, plus six of the world's eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. Thirty-five percent of the global population depend on Himālaya's freshwater for crop irrigation, protein, and, increasingly, hydropower. It now sits seismically unstable, as tectonic plates consider to shift and the region remains gridlocked in a global debate surrounding climate change. Keay shows that, without our commitment to an ethos of respect for it confounding, fascinating features, Himālaya will soon cease to exist.
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Egg marks the spot : a Skunk and Badger story / by Timberlake, Amy.; Klassen, Jon.;
Buried in the heart of every animal is a secret treasure. Badger's is the Spider Eye Agate, stolen years ago by his crafty and treasure-trade-dealing cousin, Fisher. Skunk's is Sundays with the New Yak Times Book Review. When Mr. G. Hedgehog threatens to take the Book Review as soon as it thumps on the doorstep, Skunk decides an adventure will solve both their problems.LSC
Subjects: Badgers; Skunks; Rocks; Dinosaurs;
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Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town / by Demick, Barbara,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Set in Aba, a town perched at 12,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau in the far western reaches of China that has been the engine of Tibetan resistance for decades, Eat the Buddha tells the story of a nation through the lives of ordinary people living in the throes of this conflict. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick illuminates a part of China and the aggressions of this superpower that have been largely off limits to Westerners who have long romanticized Tibetans as a deeply spiritual, peaceful people. She tells a sweeping story that spans decades through the lives of her subjects, among them a princess whose family lost everything in the Cultural Revolution; a young student from a nomadic family who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirta; an upwardly mobile shopkeeper who falls in love with a Chinese woman; a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance. Demick paints a broad canvas through an intimate view of these lives, depicting the tradition of resistance that results in the shocking acts of self-immolation, the vibrant, enduring power of Tibetan Buddhism, and the clash of modernity with ancient ways of life. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking"--
Subjects: Buddhism; Refugees, Tibetan.; Tibetans; Tibetans;
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