Berthoud Community Library District

Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.

In the mountains of Nepal, Sabu the snow leopard and her young cub, Ka, are beginning a long and painful journey to find food. Dangers await across the snowy wastes, but the two leopards cannot rest until they reach food and safety in the next valley.

Little Mist, a young snow leopard, is filled with wonder when his mother introduces him to the world for the first time.

There are a few creatures in the world who live still untamed, prowling through the rocks, blinking slowly at encroaching civilization far below. On Bountiful Black Mountain, a snow leopard hunts alone, artifact of a vanishing age. But hungry, desperate, as he is forced away from his home toward the tents and fires of the valley, the snow leopard is forced to confront a vision of humanity that's at once profound and disconcerting, poetic and brutal,...