Books with title Avalanches

Graceful Wind is a residential therapy center for teens struggling with drug abuse. The lodge’s website gushes psychobabble such as “addiction recovery" and "comprehensive distraction removal."There’s just one problem: Alice isn’t on drugs.But the mountainside retreat does help her escape her mother, who can’t even look at her since her father left, and her friends, who glare at her from across the cafeteria, as if she’s the one who betrayed them. And most of all, it helps her outrun the memory of that tragic night six months ago, when everything changed.Once on the mountain, Alice has to deal with new problems, like Micah, the delinquent who studies her with swimming dark eyes, until if feels like he can see through all the secrets she’s guarding. And Lily, who hasn’t spoken since her mother killed herself. And Jack, who Alice feels like she can actually talk to, despite his sordid past as a priest and current position as counselor at Graceful Wind.In the middle of her struggle between protecting herself and letting go, an avalanche descends, cutting the power and contact with the outside world, and burying Lily in snow. Suddenly, Alice has to suppress the tragedy of her past and focus on the dangers facing her in the moment. If she can’t find the strength to move on, she may not be able to save her new friends – or herself – from real disaster.

Louise takes out her binoculars and studies the face of the huge snowcapped peak outside her cabin. She spies a black dot that seems to move. Sure enough it turns out to be a person. Her parents have gone to the Ice Station to study glaciers. She is keeping house. But why is the person descending the mountain and coming closer? She phones the Ice Station and they tell her to get out of there. They hang up right away. Do they know something she doesn’t? How is she going to survive hundreds of miles from civilization all by herself with only her Labrador Retriever and her cat to help her? Louise had better figure out what to do soon. Whoever it is is coming closer by the minute.

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