Arctic Mystery

A gunshot sends a motorcycle careening across the Klondike Highway leaving a trail of blood. Members of an anti-casino group are targeted by persons unknown. A beloved citizen of Dawson is stabbed to death in broad daylight. A hate group destroys First Nation artifacts and invades an important celebration. Lydia Falkner longs to return to her Yukon River sanctuary, but her life has been threatened. The Mounties are baffled as to if and how all of these events are connected. Connections slowly emerge leading to a dramatic and tragic conclusion.

Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island. Bethan and her friends are environmental activists, determined to protect the land. But Dean's group's exploitation of rare earth minerals deep in the caves unleashes an horrific contagion that has rested frozen and undisturbed for many millennia. Fleeing the terrors emerging from the caves, Dean and Bethan and their rival teams undertake a perilous journey on foot across an unpredictable and volatile landscape.

The heroine, Hanne Kristensen, the beautiful Danish geologist appointed Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources for the newly independent Greenland, has to maneuver through a wave of setbacks to foil both a Chinese attempt to control Greenland’s natural resources and a more aggressive Russian attempt to gain hegemony over the sparsely populated fledgling country as well as to save her friend, the ousted Premier of Russia, Pavel Laptov.

London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. 'A tragic accident', the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isn't right. When she finds Constance's journal, it becomes clear that the truth is being buried by sinister forces. To find answers - and deliver justice for her sister - Maude must step into London's dark underbelly, and into the path of dangerous, powerful men.

Listen to this positive collection of short stories for children featuring animals in the Artic with lessons on respect, diversity, patience, kindness, honesty, forgiveness, and teamwork.

En enero, el implacable invierno islandés se adueña por completo de la isla. Elias, un niño de diez años, ha aparecido apuñalado cerca de su casa y en estado de congelación. La víctima del homicidio es el hijo de una inmigrante tailandesa que trabaja duro para mantener a su familia desde que su marido islandés les abandonó. El inspector Erlendur Sveinsson y sus inseparables ayudantes Sigurdur Óli y Elínborg son los encargados de llevar a cabo la desagradable tarea de resolver un asesinato en el que no faltan sospechosos.

Arctic Meltdown, a gripping environmental thriller, is set against the backdrop of the melting polar icecap and the ensuing jostling for jurisdiction over additional seabed resources. Hanne Kristensen, a beautiful Danish geologist, has to contend with a corrupted UN process, China’s growing interest in Arctic resources and maritime routes, Russian military aggression and the resulting international tension to try to save the world from war and the Arctic from environmental catastrophe.

Jack Standish, former fighter pilot and now just a freelance bush pilot on the ragged edges of aviation, flies a strange team of scientists to a remote island near Greenland. Discovering that an old pilot friend is a hostage, under threat of death to fly an obsolete but still lethal supersonic fighter, Standish rescues Phillip and tries to escape across the Arctic Ocean in a wild flight for freedom. It all goes wrong. The two end up at the center of an elaborate plot to destabilize both the United States and Russia at the risk of thermonuclear war.

张小南在梦里看到黑色的液体从北极冰川下涌出；北极熊互相残杀；一头北极熊对他说：“只有你才能拯救北极！”……張小南在夢裡看到黑色的液體從北極冰川下湧出；北極熊互相殘殺；一頭北極熊對他說：「只有你才能拯救北極！」

The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk - a voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance as they are crippled by enemy attack and the bitter cold of the Arctic.

A double agent murdered in Hong Kong. Military satellites destroyed in space. A U.S. Virginia submarine on the prowl in the Arctic. A rogue Russian sub hunted by all sides including their own countrymen. Can NCIS Agent Jennifer Hobbs piece everything together and prevent yet another devastating nuclear conflagration.

Far from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin's recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves trapped in ever-hardening Arctic ice that threatens to break apart their ship. When Morgan realizes that a stowaway will give birth to his child in the frozen wilderness, he finds new clarity and courage to lead his men across a bleak expanse as shifting, stubborn, and treacherous as human nature itself.

By the early decades of the 20th century, the fur trade had tapered off some from its heyday in the 19th century, but it still proved profitable enough for hunters to live for months at a time in remote regions of Alaska. Their only contact with the outside world consisted of the company ships that came to buy their furs and bring them supplies. One of these vessels was the steamer Baychimo, a Hudson's Bay Company ship that plied the treacherous waters off Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Siberia for many years.

When Maxwell and Myles receive their mission assignment from the Department of Secret Scientific Research to recover a team of researchers in the frozen tundra who have stopped responding, both boys are excited to test out their modified heated suits and other gadgets from their lab. However, things quickly take a turn for the unexpected when their mission hits a few speed bumps.

When SPEARS receives an emergency distress call from its marine outpost in Antarctica, there is only one team they can send. Agnes and Attie are soon up to their eyes in an icebound mystery. What is causing the tremors threatening to destroy the rescue centre? Why are the local Adelie penguins behaving so bizarrely? And what exactly is the celebrity nature presenter Cynthia Steelsharp doing, out there in the ice-fields?