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1) Lost nation
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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The acclaimed author’s “mesmerizing tale” of a young man and woman who struggle to survive in the remote, disputed territory of 19th-century New Hampshire (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
With an oxcart full of rum, a man known as Blood travels through the wild country of New England toward an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream—a land where the luckless or outlawed can make a fresh start. Blood is a
...With an oxcart full of rum, a man known as Blood travels through the wild country of New England toward an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream—a land where the luckless or outlawed can make a fresh start. Blood is a
2) Ice dogs
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
3) Cold dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe again -- until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition. Almost. Rose is certain that she knows the victim's identity & and that his death was no accident. Nick Martini also suspects an arsonist's deliberate hand. Another fire killed an arson investigator in California months ago. Now the rugged smoke jumper is determined to follow the killer's...
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English
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Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendant, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all...
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English
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"Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling...
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English
Description
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened....
8) Scat
Author
Language
English
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
10) Boundary waters
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020, c1999
Edition
Atria paperback edition 2020
Physical Desc
xiv, 402 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cork O'Connor, the hero of "Iron Lake", is called upon to help locate a woman lost in the Quentico-Superior Wilderness on the Canada/Minnesota border. While he, FBI agents, and the woman's father hit the trail to find her, other men are out to kill her.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home. Though she feels safe in this untamed land, Tracy still follows her late mother’s rules: Never Lose Sight of the House. Never Come Home with Dirty Hands. And, above all else, Never Make a Person Bleed.
But these precautions aren’t enough to protect...
12) Dark roads
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia's mountain wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and vast, it has become a prime hunting ground for predators. For decades, young women traveling the road have gone missing. Motorists and hitchhikers, those passing through or living in one of the small towns scattered along the region, have fallen prey time and again. And no killer or abductor who has ever stalked...
13) Harry's trees
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
659 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight... Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A special agent for the Department of the Interior, Ted Systead, investigates a murder in Glacier National Park where a victim was tied to a tree and mauled by a grizzly bear.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Glacier National Park police officer Monty Harris knows that each summer at least one person--be it a reckless, arrogant climber or a distracted hiker--will meet tragedy in the park. But Paul "Wolfie" Sedgewick's fatal fall from the sheer cliffs near Going-To-the-Sun Road is incomprehensible. Wolfie was an experienced and highly regarded wildlife biologist who knew all too well the perils that Glacier's treacherous terrain presents--and how to avoid...
17) The smoke jumper
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julia Bishop faces a wrenching dilemma when she finds herself in love with two men, best friends Ed Tully and Connor Ford, and the three of them are forced to live with the consequences when she chooses to marry Ed after he is injured trying to save her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
20) Dog driven
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
McKenna, fourteen, is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease, but that will not stop her from competing in a rigorous new sled dog race through the Canadian wilderness.
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