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22) Hard to break
Author
Series
Michael Gannon ; 3
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mike Gannon always wanted to go to Alaska. That's why when a bucket-list grizzly bear trip to the Klondike comes up, he's on it with both feet. But as he arrives up in the northern wilds, he discovers other hunters are there. And they're not looking for grizzly. Soon Mike finds himself alone and captured on a corporate plane heading southbound for an incredibly lethal encounter that is about to blow his mind before it tries to blow him away"--
24) The wild wood
Author
Publisher
Orb
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her cabin in the woods of Canada to concentrate on her illustrations, a young artist sees strange and beautiful creatures appearing within her sketches and discovers that she is being asked for help by the world of Faerie.
26) Present danger
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"USFS Special Agent Terra Connors is called to investigate a body found in the national forest. As she's uncovering clues that show the victim may have been involved in criminal activities, the case takes a deadly turn that leaves her and Former FBI special Agent Jack Tanner fighting for the truth-and their lives"--
27) Howling Hill
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
While separated from her family in the wilderness area along the Nahanni River, a wolf pup discovers that she can express her loneliness in a long, loud howl.
28) Picture perfect
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost In The Woods
Pediatrician Lorrie Ryan has been looking forward to camping with her seven-year-old nephew, Davey. It's a chance to let the fragile, sheltered boy spend time away from his nervous, overprotective parents, and have the adventure he's always wanted. But in the lush woods, Lorrie never imagines they are not alone. . .or that their idyllic trip will soon become a chilling nightmare of survival. . .
In one terrifying moment, Davey...
33) Hatchet Island
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in Hatchet Island, the next thriller in Paul Doiron's bestselling Mike Bowditch series. A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast. Stacey spent summers interning on the island, a sanctuary for endangered...
35) The crossing
Author
Series
Border trilogy ; 2
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of...
Author
Language
English
Description
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 descendent, 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 there is to life.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press/Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
On orders of President Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Walker and his botanist uncle, William, set out to search the southern wilderness for a live specimen of Megatherium, the giant ground sloth, and suffer kidnapping at the hands of pirates and torture by redskin savages ...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"On a farm on the edge of the endless, remote salt flats of Australia, an embattled family struggles in the midst of the Depression to scrape out an existence and survive the dust and despair. Regular visitors are few, only the Debt Adjuster and the wandering Indian hawker, Cabel Singh until the day Eileen, a mysterious young woman, blows in from nowwhere and alters the family's precarious equilibrium." -- Jacket.
