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Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 3
Language
English
Description
In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past—and in the life of the spirited Bonners—as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age...
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English
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Montana wilderness guide Angie Powell wants nothing to do with ex-soldier Dare Callahan, especially as she blames him for her failing business. But she has to put her feelings to one side when they are suddenly thrust together to stop an animal with a thirst for blood--of a human variety
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness: “A magnificently realized story” (New York Times Book Review).
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the...
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the...
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English
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After photographer and smoke jumper Connor Ford risks his life to save Julia Bishop, the partner of his closest friend, "he embarks on a journey to the dark heart of human suffering, traveling the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but never happiness."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Shifting from the staemy shores of the Caribbean to New Orleans, Oueen of Swords picks up the story of Hannah Bonner, the beautiful half-Mohawk daughter of frontiersman Nathaniel Bonner, as hse and her half-brother Luke embark on a desperate rescue mission. Hot on the trail of the powerful and ruthless Creole family who have kidnapped Lukes's son, they become separated in New Orleans, a city divided under the shadow of war. Hannah's one hope lies...
7) The rising
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"The race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion when Maya and her friends--who all have supernatural powers--find help against the Cabals from unexpected places"--
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Series
California chronicles volume 2
Language
English
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EMMELINE AMITY CALLAHAN - a feisty charmer with a needy heart. Emmeline’s an ugly duckling. At least that’s what she thinks, that is until she receives a gift that leads her to California’s Big Valley where she makes a surprising discovery.
QAUID DEARBOURNE - a tough and tender cowboy. He’s passionate about keeping his land in its original wild glory. Sparks fly when his irresistible new neighbor covers her acreage with
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English
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A novella and two stories. The title novella, set on a ranch in Texas, is on a woman's love of the land, Where the Sea Used to Be is on the rivalry of two oil men, while in The Myth of the Bears a mountain man tracks a runaway wife who seems to leave an unusual number of helpful clues
10) The beasties
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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Seventeen-year-old Jenna, an ardent vegetarian and environmentalist, is thrilled to be spending the summer communing with nature in rural Canada, until she discovers that not all of the rugged residents there share her beliefs.
12) Force of nature
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Series
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English
Description
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. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk...
13) The calling
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maya and her friends--all of whom have supernatural powers--have been kidnapped after fleeing from a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set, and after a terrifying helicopter crash they find themselves pursued by evil-doers in the Vancouver Island wilderness
14) Breaking wild
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It is the last weekend of the season for Amy Raye Latour to get away. Driven to spend days alone in the wilderness, Amy Raye, mother of two, is compelled by the quiet and the rush of nature. But this time, her venture into a remote area presents a different set of dangers than Amy Raye has planned for and she finds herself on the verge of the precarious edge that she's flirted with her entire life. When Amy Raye doesn't return to camp, ranger Pru...
15) Boundary waters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Former sheriff Cork O'Connor is hired to find a friend's daughter, a country-western singer missing in the wilds of Minnesota. O'Connor discovers FBI agents and a gangster from a casino are also looking for the woman, but they won't say why.
16) Refuge Cove
Author
Series
New Americana volume 2
Language
English
Description
"A bride on the run from her would-be husband becomes stranded in the Alaska wilderness before accepting help from a rugged bush pilot who would reconnect with his estranged son. By the best-selling author of Texas True"--
Emily Hunter came to Alaska on the promise of marriage, but is soon on the run from her would-be husband. Stranded in the wilderness, she stumbles across a small plane-- and the rugged bush pilot who would reconnect with his estranged...
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Language
English
Description
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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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction. Murder at Haven's Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start... with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins. Haven's Rock, Yukon. Population: 0 Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven's Rock isn't the first town of this kind,...
19) Mrs. Mike
Author
Series
Mrs. Mike series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The heartwarming backlist classic is now in trade paper with a new Introduction by the authors and a new sequel, "The Search for Joyful, " to be published in February 2002.
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