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Language
English
Description
This novel 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 descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the expensive world she knows in New York City, sublet her apartment, and move to a small, inexpensive cabin in the country, where her life falls into a quieter rhythm. There...
2) Stay hidden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder investigation in this intricately-plotted thriller featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch"--
3) Buckskin
Publisher
ITN Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1820, a Texan fur trapper journeys into the mysterious Buckskin woods in the hopes of saving a lost boy. One there, Wesley Porter must confront the demons of his past and navigate the savage Native's traps in order to bring himself and the young man home alive.
4) The keeper
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 2
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
5) Save Rafe!
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Middle schooler Rafe Khachadorian faces his greatest challenge yet as he struggles to complete a week-long wilderness survival course to prove to his school administrators that he can succeed"--
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Following another major setback, the Brown family is determined to start over in Southeast Alaska. It will be a lot of hard work to rebuild the life they've lost, but they'll do everything they can to get back to the bush where they belong. Sticking together like a pack of wolves, they live the way they want to live - with their own customs and their own laws of survival. As they look to the future the boys are eager to meet the one, so mom Ami hires...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-olds T.E. and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends. But as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole"--
8) Knife Creek
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery -- a dead baby buried in a shallow grave. Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed to have died four years earlier after she disappeared from a group rafting trip. As Bowditch assists the reopened investigation, he begins to suspect...
9) The bear
Author
Language
English
Description
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey home
In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons
...10) The bone orchard
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Series
Language
English
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Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. When his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is shot outside her farmhouse, Mike joins the hunt to find the man responsible and is forced to confront past choices and determine the kind of man he truly is.
12) Paradise on fire
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on southwestern ranches in the 1930s, while across the border Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where a dreams are paid for in blood
Author
Publisher
Naxos
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of Concord for the country. Beside the lake of Walden he built himself a log cabin and returned to nature to observe and reflect, while surviving on eight dollars a year. Also included here is Civil Disobedience, Thoreau's essay on just resistance to government that not only challenged the establishment of his day but has been used as a flag for later...
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