McCarthy, Steve
Summary: "The Vasylenko family are all adventurers who love wild places and wild things. All, that is, except young Oktober. He also dreams of adventure, but it's the kind that takes place between the pages of a book, indoors, where it's safe and warm. Unlike the rest of his family, he dreads venturing out where it's cold, wet, and home to a creature he calls the Wilderness. His father assures him the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: Classic Malley, to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard ... he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink, he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HIAWaterman, Jonathan
Summary: "This breathtaking book highlights the most glorious wilderness areas and nature preserves in North America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 590.97 WATPaulsen, Gary
Summary: As listeners of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson is the ultimate survivor. Alone in the wilderness, he faced the elements and lived on the edge of death. Now that he's back in civilization, he can't make sense of ordinary life. High school leaves him feeling more isolated than when he was by himself in the wild. He misses the woods so much that he'd go crazy if he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PAUPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012
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Summary: "After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn't act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive-for now. Before: Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARLansens, Lori
Summary: "A ... survival story about four strangers who spend five days lost in the mountain wilderness above Palm Springs. Four go up the mountain, but only three will come down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LANKoryta, Michael.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Jace witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity, and hidden in a wilderness skills program. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a quest to reach him. The clock is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KORGlover, James M.
Summary: Captivating biography of a giant of the U.S. conservation movement and founder of The Wilderness Society (1935).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSHALL GLODoiron, Paul
Summary: A simple hunting accident becomes an intricate mystery as the secrets of an isolated community are threatened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DOIHarrison, Jim
Summary: Wolf tells the story of a man who, after too many nameless women and drunken nights, leaves Manhattan to roam the wilderness of northern Michigan, hoping to catch a glimpse of the rare wolves that prowl that territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHoling, Dwight
Summary: Living is hard on the high lonesome, but dying is easy. When two of Nick Drake's oldest Paiute friends disappear during a robbery of ancient relics that leads to a double murder, his race to find them puts him on a collision course with an obsessed killer. And that's only for starters. A plane crash on a snowy mountainside after a wedding and with a baby on the way leads to a desperate fight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jackdaw Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLPerkins, Lynne Rae
Summary: "Violet and Jobie, sibling mice accustomed to living comfortably in a human home, find themselves uprooted and must quickly adapt to an unfamiliar world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PERStark, Peter
Contents: Prologue -- Where the Acadians disappeared in northern Maine -- The wild lands of western Pennsylvania -- The lost country of southeast Oregon -- The high, haunted desert of New Mexico -- Epilogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 STAThoreau, Henry David
Summary: "Thoreau's most influential works, Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, ask readers to question the status quo and live in accordance with their principles. Over 150 years since their initial publication, Thoreau's reflections on politics, simplicity, and independent living continue to inspire great readers and thinkers. Rediscover this beloved classic in an elegant keepsake edition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Pauper Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.303 THOMacfarlane, Robert
Contents: Beechwood -- Island -- Valley -- Moor -- Forest -- River-mouth -- Cape -- Summit -- Grave -- Ridge -- Holloway -- Storm-beach -- Saltmarsh -- Tor -- Beechwood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.10486 MACCrouch, Blake
Summary: On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town will disappear, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone will be found -- not even the gold that was rumored to have been the pride of this town. One hundred and thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a leading history professor and his journalist daughter to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRODoiron, Paul
Summary: "Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in the middle of nowhere, having lost his gun and any way to signal for help, Mike fights his way to the surface. But surviving the crash is only the first challenge. Whoever set the trap that ran him off the road is still out there, and they're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DOIHoling, Dwight
Summary: Nick Drake is a troubled Vietnam War veteran seeking redemption as a game warden. But when an Air Force pilot from a nearby base plummets onto a refuge, Nick is plunged into a deadly showdown with the military. Murders ensue, and he turns to his Paiute neighbors to bring justice to the pitiless desert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jackdaw Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLMunier, Paula
Summary: "Former Army MP Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing dog Elvis are back in Blind Search, the sequel to the page-turning, critically acclaimed A Borrowing of Bones It's October, hunting season in the Green Mountains -- and the Vermont wilderness has never been more beautiful or more dangerous. Especially for nine-year-old Henry, who's lost in the woods. Again. Only this time he sees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUNStillman, Scott.
Summary: Through his deeply poetic and wildly provocative tale of personal transformation, Scott Stillman takes us on a spiritual journey, away from a chaotic world of details, obligations, smartphones and noisy machines, to a place that is unspoiled, untamed, free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wild Soul Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 STISummary: A rare scientific odyssey down the Grand Canyon through some of the most treacherous rapids on the planet. From the river cutting through two-billion-year-old stone to the creatures roaming its back-country, the Grand Canyon still has secrets to tell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9132 AMESummary: Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUNSummary: John Denver takes us on a personal journey to revisit the people and places that inspired some of his classic songs. Also featured is his last song, which he wrote especially for this Nature program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thirteen-WNET 1998