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: "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 MARPerkins, 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 PERHiaasen, Carl.
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 HIAPatterson, James
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATPaulsen, 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: 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 PAUHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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Summary: Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC HiaHenry, April
Summary: "When a fire engulfs an Oregon forest, a group of trapped hikers must find another way out"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENDe los Santos, Marisa
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: A coming-of-age 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HARLes Becquets, Diane.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESHarrison, 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 HARMcCarthy, Cormac
Summary: Billy and Boyd Parham are two boys living in New Mexico on the cusp of unimaginable events in the years before the Second World War. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild among cattle. Billy traps a she-wolf, intending to restore it to the mountains of New Mexico. But when he returns, he finds everything he left behind utterly transformed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCKantner, Seth
Summary: A white boy transplanted from Chicago to the Arctic tundra of Alaska finds himself struggling to adapt to his new home, where he must learn to hunt, fish, and live off the land, separated from the constant call of consumer culture. In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic clichs of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner's vivid and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2005
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Summary: During a hike into the Northwest woods to escape the noise and tumult of the hectic city, Reed and Beck come face to face with a mysterious and deadly creature that is out to destroy everything and everyone it encounters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WestBow Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERReid, Elwood
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REICohen, Jon
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COHJohnson, Terry Lynn.
Summary: In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION JOHDailey, Janet
Summary: 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.--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Daily 2017Johnson, Terry Lynn
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: "In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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Summary: "Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they've signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won't just be eliminated--they'll be exposed live on air. The stakes are higher than they'd ever imagined, and they're trapped. The disappearance of a contestant wasn't supposed to be part of the drama....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2024