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Author
Publisher
Echo Point Books & Media
Pub. Date
20191113
Language
English
Description
Hal Borland's bestselling novel When the Legends Die is the powerful story of a boy's journey into manhood and a moving parable about the plight of Native American societies struggling to maintain their culture in today's world.
Author
Series
Alaska wild novels volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Relocating to Lost Lake, Alaska, to escape her toxic past, a traumatized woman unexpectedly bonds with a wilderness survival tracker whose devoted protection heals her shattered heart.
Author
Series
Thea Stilton. Mouseford Academy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While attending a two-day outdoor survival skills course, the Thea sisters and the Ruby Crew are caught in a terrible storm.
5) Whiteout
Series
Survival instincts volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A mother desperate to save her dying daughter in a world ravaged by climate change joins a hunter-gatherer initiative to test humanity's capacity to survive in the wilderness without destroying it.
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A high stakes drama set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, charting the journey of four friends as they fight to survive the aftermath of a white water rafting accident, The River at Night is a nonstop and unforgettable thriller by a stunning new voice in fiction. Winifred Allen needs a vacation. Stifled by a soul-crushing job, devastated by the death of her beloved brother, and lonely after the end of a fifteen-year marriage, Wini...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Lori Lansens comes a harrowing 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... On the morning of Wolf Truly's eighteenth birthday, he boards the first cable car to head up the mountains just a few miles from his sun-bleached trailer home in the desert community outside of Palm Springs. Armed...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A "debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer's harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her--only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness"--Amazon.com.
10) North of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
11) Front country
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eighth grader Ginny Shepard attempts to ground herself after realizing that the world is apathetic to the very real, very urgent realities of climate change, and reckoning with her own feelings of guilt and impotence.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the...
13) The Martian
Author
Series
The Martian volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
14) The vaster wilds
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled...
16) Snowbound
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a failed expedition to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, Fr�emont finds himself trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains. His choices are simple: die, or fight his way out.
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A novel that takes place in the world of competitive horse show jumping offers a tale of murder and suspense involving a former NYPD detective, his grown daughter, and his missing ex-wife, who is either an innocent victim or a suspect.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined...
20) Haven: novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
IThree men vow to leave the world behind them. They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. Haven has Emma Donoghue's trademark world-building and psychological intensity--but this story is like nothing she has ever written before. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him...
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