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1) Winterkill
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The arrow-riddled corpse of Lamar Gardiner, district supervisor for the Twelve Sleep National Forest, and the bodies of seven illegally shot elk start Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett on a pursuit that endangers the life of his beloved foster daughter April. Box's latest novel once again centers around the environment and land management, adding a dose of realism to the rough-and-tumble action, which works well with the realistic characters and Western...
2) Trophy hunt
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
It's an idyllic late summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever-or whoever-attacked the animal was ruthless: Half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh. Shaken by the assault, Pickett begins to investigate what he hopes is an isolated incident. Joe's worst fears are realized when the bodies...
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English
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"Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home ... when a pickup truck begins tailgating them on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them...
5) Free fire
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett, having recently been fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a call from the governor's office. Governor Rulon-a devious but down-home politico-has a special request, one Joe knows he can't refuse. For weeks, the headlines have been abuzz with the story of Clay McCann, a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in cold blood in a far-off corner of Yellowstone National Park. After...
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English
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"'Your dad's not a good person. Your dad killed people, son.' These are some of the last words Jack Givins's father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could. Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He's a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book....
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English
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Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family . . . until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family's placement in the Witness Protection Program. But one of them gets cold feet. In a flash, everything Kate can count on is gone. Now, a year later, her worst fears have happened: Her father has disappeared--into what the WITSEC agency...
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Language
English
Description
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that a vicious assassin has his sights set on her, a woman preparing to testify against sinister forces in Bolton, South Dakota calls on the help of Jack Reacher, a former United States Army Military Police Major, whose tour bus recently crashed near the woman's town. Over the course of the next 61 hours, both their lives change dramatically in this climactic thriller.
10) Falling darkness
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Series
Language
English
Description
Claire Britten's forensic psychology training never prepared her for a plane crash. Or how to help frightened fellow survivors cope, huddled in two small rafts awaiting rescue. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your daughter, and the man you love -- whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to run in the first place.
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xxi, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-eight of the best, most provocative pieces from the first ten years of Wild Earth, an award-winning conversation journal. Wild Earth articulates a positive vision of what an ecologically and culturally vibrant North America might look like and considers what actions might move us there. Bringing conservation science and strategy to a broad audience, Wild Earth features the powerful voices of activists, scientists, and writers. It presents a...
12) Blood trail
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Itś elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains--strung up, gutted, and flayed, as if he were the elk hed́ been pursuing. A spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body. Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a possibly...
Author
Series
Melody Grace McCartney novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 241 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. The federal government lured them into the Witness Protection Program with the promise of safety, and they went gratefully. But the program took Melody's name, her home, her innocence, and, ultimately, her family. She's been May Adams, Karen Smith, Anne Johnson, and countless others--everyone but the one person...
14) Breaking point
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
It was always good to see Lyle Pendergast, Joe thought -- a hard-working, upright local business owner whose daughter was friends with his own. Little did he know that when he talked to Lyle that day, the man was about to disappear. He was heading into the mountains to hunt, he said, but instead he was running. Two EPA employees had just been murdered, and all signs pointed to him as the killer. As the manhunt organized itself, Joe heard more of the...
15) Earthship
Author
Publisher
Solar Survival Architecture
Pub. Date
<c1991- >
Physical Desc
v. <2 > : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
16) The EARTH book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Simple text and illustrations show how children can help protect the Earth.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth and companion to Vice President Al Gore’s new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, this new book is a daring call to action. It exposes the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and delivers hope through groundbreaking information on what you can do now. Vice President Gore, one of our environmental heroes and a leading expert in...
Author
Series
George Washington Hayduke volume 2
Language
English
Description
George Washington Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret, gathers his friends, the Monkey Wrench Gang, to oppose developers and the world's largest earth-moving machine
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The unicorns flee from the noise, violence, and destruction of civilization and find refuge in the sea.
20) Flush
Author
Series
Juvenile volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
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