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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the...
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Language
English
Description
On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds a charter...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Build shelter. Find water. Make fire. Seek revenge. There are two beginnings to this story. One of them is on a tarmac in Alaska. The other's standing on a lakeshore with the rain falling on me like mist, the cabin's timbers smoldering, sullen and red. I'll tell you both stories, what happened before my father died and what happened after. And when I'm done or when I am too weak to write anymore, I'll leave this notebook where the cabin was. If someone...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. 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...
5) Hunting time
Author
Series
Colter Shaw novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling master of suspense is back with a riveting thriller, as reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems"--
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Language
English
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A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds
Four strangers and six weeks: this is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday. She was surprised when reality TV producers came knocking at Primal Instinct—the survival school where she teaches rich clients not to die during a night outdoors—and even more shocked to be cast in their new show, Civilization....
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Language
English
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Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
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Language
English
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Newly divorced and without family, Joy Candellaro is presented with a serendipitous opportunity to leave her past behind. And arriving in the small town of Rain Valley, Joy glimpses the possibility of a wonderful new life in the faces of widower Daniel O'Shea and his son, Bobby. But a dramatic turn of events on Christmas Eve forces Joy to make a painful choice: In a world of impossible dreams and unexpected chances, can she summon enough faith to...
10) Haven: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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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. 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 is feeling vulnerable. So when her three best friends insist on a high-octane getaway for their...
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Language
English
Description
"Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling foothills of the Beartooth Mountains surround the town, overlooking the Pollocks' property and the nearby ranch belonging to Bill and Pattie Brown. The two couples have known each other since childhood. Their sons Peter Pollock and Matt Brown are also the best of friends. When they and two other local...
13) The troop
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip — a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. The boys are a tight-knit crew. There’s Kent, one of the most popular kids in school; Ephraim and Max, also well liked and easygoing; then there’s Newt the nerd and Shelley the odd duck. For the most part, they all get along and are happy...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Nola has decided to hike up a mountain to commemorate her wedding anniversary, the first since her beloved husband passed. Blonde, rail-thin Bridget is training for a triathalon. Vonn is working out her teenage rebellion at eight thousand feet, driven by family obligation and the urge to escape her mistakes. Still reeling from the tragic accident that robbed him of his best friend, Wolf Truly is the only experienced hiker in this group of four strangers...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
332 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
19-year-old Erin travels across Iceland, Greenland and Canada to begin her experiment: living in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, all the while making a documentary to record how survivalism and society's accepted personal freedom boundaries differ between the sexes.
Author
Language
English
Description
Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
[602] p.: ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
My side of the mountain: A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
On the far side of the mountain: Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer.
Frightful's...
18) Kingdomtide
Author
Publisher
Boston
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
viii, 302 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estranged couple Lewis and Helen Burke gain insights into the meaning of life and their marriage after Lewis's plane is forced to make an emergency landing in the Congo and he escapes into the rain forest to escape capture by rebels, and Helen defies authorities by setting off, along with her seven-year-old blind son, to find him.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
281 pages
Language
English
Description
"Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers shetrained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near...
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