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Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened....
3) Walden
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Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.
Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months,...
5) The calling
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Darkness rising volume 2
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2012.
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Maya and her friends--all of whom have supernatural powers--have been kidnapped after fleeing from a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set, and after a terrifying helicopter crash they find themselves pursued by evil-doers in the Vancouver Island wilderness.
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Penn Cage novels volume 3
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2009.
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After Penn Cage is elected mayor of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, a town that has turned to riverboat casino gambling as a source of jobs, a friend who brings Penn evidence of illegal activities is murdered and Penn's failure to protect his city hits home.
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"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity, and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. 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 methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
8) Borderline
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 15
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2009.
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After the killings on Isle Royale leave Anna Pigeon drained and haunted, Paul, her husband of less than a year, takes her on a rafting trip in Big Bend National Park, hoping that the warmth and the adventure will lift her spirits, but when they come across a nearly dead pregnant woman caught between two boulders, they are sucked into a web of intrigue.
9) Scat
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Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
10) The rising
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Darkness rising volume 3
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"The race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion when Maya and her friends--who all have supernatural powers--find help against the Cabals from unexpected places"--Provided by publisher.
11) Save Rafe!
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"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"--
12) Refuge Cove
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New Americana volume 2
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Emily Hunter came to Alaska on the promise of marriage, but is soon on the run from her would-be husband. Stranded in the wilderness, she stumbles across a small plane-- and the rugged bush pilot who would reconnect with his estranged son. She's wary of trusting John Wolf, but sharing his wilderness home means protection from the predator on her trail. Will he be willing to risk everything to keep her safe?
14) Heartbreaker
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1997.
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A woman, her teenage daughter, a handsome laid-back, chauvinistic rancher - and the savagery of unseen forces at large in the mountain wilds of Utah. Lynn Nelson is beautiful, harried - and divorced. A thirty-five-year-old single mother, she agrees to help chaperon her teenage daughter Rory and nineteen other girls on a wilderness trip. It seems pretty simple at first, except that there's more lurking along these mountain trails than adolescent hormones....
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[2009]
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The first wildlife and nature series to focus exclusively on the wild animals and wild lands of North America. Hosted by award-winning wildlife photographer and premier naturalist Marty Stouffer, the series featured footage of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and insects throughout the entire continent. Now you can bring the guided journey into your home and witness the vast wonders and infinite diversity of nature first hand. Marty Stouffer's Wild...
17) Boundary waters
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[1999]
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Cork O'Connor joins the search for a country-western singer who has disappeared in the wilderness along the American/Canadian border.
18) Bad Little Falls
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Summoned to a rustic cabin during a blizzard, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch embarks on a dangerous investigation involving a notorious drug dealer, a beautiful woman with a dark past, and her troubled young son.
19) Survive
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2012.
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A troubled girl is stranded in an arctic winter terrain after a plane crash and must fight for survival with the only other boy left alive.
20) Cold river
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Black Falls volume 2
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Finally showing the town of Black Falls what she's worth, Hannah Shay wants to become a prosecutor, and when there is a violent crime ring that's leaving bloody trails on nearby Cameron Mountain, Hannah suspects a man from her past is involved.
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