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41) Wild Life
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, Wild Life charts the life, both real and imagined, of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens popular women's adventure stories. One day, when a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search and embarks on an adventure all her own, as she becomes lost in the dark and tangled...
42) Breakneck
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
43) Getting air
Author
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives.
44) The dressmaker
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Description
Tess, an aspiring seamstress, can't believe her good luck when she meets and is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic. On board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. Then, on the fourth night, disaster strikes. Amidst the chaos and desperate urging of two very different suitors, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a...
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Description
"After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest - and in turn, they teach her some...
46) The island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Ethan, an avid outdoorsman, competes on his favorite reality television program, Teen Wilderness Masters, he quickly learns that he is in over his head.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 6
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When his camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has to decide whether to help the bullies who call him dork breath and retard and risk everything, or to save himself.
48) Wild river
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Considered lazy and unathletic, twelve-year-old Ryan discovers a heroic side of himself when a kayak trip with his older brother goes horribly awry.
49) Northern Lights
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
A Vietnam veteran and his brother vie for the same girl, a native of their dwindling Minnesota hometown. They take a disastrous road trip with the men skiing home through the wilderness.
50) Something wilder
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...
51) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
In an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed who remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd fall in love again, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station.
55) First light
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Tells the story of Daniel Albrecht and Kerry Egan, young lovers leaving a work trip in Alaska to plan their wedding back home in Chicago. Not long into their trip, both engines of their plane catch fire and send them careening into a mountainside in the middle of a terrible snowstorm. Kerry is seriously injured in the accident, and it soon becomes clear that search-and-rescue teams aren't going to find the survivors in time to save her. Daniel--the...
56) Betty Zane
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Series
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Description
Betty Zane is the heroine of the battle between British-controlled Detroit and the small, wood-palisaded Ford Henry on the western frontier.
57) Ascension
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious...
Author
Series
Moon apocalyptic novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"When a community of Anishinabe people, with their natural resources dwindling, needs to find a new home, Evan Whitesky leads a dangerous mission back to their ancestral home in the Great Lakes region, during which they encounter other survivors, some who thrive on violence"--
60) Rivers
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Description
Following years of catastrophic hurricanes, the Gulf Coast--stretching from the Florida panhandle to the western Louisiana border--has been brought to its knees. The region is so punished and depleted that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules. Cohen is one who stayed.
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