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1) Snowfall
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Snowfall trilogy volume 1
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Snowfall features another sharp-tongued, uncompromising heroine, Catania Olsen. She is the doctor for and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great Wall of ice in what was once Colorado. In the country of the Trappers, books are hand-copied so that knowledge may be preserved, but the technology described in their precious pages is mostly lost to their fur-clad readers, despite Catania's attempts at scientific treatment...
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Under Tower Peak volume 1
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
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At the end of the twenty-first century, Earth is under the control of a single intelligence, the apparently benign One True. Mars, meanwhile, is slowly terraforming, and the human settlers there are still free of One True's control...but they need a pressure suits to survive outside, and it will be a century or more before the planet's fit for terrestrial life.
Terpsichore Murray is growing up on Mars. She wants to quit school and become, like her...
4) Whiteout
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Survival instincts volume 1
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"Scorching hot and beautifully emotional."-Lori Foster, New York Times Bestselling Author
With a storm coming and a killer on the loose, every step could be their last...
Angel Smith is finally ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. But on what was meant to be her last day, the remote research station she's been calling home is attacked. Hunted and scared, she and irritatingly gorgeous glaciologist Ford Cooper barely make it out...
5) Far North
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After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.
6) Crash
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Stay alive volume 1
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When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.
8) Snowbound
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After a failed expedition to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, Frémont finds himself trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains. His choices are simple: die, or fight his way out.
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Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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A fictionalized retelling of the true story of three-year-old Sarah Whitcher, who, in 1783, became lost in the woods of New Hampshire and was protected by a bear until her rescue four days later.
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
12) Klondike tales
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A collection of twenty-three stories about the Klondike gold rush of 1897 describes the brutal and frozen Yukon landscape and the extreme tactics men adopted to survive the ordeal.
13) Girl underwater
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm
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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.
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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...
15) Swift
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
[41] p. : col. ill., map ; 29 cm.
Description
Johnny has wanted to help Pa and their dog Swift hunt for the winter's meat almost since he was born, but when a grizzly's lightning attack mangles Pa's leg, Johnny and Swift have to make their way through the forest and down the river to bring back help--and a wounded bear attacks with no warning.
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Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
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310 pages ; 25 cm.
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After their father mysteriously vanishes taking their family stability with them, a pair of sisters retreat into an increasingly dark and strange world of their own design, ultimately earning them stints in a wilderness camp for troubled girls.
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (13 hr., 19 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A U.S. Air Force major's experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea by Russians. He escapes from the Soviet prison camp where he is held and then must cross the Siberian wilderness, using the ancient skills of his Indian forbearers.
20) Haven: a novel
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"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 in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?"--
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