Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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....
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 5
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke’s wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet’s rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they’d hoped for. In the spring she had given birth to Luke’s son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a stranger in the hope of keeping...
3) Save Rafe!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Rafe Khatchadorian 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.
4) Refuge cove
Author
Series
New Americana volume 2
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Language
English
Description
"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight... Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her...
6) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
7) Monster
Author
Publisher
WestBow Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwestern woods. They're surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness. ut something--or someone--begins closing in on them. Something no human has ever seen. And it's killing everyone in its path without remorse.
8) The crossing
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of All the pretty horses.
Author
Series
Brian's saga volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
10) Prey: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Montana wilderness guide Angie Powell wants nothing to do with ex-soldier Dare Callahan, especially as she blames him for her failing business. But she has to put her feelings to one side when they are suddenly thrust together to stop an animal with a thirst for blood--of a human variety.
14) Boundary waters
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cork O'Connor joins the search for a country-western singer who has disappeared in the wilderness along the American/Canadian border.
15) Dark roads
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For decades, people have been warned about the Cold Creek Highway. Hitchhikers have vanished along it over the years, and women have been known to have their cars break down... and never be seen again. When Hailey McBride decides to run away from an unbearable living situation, she thinks that her outdoor skills will help her disappear into the Cold Creek wilderness, and she counts on people thinking that she was the victim of the killer. One year...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Chris and Frank's sailing vessel sinks and they are stranded alone in the wilds of Alaska. They don't like each other at all, but to survive they must build a relationship"--
Author
Series
Glacier mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A special agent for the Department of the Interior, Ted Systead, investigates a murder in Glacier National Park where a victim was tied to a tree and mauled by a grizzly bear.
18) The night fox
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth confronts heartbreak while at a mysterious, magical wellness program in the wilderness.
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request