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The adventure of a dog born in the wilderness, left to fend for himself when a black wolf kills his mother and brothers, and finally won over by the trapper his mother had deserted.

Link Stevens, a trapper, and his dog, Chiri, set out to rescue a naturalist stranded in the perilous Caribou mountains. It takes all of their resources to return with their man and themselves alive.

TV anchorwoman Lynn, on a horse-riding expedition in Utah, meets Jess, a former agent of the ATF. Separated from the main group, they run into a religious cult planning to detonate nuclear bombs.

"Aaron's latest adventure takes him river kayaking with his dad and tests his perseverance, patience and survival skills in encounters with bears, moose, and life-threatening accidents."--

Gary and Susan Hazen are natives of the Adirondacks, high school sweethearts who have raised their two sons on the satisfaction of living off the land. Gary is a highly principled and respected woodsman and hunter, but his self-righteousness brings him into conflict with his sons. Both young men have secrets that will strain the family fabric, and together father and sons weave a tangle of intention and circumstance that will culminate in an act that...

A seventeen-year-old, running from a crime he thinks he has committed, finds a job haying on a Wyoming ranch. Here, he gradually finds enough courage to face his alleged crime.

Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho - and a fellow who dropped twenty pounds on Atkins - had been thinking about asking out Jan Whittle, his grade-school sweetheart. Problem is, he's already promised to celebrate his dad's seventy-fifth birthday with him. Thwarted romance proves to be the least of Bo's problems, however, when a dead boy turns up on Batim Scragg's ranch. The baffling thing is that neither Batim nor his two wayward sons appear...

Relates, through illustrations and simple, rhyming text, a family's day in the woods, including a hike, swimming, and a picnic.

Rick and Rack spend a day fishing, tracking wild animals, and canoeing on a lake.

An engaging romp that recalls the best work of Bill DeAndrea, the second Bo Tully whodunit (after 2006's The Blight Way) from humor columnist McManus sends the Blight County, Idaho, sheriff into the mountains after local woman Blanche Wilson reports her husband, Mike, missing from the upscale wilderness lodge the couple run. Tully heads into the field to investigate with his father (and predecessor as local lawman), a trip almost cut fatally short...