wilderness areas

My Absolute Darling is a brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.

"On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace, finding themselves countless light years away in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. One year prior, the school held its first rendition of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on a night that would prove fateful to both the students and the faculty, as their lives crossed paths in an almost premonitory way, seeding the various horrors to come"--Back cover.

"When thirteen-year-olds T.E. and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends. But as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole"--Provided by publisher.

Follows ten teens who are left alone in the wilderness amid a three-day survival test.

Jeremy Logan, an investigator of unnatural phenomena, travels to a remote writers' retreat in the Adirondack Mountains to work on a book but soon learns that a dead hiker has been discovered there whose body has been mauled beyond the work of a bear. The attack occurred during a full moon and many are worried about a werewolf. Scientist Laura Feverbridge shares her research with Logan and he begins to think he's up against something he hasn't seen before.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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.

In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise?the color and the gem?to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings.

When Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, learn that their mother is still alive but facing grave danger if they do not return the money they took from her abusive boyfriend, Bull, they leave their father, who is not eager to help, and set off on their own again for a late autumn trek from Wyoming to Pittsburgh.