Orem Library

Big Woods is a collection of Faulkner's best hunting stories. An avid hunter as well as one of America's greatest writers, Faulkner spent many days hunting in the big woods near Oxford, Mississippi.Included here is his most famous hunting story, "The Bear", as well as "The Old People", "A Bear Hunt", and "Race at Morning". Together, these four stories are considered to be the finest hunting stories ever written. Each is introduced with a prelude that...

A young boy sets out one winter day to become a great hunter, but when he catches a helpless rabbit, his plans change.

The gnats who irritate the other animals turn out to be a blessing.

Young Aknik must prove to his tribe he can hunt before he is accepted as a man.

Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.

Thirteen-year-old Tyson sneaks off with his roughneck, but ill, grandpa to go on his first elk hunt, amid reports of a stalking man-eating grizzly.

Though trained to retrieve birds for his master, a dog finds that he is too kind-hearted for such work.

"Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals, hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god. Long ago, Melora Perseous fled that brutal world in the wake of her family's sadistic murder, turning her back on the hunt's promises of eternal glory. But now, two participants seek out her help; Castor, a childhood friend of Lore believed long dead;...

Greer is still recovering from her mock trial during the S.T.A.G.S. play when she receives a note directing her to the London house of Henry de Walencourts' family. When Greer, Nel and Shafeen visit Hernry's mother, Mrs de Warlencourts insists that her murdered son is still alive. Impossible, but Greer has niggling doubts about that as well as what will be staged by Henry's father at his annual Big Boxing Day Hunt. Is history going to repeat itself?...

Once upon a time in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men and reunite during hunting season in the woods of Maine. These men will be plunged into a horrific struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance for survival is locked in their shared past--and in the Dreamcatcher.