Orem Library

In this essay collection, David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature.

During a hike into the Northwest woods to escape the noise and tumult of the hectic city, Reed and Beck come face to face with a mysterious and deadly creature that is out to destroy everything and everyone it encounters.

Having trapped a she-wolf, sixteen-year-old Billy leaves his home in the bootheel of New Mexico to restore her to the mountains of Mexico--only to find, when he returns home, that everything has changed, except his kid brother Boyd, with whom he sets out to explore a nation caught between the old frontier and the Second World War.

"In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled war veteran in an apparent case of "suicide by cop," he begins having second thoughts about his decision. Now Kathy finds herself the target of a government inquiry and outrage from the dead soldier's platoon mates. Soon she finds herself in the...

After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his friend Raymond struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.

Timothy O'Day knew the woods, yet went missing without a trace on the first night of a bachelor party camping trip in the wilderness of Wyoming. Frankie Elkin doesn't know the woods, but she knows how to find people. Despite the rescue team's reluctance, she joins them. But it soon becomes clear that there's something dangerous at work in the woods... or someone who is willing to do anything to stop them from going any farther. -- adapted from regular...