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When one member of a five-woman team of co-workers goes missing during a corporate retreat, federal police agent Aaron Falk uncovers dark secrets in his search for the woman, a whistleblower and major contributor to his latest case.

A woman, her teenage daughter, a handsome laid-back, chauvinistic rancher - and the savagery of unseen forces at large in the mountain wilds of Utah. Lynn Nelson is beautiful, harried - and divorced. A thirty-five-year-old single mother, she agrees to help chaperon her teenage daughter Rory and nineteen other girls on a wilderness trip. It seems pretty simple at first, except that there's more lurking along these mountain trails than adolescent hormones. Lynn...

As climate change encroaches, animals and plants around the globe are having their habitats pulled out from under them. At the same time, human development has made islands out of even our largest nature reserves, stranding the biodiversity othat lives within them. The Spine of the Continent introduces readers to the most ambitious wildlife cinservation effort ever undertaken: to create linked protected areas extending from the Yukon to Mexico, the...

When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.

As Irish teenager Gráinne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Gráinne's half-brothers and their mother take a dogsledding vacation in Finland.

"When a car accident leaves gorgeous but prickly genius Ian Fairchild with a debilitating injury and an addiction to painkillers, this city boy has to find a safe place to recover. He escapes to the remote Canadian wilderness, as far from the lights of Manhattan as he can get-and in the company of a woman he has no reason to trust. Will they make it through the winter? Former Marine Captain Cecily Knight prides herself on being self-sufficient. Her...

An insider account of the high-risk world of elite wilderness firefighters who parachute into deep-wilderness fire zones reveals the unique skills that smokejumpers must employ to fight dangerous fires and stay alive.