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Outdoors: Adult Books Read a book from the list, or one of your own choosing
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What an Owl Knows
by Jennifer Ackerman
Illuminating the rich biology and natural history of owls, the most elusive of birds—and often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and foresight—the New York Times best-selling author of The Genius of Birds takes us around the globe and through human history to understand the complex nature of these extraordinary creatures. Illustrations.
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The Wager
by David Grann
In this tale of shipwreck, survival and savagery, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the events on His Majesty's Ship The Wager, a British vessel that left England in 1740 on a secret mission, resulting in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth.
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Empire of Ice and Stone
by Buddy Levy
The harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition aboard the ship Karluk explains the events leading up to the deaths of over a dozen of the vessel's crew and staff. 100,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Never Leave the Dogs Behind
by Brianna Madia
After the fallout of a painful, public divorce, the New York Times best-selling author, in her pared-down trailer with only her four precious dogs as company, reckons with her decision to be alone in the desert as she grapples with anger, despair and freedom that comes from being on her own.
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Wild Girls
by Tiya Miles
In this beautiful, meditative work, an award-winning historian profiles trailblazing women of all races in the 19th and 20th centuries who acted on their confidence in the natural world, bringing new context to misunderstood icons and underappreciated figures.
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The Comfort of Crows : A Backyard Year
by Margaret Renkl
The beloved New York Times opinion writer and best-selling author presents this stunning literary devotional that follows the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of the year, tracing the passing of the seasons, personal and natural.
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The Wide Wide Sea
by Hampton Sides
Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
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The Last Animal
by Ramona Ausubel
When they accidentally discover a perfectly preserved, 4,000-year-old baby mammoth while on their mother's scientific expedition in the Arctic, teenage sisters Eve and Vera set off a surprising chain of events, resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world—and their family.
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North of Nowhere
by Allison Brennan
After their plane crashes in the Montana wilderness, siblings Kristen and Ryan McIntyre, on the run from their murderous father, the head of a Los Angeles crime family, soon discover there's something even more dangerous in the woods—something that could determine if they live or die.
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The Extinction of Irena Rey
by Jennifer Croft
Eight translators search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a Polish forest.
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Mother Nature
by Jamie Lee Curtis
After witnessing her engineer father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation's experimental oil extraction projects, Nova Terrell has grown up to hate the seemingly benevolent company that the town of Catch Creek, New Mexico, relies on for its livelihood and, thanks to the "Mother Nature" project, its clean water. Haunted by her father's death, the rebellious Nova wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism on the oil giant's facilities and equipment, until one night she accidentally makes a terrifying discovery about the true nature of the "Mother Nature" project and the malevolent, long-dormant horror it has awakened, and that threatens to destroy them all.
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I Cheerfully Refuse
by Leif Enger
In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
Escaping from a colonial settlement in the wilderness, a servant girl, with nothing but her wits, a few possessions and some faith, is tested beyond the limits of her imagination, forcing her to question her belief of everything her own civilization taught her.
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The Instructor
by T. R. Hendricks
A retired Marine Force Recon and SERE instructor barely scraping by as a wilderness survival trainer, Derek Harrington, taking on a job that seems too good to be true, finds himself embroiled with a fringe group led by charismatic man who could be the leader of a domestic terrorist cell.
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This Wretched Valley
by Jenny Kiefer
The first person to climb an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, Dylan, a rising star in rock climbing, goes missing, and when three bodies are discovered in various states of decay, each mutilated, there is still no trace of her, dead or alive.
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A Wild and Heavenly Place
by Robin Oliveira
After a bank failure, a young man from Glasgow travels to Seattle in the Washington Territory to search for his lost love, but finds himself caught up in the city's secrets and the challenges of the Pacific Northwest.
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Dixon, Descending
by Karen Outen
A former Olympic-level runner working as a school psychologist abandons his family and students to join his brother on a quest to be the first black American men to summit Mount Everest, resulting in a tragedy that shatters his life.
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Go as a River
by Shelley Read
A 1940s teenager running her family's peach farm in Colorado meets a young man with a mysterious past and feels an instant connection but must flee to a small shack in the wilderness after tragedy strikes.
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Fish Out of Water
by Katie Ruggle
When her sister goes missing while on a simple day hike, Dahlia Weathersby uses charm and a little bit of blackmail to convince the local grouchy hermit, Winston Dane, to help her search, setting in motion an unexpected attraction.
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The Nice House on the Lake
by James Tynion
Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter--well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago. And Walter's always been a little...off. But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter's invitation to an astonishingly beautiful house in the woods, overlooking an enormous sylvan lake. It's beautiful, it's opulent, it's private--so a week of putting up with Walter's weird little schemes and nicknames in exchange for the vacation of a lifetime? Why not? All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn't a chance to reconnect be...nice? In The Nice House on the Lake, the overriding anxieties of the 21st century get a terrifying new face-and it might just be the face of the person you once trusted most.
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