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Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential.

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is back in this riveting new thriller from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.

A secret billionaire mountain man and a curvy girl with a secret, stuck together on the side of a mountain… I’m a volunteer for Wild Heart Mountain Search and Rescue, and when I find Chantelle injured on the side of the mountain, my world shifts. I should take her to the medical center, but instead I take her to my cabin. She’s mine, and I won’t give her up. But Chantelle’s hiding something, and I won’t let her leave until I know all her secrets… even if I won’t tell her mine. My Mountain Man Rescuer is a forced proximity, age gap, instalove romance featuring a secret ...

She’s half my age. She’s my best friend’s daughter. She’s off limits, and she’s stranded in my cabin… When Izzie turns up at my cabin all youthful energy and sunshine, I can barely face her. But no matter how grumpy I am, I can’t drive her away. Not when the biggest storm in a generation is brewing. Izzie’s the reason I live up here on the mountain, hidden away. She’s the only woman I desire and we’re stranded in my cabin. But Izzie’s father is my best friend. If only he knew what I want to do to his daughter… My Mountain Man Recluse is a forbidden love, grumpy/...

The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass' six-week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack, from Custer's final moments to John Wesley Powell's treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears takes the top 50 wildest episodes in the region's history and presents them to the listener in one convenient, narrative-driven package.

Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation.

New York Times best-selling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another "punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction" (Booklist) as Cork O'Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the tragic plane crash of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders. This is a heart-pounding and devastating mystery the scope and consequences of which go far beyond what father or son could ever have imagined....

According to town gossip, I’m a grumpy mountain man. They are right. What I am not is a beach Barbie babysitter. Yet, that is exactly what is going to happen. After 10 years as an Army Ranger, all I want is the peace I find in my mountain cabin. Winter is approaching. I’m looking forward to long hours of reading in front of the fire. What I am not expecting. My best friend asking me to safeguard the woman who means the world to him. All winter long. She is gorgeous. Fashionable. Way too bubbly. AND… from the city. There are so many reasons why this woman is off-limits. Yet, I can’t ...

She’s the nanny, half my age and off limits. But my heart has chosen her, even if it breaks me… My military career ended when I became a widower. My daughter needed me, so I came back to Wild Heart Mountain determined to be a good father. Except I’m not. I’m too grumpy, too bitter, too broken. Until Caitlin walks through the door. She’s all sunshine and smiles, shining her light into the dark corners of my heart. The military broke me, but Caitlin has the power to utterly destroy me…or heal me. My heart has chosen her, but will she choose me? Chosen by the Mountain Man is a ...

A curvy girl with amnesia and an ex-soldier who becomes her protector, until she discovers who he really is… She's the one woman I'm not meant to fall for. But when Kaci Peterson stumbles out of the ashes and into my arms, I’ll do anything to make her mine. The accident made her forget, and she can't remember who I am. I have until her memory returns to make her fall in love with me. My Mountain Man Protector is an age-gap, instalove, steamy romance featuring an ex-military firefighter and the curvy woman with amnesia he vows to protect. Authors note: My Mountain Man Protector is a ...

A forced proximity, age gap romance between a damaged ex-military hero and the curvy girl who hooks his heart. She’s too young, too innocent and too damn happy… But I can’t get the quirky, curvy Hailey out of my head. When she’s forced to spend a night in my cabin, she’ll find out just how damaged I am. I faced the enemy in Iraq, but it’s nothing compared to the raw vulnerability I feel when Hailey holds my heart in her hands. Can she see past the scars, the limp, and the age gap, or was it pity that brought her to my bed? Loved by the Mountain Man is a forced proximity, ex-...

The penultimate novel in the Great Blue Above series follows the fiery ending of the Tunnel War. Survivors of the great battle deal with the eruptive fate of the City Below, and those living Above realize there's only one place to go to continue humankind: The Mountain, where descendants of One, Corp.'s founders have tortured and tested their remaining humans while vehemently defending their facility from the threat of outsiders. . .

Life is about to change for Brian Henderson, now that he knows the secrets of Beach Drive. Unbeknownst to Brian and the others, they have brought something else home with them after their misadventure in the forest. The spirit of a mountain man has followed them to Frederickport with a secret of his own.

Not a technical guide on snowboarding but, rather, a very personal approach to how to think about mountains, snow, and adventure, The Art of Shralpinism reflects the remarkable journey of snowboarding superstar Jeremy Jones. Drawing on the hundreds of journals he has kept over the years, Jones offers intriguing snapshots of time and place that include his own on-the-slope stories and white-out moments, as well as those of other prominent adventurers such as Jimmy Chin, Zahan Billimoria, and Christina Lusti.

Just Ride is an adventure story of the 2018 Tour Divide. The book details the resilience and amazing adaptability of the human body and mind, and it gives a realistic and often raw account of the physical and mental toll required to finish the race in less than 17 days. The route, the conditions, the gear, the strategy, the training, the mental struggles, the embarrassing moments, and the physical battle are all described throughout a story that offers a genuine look into what was experienced and felt throughout the ultimate test of mountain bike endurance.

Mountain hit the Arctic, knowing full well they would have to drag his dead body back out of the tundra before he ever quit on his little brother, Teegan. Theirs hadn’t been the easiest of upbringings, but, when times had been tough, there’d always been the two of them. Yet the series of events so far has gone from mysterious to downright deadly, and just what is the elusive Dr. Amelia’s part in all this anyway? Like a ghost, she slips in and around everyone. What is her problem with the base, and, more important, what is her end game?

Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher. Now, Smoke Jensen, with a new black horse and an old grudge, slips over the unmarked border into the turbulent Idaho Territory. Ahead is a town called Bury, built on stolen gold, and run by a band of ruthless men who had a hand in the murder of Smoke's brother in the Civil War. Smoke's father died in pursuit of those killers, but urged his son not to waste his life on vengeance....

Matt Jensen, reared by legendary mountain hero Smoke, is the last of a proud breed. He will soon learn that dispensing justice with a gun is the only true way to execute righteous revenge in the Old West.

When a murder plot forces a southern heiress to flee to a wild Montana ranch, love is the last thing she expects to find.

She’s my best friend’s widow and the only woman I’ve ever loved… Paul was my best friend, my brother in arms, and the only one of us that didn’t come back alive. I promised if something ever happened to him that I’d look after Angie, his wife. He doesn’t know that I’ve loved Angie for almost as long as he has. Now she’s a single mom and running a business on her own. I sense her loneliness; I sense her need. Angie’s off-limits, but my heart beats for her. And I don’t know how much longer I can resist this pull between us… Cherished by the Mountain Man is a best ...