Wilderness Family

The book is a personal memoir of our family's adventure living in the Canadian wilderness near Alaska, and a snapshot of that time and place in the history of this remote region of the country. The place at the end of all roas was called Glenora, beside the Stikine River. The dirt road simply ended on the rocky shore of the river. Past that point for hundreds of miles to the south, west and north, there were no roads and no people until the river finally reached Alaska, 150 miles away. It was there and beyond where we lived and raised our family for many years. In the late winter we left ...

One man’s journey from rock bottom to redemption—2,200 miles, one step at a time. At 27, the author had lost everything: his marriage, his sense of purpose, his belief in himself. Living in a camper, barely scraping by on minimum wage, he felt like a failure. But when he discovered the Appalachian Trail—a 2,200-mile footpath stretching from Georgia to Maine—he made a decision that would change everything: he was going to walk it. All of it. This isn’t a gear list or a guidebook. It’s the raw, often funny, sometimes painful story of one man’s fight to reclaim his life through ...

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THE PLACE AT THE END OF ALL ROADS The place at the end of all roads was called Glenora, beside the Stikine River. The dirt road simply ended on the rocky shore of the river. Past that point for hundreds of miles to the south, west and north, there were no roads and no people until the river finally reached Alaska, 150 miles away. It was there and beyond where we lived and raised our family for many years. In late winter my wife Ann and I, with our four month old baby, Ariana, drove into the village of Telegraph Creek, BC, the most remote community in all of British Columbia, Canada, near ...

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival. In the late 1960s...

Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New York wilderness in the winter of 1794. Soon word reaches them that Nathaniel's father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. Nathaniel sets out, determined to see his father freed...

Twelve-year-old April Clark is passionate about two things: woodworking and hunting, both skills learned from her beloved grandfather. But this year, GrandJack is recovering from a health problem and can’t join the trip to turkey camp. He tells her that a different sort of trip can still be great and gives her his prize box call to bring for luck. On the day of the hunt, April is determined to land the biggest, best tom she can. But her insistence on only getting the best turkey leads her to make a big mistake.

STILL WALKING Surviving the Mountains, Memories, and Monsters by William Ferrier Jr. When the plane went down, Maya thought the worst thing she’d face was the cold. She was wrong. Maya Chen-Rodriguez survives the impossible—an air-crash deep in the Bitterroot Mountains. Injured, alone, and with a damaged prosthetic leg, she should not be alive. But when she discovers her grandmother Rose wandered from the wreckage—confused, bleeding, and slipping into the fog of early-onset dementia—Maya makes a decision that will change her forever. She goes after her. What Maya doesn’t know is ...

How far would you go to save someone you resent? Sullen teenager Sam is trapped on a forced march up a mountain with Cal, the father he barely knows—a man more comfortable with past ghosts than with his own son. An argument on the trail leaves their raw emotional wounds exposed, with cruel words that can never be taken back. But when a sudden, brutal blizzard engulfs the peak and a catastrophic fall leaves Cal broken and helpless, their simmering conflict becomes a desperate fight for life. In a terrifying reversal of roles, Sam must become the rescuer. Battling blinding snow, relentless ...

On the run through the mountains— with only each other to trust. Amanda Cotton’s privileged life takes a harrowing turn when her grandfather’s dying wish places a target firmly on her back and she’s attacked by unknown assailants. Rescue comes in the form of widowed outdoorsman Boone...

All they wanted was a place for the night... When a young couple encounters car trouble on a deserted mountain road, the options are numbered: risk breaking down in the middle of nowhere--without GPS and cellphone signal--or find the nearest lodge and wait till morning. The choice was simple. And they chose wrong.

They thought they were the hunters. They were wrong. When cartel assassins track a frightened family in witness protection to a remote cabin deep in the wilderness, they expect an easy job. The forest has other plans. Something ancient lives here. Watching from the trees is a creature humans call Bigfoot—a solitary giant who survives by avoiding conflict and never staying in one place for long. But this time he stays. Told entirely through the sensory, instinct-driven perspective of the creature itself, BIGFOOT: Through His Eyes plunges readers into a brutal wilderness where danger closes...

Twins Harley and Rhiannon Hummingbird have always been competitive. But there's one thing the siblings can agree on—they can't wait to travel from their Oklahoma home to their grandparents’ new cabin in northern Wisconsin. Both Harley and Rhiannon are looking forward to a week of swimming, boating, and most importantly, fishing.

I came for a fresh start. I left the trail with four alphas… and no way back. One solo ski run. One patch of black ice. One tumble into a ravine as the sun sets and the temperature drops. My radio is shattered. My phone is dead. And ski patrol won’t find me until morning—if at all. But someone else finds me first. Colt—the pack leader whose commanding presence makes me forget I’m supposed to be afraid. Thane—the quiet medic who tends my injuries with hands too gentle for a man his size. Ronan—the gruff giant who speaks in grunts but guards me like I’m already his. Everett—...

Loving a prodigal is a long and desperate journey, filled with fear, worry, anger, self-recrimination. You wait for the phone call - will it be from jail or the hospital? You plead with your loved one. You search for help. You feel the shame. You cry out to God, "How long, Lord?" Author Judy Douglass knows these lovers of prodigals well. She is one herself and has created a large and growing community with others. When You Love a Prodigal is a collection of 90 essays - 90 days of perspective on what God offers to you as you love your prodigal.

Some gifts are meant to be left in the woods. When Nate Harper finds a starving, obsidian-black puppy abandoned in a remote clearing, his first instinct is to save it. His daughter, Lily, is overjoyed, and for a moment, the family’s camping trip in the deep wilderness feels perfect. But as the sun dips below the towering redwoods, the atmosphere shifts. The air grows heavy with a musky scent, and the silence of the forest becomes deafening. Soon, Nate begins to change. His senses sharpen to a predatory edge. His hunger becomes an insatiable void. Every instinct screams that they are being...

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy...

In the heart of rural America, Danielle Wachsmann finds her world forever changed when she marries James Buchanan, unaware that she may be carrying Paul Holmgren’s child. As the Wachsmann’s navigate love, loyalty, and the weight of secrets, a wealthy outsider’s offer to invest in the farm sparks suspicion—his true motives entwined with revolutionary advancements in pasteurization that could transform the dairy industry. Their suspicions are put on hold, however, when a devastating outbreak of Bovine Tuberculosis puts everything they’ve worked for at risk. With the future of the ...

I came here to disappear. I didn’t expect four alphas to find me first. I emptied my savings. Ditched my phone three states back. Rented the most remote cabin I could find—no neighbors, no cell service, middle of nowhere. What the listing didn’t mention: the property borders pack territory. I wanted to vanish. To stop looking over my shoulder. To finally feel safe from the ex who thinks I belong to him. Then the storm hits. The roof leaks. My supplies are ruined. And I’m too weak to make it back alone. That’s when they find me. Shepherd—the pack leader whose steady presence ...

In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.