Unknown Animals

In this riveting portrait of George B. Schaller, the world’s leading field biologist, Miriam Horn captures the seventy years he spent living among wild animals in the world’s remotest regions, forever altering how we see—and save—the natural world In 1959, though just twenty-six years...

In the autumn of 1967, five heavily armed men ventured into the dense, fog-choked forests of Northern California. They thought they were hunting a legend. They were wrong. The peaceful giant they sought wasn't a discovery—it was a decoy. When the tracking expedition is ambushed in the remote wilderness, the hunters quickly realize they have stepped into a highly evolved trap. Stalked by an intelligent, hyper-violent apex predator that uses the famous myth as camouflage, the group is systematically torn apart. To survive the suffocating silence of the ancient redwoods, they must fight ...

Seven days of total disconnection. No phones. No roads. No escape. Marcus Cole traveled to a remote mountain retreat to escape the noise of his demanding life. The property promised absolute quiet and complete isolation. But the dense woods are keeping a dark secret, and the quiet isn't peaceful—it's predatory. When the camp's caretaker is found violently broken among the pines, Marcus and the remaining guests realize they are trapped twenty-two miles from civilization. The supply boat isn't returning for days. Their emergency radio is destroyed. And the massive tracks circling their ...

There's a new rumor in town. Someone has discovered an item that proves life on other planets exists, and they've been hiding it on a base called Zone 91, the most secret place on Earth. Cassie and the other Animorphs already know about life on other planets. Too well. Their enemies the Yeerks will try to access Zone 91, to find out if what's there will threaten their mission to conquer to the planet. So the Animorphs decide to pay Zone 91 and the Yeerks a little visit. But what they discover is not at all what they expect.

Brianna Maddox has spent eleven seasons studying survival television. She knows exactly what it takes to endure the harshest environments on earth. When she is dropped into the remote canopy of Black Hollow Mountain for a high stakes wilderness competition, she believes she is ready for anything. She is wrong. The backcountry hides a terrifying secret. Deep in the ridges where no roads reach, an apex predator claims the territory. The heavy knocking starts in the trees. The enormous footprints circle her camp. Soon, Brianna realizes this is no longer a television show. It is a hunt. ...

The perimeter was supposed to keep the nightmare contained. It failed. Deep in the Pacific Northwest, a federal quarantine zone surrounds the ruins of the Blackwater Ridge research facility. Deputy Cal Renner patrols the logging roads, enforcing a quiet isolation. He expects bored soldiers and restless locals. He does not expect to find a massive, unidentifiable kill cached twelve feet up in the canopy of an old growth cedar. Mara Keene survived the initial outbreak by fleeing into the timber. Now she carries the stolen data detailing the genetic resurrection program that started it all. ...

They went looking for a missing girl. They found something else. Twelve-year-old Lily Mercer vanished into the deep timber of the Pacific Northwest. When a specialized tracking team answers the call, they expect to find a lost child frightened by the dark. Instead, they find a trail of impossible footprints, a campsite torn apart by staggering force, and the crushing realization that they are no longer the hunters. As night falls over the remote mountain ridge, the operation transforms into a desperate fight to stay alive. The isolated timberline hides an intelligent, relentless apex ...

“I loved every speck of it.” —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal–winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes an inventive middle grade fantasy that follows a boy journeying away from the only home he’s ever known and into...

The Appalachian ridge has always held secrets. When a hunter goes missing in the deep timber, the locals blame the treacherous terrain. Bailey knows the official story is a lie. Her brother vanished in these same woods. She is going in to find out why. She hikes into a region the old-timers refuse to enter. She finds a landscape torn apart by violence. The recovered trail cameras reveal a terrifying truth. A highly coordinated pack of upright lupine predators has claimed the valley. They are fast. They are intelligent. They are hunting her. But the pack is not the only force in the forest. ...

Some legends aren't meant to be found. Some are meant to stay buried in the dark. Nora Vance was looking for the perfect upload. As an investigative content creator with a dying channel, she needed a viral hit. The remote, isolated town of Black Hollow promised local folklore and cheap clicks. But the town is hiding a secret older than the mountains. When dusk falls, the valley becomes a warzone between two ancient, warring species. On the high timber ridge, an aggressive pack of apex predators guards the perimeter. Deep beneath the earth, something colder, paler, and infinitely hungrier is...

Out in the mountains, Zack and his friend, Uta, discover what they think is a large fossilized dinosaur egg. This could make their fortune! Zack takes it home to keep it safe. Only the egg isn't fossilized - it's hatching! And there's an angry mother dinosaur out there, who wants her baby back. Includes a full lenght fascinating interview with the author, Paul Zindel.

The rain has been falling for three days in Mercy Falls. The river has crested six feet above the record, turning the valley into a bowl of dark, freezing water. First responder Cole Mercer and his team are in a desperate race against time to evacuate the remaining stranded citizens. The rising waters are the least of their problems. A massive chemosynthetic sinkhole has opened deep beneath the town, breaching an isolated ecosystem that has remained untouched for millennia. The flooding has flushed something ancient out of the darkness. Small, fast pack-hunting predators are stalking the ...

The oldest monster in the world has the best witnesses. A Royal Navy captain swore to it in an official report to the Admiralty. Two Fellows of the Zoological Society watched it through their glasses off the coast of Brazil and never forgot what they saw. For four hundred years, sober sailors, trained naturalists, and whole ships' companies have reported a long, dark animal moving through open water, an animal that fits nothing in the textbooks. Is the sea serpent real? Sea Monsters takes the question seriously, the way it deserves. No breathless belief. No lazy ridicule. Just the evidence,...

The ice held a secret for ten thousand years. Now, it’s awake. When a high-altitude corporate retreat at an isolated Rocky Mountain lodge is severed from the outside world by a catastrophic whiteout storm, the survivors think their biggest threat is the plummeting temperature. They are wrong. Deep in the abandoned underground research tunnels beneath the ski station, something ancient and hungry has been thawed from the permafrost. It is not a myth. It is Arctodus simus—the giant short-faced bear, an apex predator standing twelve feet tall and built for relentless slaughter. As the ...

Loch and his sister are with their father on a scientific expedition when suddenly a hideous water beast explodes out of the water - and a photographer, hoping to get the picture of a lifetime, gets devoured.

Three friends went into the woods. Only one understood the rules. Evan wanted an off-grid expedition to prove a point. Matt wanted to escape his own failures. Kara just wanted to keep the peace. But when their hike leads them miles off the marked trail and deep into an ancient, silent expanse of forest, they realize too late that they have crossed a boundary. Something is pacing them from the tree line. Something massive, territorial, and operating with a flat, unwavering certainty. As their supplies dwindle and the panic sets in, the group is relentlessly hunted by an apex predator that ...

They took a shortcut to save time. Now, they are out of time. When a blinding snowstorm strands four travelers on a forgotten mountain road in the Gallatin Range, their biggest concern is freezing to death. But the rapidly dropping temperature is only the beginning of their nightmare. Cut off from civilization and plunging into absolute darkness, they quickly realize they are not alone in the isolated timberline. Something massive is moving through the trees. Something ancient, patient, and hungry. It builds pale, frozen tunnels between the pines, and it has already claimed the woods. With ...

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...

When mutant rats escape from a Staten Island garbag e dump and terrorize the town’s citizens, it’s up to Sarah and her younger brother, Michael, to stop them from taking over New York City.

Luna sees patterns in the stars no one else can. At the lunar academy, silver-furred cadet Luna dreams of more than repeating old routes. While others rely on screens and algorithms, Luna sees something deeper in the constellations—a rhythm, a calling. When she's assigned to a mission far beyond the lunar base, Luna struggles to keep up with her new pack, let alone impress the seasoned human crew. But whispers of a place called Galaxy Prime—long dismissed as myth—start to feel less like bedtime stories and more like coordinates waiting to be found. As strange patterns emerge and ...