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 ...

Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous 20s. Now, more than four decades later, Heimo lives with his wife approximately 200 miles from civilization - a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating caribou, the dangers of swollen rivers, and the very exigencies of daily existence.

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 ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE Named one of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year" Named a Best of the Year...

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.

He steals women from danger. He's never wanted to keep one before. Wren Blackwell escaped a trafficking ring three weeks ago and has been living in her car, terrified they'll find her. When horse rancher Flint Everett discovers her starving in the woods, he doesn't ask permission—he takes her. Carries her home. Locks the doors. Refuses to let her leave until she's healed. She's a prisoner again. Except this cage has soft beds, hot meals, and a scarred giant who tends her wounds with devastating gentleness. Flint has been rescuing tr*fficked women for fifteen years—ever since he lost his...

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...

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.

World War II Begins... It's September of nineteen-thirty-nine, and King George of England has just announced to his people that he has declared war on Germany due to their invasion of the Allied country of Poland. This ghastly news immediately falls on the ears of Simon Bentley while he sits enjoying himself at his younger brother George's wedding. Being a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force, he knows he must act immediately, so without any hesitation, Simon flees the church basement reception and heads straight for his air base. It is time for all the years of his pilot training to be ...

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...

Seven year old Cody and five year old Chloe are stranded when the canoe piloted by their meth-addicted father capsizes. He drowns and they are on their own in the Red River Gorge. No one knows where they are and they can only rely on themselves. Their situation worsens when heavy rainfall floods the river and they are forced away from the riverbank and into the wilderness. The terrain of the gorge area is extremely rugged and populated by poisonous snakes, bears, and other predators. Dangers abound and all they have to help them survive are the meager supplies in their small backpacks, ...

In 1882, eighteen-year-old Nora Flanagan works in Boston as a maid and dreams of better things. Then she meets Tade Larkin, who tells of better things in Montana Territory, where he works as a miner. Nora makes the long journey across the country to marry Tade, but life is harsh in the West and Nora faces challenges she never imagined.Through it all she is sustained by the affection of an unlikely protector and her growing love for the wild untamed landscape of the West.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Lies—from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and the upcoming Pretty Things. “Watch Me...

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.

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...

Buster Yoke was an adventurer at heart, a traveling insurance agent whose wanderlust could never be satisfied by the bustling city life he shared with his wife Joy in Concord. Though a devoted husband, the call of the wild beckoned him during his business trips to the backwoods country of northern Maine. There, amid the rugged wilderness, dense forests, and crisp mountain air, he found peace and freedom that the concrete jungle could never provide. Joy, on the other hand, was a dedicated nurse at a large hospital in Concord, her lifelong home. While she loved her profession, the daily grind...

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...

The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book, Into the Wild...

A missing person rescue is now a K-9 manhunt for a killer… A missing person case sends search and rescue worker Elsie Montgomery and her K-9 to a remote Alaskan island…only to discover she’s got a target on her back. Now she must partner with pilot Wyatt Chandler, the one man she doesn’t...

When their ship wrecks on Lake Huron in 1750, English trader John Hartwell and his family wash ashore deep in Ojibwe territory—lost, supplies scattered, winter approaching. The Anishinaabe band that finds them offers shelter, but survival comes with conditions. Learn their ways. Follow their customs. Earn your place through contribution, not entitlement. For a man accustomed to authority over his household and certainty in his faith, dependence is its own kind of death. As autumn fades and the brutal Michigan winter closes in, the Hartwells face a truth more terrifying than starvation: ...