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From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action- packed adventure about endangered animals and those who protect them. Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T.C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding the dominion we attempt to exert, for better or worse, over the natural world. Alma Boyd Takesue is a...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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A science thriller with a religious twist, this fast-paced debut novel follows biologist Dr. Kathleen Sainsbury as she races against time to discover the truth after being drawn into a mystery involving the U.S. government and a shadowy organization known as the "Olam Foundation."
5) Endangered
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WildWing Press
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[2015]
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English
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Wildlife biologist and writer Summer Westin teams up with FBI Special Agent Chase Perez when a young boy goes missing and the cougars she helped rehabilitate and release are blamed for the boy's disappearance.
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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
7) Bear bait
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WildWing Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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While working on a 12-week project for the National Park Service as a biologist and volunteer firewatcher, Summer "Sam" Westin finds things heating up when an explosion almost claims the life of another volunteer and is linked to an old gold mine and an illegal bear hunter.
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
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Alex Carter novels volume 1
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English
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"While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by cameras positioned in remote regions of the preserve. But when she reviews the photos, she discovers disturbing images of an animal of a different kind: a severely injured man seemingly...
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Alex Carter novels volume 3
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2022.
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English
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"When a remote camera on a large, rugged expanse held by the Land Trust for Wildlife Conservation picks up a blurry image of what could be a mountain caribou, they contact Alex Carter to investigate. After all, mountain caribou went extinct in the contiguous U.S. years ago, and if one has wandered down from Canada, it’s monumental. But when Alex arrives on scene in the Selkirk mountains of northeastern Washington state, she quickly learns that...
11) The loop
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Hope, Montana is a ranching town whose roads were once paved in wolf skulls. When a pack of wolves returns to the area and livestock begin to turn up dead, Hope's legacy of wolf-hating is reignited. It is up to biologist Helen Ross, called in to collar and monitor the wolves, to uphold their legally-protected status. Helen soon finds herself in the middle of a war zone, but among the growing ranks of hostile ranchers and militant environmentalists,...
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Alex Carter novels volume 2
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English
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Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy terrain, spending days leaning precariously out of a helicopter with a tranquilizer gun, until she can get down on the ice to examine them up close. But as her study progresses,...
13) Black Hills
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A summer at his grandparents South Dakota ranch is not eleven-year-old Cooper Sullivans idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that hes discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance, and her homemade batting cage. Even horseback riding isnt as awful as Coop thought it would be. Each year, with Coops annual summer visit, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses, but there...