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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,...

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...

"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...

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."

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.

Collected correspondence between Carson and Freeman, spanning the last years of Carson's life, including the writing of "Silent spring."

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.

The author describes her work studying dolphin communication and her invention of a listening device that allows researchers to tell which of a group of dolphins is vocalizing underwater.

"A young wildlife biologist travels to a remote Alaskan nesting area for bald eagles where she receives inspirational guidance from a Native American family and help for a mysterious wilderness guide." --container