Imagine hiking a trail deep in Washington’s woods and finding the wreckage of a World War Two era plane, the rusted railroad ties from an abandoned Northern Pacific Railway line, or the crumbling stone foundations of a nineteenth-century mining ghost town. Hiking through History Washington profiles fifty hikes that include rich descriptions of the history underfoot, along with miles, directions, and GPS coordinates. The perfect companion for any hiker with an interest in history, ...

From flower-filled alpine meadows to streams lined with delicate Scouler’s corydalis blooms, and from lakes covered in water lilies to Dr. Seussian drifts of bear grass, Washington offers something for every hiker--and flower lover. Brothers Nathan and Jeremy Barnes lead hikers on 50 trails to seasonal floral displays, ranging across varied landscapes. Features include:Basics of wildflower identificationTips for photographing wildflowers“Hike Finder,” whic...

A beautiful, full-color guidebook to more than 40 of the best hikes following the history of the state of Washington.

The world has ended. Now the dead dominate the living.Wounded and weary, Nathan has reached his loved ones only to have his injuries prevent their planned escape. Now the family must flee into a landscape ravaged by hellish forces. Together they face the ghoulish reality of surviving the unending threats from both the living and the dead.In this sequel to The Reaper Virus, Nathan’s desperate quest to save his family has evolved into a struggle all of them must endure. The f...

100 hikes in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, including the newly protected Middle Fork Snoqualmie ValleyMix of day hikes and classic backpacking routesStunning, oversized full-color guideThe lush Alpine Lakes Wilderness in Washington’s Central Cascades contains a plethora of trails, rugged glacier-carved mountains, and more than 700 sparkling alpine lakes and ponds. Accessed via nearly 50 trailheads, more than 600 miles of tra...

When scientific research into curing both hunger and obesity goes terribly wrong, a fast moving plague is unleashed and sweeps across New Jersey.The state is abandoned by the country and sealed off from the world. The victims have become horrific mutations of their former selves. The inhabitants are left to kill or to die.A soldier, a scientist, a detective, a mobster, a politician and a prepper, along with a beautiful yet dangerous woman from the Philippines, must come tog...

After a large scale surprise attack, the mortality rate soars among the population. The detonation of multiple nuclear warheads high in the atmosphere above North America leaves the country in chaos, the EMP destroying all the tools and devices of our modern lives. Following the EMP, the next attack, using Chemtrails, unleashes a virus that steals death from humanity, leaving the dead to rise to hunt the living. An ancient virus, tracing its discovery through modern history and the fall of...

Life in the apocalypse sucks.Just ask Jacob O’Connor and his friends. After managing to survive the initial zombie outbreak, they thought they'd seen it all. Dead rising to devour the living, cities abandoned, wreckage everywhere. Basically, the fall of modern society. They considered themselves lucky to be alive.Unfortunately, all that was only the beginning…

Bobby’s whole life has been about surviving in the aftermath of the First War. The Folks taught him about the Creepers. Ol’ Randy taught him how to kill them, how to hide from them, and how to protect himself from their bite. But Ol’ Randy never told Bobby the truth of his existence. After sneaking beyond the Settlement’s razor wire fence Bobby, and his brother Ryan, are bitten. Life as he knows it should be over, he should be dead, he should be a Creeper, a rotting member of the undead, a...

Lily Hamilton has only one thing on her mind: survival. Unexpectedly, her world turns upside down and fills itself with the kind of monsters from a horror flick. She's doing just fine on her own, but four people she believed to be dead suddenly turn up on her doorstep.For a while, things seem to be almost-normal. But when Lily is uprooted from everything she's ever known, she has to rely on the skills her dad taught her when she was a kid.But has everything be...

Jake O'Connor has problems.His time spent overseas with Britain's SAS Regiment still gives him nightmares, his social life is in the toilet, and his best friend is an unrepentant adrenaline junkie.Unfortunately, just as things finally seem to go his way, decomposing corpses of the recently dead begin rising to gnaw on the living. Soon the streets are glutted with mindless creatures hungering for only one thing: human flesh. Jake's unlikely group of friends needs to make tra...