"Alone: A Haleakala Memoir" is the journey of a 68-year old mountaineer's ordeal in a violent tropical storm while hiking out of Maui's volcano. In the dark and cold he loses his way and wanders into a vast rain forest. In the seeming endless ordeal of physical and emotional challenges, hallucinations lead him astray, exhaustion finds him sleeping on his feet. Death shadows his footsteps. Rescue efforts to find him become a body recovery. This is an intimate, engaging story of a older man ...

From Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and My Sister’s Keeper, comes a gripping and beautifully written novella, now available exclusively as an eBook. Set in the wilds of Africa, Larger Than Life introduces Alice, the unforgettable character at the center of Picoult’s anticipated new novel, Leaving Time.A researcher studying memory in elephants, Alice is fascinated by the bonds betwee...

Bestselling author John Davidson presents "Big Cats For Kids – Amazing Animal Books For Young Readers". Beautiful Pictures and easy reading format will help children fall in love with big cats. This is one of over 20 books in the Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers Series. http://AmazingAnimalBooks.comThe series is known as one of the most beautiful for digital books. The pictures look great even in black and white and are excellent on the full color tablets.Lots of fact...

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATUREA debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path.Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted.Until she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots. If he knows more about where he come...

Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land—observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also snowshoe hares, raccoons, bobcats, turtles, salmon, ravens, hummingbirds, cormorants, sandpipers, and spring peepers). She expertly shows us how they all make their way in an ever-changing ha...

In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their home on the Big Island. Leilani’s epilepsy holds a clue to the disaster, if only they can survive as the islands revert to earlier ways.A powerful story enriched by fascinating elements of Hawaiian ecology, culture, and warfare, this captivating and dramatic ...

Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea—often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dangers and wonders of a largely untouched world, she became the first woman to traverse this remote country and write about it. A New York Times Notable Travel Book, Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea

In 2017, stuck in a loop of codependency and people-pleasing, 32-year-old novice backpacker Nic Antoinette sets off to find her self-belief and inner resilience by doing something she does not for one second believe she can actually do: solo- hike all 800 miles of the rugged Arizona Trail.The guiding question she brings with her is this: What do we find when we push ourselves further than we ever thought we could go?How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on ...

In 26 giant photographs—of a roaring grizzly, a piranhas razor-sharp teeth, a rattlesnakes poisonous fangs—Seymour Simon reveals the truth about natures most misunderstood animals and lets the reader decide what to really think about natures grossest, fiercest, and most fascinating survivors.

Good friends come in all shapes and sizes!Unlikely Friendships, the runaway New York Times bestseller with a compelling message of hope and friendship and differences overcome, is rewritten just for younger readers. This hardcover chapter book for children ages seven and up collects five heartwarming true stories of animal friendship: Koko the gorilla and her favorite kittens, a dog who swims with dolphins, a zebra who cares for a young gazelle, a baby warthog who...

Going to dolphin school under the sea is a magical experience for Pearl and her friends!Pearl is a magical dolphin of the Salty Sea, and today is her first day of school. Her classmates Echo and Splash make great new friends! Together they start learning dolphin skills like magic, music, and jumping.But another student, Flip, just won't stop bragging. And when he accepts a dare from an older student, he ends up in terrible danger from a shark! Can Pearl and her friends save him? It...

How does a dolphin sleep?What happens if you put a dry sea otter in water?What color is a polar bear's skin?What happens if you move a group of bighorn sheep to a new area?How many eggs can a mother hermit crab lay?Can a gorilla swim?Find out the answers to these questions and more in this fun 15-minute book about animals, then surprise your family and friends with these strange facts.LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children pr...