Adventure Survival

Jimmy, David, and Henry are psyched. It's summer, school's out, and they are on their way to California, where they will be able to do some major skating. But on the plane, the unthinkable happens: They are hijacked by terrorists. As frightened as they may be, they take action and they succeed. Sort of. They may have beaten the terrorists, but now their plane has crashed in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden, their summer vacation is about finding food, shelter, and a rescue. Can three normal 12-year-old boys find a way to get by without fast food and skate parks?

In MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses, a collection of outdoorsmen share remarkable tales of life-altering moments. From a macabre discovery in the Idaho mountains that closed the book on a mystery spanning more than 50 years to an Ice Age archaeological find in remote Alaska, these stories take listeners on an immersive journey and provide intimate glimpses into a way of life that is slipping away.

It's almost been a month since the R-04 virus eradicated twenty-five percent of the world's population and then began to chew away at the remaining survivors, one by one. There are enough of them left standing to unite and to fight back against the undead, but they're so busy fighting amongst themselves for possession of what is left of the world that they knew, that the sanguines are slithering in between the cracks of humanity and feasting on the excess of bad blood that's now flowing freely due to human hands. Some hate in the name of love Others fight for power over things that are ...

Some secrets don’t stay buried. They fight back. Sixteen-year-old Leah Cutter is a sarcastic tech prodigy living off the grid with her retired special-ops father and tribal-descended mother in the Philippine jungle. When she uncovers her grandmother’s encrypted wartime journal—filled with buried truths about espionage, trafficking networks, and erased history—she becomes the key to igniting a long-dormant failsafe designed to expose a global shadow operation. But someone’s watching. Red Hand, a black-ops unit erased from official records, is dispatched to erase Leah and everything...

It's a typical night for high-school senior Jack Danielson. A star football player, he just broke the league rushing record, celebrated at the local diner, and got shot down (again) by his girlfriend. Jack feels he's having "the most normal senior year a guy could have" in "the most normal little town in America". He couldn't be more wrong.

They survived the First Wave. They secured Firebreak. Now, Alec West and his party face their most dangerous mission yet: the journey to Bastion. Two hundred miles of chaos stand between them and the rumored Obelisk stronghold in Northern California. Mutated creatures. raider ambushes. PvP-enabled survivors. And through it all, the Obelisk continues to evolve—escalating threats, rewarding betrayal, and forcing hard choices. With one Prime Anchor Token left and growing uncertainty within the team, Alec must lead through shifting loyalties and deadly decisions. But as old bonds deepen and ...

Stranded on a hostile alien planet after the destruction of the alien station, Commander Winters and the crew of the Falling Star are thrust into a perilous unknown. As they explore the desolate landscape, they discover that the alien city is already inhabited. Meanwhile, tensions escalate on Earth as the president and a select few senators conspire to abandon society, seeking refuge in a hidden bunker beyond the outer reaches of the solar system. However, their plans teeter on the brink of exposure as the military brass inches closer to uncovering their clandestine agenda. Amidst the chaos...

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the Internet. The city makes her numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.

If you love farts, boogers, burps, and pimples, then you do not want to miss the Monster Fart Wars and the battle to control Gas Mountain. Mayor Donald Fart gets invaded by the Boogers in part one, and his team of Farts is fighting off the Boogers by calling in the extra farty - Monster Farts! A non-stop and can't stop laughing middle-school book that will make feel just - gross! If you love grossness, don't miss this one.

One second was all it took to erase Frank's dreams. New home. New car. New retirement. Stolen by the EMP. It gets worse. Frank's neighbors failed to prepare at all, so it falls on him to keep them alive. He starts easy: stockpile food, water, and guns. Disaster lessons he'd picked up reading books about the end of the world.

Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, and Brian’s Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his Cree friends who live north of his camp. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he sets out to learn what happened.

The one foretold has awakened. The Shar'Adan is born. James D'Amor was raised as a slave and trained in the art of combat. His fate was to meet an early death in the arena. However, after defeating the Steppes champion, he discovers a power within himself that has the potential to change his life. Unbeknown to him, he is the Shar'Adan, the one who is destined to shape the fate of the world. Struggling to come to terms with his newfound abilities, he embarks on a dangerous journey of self-discovery. Trained from birth to navigate a world where survival means to kill or be killed, James must ...

Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains learning to hunt, competing with his brothers and sisters for hierarchy, and watching over a new litter of cubs. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and his family scatter. Alone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home. His journey takes him a remarkable 1,000 miles across the Pacific Northwest. The trip is full of peril, and Swift encounters forest fires, hunters, highways, and hunger before he finds his new home.

It's been several months since Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and, along with the rest of their people, joined the town of Sparks. Now, struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, they find an unusual book. Torn up and missing most of its pages, it alludes to a mysterious device from before the Disaster, which they believe is still in Ember.

Since its inception, however, America’s public land system has been embroiled in controversy - caught in the push and pull between the desire to develop the valuable resources the land holds or conserve them. Alarmed by rising tensions over the use of these lands, hunter, angler, and outdoor enthusiast Mark Kenyon set out to explore the spaces involved in this heated debate, and learn firsthand how they came to be and what their future might hold.

Sonny Winchester never dreamed her beloved ranch would become the coveted treasure of a greedy neighbor. ★★★ Life in the rugged and wild frontier of the American West is not for the faint of heart. Sonny, though, is a strong-willed widow determined to protect her ranch and daughter from a thieving, corrupt cattle baron. Fighting the titan alone is a foolish stance but one she’ll risk. Joshua Masterson wandered into Sonny’s community at just the right moment to scare off a pushy—and in Joshua's eyes—dangerous neighbor. Joshua thinks Sonny has no idea the real danger she and her...

A catastrophic tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, in 2011. It was part of a larger tornado outbreak in the spring of that year and reached a maximum width of nearly one mile during its path through the southern part of the city, killing 158 people, and injuring over 1,000. It caused damages amounting to $2.8 billion, making it the costliest single tornado in US history. Lauren will bring her signature intensity to this distinctly American natural disaster, placing a young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornadoes to strike the United States since 1947.

Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in headfirst, pulling his best friend, Aaslo, along for the ride. However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rough, and folks start to believe their best chance for survival is to surrender to the forces of evil, which isn’t how the prophecy goes. At all. As the list of allies grows thin and the friends find themselves staring death in the face, they must decide how to become the heroes they were destined to be.

Tracy Lee McWhorter stood in amongst the huge old growth pine trees staring at it all in amazement as there was no way these trees should be here. His old house should be right here in this very spot next to this creek. He thought back to a week ago; he hadn’t believed what he had been told when his grandmother finally got a hold of him. He hadn’t answered her calls or even listened to her phone messages for days on end after they started to show up on his cell phone. After all, what could really be that important? It took her contacting the police and having them do a check on him to ...

3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who've gone so far off the rails, their parents don't know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right.