Peter Coyote
1) The river
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Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
2) Hatchet
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Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness.
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Hatchet volume 4
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After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, sixteen-year-old Brian finds that he can't seem to fit into "civilization" but must return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
4) Canyons
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Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
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Memoir of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s, by the man who later went on to write the Josey Wales novels. The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.
8) Patch Adams
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Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
9) Jagged edge
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An attorney falls in love with her defendant, the prime suspect in a vicious murder case.
10) Northfork
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Set in 1955, the residents of a small Montana community are forced to move their homes to make way for a new dam.
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Deadly drifter: A wild cross-country trip with a political revolutionary, this satire of American radicalism moves from psychedelic 60s Greenwich Village to New Age 80s California.
Blood tide: A man and his wife go to a primitive Greek island to find the wife's missing sister. There they discover that human sacrifices are being offered to some mysterious sea monster and that the sister is to be the next victim.
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Nights in Rodanthe: Adrienne Willis is a woman with her life in chaos. She retreats to the small coastal town in the Outer Banks where she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs. She has a wayward husband who has asked to come home and a teen-aged daughter who resents her every decision. Upon arrival, a major storm is forecast and a guest named Dr. Paul Flanner arrives. Paul is the only guest at the inn, and he is facing his own crisis...