Best of
Wolves

2010

Shiver Trilogy Boxset


Maggie Stiefvater - 2010
    During the summer he walks and talks as a human, but when the cold comes, he runs with his pack as a wolf. Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house - but never dreamed that she would fall in love with one of them. Now that they've found each other, the clock ticks down on what could be Grace and Sam's only summer together.lingerCan Grace and Sam last? Each will have to fight to stay together - whether it means a reckoning with his werewolf past for Sam, or for Grace, facing a future that is less and less certain. Enter Cole, a new wolf who is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being human. For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life is harrowing and euphoric, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But can it be enough?

Wolf Runner (Leisure Historical Romance)


Constance O'Banyon - 2010
    Daughter of a white man and a native woman, she lived as an outcast among the white people of New Mexico and never knew anyone that was like her. Until the day he stepped off the train. Wolf Runner was his name and he, too, was a half-breed. She was drawn to him, to the kindred spirit she felt within him. He would reveal to her the mysteries of his Blackfoot people. He would show her how to walk tall in the presence of the white man. He would let her run wild with him in his Rocky Mountains alongside the wolves. And beneath the silvery light of a Montana moon, his seduction would awaken her maiden's heart and... He Would Love Her

Wolfer


Carter Niemeyer - 2010
    But events conspired to fling Carter Niemeyer westward and straight into the jaws of wolves. From his early years wrangling ornery federal trappers, eagles and grizzlies, to winning a skinning contest that paved the way for wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies, Carter Niemeyer reveals the wild and bumpy ride that turned a trapper - a killer - into a champion of wolves.

Romeo: The Story of an Alaskan Wolf


John Hyde - 2010
    Romeo had a playful and loving soul that residents of Juneau, Alaska simply could not ignore and many adopted him as part of their community. Orphaned and alone, Romeo chose his territory below the Mendenhall Glacier close to the town of Juneau, and made his winter home in the Upper-Valley and along the shorelines of the nearby Lakes where he played with his cousins - the dogs that accompanied their owners as they snow-shoed and skied throughout his territory every winter. For John Hyde, Romeo was more than a friend, and much much more than the lone wolf he photographed every winter for nearly a decade along the lake shores, on the flanks of Mount McGinnis, and on the many trails that lead up and down this mountainous and stunningly beautiful area of Alaska. He writes in his Preface to the book: The first time I met Romeo face to face, close enough that we could stare into each other's eyes, I felt I was sitting on the edge of two worlds: one so wild and free I might never be able to comprehend its true significance, the other civilized, which I was driven to escape from on a regular basis. As he recounts Romeo's life from a tragic and violent beginning through to its equally tragic end at the hands of humans for whom he posed no threat, the author writes in the tradition of Aldo Leopold and seeks to describe the kind of redemption and hope that Romeo provided us with as an example of how we humans might recon­sider the baleful and destructive nature of our attitudes toward our wild fellow creatures and the wilderness that is our heritage too. Romeo shared our world to our delight and without malice. We, on the other hand, are often too busy thoughtlessly destroying wilderness habitats in Alaska and elsewhere. Romeo's life, the life of a wild carnivore, as it is described in this book in both clear and  scientific language, was unique. He lived on the edge of the wilder­ness and of our so called civilization, where the two often clashed both in benign and more aggressive ways. When they did it was often his gentle behavior that illuminated our own human igno­rance and latent aggression toward his or any another wild species. Romeo: The Story of an Alaskan Wolf is also the book of a remark­able photographer whose portraits of the wild and of Romeo in particular are as unique as the subject himself. The book is a tribute to an animal whose life came to be treasured by those who knew him and whose life now stands as a challenge to us all in our strug­gle for a better and more sustainable planet.

The Sea Wolves: Living Wild in the Great Bear Rainforest


Ian McAllister - 2010
    Genetically distinct from their inland cousins and from wolves in any other part of the world, coastal wolves can swim like otters and fish like the bears with whom they share the rainforest. Smaller than the gray wolves that live on the other side of the Coast Mountains, these wolves are highly social and fiercely intelligent creatures.Living in the isolated wilderness of the Great Bear Rainforest, coastal wolves have also enjoyed a unique relationship with man. The First Nations people, who have shared their territory for thousands of years, do not see them as a nuisance species but instead have long offered the wolf a place of respect and admiration within their culture.Illustrated with almost one hundred of Ian McAllister's magnificent photographs, The Sea Wolves presents a strong case for the importance of preserving the Great Bear Rainforest for the wolves, the bears and the other unique creatures that live there.Want more Sea Wolves? Visit www.greatbearbooks.com and learn more about the Great Bear Rainforest.

Loyalties


Wendi Kelly - 2010
    She has one last chance to impress her new Alpha, Diego Beauchamp, or be left to fend for herself as a rogue wolf, a sentence that will surely end in death.Fate intervenes, not once, but twice, and plunges Regina into a fast-paced race against the clock to save the life of the stranger she just met.In the midst of this harrowing life-threatening rescue, she comes to know five unique people who, in their own quirky and troubled ways, teach this misfit and broken girl the meaning of love, trust and loyalty, making her question everything she ever believed was true.Together, they create an alliance, a new breed of Pack, one that changes the course of the future forever.

Scent of Tears


Dean Murray - 2010
    He’s been anticipating the coming trip out to the country for months. The fact that he’s going to be allowed to run around unescorted only makes things better.The vacation turns serious when he decides to leave the estate. A pack of hunting dogs is more than capable of bringing even a shape shifter to bay, and he’s starting to understand that more than just his survival hinges on what he does next. ‘Tears’ is a 2,800 word contemporary fantasy story that ties into a series of novels and shorts that tell an overarching story line via a number of different characters.

A Werewolf's Tale


Danae Ayusso - 2010
    Taken in by the alphas of the pack she was loved and cared for as their own, but not all of the pack felt the same. Being different from the others left her the outcast of the pack. Jay Dee doesn't let it get to her though. Her family's not wealthy but their not dirt poor either. their an average family. She's a strong character both physically, being a werewolf herself, and mentally. Jay Dee had never met a vampire until a small group of vampires moved to the area. She meets her fist vampire in class at school and he is not at all what she was expecting.Tanis Ashton has lived over 300 years having been turned vampire against his will by his own brother. The British vampire is an arrogant, self-conceited male who has moved with his family to a small reservation town because of his sister's lack of self-control when it comes to feeding. He sees the whole area as beneath him and lacking in class. He's not happy with the current circumstances and, to top it off, the area is infested with werewolves, creatures he's secretly always found to be inferior. That is until he meets Jay Dee.But little do either of them know, Jay Dee is much more than just the white wolf in a pack of brown werewolves and their role together is prophesied. They may be in the dark, but others are not and will stop at nothing to see that the two of them never fulfill their destiny.

Hidden Alpha (Alpha Mates #1)


Kasey Dean - 2010
    When disaster strikes the same day Chase finds their human mate, he knows they found her at the perfect time to complete their family.Amalya McKinnon is a human who had her heart broken five years ago when the love of her life, Gavin, left without contacting her again. When she meets Chase and Devlin, she is thrown into a world she never knew existed. She is drawn to the two wolf shifters but has a hard time trusting them.Devlin and Chase earn her trust and start to heal her heart, but her happiness doesn’t last. Gavin returns to claim her as his mate, and a threat from the past she never knew existed has come back for her.Can the three men put their differences aside and make her happy, or will they all lose her?

Dreaming of Wolves: Adventures in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania


Alan E. Sparks - 2010
    Through a series of entertaining vignettes and informative essays, the author paints an extraordinary portrait of the lives of wolves, of the researchers who study them, and of the rural people with whom they have coexisted for centuries in a remote mountainous region of Eastern Europe – an exotic land that has remained largely untouched by modern trends and undiscovered by western travelers.Whether joining the narrator as he tracks wolves through the deep snows and dense forests of the Carpathian Mountains, or fends off belligerent shepherd dogs, or journeys through history to discover the real Dracula, the reader learns a remarkable amount of fascinating information about wolves, about the history and folklore of Romania, and about traditional rural life in the mountain villages of Transylvania. The story is written in an understated voice that is at once honest and humorous, deriving from events perceived with a keen and sensitive eye. The book presents several sub-themes – such as the benefits of conserving wilderness, the joy of discovering self through the pursuit of dreams, and an unusual perspective on the nature of time and consciousness – all of which are woven smoothly into the fabric of a well-told story.The narrative is enhanced with 32 pages of beautiful color photographs.

The Bearkeeper


Rose Streif - 2010
     Raised by werewolves in the backwoods of southern Indiana, Deandra Brown has chosen to follow in the footsteps of her father, a paranormal investigator for the mysterious Society of Asherah. Along the way she must deal with her controversial heritage, a suddenly uncertain love life, an adjustment to city living and the problematic friendship of Matthew Arktouros, an age-old immortal who has latched onto her family as a means of keeping his sanity. And now he has an adversary in the form of the elusive Grinning Man, a predatory Spirit with the power to stir minds into madness, murder, and suicide. The Grinning Man cannot harm Matthew and Matthew cannot harm him, yet the unchecked potential for collateral damage is more than the average anomalist--and anomalist's daughter--can contain. In the meantime, a troupe of actors who have been performing the same Shakespearean repertoire for several hundred years comes to a startling realization: that the Grinning Man is in the thrall of a man once charged with bringing them to justice. For fame was once a capital crime in the secretive world of the immortal Djinn-folk, and certain of these actors bore names of such significance that they dare not use them in public even now. A sweltering midsummer is the setting and stage for this steam and gaslight-drenched fantasy of dark humor, action, and suspense, where a vibrant cast of characters is illuminated by a clairvoyant narrator whose tenuous grasp over time and space makes for a unique reading experience.

Montana Mist: Winter of the White Wolf


Doug Hiser - 2010