Book Lovers' Guides, Novels, Stories

Products shipped separately. Each item listed is from a different Maker in the PA Wilds regions and by purchasing, you are helping sustain our region’s small businesses and our rural communities. Adjust the quantity for each item before adding to your cart based on your needs. 

Books take us on new adventures! Sometimes those adventures are mental journeys, which we can read from the comfort of an armchair while envisioning historical events or faraway destinations. Other times, those adventures are quite literal... guidebooks can tag along with you on your explorations, providing you with maps and expert tips. Whatever type of adventure you enjoy, we have books on the PA Wilds Marketplace that can take you there.

Choose from:

• The Totally Ninja Raccoons Meet Bigfoot by Kevin Coolidge - In The Totally Ninja Raccoons Meet Bigfoot, the three raccoon brothers discover they were not meant to be ordinary brothers, but something extraordinary, ninjas! In this origin story, the Totally Ninja Raccoons begin their ninja training and meet their first potential employer, Gypsy the Cat. Gyspy send the Totally Ninja Raccoons on their first mission, to capture the elusive Bigfoot. 
• Pennsylvania Wilds Outdoor Discovery Atlas by PA Wilds Conservation Shop - 

  Orient yourself in the PA Wilds with the PA Wilds Outdoor Discovery Atlas. 

  The 50+ page PA Wilds Outdoor Discovery Atlas is the go-to guide for people looking to explore the wonders of the PA Wilds. Serving as a print companion to pawilds.com, the PA Wilds Outdoor Discovery Atlas provides travel tips and planning resources, ideas on things to see and do throughout the region, and navigable maps. It also attempts to underscore our region’s conservation legacy and nods to some private industry partners who practice sustainability in their businesses and helped make the Atlas a reality!

  The PA Wilds Outdoor Discovery Atlas was sourced and made entirely in-region! The design work, photography, and printing were all completed by PA Wilds artisans and businesses. Even the paper was sourced in the PA Wilds! This created important work opportunities on our rural landscape and allowed locals to tell the conservation story of our region while being stewards themselves.

• Pennsylvania State Parks and State Forests Passport Book by PA Wilds Conservation Shop - This 135-page passport includes maps, a history of the state’s park and forest system, a brief description and most memorable feature of each state park and forest, and additional online resources. Participants can track their visits to our public lands by initialing their book or having it stamped at the park or forest office. The Pennsylvania Passport not only guides people to our state parks and forests, but it also breaks down interest areas and challenges users to complete each area to receive recognition for their accomplishments with a special metal "dog tag" for the theme. How many state parks and forests have you visited?  Fun Fact: You can have 3 parks stamped when you visit Kinzua Bridge State Park! Measures 4.75" x 1" x 6"
• "Yoga with Trees" Paperback Book by Jenny Garrison - The book is my act of love to Mother Eart. It opens the window of trees of Beings. Simple practices and poses are illustrated, along with stories, poems, folklore, and science surrounding trees the way we as human interact with them.

• The Pine Creek Rail Trail Guidebook by PA Suncatcher Linda Stager - 

  This 206-page guide to the award winning Pine Creek Rail Trail will help any visitor have an enjoyable  visit. Railroad buffs will also enjoy the history and stories sprinkled throughout the mile by mile guide.

  The guidebook is divided into short sectional hikes-rides to make it easy to choose your favorite ride-walk.

• "The Indigo Scarf" book by PJ Piccirillo - The Indigo Scarf (Sunbury Press/Brown Posey/2019 SUNY Award)  is based on the true story of two ex-slaves and the white women they’re forbidden to be with who flee the black codes of post-colonial Pennsylvania only to confront the privations of a wild frontier while their former owners scheme their returns. Though shadowed in whiskey-making and timber-pirating, The Indigo Scarf is a paean to devotion, testing the lengths a woman will go to save her man from a burning vengeance. Scenes take place in historical locations along the West Branch and its tributaries, and in Williamsport during its days as a fledgling outpost.
• Murders & Mysterious Deaths in the Pennsylvania Wilds. Volume I by James Baumgratz - 25 True murders from all corners of the Pennsylvania Wilds.  Lycoming, Clinton, Centre, Potter, Tioga, McKean, Forest, Elk, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield & Jefferson Counties.