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"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
2) Smoke screen
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English
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"Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado home town. His mother begs him to come to Carlisle now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn't until he's sidelined by an injury that he's forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna too. Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher's daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna...
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I survived volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.
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"A desire for absolution brought ex-con Travis Alden to Paradise Peak. When he finds honest work at Paradise Peak Ranch, he shelves his plan to unburden his guilty secret. Instead he works alongside the very people his transgressions hurt the most. Travis seizes the opportunity to do good, to earn the respect his new boss shows him. Only Travis doesn't count on his feelings for his boss's beautiful niece. Hannah Newsome is a woman with a past as bleak...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 71
Publisher
Maverick Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Slim Chance buys his own herd of cattle and takes them to pasture on Viola's father's ranch, but a raging wildfire puts the ranch and Slim's new herd in serious danger.
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The big one is on it's way, and none too soon for the resdients of an unusually arid Moose County, who are becoming increasingly anxious about wildfires as they await for the first snowstorm of the season. A Citizen's Fire Watch is formed, and volunteers go out on shifts to patrol areas of concern, particularly.
10) White heat
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Forever Yours
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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A new series of romantic adventures about the brave men who battle fires-and the passion they ignite. Bush pilot Lyndie Anderson lives only for her plane and the open sky. But when she's hired to fly a brooding-but-gorgeous fireman to a forest fire, suddenly she's struggling to douse a burning desire. And although it doesn't show, Griffin Moore starts having feelings for her, too. But he's suffered too much lately to open his heart. So when the two...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Set amid California's wildfire season, a vivid and magical novel following a family in crisis thrust on a collision course with the world around them that has an outcome beyond their wildest imaginings... When Lu and George Barnes drop their only daughter, Pippa, off at college, they return to their Sonoma home to find that their paths have diverged. Confronted with an empty nest, Lu's increasing dissatisfaction with their materialistic lives becomes...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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As policewoman and single mother Ryan Eames and newcomer Ethan Lange work on an animal rescue operation together, they are drawn into something deeper and surprising by her extraordinarily gifted son that makes Christmas in Miramar Bay a season of love, healing, and second chances.
Policewoman and single mother Ryan Eames is dedicated to her lonely, gifted son, Liam. This year, stretched by double shifts and an out-of-season coastal wildfire, Christmas...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Rory Ramos is a dutiful teenager with a love of photography who works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, a dry, dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele, including twins June and Wade Fisk. June begins to take an interest in Rory-but she is more drawn to Vivian Price, the beautiful teenager with the movie-star father, who lives down the hill and, Rory can't help noticing,...
14) Smoke
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decade long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorce and a fire in nearby Cooper Basin begins to spread...
15) Paradise on fire
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.
16) The pink hotel
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MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A newly married couple is confined inside an opulent Beverly Hills hotel as wildfires rage through LA county and tensions mount between guests and staff, testing social boundaries and hurtling toward disaster, revealing the idle delusions of the wealthy and privileged in times of crisis"--
Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck when the general manager of the iconic, opulent Pink Hotel invites them to come for a luxurious...
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Dog's Way Home Tale volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Bella was once a lost dog, but now she lives happily with her people, Lucas and Olivia, only occasionally recalling the hardships in her past. Then a weekend camping trip turns into a harrowing struggle for survival when the Rocky Mountains are engulfed by the biggest wildfire in American history. The raging inferno separates Bella from her people and she is lost once more. Alone in the wilderness, Bella unexpectedly finds herself responsible for...
18) Room for more
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Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In their burrow, wombats Dig and Scratch are safe from an Australian bush fire. To Scratch's dismay, Dig invites two wallabies, a koala, and a tiger snake to join them. It's a tight squeeze, but even Scratch has to agree that welcoming their neighbors was a good idea when the other animals help the wombats through a flood. Back matter includes an author's note, a glossary of animals, and information about environmental disasters and Indigenous land...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Lupe, an impala with a flair for mechanics, Flapjack, a sweet young octopus with vision problems, and the other Lowriders are concerned about the pollution in their town, and the greedy Upscale Business Association's plans to tear down local businesses--but first they must rescue the migrating monarchs from a wildfire caused by drought and climate change.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Rainbow the koala is ready to go off and live on his own--or so his mom says. But Rainbow is scared! The kookaburra bird cackles at him and he struggles to find a tree to call his home. As scorching heat takes hold and Rainbow runs out of water, he'll soon face his most dangerous test: surviving a bush fire"--Back cover
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