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I survived volume 20
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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.
2) Chasing fire
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English
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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Nora Roberts delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline—men and women who wouldn’t know how to live life if it wasn’t on the edge.
Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. But there’s also little else as thrilling—at least to Rowan Tripp. Being a Missoula smoke jumper is in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend...
Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. But there’s also little else as thrilling—at least to Rowan Tripp. Being a Missoula smoke jumper is in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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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...
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Series
New Americana volume 5
Language
English
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A need for absolution compels an ex-con to work beside a woman with an equally tragic past among people who do not know his role in their burdens to rescue the community of Paradise Peak from an advancing wildfire.
5) Missing Mike
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Caera Donovan and her family flee a wildfire bearing down on their hometown of Pine Grove, with no time to find Caera's beloved dog Mike. Faced with the loss of everything she knows, Caera can't stand to lose Mike as well and seeks a way to sneak back to Pine Grove. When her plans are thwarted, she must learn to embrace a new definition of "home.""--
Author
Series
Creek Canyon volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When a wildfire nearly destroys Parker Sinclair's family home, it's just one more disaster to add to her mountain of stress. For the past two years, she has shouldered the responsibility of raising her younger brother and sister after their parents' untimely deaths. Forced to leave college for a crappy job that barely pays the bills, Parker manages her family property, which consumes every aspect of her life. Now winter is coming and the forecast...
8) Smoke screen
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Wildfire fighter Nate Beckett has been sidelined by an injury when his mother begs him to return to Carlisle, Colorado, now that his father has been released from prison. Fourteen years ago Nate was in love with Breanna Strickland, the preacher's daughter. When the two snuck out to be together, the fight between Strickland and Nate's drunken dad was loud and very public. Strickland was murdered later that night, and everyone accused Roy Beckett. When...
9) Now
Author
Series
Once series volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead. When Sylvie Durand receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in the South of France, she knows she has to go. In the middle of a sweltering 1990's summer marked by unusual fires across the countryside, she returns to La Reverie with her youngest daughter Emma in tow, ignoring the deep sense of dread she feels for this place she's long tried to...
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Series
Miramar Bay volume 8
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 cheer feels far away. Ethan Lange is alive because Ryan reached his canyon home before the blaze: he lost everything, but it's not the first time he's been forced to start over. Ryan and Ethan reunite at an animal rescue operation, but it's Liam who draws them into something...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
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English
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She'll do anything to save them. But what will she do to save herself? When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice to make: face yet another round of chemotherapy or surrender gracefully. Self-reflection quickly proves impossible as her getaway...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
"Texas is experiencing its worst season of wildfires in a decade, forcing police chief Josie Gray to evacuate the citizens of Artemis. Not everyone makes it out alive, however. In the fire's wake, she discovers the body of someone who never left town, lying dead in the house of a local country music singer. Beside the body lies a syringe carrying traces of heroin. It seems as if the deceased nodded off and then missed the evacuation. But as Josie...
15) Home to me
Author
Series
Creek Canyon volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After Erin Fleming escapes from her controlling and abusive ex, she finds refuge in the heart of Santa Clarita, California. Eager to start over, she has a new name, a new look, and a new career. Settled into a private guesthouse, Erin can breathe free. Far from the shadows she's outrun, Erin is finally learning to live for herself. Her new unexpected friendship with her landlord starts to crack open the armor Erin's enclosed herself in. But it's Matt...
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Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 71
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English
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"After his many years as a typical bachelor cowboy, Slim Chance is convinced--against his will--that he needs to build his own herd of cattle and invest in the future. So, he takes the plunge, takes out a loan, and takes his newly-bought heifers to a pasture on Viola's father's ranch. But, just about the time his new herd is calved-out and his investment is beginning to look promising, the dry and windy weather conditions put the entire county on...
Author
Series
Magic on the map volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The magical RV takes twins Finn and Molly to Northern California, where they help keep campers safe during a wildfire.
18) Fire front
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Series
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English
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Jason Garrett trained as a fire fighter in Portland, Oregon, but when his father, a state senator, pulls some strings he finds himself on an elite wildfire fighting crew called the Firestormers, a job he did not ask for, and is not sure he can handle--especially when Chief Anna MacElreath puts him in charge on his very first wildfire.
19) Second sight
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems willing to ignore. With her friend on the run and the police investigating the bones of an unidentified dead body at a historic homestead near town, Eliza becomes convinced...
20) Wildfire!
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Illustrations and easy-to-read text reveal the struggles of forest animals to survive when fire breaks out on Spruce Mountain, and the actions of the firefighters who work through the night to stop the blaze."--Provided by publisher.
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