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New Americana volume 5
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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.
3) 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...
4) Now
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2012.
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English
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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.
6) Fire front
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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.
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Magic on the map volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The magical RV takes twins Finn and Molly to Northern California, where they help keep campers safe during a wildfire.
8) Missing Mike
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2018.
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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.""--
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Miramar Bay novels volume 7
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English
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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...
10) Bone canyon
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Eve Ronin novels volume 2
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[2021]
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English
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"A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove"--Publisher marketing.
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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...
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"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...
13) Smoke screen
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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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...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles's history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of...
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[2024]
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English
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"As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built. Abigail, a wealthy white woman, decides to throw a lavish birthday in a hillside mansion to raise money for the city's newest affordable housing project--and prove to her family that she's made something worthwhile of her life. Sunny, a construction worker who sleeps in a van along the bay's shore, is in the running for an apartment...
16) Second sight
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2019
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English
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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...
17) My Way To You
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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...
18) Home to me
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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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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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2024.
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English
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"In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that will consume their home, and their lives as they know it,...
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