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Author
Publisher
Amara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Willa Frank has one simple rule: never go on a date with anyone more than twice. Now that her business is providing the stability shes always needed, she cant afford distractions. Her two-date rule will protect her just fineuntil she meets smokejumper Grady Billman.After one dateone amazing, unforgettable dateGrady isnt ready to call it quits, despite his own no-attachments policy, and hes found a sneaky way around both their rules.Throwing gutter...
2) Chasing fire
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Language
English
Description
Montana wildfire fighter Rowan has a strict rule: never get romantically involved with anyone she works with. But the moment she meets new recruit Gull Curry that rule is severely tested. And when it becomes clear that someone blames Rowan for her jump partner's death, and is determined to get revenge, Rowan finds that she needs Gull's help and support more than ever.
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Language
English
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This “terrifying, grimly funny” memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers “an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils” (The New Yorker).
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung up his chute after the summer of 2000—the worst fire season in more than fifty years. In Jumping Fire,...
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung up his chute after the summer of 2000—the worst fire season in more than fifty years. In Jumping Fire,...
Author
Series
Amish of big sky country volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the first of a new series set in the Amish communities of Montana, bestselling author Kelly Irvin explores what the Amish do in the aftermath of natural disaster. Schoolteacher Mercy Yoder loves her life in the beautiful West Kootenai region of Montana. But when a wildfire blazes outside her beloved community, she and her family are forced to evacuate and flee to the small town of Eureka. John Hostetler, Mercy's beau, sorts through the damage...
6) Smokejumpers
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Smokejumper Silas Kent never expected to see pilot Elle Westmore again. In fact, reuniting makes him realize what a mistake he made all those years ago. But before he has a chance to try to make amends, he's called to lead a new crew into battle against a massive fire in the Sierra Nevadas. And then things go wrong, very quickly. A suspicious engine explosion forces the crew to parachute early while Elle barely survives a crash landing. Silas reaches...
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English
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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces...
9) Jumper
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for an additional class of smokejumpers. She and her best friend Jason both apply, though neither expects to get in since they’re only nineteen. But it’s been a devastating fire season, and they are both accepted. But going to training camp is only the first step—everyone expects the teenage rookies will wash out in the first week. Blair has...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
In one moment, there’s a simple spark, and then roaring flames surge 200 feet into the air, devouring forests. Trees, from root to canopy, are burned to the ground. Airtankers and helicopters hover above, executing an air attack. Brave firefighters, equipped with flame resistant suits, leap from helicopters onto the treetops and descend to the blazing forest floor. In this book, young readers will learn about the ecological impacts of wildfires,...
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a smoke jumper comes across a traumatized twelve-year-old boy running from two assassins, she sets out into the Montana wilderness to help him escape.
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper still reeling from the loss of three lives she failed to save from a fire when she comes across a traumatized twelve-year-old boy with nowhere else to turn.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a smoke jumper comes across a traumatized twelve-year-old boy running from two assassins, she sets out into the Montana wilderness to help him escape.
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper still reeling from the loss of three lives she failed to save from a fire when she comes across a traumatized twelve-year-old boy with nowhere else to turn.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
An insider account of the high-risk world of elite wilderness firefighters who parachute into deep-wilderness fire zones reveals the unique skills that smokejumpers must employ to fight dangerous fires and stay alive.
15) Smoke jumpers
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 111
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The reader becomes a student enrolled in a summer training program as a smoke jumper in the Pacific Northwest, an area hit hard by a number of small, suspicious forest fires.
"Smoke Jumpers by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU, a hotshot firefighter-in-training, on a daring adventure in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. 9-12 year old readers will jump from a plane and show off their parachuting skills, fight dangerous fires, thwart a band of crooks...
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