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1) Chasing fire
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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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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...
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"It begins in the Pacific Northwest. A deadly wave of massive wildfires are raging out of control, killing hundreds in their path, and showing no sign of stopping. This time, the fires are man-made. In Portland, Oregon, a sleeper cell of terrorists have recruited a disgruntled Forest Service smokejumper to train their army. To spread the fear coast to coast. To make America burn. Those who flee the hot flames are gunned down in cold blood. But one...
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Deadly reunions novels volume 1
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"As a member of the North Cascades Smokejumpers, Alexia Allen always takes care of the equipment that keeps her safe. So when she nearly dies in a fire due to equipment failure, she knows something is up. Ordered to take time off while the investigation continues, Alexia makes a last-minute decision to recuperate at her mother's home and attend her high school reunion. Yet trouble seems to be following her, and within hours of arriving home she's...
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Choose your own adventure volume 111
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c2009
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Weeks of training may leave you feeling prepared for the exciting first jump into the forest fires of the Pacific Northwest, but you can't be sure until you take your first leap from a plane!
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"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...
10) Surrender
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Bitter Creek series volume 16
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2018.
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A pilot and a smoke jumper find old grudges turning into renewed attraction when they're forced to rely on each other after a plane crash.
11) Smokejumpers
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[2014]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Provides information on smokejumpers, firefighters that parachute into wildfires.
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Barnes, the supervisor of a Hot Shot wildfire suppression crew, is haunted by the season past, when many members of his dedicated, young team were killed in a Colorado forest fire that went all wrong, scorching the Hot Shots as they fled, some as they struggled into their fire shelters. He wakes each morning in the presence of their ghosts as they proceed across his bedroom or assemble at his kitchen table, their eyes asking questions that he cannot...
13) Smoke jumper
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[2013]
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IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about smoke jumpers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
16) Smoke jumpers
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[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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This book describes the work of smoke jumpers, special firefighters who use parachutes to jump into the forest to fight fires.
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When lawyer Hunter Lee leaves the New York City rat race that made him rich but cost him his marriage, he sets out to build a new life in Fort Mason, Montana. His friend Paul Brule, a Fire Jumper, shows him the reality of vast tracts of forest reduced to ash in seconds by hundred-foot walls of flame. Hunter comes to suspect that this particualr rash of summer fires is anything but accidental and could be serving a more sinister purpose. -- from publisher...
20) Jumper
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2022.
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Accepted into the Forest Service's class of smokejumpers, nineteen-year-old wildland firefighter Blair Scott takes unnecessary risks to prove herself and struggles to cope when everything rages wildly out of control.