Catalog Search Results
1) Smokejumpers
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Deadly reunions novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
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 during the investigation, Alexia decides to recuperate at her mother's home and attend her high school reunion. Yet within hours of arriving home she's involved with murder, arson, and a handsome detective.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enter a world of breathtaking dangers and beauty: In this remarkable memoir, veteran smoke jumper Jason Ramos offers a rare inside look at the lives of airborne firefighters, the select few who parachute into the most rugged and remote wild areas to battle nature's blazes. - Forest and wild land fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every year as record drought conditions, decades of forestry mismanagement, and the increasing encroachment...
6) 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 always...
7) Chasing fire
Author
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Schoolteacher Mercy Yoder loves her life in the tiny village of West Kootenai in Montana. A wildfire forces her family to evacuate to the small town of Eureka. John Hostetler, Mercy's beau, sorts through the damage left by the fire, helping Mercy set up a makeshift school. Eureka is filled with fire personnel, media, and rubberneckers-- more contact with the outside world than Mercy has ever experienced. A chance encounter with a smoke jumper, Travis...
Author
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Morgan's late husband was a daredevil...and now she's a widowed single mom. All she wants now is to set up a stable life for herself and her son in the small town of Pine Hill, Kentucky. Andrew's a firefighter who thrives on the rush of saving others. His secret dream is to become a smokejumper and fight raging wildfires across the country. But it'll mean leaving his hometown and the people who rely on him. Morgan and Andrew are drawn together as...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A group of smokejumpers rescue three children from a burning cabin while fighting a wildfire, but have to care for them at the station until their parents can be located. No amount of training could have prepared them for this--their most challenging job yet.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request