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Author : Peter Werbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1948501112
A mix of history and inventive remembrances, Summer on Fire recreates six weeks in the intense summer of 1967. Riots, rock and roll, shootings, marches, and bomb plots shake Detroit, reminding us that today's turmoil is a mirror of that era.
Author : Linda Jacobs
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605425276
It is 1988, and Yellowstone Park is on fire. Among the thousands of summer warriors battling to save America’s crown jewel, is single mother Clare Chance. Having just watched her best friend, a fellow Texas firefighter, die in a roof collapse, she has fled to Montana to try and put the memory behind her. She’s not the only one fighting personal demons as well as the fiery dragon threatening to consume the park. There’s Chris Deering, a Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot, seeking his next adrenaline high and a good time that doesn’t include his wife, and Ranger Steve Haywood, a man scarred by the loss of his wife and baby in a plane crash. They rally around Clare when tragedy strikes yet again, and she loses a young soldier to a firestorm. Three flawed, wounded people; one horrific blaze. Its tentacles are encircling the park, coming ever closer, threatening to cut them off. The landmark Old Faithful Inn and Park Headquarters at Mammoth are under siege, and now there’s a helicopter down, missing, somewhere in the path of the conflagration. And Clare’s daughter is on it.
Author : Linda Jacobs
Publisher : Medallion Press, Inc.
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932815295
Texas firefighter and single mother Clare Chance flees to Yellowstone Park to try and put the memory of her best friend's death behind her. She's not the only one fighting personal demons, as wildfires threaten to consume the park. Original.
Author : Karen Bass
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781550504231
A troubled Alberta teen spending a summer in Germany discovers the story of a teen with real problems -- pregnant and alone in the maelstrom of When Canadian teen Delora James finds herself banished to Germany for the summer, reading the professor's old journals seems like a good time- waster. Once Del begins to read the translated diary of Garda - a teenager in World War II, pregnant and desperate - she is engaged by Garda's compelling story. Through a series of rebellions, she begins to draw similarities between her own world and Garda's, and is able to see past her own hostility. Sixteen-year-old Delora has been shipped off to Hamburg, Germany to live with her controlling sister. Her 'behaviour' at home has caused considerable concern so she is under house arrest till she proves she can behave otherwise. Through her sister, she meets an English professor who asks her advice on a book she is working on. Del then encounters 16-year-old Garda, whose journals make up the professor's story. Del is transported back to Nazi Germany in the Fall of 1942, is riveted by Garda's story and draws parallels not only between the places they reside but in the oppression they both feel. Garda's rape by a member of the Hilter youth, the subsquent pregancy and enstrangement from her family resonate with the reader and with Del. We are presented with the horrors of the Nazi regime through the eyes of an innocent girl. It is a strong dose of life for Del and mirrors so many of her conflicts. As Garda breaks free of her oppression, Del finds strength and acceptance of her world and those who love her.
Author : JH Fletcher
Publisher : Pan
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743342602
A gripping tale of love and loss, intrigue and betrayal, and of the desire to possess the land that sets the Warren family at each other's throats. Kath loses her husband to war and seeks love in the arms of another man, only for her dreams to be swept away by tragedy. Hedley, whose passion for his land helps him survive the hell of World War II, but only after betraying the man who saved his life. Now, fifty years later, Hedley is dying. His grandchildren — Rebecca, Michael, Craig and Danielle — confront Hedley and each other, as they wait to see who will inherit. And then the fire strikes.
Author : L.G. Surgeson
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000341658
It is a Time of Legends It is a Time for Heroes It is Time for Last Stands To speak of a time before the Summer of Fire, a time truly before the cacophony of events that chose to confluence in those short months, is to speak of a time more than four hundred years gone by. Very few have a genuine understanding of what lead to the time known as the Summer of Fire, of the rising powers that had grown with the patience of mountains, over centuries. Only in looking back could scholars completely understand the full scale of events that preceded it. It is particularly difficult to distinguish what came 'before', as this is a relative term. Each individual will have a point in time that they consider to be the time 'before', after which their life will have irrevocably changed. General consensus suggests that by 1099 AC it was already too late. But for some, it started long before that. For some of them will live, some of them will die, and some of them will last forever.
Author : Jane L. Stewart
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547511267
"The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake; Or, Bessie King in Summer Camp" by Jane L. Stewart. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Sally Wentworth
Publisher : Harlequin Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Cotswold Hills (England)
ISBN : 0373104561
Author : Patricia Lauber
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ecology
ISBN : UOM:39015022275815
Describes the season of fire that struck Yellowstone in 1988, and examines the complex ecology that returns plant and animal life to a seemingly barren, ash-covered expanse.
Author : Maurice Shadbolt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : IND:32000002547695
Author : Karen Bass
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550504156
A troubled Alberta teen spending a summer in Germany discovers the story of a teen with real problems--pregnant and alone in the maelstrom of Nazi WWII.
Author : Thuy Da Lam
Publisher : Red Hen Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597098380
“Paints a vibrant portrait of post-war Vietnam, illuminating both the dangers and the great beauty of a country in the process of healing itself.” —Booklist You can go home again. When twenty-three-year-old Maia Trieu, a curator’s assistant at the Museum of Folklore & Rocks in Little Saigon, Orange County, is offered a research grant to Vietnam for the summer of 1991, she cannot refuse. The grant’s sponsor has one stipulation: Maia is to contact her great-aunt to pass on plans to overthrow the current government. The expatriates did not anticipate that Maia would become involved with excursions in search of her mother or attract an entourage: an American traveler, a government agent, an Amerasian singer, and a cat. Maia carries out what she believes is her role as a filial daughter to her late father, a former ARVN soldier, by returning to their homeland to continue the fight for an independent Vietnam. Along the way, however, she meets a cast of characters—historical and fictional, living and dead—who propel her on a journey of self-discovery, through which she begins to understand what it means to love. “Delivers a war-ravaged Vietnam rich in history, folklore, the tragedy of families torn asunder, and the beauty of Buddhist wisdom that connects the living and dead . . . an impressive debut.” —Charles Johnson, National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage “Lam deftly explores the slippery interplay between heritage and identity, history and duty, ultimately proving that each of us is so much more than the places we come from. An important debut.” —Quan Barry, author of We Ride Upon Sticks
Author : Emma C. Underwood,Hugh D. Safford,Nicole A. Molinari,Jon E. Keeley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319683034
Chaparral shrubland ecosystems are an iconic feature of the California landscape, and a highly biodiverse yet highly flammable backdrop to some of the fastest growing urban areas in the United States. Chaparral-type ecosystems are a common element of all of the world’s Mediterranean-type climate regions – of which California is one – yet there is little public appreciation of the intrinsic value and the ecosystem services that these landscapes provide. Valuing Chaparral is a compendium of contributions from experts in chaparral ecology and management, with a focus on the human relationship with chaparral ecosystems. Chapters cover a wide variety of subjects, ranging from biodiversity to ecosystem services like water provision, erosion control, carbon sequestration and recreation; from the history of human interactions with chaparral to current education and conservation efforts; and from chaparral restoration and management to scenarios of the future under changing climate, land use, and human population. Valuing Chaparral will be of interest to resource managers, the research community, policy makers, and the public who live and work in the chaparral dominated landscapes of California and other Mediterranean-type climate regions.
Author : Michael Thoele
Publisher : Fulcrum Group
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019494439
Fire Line looks at the entire world of Western wildfire, with a strong, human-interest focus on the self-described adventurers and adrenaline junkies who go to battle in the West's annual summer war. Although its viewpoint is contemporary, it also deals with the historical backdrop of forest fire. Both rural and urban in scope, it covers wilderness fires that rage in such places as Alaska and Yellowstone National Park to the "urban interface" fires that sweep out of the mountains and into neighborhoods in such places as Los Angeles and Oakland, California. For generations, fighting fire in the forest has been a Western rite of passage. Almost everyone who lives in the West knows someone who has done it - a neighbor, a friend, a co-worker, a college roommate, a son, or these days, a daughter. The region is home to tens of thousands of adults who have had this experience. Those who go to battle against wildfire range from college students to Native American crews to perennial fire bums. Seasonal combatants led by full-time professionals, they work in a little-understood, paramilitary world that is America's version of the French Foreign Legion. In their annual campaigns, daring pilots dive into flaming canyons with retardant tanker planes. Smokejumpers leap into rugged wilderness regions. "Hotshots", the shock troops of wildland fire, take on giant conflagrations.
Author : Edward Struzik
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610918183
"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." --New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message." --Kirkus "Should be required reading." --Library Journal In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast." It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. In Firestorm, Edward Struzik confronts this new reality, offering a deftly woven tale of science, economics, politics, and human determination. It's possible for us to flourish in the coming age of megafires--but it will take a radical new approach that requires acknowledging that fires are no longer avoidable. Living with fire also means, Struzik reveals, that we must better understand how the surprising, far-reaching impacts of these massive fires will linger long after the smoke eventually clears.