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"With the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth, a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices growing beneath the city's surface. 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...
2) White heat
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A new series of romantic adventures about the brave men who battle fires-and the passion they ignite. Bush pilot Lyndie Anderson lives only for her plane and the open sky. But when she's hired to fly a brooding-but-gorgeous fireman to a forest fire, suddenly she's struggling to douse a burning desire. And although it doesn't show, Griffin Moore starts having feelings for her, too. But he's suffered too much lately to open his heart. So when the two...
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Firehawks volume 3
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Master mechanic Denise Conroy-- with a reputation for being as steel-clad as the aircraft she keeps aloft-- shuns useless flyboys who don't know one end of a wrench from the other. Firehawk pilot Vern Taylor--known for unstoppable charm and a complete lack of mechanical skills-- proves his talent for out-of-the-box thinking with every flight. He's a survivor and a natural-born hell-aviation firefighter. When Denise and Vern crash together in the Central...
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"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...
6) Smoke screen
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Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado home town. His mother begs him to come to Carlisle now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn't until he's sidelined by an injury that he's forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna too. Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher's daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna...
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Firehawks volume 1
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"The elite fire experts of Mount Hood Aviation fly into places even the CIA can't penetrate. Carly Thomas could read burn patterns before she knew the alphabet. A third-generation forest fire specialist who lost both her father and her fiancé to the flames, she's learned to live life like she fights fires: with emotions shut down. Former smokejumper Steve "Merks" Mercer can no longer fight fires up close and personal, but he can still use his intimate...
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