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Banished to Earth. Hunted by the queen's assassins. Forest must fight to find a way back to Regia. Lonely and brokenhearted, she waits for Syrus to break through her banishment. Syrus lives his days in anguish, trapped in a portal that goes nowhere. Separated by galaxies, Forest and Syrus' spiritual connection strains to the breaking point. As Regia's civil war ravages the land and the balance of power tips, the world will learn it's the Rune-dy pulling the strings.

Beauty and the Brain—the adventure begins. When rough-edged handywoman Charley Jensen stops to help a stranded motorist with a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, she writes the preppy biologist off as too soft to survive in her isolated and unforgiving wilderness. But Drake Carver is more than just a brain in a pretty package, he’s resourceful and, much to Charley’s surprise, fun to be around. However, only when their lives are on the line does she learn he’s tougher than he looks. Suddenly, her secret, burning question, ‘Are you strong enough to be my man?’ becomes 'Am I ...

Paleontologist Grant Coleman gets an invitation he can’t decline. Join a rescue mission to find his college mentor, Professor Maxwell Carson, who has gone missing in the wilds of China. But his professor’s notes about his expedition must be wrong. They state that he was hunting for the fossils of dragons. The others on this rescue team make Grant uneasy. One is Mike Rabon, an old college friend who studied with Grant under Carson. But while Grant pursued an academic career, Mike has been working the black market, selling fossils to unscrupulous collectors

Ariana Costa is a fearless firefighter who gets severely injured saving her neighbor's children from a house fire while she is off duty. She is lucky to be alive and knows she will have a long stay in hospital. Dr. Kristi Lowen is the burns specialist assigned to Ariana. Dr. Lowen is straight and has never felt attraction to another woman before. But as Ariana starts to feel better and more like herself, she starts openly flirting with Kristi. Kristi finds herself enjoying it and enjoying spending time with Ariana more and more.

Bigfoot wants revenge! Just as Jaws terrified people right out of the water, The Shadowkiller will keep readers out of the woods...for good.

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force; here is a cast of characters risking everything in an effort to bring that force under control.

On August 5, 1949, a crew of 15 of the United States 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 these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for 40 years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.

In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.

The wildfire isn't the deadliest thing in these woods. A raging inferno tears through Timberline Ridge. A six-person hotshot crew is deployed to contain it. But as smoke thickens and the forest closes in, something ancient and furious emerges from the untouched trees. They call it Bigfoot. Cut off from radio, trapped by fire, and stalked through ash and flame, the team must survive not only the blaze—but a predator that’s lived in these forests long before men ever carried axes. Bigfoot – Fire on the Ridge is a blistering horror novella of primal terror, isolation, and survival. ...

Écoutez et abonnez-vous dès maintenant à "Fire forest", le nouveau podcast officiel de la première communauté dédié à l'information sur les feux de forêts et d'espaces naturels.

In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land.

While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. "I could never do it," she told herself.

If you live on a rapidly changing planet, you'd be wise to learn how it works. The giant old forests on a skinny stretch of land on the far west coast of North America have a lot to say about living in a twitchy world.

Some campfires warm you. This one eats you alive. Ten-year-old best friends Derrik and Jeb are used to hiking through the mossy forests of their Pacific Northwest island. But tonight, they find something they’ve never seen before: a hovering campfire with no wood, no fuel, and no one tending it. At first they think it’s homeless squatters or some weird propane trick. But as they creep closer, they realize the truth is far worse. The fire whispers. It calls. Old Bobby, the local drifter. Albert, the school bully. Louisa, Derrik’s secret crush. They’re all sitting in a trance, ...

Accomplished storyteller Nevada Barr captivates fans with her tightly-woven plots, vibrant descriptions, and believable characters. In this thrilling mystery, her resourceful sleuth, middle-aged park ranger Anna Pigeon, travels to northern California where she joins the forces battling an out-of-control forest fire.

Samantha Moon is ready for her first real vacation in nearly a decade. With a little money in her pocket from the sale of a mansion left to her by her vampire sire, Sam sets her sights on a whirlwind European tour... Included in this collection: Banshee Moon - First stop... Ireland! When a dark shadow races across her hotel suite, followed by something evil watching her son from an ancient suit of armor, Samantha Moon is about to discover that her trip to the Emerald Isle is going to be anything but relaxing. Moon Monster - Sam books a two-hour tour of the infamous Loch with her friends and...

When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history, the 20 men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots sprang into action. An elite crew trained to combat the most challenging wildfires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag family crisscrossing the American West and wherever else the fires took them. The Hotshots were loyal to one another and dedicated to the tough job they had.

Norman MacLean spent the last 14 years of his life determined to sift through grief and controversy in search of the truth behind the Mann Gulch tragedy, one of the worst disasters in the history of the Forest Service. Young Men and Fire is the culmination of his investigations. It is a story about honor, death, compassion, and the human spirit.

Not all forest fires are bad. Controlled burns actually help keep the forest healthy, clear the way for new vegetation, and act as a pest control.

Breathe in, are you sure the air is safe? Every fire tells a different story, but not every story gets a happy ending. This book reveals the invisible dangers hidden in everyday wood smoke, sawdust, and the logs you might bring home tonight. Forest fires and backyard burns don’t just warm hands; sometimes, they send clouds of toxic fallout across city blocks and quiet country roads. Some smoke drifts in loaded with dangerous chemicals, hidden poisons, or even radioactive dust sucked up from old factory soil and contaminated timber. Other times, deadly bacteria or unpredictable metals ride...