Thomson, Sarah L.
Summary: During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOParrack, Keely
Summary: Lily needs a ride--a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PARBard, Breena
Summary: "Julianna loved her life in rural Oregon. She loved taking care of her farm animals and being part of her local 4H club. But then the unthinkable happened...a wildfire destroyed her family's home. In the aftermath, her family relocated to Portland, Oregon, where Julianna hopes to put everything behind her. Believing the fire to be the result of kids playing with fireworks, she certainly isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAR (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Rajan, Rekha S.
Summary: The Jackson family, including eight-year-old Jaden and his sister Leela, travel the United States responding to disasters, helping people and rescuing animals--but they have never responded to a wildfire like the one raging in Northern California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2024
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RAJLefteri, Christy
Summary: "In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEFHodge, Rebecca
Summary: "She'll do anything to save them. But what will she do to save herself? When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice to make: face yet another round of chemotherapy or surrender gracefully....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HODSteel, Danielle
Summary: "... The life of a Parisian woman changes in a heartbeat when she's trapped by wildfires in Napa Valley."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: As policewoman and single mother Ryan Eames and newcomer Ethan Lange work on an animal rescue operation together, they are drawn into something deeper and surprising by her extraordinarily gifted son that makes Christmas in Miramar Bay a season of love, healing, and second chances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNCameron, W. Bruce
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron once again captures the bravery and determination of a very good dog in the gripping sequel to A Dog's Way Home, the acclaimed novel that inspired the hit movie! Bella was once a lost dog, but now shelives happily with her people, Lucas and Olivia, only occasionally recalling the hardships in her past. Then a weekend camping trip turns into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMRhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles' history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOLSteel, Danielle
Summary: "In this inspiring novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, the life of a Parisian woman changes in a heartbeat when she's trapped by wildfires in Napa Valley"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECameron, W. Bruce
Summary: "Bella was once a lost dog, but now she lives happily with her people, Lucas and Olivia, only occasionally recalling the hardships in her past. Then a week-end camping trip turns into a harrowing struggle for survival when the Rocky Mountains are engulfed by devastating wildfires. The raging inferno separates Bella from her people, and she is lost once more. Alone in the wilderness, Bella is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CAMHenry, Veronica G.
Summary: Disgraced fire chief Syrah Carthan, when another devastating wildfire breaks out, is pulled back into action, discovers an underground secret society that could save or destroy the world, forcing her to make a choice between human loyalty and preserving the delicate balance of nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2024
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Summary: "Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Heller 2019Bunn, T. Davis
Summary: Ryan Eames is a policewoman and single mother dedicated most of all to her lonely, uniquely gifted son. Stretched thin by double shifts and grappling with an out-of-season coastal wildfire, Christmas cheer feels as far away as a distant carol on a winter night. Until duty draws her into the life of a stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: After Erin Fleming escapes from her controlling and abusive ex, she finds refuge in the heart of Santa Clarita, California. Eager to start over, she has a new name, a new look, and a new career. Settled into a private guesthouse, Erin can breathe free. Far from the shadows she's outrun, Erin is finally learning to live for herself. Her new unexpected friendship with her landlord starts to crack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYBNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: When a wildfire threatens Simone's home, she and Má must rush to take shelter. Guided by her own creativity, and buoyed by Má's memories of her childhood in Việt Nam, Simone navigates her way through an all-too-common crisis. This powerful story, straddling two generations and two countries, shows how communities come together in tough times, and how the youngest can imagine the path to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, a division of Astra Publishing House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NGUBlackstock, Terri
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLACollins, Sarah-Jane
Summary: "When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived...until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.... Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen blanket. The flames crackled around her, the bitter char of eucalyptus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLChavez, Heather
Summary: When she was twelve, Leyna Clarke watched her older sister, Grace, walk away from their Sierra Nevada foothills home with her boyfriend, Adam Duran. Neither was ever seen again. Sixteen years later, a stranger who looks like Grace shows up at the restaurant where Leyna works--and vanishes soon after. When it comes out that Leyna was one of the last people to have talked with the young woman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mullholand Books/Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decadelong career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKPyper, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYPActon, Vanessa
Summary: "A wildfire threatens to obliterate everything in a boy's town. All he knows might be lost. Will he make it out in time? And will his home survive the blaze?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017