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1) The Big Burn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
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English
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Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.
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Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Gifford Pinchot was a bit odd, but he was self-aware enough to know that he was considered strange. He knew Roosevelt from sportsmen circles in the Empire State, and they came to the governor's mansion in Albany with Christopher Grant La Farge, son of the painter John La Farge, a close friend of Teddy's.
#2 The two men talked about the forest protection and the fear...
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Batman and Robin volume 24
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English
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Batman and Robin Vol. 5 collects the DC Comics-The New 52 origin of Two-Face and Carrie Kelley! The origin of Two-Face begins as Batman finds himself in the crossfire of a vengeful war between Two-Face and Erin McKillen! Both are hell bent on killing each other and anyone else who dares to step between them. And what are the mysterious connections between Harvey Dent's life and the origin of Carrie Kelley! Collects issues #23.1: Batman & Two-Face,...
7) Sparky
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Dog diaries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"A firedog from the Maxwell Street fire station tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire"--
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Beauty and the Baller volume 3
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English
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The continuation of the spending story with the big burning question - will Deena get away with cheating on her "spending diet"?
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Beauty and the Baller volume 6
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English
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The continuation of the women's-code story with the big burning question - should Deena tell Joy she once messed around with her man - or take her dirty little secret to the grave?
10) Young men & fire
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English
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On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen Smokejumpers, the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Less than two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or fatally burned. Exactly what happened in Mann Gulch that day has been obscured by years of grief and controversy. Now a master storyteller finally gives the Mann Gulch fire its due as...
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Human Kinetics
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Despite what you may think, yoga is for every body! Larger women can experience freedom, comfort, strength, and mobility in their bodies through the practice of yoga, and Big & Bold: Yoga for the Plus-Size Woman shows you how.
This book provides clear instructions for safely performing 43 poses (asanas) in a variety of seated, kneeling, standing, reclined, and restorative positions. Poses feature multiple options for body positioning...
This book provides clear instructions for safely performing 43 poses (asanas) in a variety of seated, kneeling, standing, reclined, and restorative positions. Poses feature multiple options for body positioning...
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English
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Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery and assess how successfully officials at the local, state, and federal levels transformed the Big Easy in the wake of disaster. Focusing on reforms in four key sectors of urban governance-economic development,...
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Myth-o-mania volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In this updated version of Greek mythology, Hades, King of the Underworld, tells the true story of Hercules and his twelve labors.
14) Wed, read & dead
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Sam's mother can't wait to wed her wealthy beau, Harold Robertson. The big mystery is how they're going to pull off a lavish wedding in three weeks. Harold's snobby sister-in-law proposes a solution: engage flamboyant wedding planner Lydia Lighthouse. But their beacon of hope quickly sends everyone into a blind rage, most of all the groom-to-be. So when the maddening micromanager is strangled with her own scarf, it's a shock, but not a surprise....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Draws upon primary source documents and survivor interviews to recount the story of one of the worst disasters in American history, the 1944 Hartford circus fire, which claimed the lives of over one hundred people.
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English
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The small town of North Harbor, Michigan, is just not big enough for both flamboyant phony Maria Romanov and feisty Nana Jo. The insufferable Maria claims she's descended from Russian royalty and even had a fling with King Edward VIII back in the day. She's not just a lousy liar, she's a bad actress, so when she nabs the lead in the Shady Acres Senior Follies-- a part Nana Jo plays every year in their retirement village production-- Nana Jo blows...
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English
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"Jeremy Washington couldn't be happier running his therapy program for at-risk teens. Between weekend service projects and hanging out with his faithful rescue dog, Rolo, Jeremy doesn't have time to date--which is fine with him considering the mess his early marriage turned out to be. When he meets new yoga teacher Ava Graham, Jeremy thinks the kids would really benefit from learning yoga, and Ava would be the perfect fit. Ava quickly finds herself...
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Little Women NY volume 10
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English
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The tension between Misty and the rest of the group escalates. Kristin's mounting anxiety over her upcoming 38th birthday hits a fever pitch as the rest of the group tries to comfort her by throwing her an enormous, '20s themed birthday bash!
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