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When a terrible danger threatens the wolves of the Beyond, outsider Faolan must take a leadership role and inspire the pack to stand together.

"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and...

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...

It was Oregon's most notorious conflagration -- a series of four major fires that struck the Tillamook forest beginning in 1933 and recurred with bizarre regularity at six-year intervals through 1951. The fires burned 355,000 acres of virgin forest in northwestern Oregon and became collectively known as the Tillamook Burn. In her engaging history of the Tillamook, Gail Wells recounts the story of the famous fires and the cooperative efforts of foresters...

Takes a journey through a rain forest, investigating the plants and animals that dwell there.