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"The Common Sense Guides are easy reading training booklets for those with little or no health and safety expertise; if you are responsible for the safety of yourself or others within your organisation, this guide will be invaluable.This guide is for everyone with no prior knowledge who needs to know more about fire safety management from a health and safety perspective. Without being overly legal, it is written in a friendly, interesting and humorous...
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Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including Oscar! Will Oscar survive one of the most famous and devastating...
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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...
12) Young men & fire
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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, “Young Men and Fire” describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US 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 the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces...
13) Every now & then
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Includes discussion questions.
Alex Brady shuts out all relationships when he loses his beloved father in the Twin Towers. Will he have the courage to open his heart to love again?
14) Emma's river
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In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship suddenly explodes in a fiery blaze, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.
18) Wonders of earth
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Visit a sunken ship miles beneath the waves. Watch a deadly volcano explode. Examine microscopic creatures living in a sandy beach and view the birthplace of stars through the Hubble Space Telescope. From the deep sea to natural disasters and from Earth's treasures to the oddities of science, this nature library is filled with full-color photos and lots of fascinating facts for young readers to explore.
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