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Ninety-nine percent of the time the world spins like a top, the skies are clear, and your refrigerator is full of milk and cheese. But know with certainty that the world is a dangerous place. Storms rage, fires burn, and diseases spread. No one is ever completely safe. Not you. Not your children. We all live as part of a very complex ecosystem that is unpredictable and willing to kill us without remorse or pause. This book will help you to establish a practical disaster preparedness plan for your entire family, covering all 14 basic human needs. Additional information is also presented for those with special needs, including the elderly, children, people with disabilities, pregnant women, and pets. Every topic is well researched, with over 240 references cited, and is presented in a clear, easy to read format.
In this edgy and dramatic adventure story, modern-day wildlands firefighters and cattle rustlers struggle for both physical and emotional survival in a changing Western landscape. Braiding the stories of firefighters Morgan and Jeremy and a grandmother laundromat custodian-turned cattle rustler, Jacklynn, This Here is Devil's Work is a fiery ride through small towns of Nevada and Montana and the rugged expanse that connects them. With twelve years on the fireline, Morgan, a wildland firefighter with a wandering eye, believes he knows what his teenage half-brother, Jeremy, needs to do to shrug off boyhood: spend a single fire season punching line to earn money for auto mechanic school. But when Jeremy joins the Ruby Mountain Hotshots and earns the respect and admiration of their fire boss, Bailey, an unresolved animosity toward his kid brother threatens to destroy everything. Life hasn't been easy on Jacklynn. She's got her heart set on finding a way to move from the small town in Montana where she's lived her whole life to reunite with her daughter and grandson in Tucson. She wants to make up for a lifetime of missteps by protecting the boy and making sure her daughter stays on the straight and narrow. On the same day that a stranger, Lenny, waltzes into her life and ignites that old feeling, an opportunity for life-changing money presents itself in the form of a dozen pregnant heifers. The only trouble is, they aren't hers-not yet, anyway. Morgan and Jacklynn's paths cross when lightning ignites a blaze in the untamed Montana forest and their choices force each other into the crucible. Inspired by the wildfires raging across the West and the legendary smokejumpers whose legacy continues to shape the ways wildland fires are fought, 'This Here is Devil's Work' explores how love and loneliness and can sour, inspiring desperate and self-destructive acts. Curtis Vickers pulls no punches in showing us how guilt, isolation, and desperation really feel-and how such emotions can drive the actions of all of us, even people we might, from a distance, consider heroic. An incendiary debut, this novel will appeal to readers in a New West literary movement-less dependent on protagonists who are either noble or praiseworthy, or noble but conflicted.
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