Arctic fire continues
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Good character's  is what l liked about the first book and it continues in the second, l will look for# 3 just hope it's soon.
2125041
Not warm for the arctic..i ended up exchanging and buying Canada Goose. Good for lower 48 temps though.
2068572
Dangerous content but perfect for starting a fire in my fireplace since it's getting cold outsider. Seriously, what a load of crap!!
2345894
Must say it was disappointing for me, maybe I was hoping for more.  I realise this was the introduction of his characters and there could be better reads to come.  I am a person who likes to be in the book in the first chapter and Arctic Fire just did not do it for me, I persevered to the end but.
Sorry ... maybe in the Winter I'll get around to trying book 2 ...
115314
The action doesn't stop. It keeps bulldozing along, once safe, then what more can they throw at our hero and family. I'm traumatized that there isn't a bishop's war 2 yet...please hurry
589193
by the same author, with the far right alt conservative views once saw on back their religious views an in this climate could not open cover, Amazon needs a warning in this climate on authors who are so far alt right conservatives which is not a tolerable climate make for costly burning material or emer. ttp for the outhouse
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Definitely a hard target to hit given it isn't located on any stable piece of land but is constantly covered by ever shifting ice floes. Maybe it's not too surprising then that the effort to reach the North Pole that began in 1827 took at least a century to accomplish and even then Frederick Cook's claim back in 1908 is still "hotly" contested (haha). A very interesting book and I think I will leave it to the readers to discover who was the first team to actually fly over the mark, the next group to actually set foot on the actual point 22 years later, and then read all about  the  harrowing "Sputnik-style" race to be the first  to actually sail beneath the geographic North Pole. One of the better Charles River Editor historical books with pictures that I've come across!
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It's actually a rather good read! Unfortunately, it's a little dated, as I have already read two papers, one in 2010 and one in 2011, that argued that there is no evidence of the so-called black swan weather event in 1912, certainly not by any existing records, including those from Scott's own party left behind. If anything, temperatures recorded in the late summer of 1912 on the Ross Ice Shelf was comparatively warm. And, the deviation in temperature recorded by Scott and the party at Camp Evans was consistent until almost to the end, but showed a mysterious and consistent drop of around -12F in the days before the last entry. Indeed, the only way to prove that Scott encountered an unusually cold weather event and gale force winds in the days leading to 29 Mar were his own diary. There was no collaborative evidence by other observations. More recent research suggest strongly that Ms Solomon had made fallacious conclusion that just because unusual weather events did happen, then it must have happened back in 1912.
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Let's Explore The North Pole: Arctic Exploration and Expedition (Children's Explore the World Books). This book is full of fantastic pictures and information on the North Pole. The North Pole and the South Pole sit on an Axis that can divide the earth in two. The earth rotates on an Axis The north pole is one of those spots that controls the rotation of the earth. It is also so very magnetic that it's where all compasses point because of the magnetism of the North Pole. During the Winter, the Arctic ice pack grows to the size of the United States. In the Summer, half of the ice disappears.
The North Pole was "discovered" by Richard and Floyd Bennett when they were the first people to reach the North Pole by airplane. The ice pack is 2-3 meters in places (thick). it' floats above 4000 meters deep of water in the arctic ocean. It is not the coldest place on earth however, that record is held by the south pole. During the summer the sun rises in March and sets again in September (what a long day and night!).
Animals in the North Pole are the biggest - The Polar Bear.
Arctic Wolves - The pack animal
White endangered Whales
Snowy Owls
The bearded Seal
Northern Elephant Seals

What a great book with awesome photographs of the things being spoken of:::

My grandson is in 3rd grade and this book would be awesome for him. I believe this book should be a part of his extensive library. Something that should be a great read for him. He reads way above his age as he grows so does his knowledge of the world as did his mother at his age. Reading invokes imagination, knowledge from a foundational status. Reading makes the brain work where television arrests the brain function by not making any one think. I so do love these books for children and adults, making us think about what we can do and what might be if we open our minds.

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This "two volumes in one" book deals with extreme opposites on the tragedy scene in Wisconsin.
"Fire" refers to the Great Peshtigo Fire of Peshtigo, Wisconsin. You may or may not have heard of it.  It occurred the same night as the Great Chicago Fire. Obviously, we now  know which conflagration received more press. The fact is, more people  died, more property was destroyed, and a larger area was burned in the  Peshtigo Fire than in Chicago.
"Ice" refers to tragedies on the  Great Lakes around Wisconsin.
If you can get a copy of this book, I urge  you to do so. It is well worth reading!
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I've just read a stunning news item: So much of the Arctic ice cover has disappeared "that a ship could sail unhindered from Europe's most northerly outpost to the North Pole itself." This is, you understand, not ice cover just barely thick enough to skate on, but ice that is normally immune to the relative heat of the Arctic summer --- an area bigger than the British Isles.

This makes "2182 Kilohertz" --- a book set in the Arctic that reeks so much of authenticity I almost felt I ought to wear gloves while I was reading it --- not just fiction but historical fiction. A boat stuck in the Arctic ice? Soon that will be as quaint as Conrad or Melville.

I'm not much for sea stories, but Malcolm MacPherson --- my only friend who writes red-blooded books, full of adventure and danger --- said this was the best novel he's read in a decade. Good enough for me. And I thought: "Enough Proust. Let's spend a few hours with real men."

Consumer warning: These guys are real men. In-your-face, bawdy, physically strong and mentally independent. Consider the beginning of the book. After 138 days on a winter drill rig, Henry Seine is now on a camp barge "in frozen anchorage at the trailing end of a gravel causeway that stretched twenty-five miles into the Arctic Ocean." Cold? The north wind threatens "to make freezer-burned steak out of one side of his face." Oh, but the Arctic beauty, you think. Not quite: "There, on the ice, looking like a pile of frozen mud laced with toilet tissue, lay five days' accumulation of human sewage."

Hmm. Not sure if I'm enticing you here. Maybe I should say that Annie Proulx calls this "the best sea story in a long time." And that The New York Times --- prissy to a fault --- named this a notable book. And that David Masiel is not making up this....uh... stuff: From 1980 to 1989, he says, he "worked offshore in the arctic oilfields, sailing on ocean-going tugboats and icebreakers, mostly in Alaskan waters."

The good news: The characters amaze. You hate some of them, love none of them, but then you learn more about them and you find yourself able to read but not judge. "This kind of complexity," Masiel has said, "is far closer to the truth of human experience than a thousand lectures on good and evil. Also, it makes a better story."

No...uh...fooling. A storm makes the barges move out of synch, and suddenly you're learning more about boats in winter water than you planned to in your life. You find out what happens to a man thrown overboard. About the dangers of a leaky bilge. About walking on a man-made island. And dozens of truths about the oil business they don't show you in those lovely commercials about rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

Imbedded here is a love story, a contrast in passion and ice. And a crazy, daring rescue --- the title refers to the radio frequency used at sea to broadcast emergencies. Death? There's more than enough to go around. Redemption? Hey, this is a sea story --- no redemption, no point.

Like moving through icy water, this book can be slow, hard reading. But it's oddly rewarding. Know a guy who likes Clancy and Patterson and that legion of writers who write tough but probably put on galoshes just to get the newspaper? Lay "2182 Kilohertz" on him.
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First of all, has be lived in Fairbanks Alaska for the last thirty years and those that live here don't slip and fall much after our first couple of years. You learn to walk on slippery surfaces or you end up in the hospital. And wet snow, like they have in anchorage as opposed to Fairbanks where it's more icy is not too difficult to walk on So enough with these characters slipping and falling so much. Also, aircraft with full tanks don't explode very often. It's the mostly empty ones full of fumes and not jet fuel that explode and it sounded like the plane had just taken off. I worked on aircraft for nearly thirty years, so I know. Years ago, when using JP-4, the fuel was VERY easy to ignite, but not with JP-8, which is more like diesel, and you. An you can hold a torch on diesel and it won't ignite. There are other details that where off as well. Do better research.
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This books turned out to be a interesting read.  The Man Who Ate His Boots is John Franklin, the explorer who finally disappeared into the Arctic for years.  His first expedition led to a tragedy where the men had to eat his boots and since that time was known by that nickname.  The British wanted to find the Northwest Passage and spent nearly a century looking for it after many other countries gave up.  The story is an interesting one and I hope that others will read it.  Still it is amazing that the explorers would pursue such a torturous journey to death.  I am glad that the book includes accounts of the natives who live in that region.
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I expect books 1 & 2 will also be bristling with Alaskan flying adventurous. This book #3 of the series kept me on the edge of my seat with risky landings on ice covered mountain lakes, a struggle with an armed murderer while trying to fly a small plain and a shootout at a gold mine. What more can you ask for.
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Slow Burn in the Wilderness is book 7 of the Alaska Adventure Romance Series. I have read and enjoyed all of them but somehow missed book 5.5, Touched By the Northern Lights, which I need to read. The stories aren't connected but are all set in the wilds of Alaska with vivid descriptions of the landscape and the wildlife and in this book their camp and jobs as well. I look forward to reading more books by Hart since Alaska is definitely on my bucket list of places to visit.

This story focuses on smokejumpers and a hotshot team of firefighters that work in the Alaskan Bush. Trevor is the newbie and has to prove himself to Josie and will be partnered with her for jumps. Her dad, her twin brother and she are all smokejumpers and work together in the business. Trevor and Josie have an instant attraction - something that's never happened to either of them before. She's not a girly girl by any means and has always wanted to do what she does since her dad is her hero. Watching them fight their attraction when they have to work so closely together doesn't always work.

This is a clean romance that was fast paced at only one-hundred and four pages. There was a lot of adventure packed into the story along with some romance. The epilogue tied up the story nicely and had a happily-ever-after but I needed a little more closure regarding the business.

I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book.
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Food shortage instead of making it more plentiful, thru scientific advancement. Brings Russia into the fold with the control of the planets food supply. Only Flynn can he stop this.  The chase across the tundra, the thrills don't end till last page. Another great book by ?Jack Patterson
Given ARC by author for my honest opinion of which I have given.
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We learned in the previous book in this series that Ashton Falls' four best friends were headed to Alaska to deliver a golden retriever to the Moosehead Search and Rescue team.
After a fire at Buck's lumberyard, a truck runs Levi and Ellie off the road, injuring them so they can't travel. Left behind, Levi is determined to find who was responsible for the hit and run and Salinger ties the truck to the fire.
Zoe hates leaving her best friends AND a mystery but she knows delivering Sitka is important.

In Moosehead we meet another town full of interesting and quirky characters including a sheriff who shows up at a crime scene in pajamas and focuses more on cake than suspects.
When frozen pipes change the housing arrangements for Zoe and Zak, a late night desire for warm milk leads Zoe to discover a body in a chair in the Moosehead Inn's library. The next day,taking Sitka out for training, the dog discovers another body! A mysterious photo in the man's pocket ties into another man's disappearance five years prior. The search and rescue team continues to be busy. Zoe tries to help Levi via long distance.

My favorite line in this book is "...how in the heck were Levi and Ellie going to be able to manage their lives without my constant interference?"

Not all of the people we meet this time are who or what they seem.
I do hope we have the opportunity to interact with the members of the rescue team again.

Alaskan Alliance is another wonderful installment in the Zoe Donovan series. If you enjoy cozies I suggest you read this series.
I won a copy of this book in a giveaway but the enjoyment of reading and opinions expressed are my own.