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"How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ('A young genius who hits all of the right notes.'--Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. Making her...
2) The arsonist
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English
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"Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley has come home--home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, another house burns,...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A terrorizing month of arson fires and suspicion in a 1970s Norway community ends in the christening of a young boy named Gaute Neivoll, whose youth is shaped by the time of fear and fire until, as an adult, he begins to retell the stories of his neighbors while gradually discovering the identity of the arsonist.
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
An ambitious firefighter hunts a notorious arsonist in the Edgar Award–winning true crime story the New York Times calls "stranger than fiction." From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the "Pillow Pyro," called the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized...
8) Firestarter
Publisher
[Universal Studios]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Charlene 'Charlie' McGee is a child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency, 'The Shop,' that wants her destroyed?
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Series
Elizabeth I mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Smitten with spring fever, Elizabeth Tudor escapes London for fantastical Nonsuch Palace in the sweet Surrey countryside. There she hopes to relax and pose for the official royal portrait for which she is holding a competition. But one of her artists is burned to death, and portraits of the queen are going up in flames. When she hears that her rival, the dangerous Mary, Queen of Scots, has been peering in mirrors and announcing, "I see the next queen...
