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1) The Arsonist
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2014.
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Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for fifteen years, Frankie Rowley has come home-home to the small New Hampshire village 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. Then another house burns, and another, always the houses of the summer people. In a town where people have never bothered to lock their doors, social fault...
3) Pyro
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"To a firefighter, there's nothing worse than a nuisance arsonist. His multiple fires keep a station up at night, running in circles, and more vulnerable at the next "real" call. And in Seattle, Lt. Paul Wollf of Station Six's ladder truck hates a pyro more than most. Two decades before, an arsonist's fire killed Wollf's firefighter father, sending his mother into a spiral of depression and triggering a chain of events that left his brother in jail...
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2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Jon and Tania--who can see and communicate with ghosts--journey down the Mississippi River on an antique riverboat in search of ghosts, but the spirit of a pyromaniac, riverboat captain proves dangerous to the siblings and the crew.
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[2013]
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A terrorizing month of arson fires and suspicion in a 1970s Norway community ends in the christening of a young boy named Gaute Heivoll, 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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[2005]
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Elizabeth I wants to approve an "official" portrait for distribution in the realm. Three portrait contenders accompany Elizabeth and the court to the mythical Nonsuch Palace, where an arsonist's fire consumes an artist's tent and its two occupants. Elizabeth leaps into action, has the corpses and tents examined, prods her "privy plot council" into motion, and confronts further acts of the pyromaniac
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2016.
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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...