Setting Fires

Author : Kate Wenner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743216318
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Setting Fires written by Kate Wenner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting Fires is the gripping story of Annie Fishman Waldmas, a documentary filmmaker, wife, and mother of two young children, who uses her professional skills to unravel the shocking secrets behind the two fires that come to dominate and haunt her life. The novel begins with a pair of phone calls that shatter Annie's contentment forever. The first brings news that Annie's country house in Connecticut has burned, in an area where two other Jewish-owned buildings have also recently burned down. The second and far more distressing call informs Annie that her beloved father -- the family patriarch, burdened by a lifelong shame that Annie will soon uncover -- has been diagnosed with cancer. Gradually, as Annie and her father forge a new and closer bond, he is able to acknowledge his history of poverty, his struggle for survival, and the near-tragedy it led to. Annie's determination to help her father find peace and forgiveness before dying meshes inextricably with her determination to find and expose the anti-Semitic arsonist who threatens her own family. Annie's passionate search reaches back four generations from the early roots of the Fishman clan in Russia and New York to the modern-day lives of Annie, her siblings, and their divorced parents. At the same time, it throws Annie's relationships with her own husband and children into chaos, and rocks the family life on which she has always depended for stability and support. Not until Annie discovers and resolves the final truths -- by her own wit, perseverance, and self-knowledge -- can she reestablish the harmony she treasures. Kate Wenner, an award-winning former producer of 20/20, makes a startling fiction debut in this powerful novel about a courageous woman's struggle to come to terms with a complex family history.

Author : Daniel Hume
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473543940
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Fire written by Daniel Hume and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire can fascinate, inspire, capture the imagination and bring families and communities together. It has the ability to amaze, energise and touch something deep inside all of us. For thousands of years, at every corner of the globe, humans have been huddling around fires: from the basic and primitive essentials of light, heat, energy and cooking, through to modern living, fire plays a central role in all of our lives. The ability to accurately and quickly light a fire is one of the most important skills anyone setting off on a wilderness adventure could possess, yet very little has been written about it. Through his narrative Hume also meditates on the wider topics surrounding fire and how it shapes the world around us.

Author : Jesse Ball
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101870583
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Set a Fire and Why written by Jesse Ball and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage girl. A shattering loss. An obsession with a secret arson club. This is the story of a girl who has nothing and will burn anything. Lucia’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she’s been kicked out of school—again. Making her way through the world with only a book, a zippo lighter, a pocketful of stolen licorice, a biting wit, and the striking intel­ligence that she tries to hide, Lucia spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother and following the only rule that makes any sense to her: Don’t do things you aren’t proud of. But when she discovers that her new school has a secret Arson Club, she’s willing to do anything to be a part of it, and her life is sud­denly lit up. As Lucia’s fascination with the Arson Club grows, her story becomes one of misguided friendship and, ultimately, destruction.

Author : Joanna Foster
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784509299
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires written by Joanna Foster and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps adults to understand firesetting behaviour in children and teens and provides strategies to work with them to address the behaviour. Drawing upon the latest juvenile firesetting research and utilising child development theory to underpin its safety messages, the book explores why young people might set fires in the first place and contextualises firesetting in terms of communication and gaining the attention of carers and other adults. The chapters lay out practical, tried-and-tested steps that professionals and carers can take to address firesetting behaviour, and suggests how to further support any child or teen who sets fires. This includes summaries of the latest evidence-based support strategies and a range of creative activities that can be used in direct work with children and teenagers who set fires, tailored to specific age ranges. Combining expert advice on firesetting behaviour with straightforward practices, this comprehensive book can be used by anyone working with young people to help them intervene and prevent it.

Author : George E. Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416912509
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Fires written by George E. Stanley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Edward Stanley's powerful Night Fires explores the influence of the Klan in 1920's Oklahoma, and the danger of succumbing to peer pressure.

Author : Dani Shapiro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593467965
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signal Fires written by Dani Shapiro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of Inheritance: "a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings) Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever. A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year • A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction • A Real Simple Best Book of the Year An ancient majestic oak stands beneath the stars on Division Street. And under the tree sits Ben Wilf, a retired doctor, and ten-year-old Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant, lonely boy who is pointing out his favorite constellations. Waldo doesn’t realize it but he and Ben have met before. And they will again, and again. Across time and space, and shared destiny. Division Street is full of secrets. An impulsive lie begets a secret—one which will forever haunt the Wilf family. And the Shenkmans, who move into the neighborhood many years later, bring secrets of their own.. Spanning fifty kaleidoscopic years, on a street—and in a galaxy—where stars collapse and stories collide, these two families become bound in ways they never could have imagined. Urgent and compassionate, Signal Fires is a magical story for our times, a literary tour de force by a masterful storyteller at the height of her powers. A luminous meditation on family, memory, and the healing power of interconnectedness.

Author : Celeste Ng
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143127551
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything I Never Told You written by Celeste Ng and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Author : Julie Gunther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparks Start Fires written by Julie Gunther and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to design the medical clinic of your dreams?What if you could practice medicine the way you originally envisioned?What if we could simplify...really simplify...the delivery of routine medical care?In this quick, conversational read, family physician, Julie K Gunther, MD, FAAFP explains why she had to leave her job within the healthcare system to do the work she trained to do.In 2014, Dr. Gunther sold her home, her truck, moved her family, learned all about SBA loans, bought a building and opened sparkMD, an independent direct primary care (DPC) practice.Peppered with personal anecdotes, shared leanings, spreadsheets, cautionary tales, resource lists and more, this guide outlines how to start your own direct primary care (DPC) clinic in twenty clear steps.Part memoir, part business tome, this 'how to guide' illustrates how one physician left the system, went out on her own and started taking care of patients in a simplified, back-to-basics health care model.

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Publisher : Lichtenstein Creative Media
ISBN 13 : 1933644214
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kids and Fires written by and published by Lichtenstein Creative Media. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Omer Call Stewart
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134239
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Fires written by Omer Call Stewart and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in static harmony with nature, in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning. In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart's original research and insights, written in the 1950s yet still provocative today. Significant portions of Stewart's text have not been available until now, and Lewis and Anderson set Stewart's findings in the context of current knowledge about Native hunter-gatherers and their uses of fire.