On the morning of June 13, 1886, a rogue wind fanned the flames of a small clearing fire—and within five hours, the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, had been reduced to smoldering ash. Vancouver is Ashes: The...
Fires
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Author:Smith, Lisa AnneSummary: -
Author:Brown, GregorySummary:Growing up, David Almerin Ames and his brothers believed the wild patch of Maine where they lived along the Penobscot River belonged to them. The river shared its name with the people of the Penobscot Nation. When the local paper mill...
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Author:Cooper, AfuaSummary:Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal in April 1734 and condemned to die a brutal death. In a...
- Author:Wiggs, SusanSummary:
Five years after rescuing an orphaned infant from the Great Chicago Fire and raising the child as her own daughter, Lucy Hathaway encounters the embittered Randoph Higgins, Chicago's most prominent banker, who turns out to be the father...
- Author:Bernard, Jay.Summary:
Brought To You By Penguin. The audiobook edition of Surge, written and read by Jay Bernard. Winner of The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2020. * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018 * Jay Bernard'...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver's blockbuster thriller featuring returning character Kathryn DanceA tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised, and...
- Author:Toten, TeresaSummary:
Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth...
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Author:Orca Book PublishersSummary:A set of linked YA novels of orphan girls uncovering the secrets of the families they have never known.
- Author:Bigué, GenevièveSummary:
Un phénomène naturel très rare cause tout un émoi à Rivière-aux-Corbeaux : le lac Kijikone a pris feu et est devenu un véritable brasier. On dit que lorsqu'il s'enflamme, tout ce qu'on y plonge se transforme en or....
- Author:Linehan Young, IdaSummary:
On a June night in 1980, the Linehan household in North Harbour went up in flames. In moments the fire consumed the family's ordinary, loving lives and innocent, human faith that life would always be as it was. Ida, the middle of three...
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Author:Corbett, RobertSummary:St. John’s has been called the “City of Fire” for a reason, and the St. John’s Fire Department has responded to every call for help. Faithful and Fearless is a richly detailed history of over four hundred years of fighting fires in St....
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Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:After a fire kills Josie's family, she is living on the streets while she finds a way to bring her family's killer to justice in this fast-paced entry in the Retribution trilogy.
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Author:Choldenko, GenniferSummary:Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden.
- Author:Williams, Vera B.Summary:
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire. UEB and BANA Braille Grade 2 6 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each volume.
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Author:Butler, PaulSummary:In 1892, critically acclaimed novelist Paul Butler plunges the reader into 19th century St. John’s, its light and its shade . . .
An obscure servant, Kathleen, yearns for her home in Ireland. A mysterious scientist, Dr....
