Ball, Jesse

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

Miller, Sue

Summary: "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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIL

Miller, Sue

Summary: A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

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Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SEP