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1) The arsonist
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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...
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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...
4) Firestarter
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Firestarter: An eight-year-old girl has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. But can this power and the love of her father save her from the sinister government agency, "the Shop, " which wants her destroyed?
Firestarter 2: Years ago, a secret government drug experiment produced a dangerously gifted child. When she becomes enraged, she unleased her pyrokinetic powers. The child is now a woman who has spent the past 10 years on the...
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From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may have been, according to U.S. government profilers, "the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century." Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr would watch in awe as firefighters scrambled to put out blazes with seeming disregard for their own lives. One day he would become a fireman himself, and a good one. As a member of the Glendale Fire...
7) Blaze
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Bestselling author JoAnn Ross turns up the heat in a novel of heart-stopping suspense and white-hot passion that takes readers from the sultry South Carolina Lowcountry to the rugged Northern California coast, and ultimately into the darkest reaches of the human heart…
Fire cop Tess Gannon is hot on the trail of a pyromaniac who’s been setting buildings ablaze throughout Somersett, South Carolina, when ATF Special Agent Gage O’Halloran...
Fire cop Tess Gannon is hot on the trail of a pyromaniac who’s been setting buildings ablaze throughout Somersett, South Carolina, when ATF Special Agent Gage O’Halloran...
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After witnessing an uncontrollable blaze that burns her family's pizzeria to the ground, it's no wonder that Reena decides to become and arson investigator. Now, years later, Reena decides to visit the old neighborhood, where she finds true romance with a hunky carpenter named Bo Goodnight. But Reena is swiftly knocked off cloud nine when she discovers that a psycho connected to her past has resurfaced to wreak havoc in her life. This villain has...
10) Before I burn
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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 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.
In 1970s Norway, an arsonist targets a small town for one long, terrifying month. One by one, buildings go up in flames. Suspicion spreads...
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Years ago, a secret government drug experiment produced a dangerously gifted child. When she becomes enraged, she unleased her pyrokinetic powers. The child is now a woman who has spent the past 10 years on the run from the unscrupulous government agents who created her. Now she's through running and has decided to reclaim her life. Charlie's only chance for survival lies in a turncoat government agent and a half-mad professor.
13) Magic fire
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A high-school senior gives in to his desire to set fires during a hot, dry autumn in southern California but is overcome by a greater evil.
16) Podpalaczka
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"Charlie McGee jest dzieckiem wyjątkowym, obdarzonym nadludzkim darem, zdolnością pirokinezy. Potrafi siłą woli zdalnie rozniecić ogień. Rodzice dziewczynki, Vicky i Andy, uczestniczyli kiedyś jako ochotnicy w tajemniczym eksperymencie sponsorowanym przez tajną amerykańską agencję rządową, działającą przy CIA, zwaną Sklepikiem. Rzekomo nieszkodliwa substancja o nazwie Próba Sześć, którą pozwolili sobie wstrzyknąć, spowodowała...
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Once upon a time there lived a kind, sensitive Wolf. He loved the warm sun, the beautiful flowers, and the song of the birds. But one day the Wolf encountered a girl in a red hood. She delighted in making the Wolf cry, and immediately fell in love with his sorrowful face. Now she brings her colorful friends to torment him every day!