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1) Home fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces...
2) Home fires
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 6
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English
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Home Fires tackles one of the contemporary South's most burning issues. When racial tension erupts in the sleepy community of Colleton County, North Carolina, Deborah is caught off guard. She is happily tending her own home fires: her simmering romance with Kidd Chapin, the house she's building on her family's land, and her campaign for reelection as district judge. But then the first black church is burned, and all of Deborah's alarms go off. Narrator...
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In this short novella from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, she returns to her long-running Troubleshooters series featuring sexy SEALs. Featuring: Navy SEALs Izzy Zanella, Dan Gillman, Jay Lopez, Mark Jenkins, Senior Chief Stan Wolchonok, and introducing Hubert Bickles (aka HoboMofo); Eden Zanella, Jenn Gillman, Brianna Bickles, and Brianna's 5th grade teacher Carol Redmond. Location: Manila, Philippines, and San Diego and Obsidian...
4) Home fires
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Anne Davis has returned to the house where she grew up, trading her glamorous Manhattan lifestyle for a harsh winter on a wind-whipped New England island. Her marriage has crumbled in the wake of a tragic accident. Now she has returned to the home on Salt Whistle Raod that has always meant shelter, security, family, and love. When she awakens one snowy night to a fire that roars through the old house, Anne escapes-but runs back into the blaze to save...
5) Home fires
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Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But, the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate...
6) Home fires
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A married couple, Caroline and Andrew, and his mother, who suffers from dementia, handle all in their own way the death of their son and grandson, killed during a military mission in Sudan.
7) Home fires
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"At Casie Carmichael's dude ranch in Hope Springs, she and her guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, family is determined by far more than DNA, and being independent isn't the same as being alone"--
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A single spark can start a blaze...
DS Catherine Bishop's life was thrown into turmoil by one of the most brutal cases of her career, and she is still dealing with the aftermath. But her own trauma must be put aside when she is called to a horrific scene of domestic violence — and murder.
The investigation brings intense scrutiny for a police department already overwhelmed by the crimes of an arsonist hellbent on destruction. And as Catherine learns...
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"Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States...authoritative." -The New England Quarterly
Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods...
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Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace--particularly poorer women--on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.As Britain's wartime blockade of goods to Central Europe increasingly squeezed the German food supply, public protests led by "women of little means" broke out in the streets of Berlin and other German...
11) Home Fires
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HOME FIRES
From America's beloved storyteller, Barbara Delinsky, comes a classic novel about looking for love in all the right places-and finding a place to call home...
The young widowed heiress to a hotel empire, Deanna Hunt isn't one to mix business with pleasure. But when she first lays eyes on Mark Birmingham, she just can't help herself. In a moment of passion, she spends a wildly romantic night in this handsome stranger's arms-in the very hotel...
12) Home Fires
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A Navy SEAL home on leave. The girl from his past who's been kidnapped. A hero willing to do anything to get her back...Calvin Swenson Junior is going home. But he's going back on his terms and for the only person who could have convinced him to set foot in his father's domain again-his grandmother.She was the one shining light in his childhood. The one who'd kept the home fires burning after his mother's death. And the last person he'd ever expect...
13) Home Fires
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Common law volume 4
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English
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Trouble comes to Mosely, Montana, from the outside world. When the residents of Mosely are left on their own, they can make things work. Sure, there's always been a militia operating up in the hills, but they were small-scale - just survivalists doing their thing - until organizers came in from out of state. Now Jericho Crewe and the rest of the sheriff's department are facing down a heavily armed band of fanatics, and the feds are busy elsewhere....
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"I'm going to marry that man some day!" Little Bonita Dominguez made that pledge the first time she saw Max Cameron. Now it's about to happen, but nothing is going the way she planned. Carrying a secret she has kept since she left the ranch ten years ago, she would prefer to be back in California, where she has built a new life, a new life that doesn't include Max. Now a chic, sophisticated woman, Bonita certainly isn't the same playful girl Max remembers...
15) Home Fires
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HOME FIRES HAS IT ALL – MURDER, ROMANCE, INTRIGUE, AND A YOUNG TOUGH AS BOOT-LEATHER HERO!
Top Texas Ranger investigator, Jake Morgan, heads home to wait out an administrative leave of absence from the Rangers, but Jake's return to his Midwest town turns perilous when he asks probing questions about the bizarre death of his best friend, Gage Burnell. Morgan's return home fans the embers of his first love, Pam Mitchell, whose family members are the...
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Popular novelist Penelope J. Stokes entertains and inspires legions of fans with her heartwarming stories. In Home Fires Burning, she spins a stirring tale of love and faith, tested by the turbulence and uncertainty of World War II. The deadly conflict in Europe seems far away to 18-year-old Libba Coltraine; all she cares about is escaping her domineering father. Searching for excitement, she defies her father and attends a USO dance at the army camp...
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.
19) Home fire drills
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Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explains the importance of planning what to do in case of fire in your house and tells how practicing fire drills can help you to be safe.
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Day after day, thousands of people passed by an unassuming, three-storey building on the corner of New Gower and Springdale streets in St. John's. Operated by the Hull family, the ground floor was rented to a commission merchant; the top two floors and annex building were used as a private hospital for aged and infirm patients. In the dead of winter, on February 10, 1948, the simple lighting of a defective oil stove in the main building set off a...