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161) Fire dog heroes
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The text opens with a true story of an arson dog, and then it explains the history of the arson K-9 team and the training methods used to transform an ordinary dog into a canine hero"--Provided by publisher.
162) The dead Enders
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Ana, Davis, Erik, and Georgie know that best. Bound together by a horrible tragedy from their pasts, they forged a friendship that has lasted through high school. In a town full of weekenders, they all know what its like to be dead enders, fated to stay trapped in a tourist destination for the rest of their lives.
163) Where there's smoke
Author
Series
Alayna Curry volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Kill your secrets . . . Volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter Alayna Curry used to pride herself on saving lives. But now, determined to conceal her part in an arson-for-insurance scam gone bad, she's using her skills to have the scheme's leader, Tim--her ex-lover--shot dead, claiming it was a robbery. She's carefully set him up to be the ultimate fall guy. And she's ruthlessly aiming to silence more witnesses--which will also get her beloved brother...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Sheriff Serenity Adams and Daniel Bachman are once again partnered up in a criminal investigation, when they travel to a northern Amish settlement that has been riddled by arsons for the past two decades. Serenity quickly discovers that there is a lot more going on than barn burnings in the touristy community of Poplar Springs. This group of Amish has their own secrets to hide. Serenity begins to unravel an extensive criminal underworld that threatens...
165) Black Moon Inn
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Burnt offering - Feared by vampires as "The Executioner," Anita Blake finds herself not only sharing a bed with Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of the City, but also defending St. Louis's vampire-owned businesses from an arsonist.
Blue moon- It's up to Anita to prove Richard's innocence when he is jailed on assault charges, but in doing so she pits herself against corrupt cops and the Master Vampire, Jean-Claude, who threatens her and her friends....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha district, he cannot escape its image. In the novel's soaring climax, he tries...
167) Fire in the Night
Author
Series
Lancaster burning volume 1
Formats
Description
The Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beiler's barn was the first to go. The clues are sparse, but Levi, the Beiler's oldest son, happened to be awake in the middle of the night and spotted a white vehicle driving past the house with its lights off. Sarah, David and Malinda's daughter, is in her late teens and old enough to observe her parents' agony. Not only is she afraid, too, and wishing she could...
Author
Series
Inspector Banks volume 14
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A blistering tale of murder and betrayal that is as frightening, devastating, and hypnotic as flame itself.
169) Death under glass
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"While Georgia has come to love her new hometown, her stained glass windows haven't exactly been raking in the dough. So when her best friend, Carrie, offers her the opportunity to create a made-to-order window for Wenwood's latest bed and breakfast, Georgia jumps at the chance. But when Carrie's ex-husband's office suddenly burns to the ground and Carrie's own office and apartment are robbed, Georgia has to put down her glass and cutter to get to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
When the recreation center burns down in the Arctic Alaskan town of Chukchi, killing eight people, including the town's basketball star and the police chief, it looks like arson. Did someone want Chief Silver dead, or could a jealous ex-boyfriend be responsible. State Trooper Nathan Active is a native of Chukchi, but adopted and raised in anchorage and is considered as almost white by the Inupiat residents, and the pressure is on him and his fellow...
Author
Series
Department Q volume 3
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Morck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.
172) Watch you burn
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Jenny, seventeen, moves to small-town New Mexico with her father after police nearly discover she is an arsonist but her urge to start fires persists, and she konws she is being watched.
173) Night on fire
Author
Series
Kevin Corvelli novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"Kevin Corvelli--a hot shot New York defense attorney who packed up his bags and hung his shingle in Hawaii to dodge the spotlight--is deep in his Mai Tais at a resort when an argument erupts down the bar. It's a pair of newlyweds, married that day. And since Corvelli doesn't do divorces, he all but dismisses the argument. That's at least until the fire breaks out later that night, and he barely escapes his hotel room. Most weren't so lucky, including...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 131
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While doing a favor for her father in Bear Hollow, Indiana, Nancy tries to help a new friend find the reasons someone is trying to ruin her family. A long lost family secret and an inherited fiddle seem to hide clues to a secret fortune.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue-collar...
176) Burnt offerings
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Series
Formats
Description
Anita Blake, the woman that the vampires call the Executioner, shares a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over town -- an arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. It's the monsters who are in danger now, and it's up to the Executioner to save them from the inferno.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
After a fire in an empty warehouse damages the historic Blue Hill Theater, Anne is shocked to learn that her son, Ben, was seen in the area and is suspected of being involved. Alex hires a woman to help him with the cleanup of the fire's aftermath while he tackles the repair and renovation of the damaged theater, but someone keeps vandalizing the work site. Who would want to prevent the theater from being restored? Can Anne prove her son had nothing...
180) The witnesses
Author
Series
Lancaster burning volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Fires have destroyed two more nearby Amish barns, and many of the farmers are ready to ask for police protection, an unheard of action. Davey Beiler, the leader of the local Amish community, counsels against this, but then his beloved daughter, Sarah, is caught in the flames and severely injured"--
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