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Collection: Adult Fiction
Call Number: F
Author: Shreve, Anita
Title: The Stars are Fire
Remainder of title: a novel
Summary, etc. note: "In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie's two young children, the women watch in horror as their houses go up in flames, then walk into the ocean as a last resort. They spend the night frantically trying to save their children. When dawn comes, they have miraculously survived, but their lives are forever changed: homeless, penniless, and left to face an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists. As Grace awaits news of her husband's fate, she is thrust into a new world in which she must make a life on her own, beginning with absolutely nothing--she must find work, a home, a way to provide for her children. In the midst of devastating loss, Grace discovers glorious new freedoms--joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain--and her spirit soars. And then the unthinkable happens, and Grace's bravery is tested as never before"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780385350907 (hardcover)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us-me
Classification number: PS3569.H7385
Item number: S68 2017
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.54
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: FIC019000
Classification number: FIC014000
Classification number: FIC008000
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Anita Shreve.
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York
Name of publisher: Knopf
Date of publication: 2017
Projected publication date: 1706
: New York :
: Alfred A. Knopf,
: 2017.
Extent: pages ; cm
Other physical details: hardcover
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 4/17/17
Purchase price: 25.95
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: Great Fire, Maine, 1947
Subject: Life change events
Subject: Single mothers
Subject: FICTION / Literary.
Subject: FICTION / Historical.
Subject: FICTION / Sagas.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Source of term: gsafd
Genre/form data or focus term: Domestic fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Historical fiction.
Main entry heading: Shreve, Anita, author.
Main entry heading: Shreve, Anita, author.
Edition: First edition.
Edition: First edition.
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017
Display text: Online version:
Display text: Online version:
Title: Stars are fire
Title: Stars are fire
Record control number: (DLC) 2016051553
Record control number: (DLC) 2016051553
International Standard Book Number: 9780385350914
International Standard Book Number: 9780385350914
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: 1 shelf copy
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: xk15 2016-11-04 (telework)
: xk15 2016-11-04 ONIX (telework) to CIP
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