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Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie.It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims.The novel follows the Pasha family: twin siblings Aneeka and Parvaiz and their older sister Isma, who has raised them in the years since the death of their mother; their jihadi father, whom the twins never knew, is also dead.
The book covers the lives of the Gordons, an American family with many familiar experiences and struggles, including a move from the city to the suburbs, and four rebellious children. One of the grown children, Susan Gordon Lydon, wrote her own memoir in parallel, published the next year: Take The Long Way Home: Memoirs Of A Survivor. [2]
Fire is an ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2010) and a Cybils Awards winner (in the young adult fantasy/scifi category). [2] It was also awarded: Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of 2009 [3] Washington Post Best Kid's Book of The Year [4] Seattle Times Best YA Book of 2009 [5] School Library Journal Best Books of 2009 [6]
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The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [1] [2] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to A Column of Fire.The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth.
According to Book Marks, the book received "rave" reviews based on seventeen critic reviews with eleven being "rave" and four being "positive" and two being "mixed". [4] On Bookmarks November/December 2017 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews. [5] [6]
Every home cook should have a working, non-expired fire extinguisher, but many of us aren't super confident when it comes to actually using one. Fire blankets aim to make putting out small fires ...
A California couple watched the Eaton Fire destroy their beloved home of 40 years “in the blink of an eye” through a doorbell camera as they fled with just a few cherished items and their dogs.