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Language
English
Description
The day before her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary Sylvia Miller stumbles across the key to the old brass tinderbox her father, Earnest, keeps in his Lancaster County watch repair shop. Inside is a secret from his life as an Englisher; when she confronts him, Earnest admits that he is not fit to be a member of the Hickory Hollow Amish church. He confesses his secret to Rhoda, his wife, and Sylvia, but when word of Earnest's deceit reaches others...
2) Tinderbox
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When her grown son, his wife, and their young son move in with her, successful Manhattan psychologist Myra hires Eva, a Peruvian immigrant newly arrived in New York, as a nanny, and as Eva insinuates herself into the family, the household reaches a disastrous boiling point.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Andersen's classic tale of a brave soldier who finds love and fortune in a magic tinderbox, set in the post-Civil War South. A soldier's fortune is made after he steals a magical tinderbox from a witch: striking it brings three huge dogs to grant their master's wishes. In the edition retold by Moser, the story is set in the post-Civil War Tennessee mountains, and the witch has been replaced by a wily mountain man.
7) Tinderbox
Author
Series
Flashpoint ; 1
Publisher
Rachel Grant
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the volatile tinderbox of the Horn of Africa, Morgan Adler has made the paleoanthropological find of a lifetime. The discovery brings her to the attention of a warlord eager to claim both Morgan and the fossils, forcing her to make a desperate dash to the nearby US military base to beg for protection. Master Sergeant Pax Blanchard has orders to intercept Dr. Adler before she reaches the base, and in so doing saves her life. After a harrowing afternoon...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drawing on more than 750 interviews with key sources, an award-winning journalist captures the drama and comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe, upending our entertainment lives forever."--
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In Tinderbox, India's leading journalist delivers a fascinating narrative history of Pakistan, chronicling the conflict between Muslim and Hindu cultures in South Asia and describing the role that their relationship has played in defining both the country and the region. Editorial director of India Today and editor of the Sunday Guardian, M. J. Akbar gives readers an unprecedented look at Pakistan past and present. Panoramic in scope but specific...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fieseler chronicles the ... 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 ... access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates [a] ... portrait of a closeted, blue-collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and Harvard AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, PhD, recount for the first time how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new genetic discoveries, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best means to fight it today"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Kirkwood has swiftly made a name for herself as one of Britain's leading young playwrights and is widely considered to be the natural successor to the great Caryl Churchill. Kirkwood's plays are infused with a sharp wit and a fierce intelligence, taking an unflinching look at the issues affecting our world today. This collection gathers together five of Kirkwood's plays, including Chimerica, Tinderbox, it felt empty when the heart went at first...