TY - SOUND AU - Shreve,Anita AU - Freeman,Suzanne Elise TI - The stars are fire: a novel SN - 0804147663 PY - 2017///] CY - [New York] PB - Random House Audio KW - Great Fire, Maine, 1947 KW - Fiction KW - Life change events KW - Single mothers KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction KW - Large type books N1 - Title from container; Compact discs; Read by Suzanne Elise Freeman N2 - In October 1947, after a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control from town to village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie's two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort. The women spend the night frantically protecting their children, and in the morning find their lives forever changed: homeless, penniless, awaiting news of their husbands' fate, and left to face an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists ER -