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The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors

A Novel

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Pub Date Apr 13 2010 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012

The Crown Publishing Group | Shaye Areheart Books

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On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1977, Becca Burke, flame-haireddaughter of Mary and Rowan Burke, was struck by lightning. She was eight years old. Noone believed her, even when her Winnie-the-Pooh watch kept losing time and a spookyhalo of light appeared over her head in every photograph taken after the strike. She was hitagain when she was 16. Becca survived, but over time she would learn that outsmartinglightning was the least of her concerns.

Buckley R. Pitank never knew his real father, but his mother was the love of his life--until the day she was struck and killed by lightning on a boat in Galveston, Texas, just asthey were making a new home far away from their troubled past. Reeling from the loss ofthe one person who truly understood him, Buckley returns to Mont Blanc, Arkansas, tolive at the mercy of his mother's estranged husband, the Reverend John Whitehouse.When he finally escapes, Buckley's quest to understand the power of lightning will leadhim around the country and into the heart of a young woman who once thought she wasalone in the world.

On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1977, Becca Burke, flame-haireddaughter of Mary and Rowan Burke, was struck by lightning. She was eight years old. Noone believed her, even when her...

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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9780307464477
PRICE 24.00
PAGES 384

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