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Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First revised edition, American edition, New edition.
Language
English
Description
Describes the wide range of natural disasters that occur on Earth, including tsunamis, landslides, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, climate change, and infectious diseases.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A global risk expert defends his assertion that disasters are manufactured by people building in the wrong places and in the wrong way and recounts the ways people have fought back against natural disasters, including the development of new predictive technologies,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A journalist and forest-fire expert shares his experiences in some of the world's most dangerous and remote regions to explore the rising phenomenon of large-scale fires, the damage they cause, and how they are being battled by elite firefighters.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"By the world-renowned seismologist, a surprising history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--these all stem from the same forces that give our planet life. It is only when they exceed our ability to withstand them that they become disasters. Viewed together, these events have shaped our cities and their architecture; elevated leaders and...
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Series
Publisher
Hungry Tomato
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Learn more about the destructive force of volcanoes through powerful images and stories. Clear text emphasizes scientific efforts to better understand how to prepare for volcanic eruptions, while appropriately high-impact visuals keep readers engaged"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis...oh my! In the first installment of the Mr. DeMaio Presents! series, YouTube sensation Mr. DeMaio and his crew unearth all the facts for record-breaking natural disasters that have occured on planet Earth ... and even a few in outer space!"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins comes an in-depth look at the world's natural disasters, broken down into four distinct categories: earth, weather, life, and space. From timelines of causes and outcomes of each disaster, graphs highlighting humans' effect on the earth, and a text teeming with fresh, unexpected, and accurate information ready for readers to easily devour, Disasters by the Numbers is unmatched and sure...
8) Savage drift
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp, but Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, may lose hope unless her lost love Niko and his companions Astrid, Dean and Jake can rescue her.
9) Hard rain
Author
Series
Annie McIntyre mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice...
11) Last words
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if the last five people on earth in 2085 found joy and delight? Last Words is a story of astonishing human tenderness and creativity in the face of ecological catastrophe.
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Language
English
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"Milo Connolly has managed to survive most of high school without any major disasters...Even so, all he wants his senior year is to fly under the radar. Everything is going exactly as planned until the dreamy and charismatic Marcos Price saunters back into his life after a three-year absence...To make matters worse strange things have been happening around his sleepy Florida town ever since Marcos' return...Milo and Marcos find themselves faced with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A snowstorm hath no fury like a spinster scorned. Miss Elinora Browning grew up yearning for the handsome, intelligent lord-next-door ... but he left England without a word of farewell. One night, inspired by a bit too much sherry, Nora poured out her heartbreak on paper. Lord Dashwood Missed Out was a love letter to every young lady who'd been overlooked by gentlemen--and an instant bestseller. Now she's on her way to speak in Spindle Cove when...
14) The Long Mars
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...
15) My way to you
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When a wildfire nearly destroys Parker Sinclair's family home, it's just one more disaster to add to her mountain of stress. For the past two years, she has shouldered the responsibility of raising her younger brother and sister after their parents' untimely deaths. Forced to leave college for a crappy job that barely pays the bills, Parker manages her family property, which consumes every aspect of her life. Now winter is coming and the forecast...
16) The kill order
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Before Wicked was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and destroyed the world mankind took for granted. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there's something suspicious about its origin.
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English
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"The Titan Project—an international research station off the coast of Australia—discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion a geological disaster that destabilizes an entire region. Massive quakes, volcanic eruptions, and deadly...
18) Los perseguidos
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano, S.A
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
After surviving the earthquake and tsunami, Shy makes it back to land but he is far from safe because a secret his co-worker, Addie, shared with him is one that people have killed for, and now that Shy knows, he has become a moving target.
19) Wild Florida
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Florida is well-known for its beaches, blue water and year-round sun, but it also has a surprising wild side. It is home to pine forests, coral reefs and the Everglades wetland, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. Here, manatees swim in crystal-clear rivers, baby alligators practice their hunting skills and miniature deer roam free. But every year, this state faces the full forces of nature: from wildfires to flooding to powerful...
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