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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Jack is an intern for the university's flood study. Transcribing interviews with people who live along a threatened and threatening river, he listens to their answers to questions about environmental change and their emotional investment in the waterway.
Lately, Jack has questions for Cynthia. They've become close, reuniting years after high school, but now she's distancing herself again, sinking into depression. Her parents have noticed, too,...
Lately, Jack has questions for Cynthia. They've become close, reuniting years after high school, but now she's distancing herself again, sinking into depression. Her parents have noticed, too,...
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Language
English
Description
Struggling to care for her sick father and raise her teenage children alone, a divorced mother spends the weekend at a North Carolina inn, only to meet a former surgeon running from his past.
Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite,...
Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite,...
3) Miracle
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Language
English
Description
It is New Year’s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm’s wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife’s death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it...
4) Brainstorm!
Author
Language
English
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Description
A child, struggling with what to write about, is swept up in a whirlwind of words, pictures, and ideas, until she finds herself caught in a downpour of her own creativity. Includes writing prompts and glossary.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Larry does not like it when his loud, flashy grandmother comes to visit, especially when she talks about taking him to Tanzania or the South Seas one day, but after a huge summer storm damages their home and valley, he sees another side of Grammy Lamby.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
“Reacher gets better and better. . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child’s electrifying Reacher books.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby...
“Reacher gets better and better. . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child’s electrifying Reacher books.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs. It's supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth can't shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? Something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it. Indeed, there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter...
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Language
English
Description
When the Coastline Killer, a vigilante who's been targeting random victims because they don't respect the environment, claims another victim, the local police consider Jay Macklin--a tourist staying at a remote northern California cottage with his paramedic wife--a suspect.
11) Desperate creed
Author
Series
Ryder Creed novels volume 5
Publisher
Prairie Wind Publishing
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author, Alex Kava pulls readers into the middle of the storm and has them gasping for air even as they turn the next page. A trailblazer in the K9 mystery genre, Kava creates a "dynamic between Ryder and his canines that reveals a world rarely shared in fiction and perhaps nowhere presented more effectively than in this series." —Phil Jason, Florida Weekly
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...12) Adrift
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this metaphor for the global pandemic and the power of community, a mouse in a small boat finds comfort and strength during a storm when he sees another boat and is joined by others, close enough to see each other, but not close enough to crash.
13) Tricky business
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Language
English
Description
The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more money.
In the middle of a tropical storm one night, these characters are among the passengers it carries: Fay Benton, a single mom and cocktail waitress desperate for something to go right for once; Johnny and the Contusions,...
In the middle of a tropical storm one night, these characters are among the passengers it carries: Fay Benton, a single mom and cocktail waitress desperate for something to go right for once; Johnny and the Contusions,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"A scenic holiday season in the idyllic Cornish coastal village of Mount Polbearne finds Polly busily keeping up with demands for gingerbread and other festive fare at her bakery, only to find herself teaming up with her neighbors to safeguard everyone from a dangerous storm that cuts them off from the mainland." --
Author
Publisher
Minedition/A Maria Russo Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: No one knew where the strange storm came from, or why it lasted so long. The family at the center of this timely story has to hunker down together, with no going outside - and that's hard when there's absolutely nothing to do, and everyone's getting on everyone else's nerves. One night, when the storm takes a scary turn that leaves them all in the dark, the fractured family finds a way to reconnect and face whatever the future...
Author
Series
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
A tender, beautifully illustrated story that captures the true heart of friendship. Mila, the seal, has found a special rock in the middle of the sea. One day, after a funny accident, she meets Charlie the seagull. The two become friends and together they share precious time on the rock until Charlie has to leave with his family. What will become of Mila and what will become of their friendship?
18) Island of time
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 115
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"You have spent your whole life hiking and exploring an island in Lake Champlain, not far from your home. One weekend, you and your friend Jayme decide to make a trip out to the island. Her anxieties about the weather grow more realistic and you lose control of the Zodiac, your boat...The storm has brought a lot of strange things with it--the moment you step ashore, you and Jayme feel it. You don't know how, but you're certain the island has taken...
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 78
Publisher
Maverick Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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