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41) Crawl
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person's paradise can be another's prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez's family...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a Category Five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast, but it's also peak hurricane season. When a hurricane threatens, an eclectic group of evacuees flees to the farm of their friends Grace and Charles Phillips in North Carolina. The group includes the Phillips's daughter Moira, equestrian Javier Angel de la Cruz, makeup artist Hannah McLean, horse breeder Gerda Klug and her daughter Elise, and island resident Cara Rutledge. During one of the...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a group of rich 20-somethings get stuck at a remote family mansion during a hurricane, a party game ends with a dead body on the ground and fingers pointed everywhere. As they try to find the killer among them, fake friends and real enemies have to learn who to trust—and how to survive—in this fresh and funny Gen-Z meltdown.
51) Nature's fury
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Discover the devastating powers of tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and other earth-shattering forces of nature. Looks at the power and unpredictability of natural disasters: earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods.
52) Depart, depart!
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Language
English
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Description
"When an unprecedented hurricane destroys Houston, Noah finds shelter in the Dallas Maverick's basketball stadium. To make matters worse, he keeps seeing visions of his great-grandfather Abe at the age Abe was when he fled Nazi Germany inside a duffel bag. Noah doesn't know if he's haunted or hallucinating, but the visions keep saving his life and lead him to a found family of other queer refugees. But as tensions mount in the stadium, Noah fears...
Author
Series
I survived volume 21
Language
English
Description
More than a century later, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is still America's deadliest disaster. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the horrible event churns with page-turning action and bold hope.
The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat...
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Language
English
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In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets, many of whom suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying...
Author
Series
Savage (Tom Sniegoski) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Sidney and her friends might have survived the storm that came to the small island of Benediction, but now the storm has reached Boston, and the city isn't prepared for what's coming in this sequel to the "unpredictable" (VOYA) and "fast-paced" (School Library Journal) Savage from New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski. The horrors that began in Savage continue in Boston as Sydney and her friends work to protect the city from the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a hurricane gathered in the Caribbean, blue skies covered Galveston, Texas. Scientists knew a storm was coming. But none of them were able to prepare Galveston for the force of the hurricane that hit on September 8, 1900. The water from the storm surge pulled houses off their foundations, and the winds toppled telephone poles and trees like toothpicks. And amid the chaos, Galveston's residents did all they could to rescue one another. From the...
58) Savage
Author
Series
Savage (Tom Sniegoski) volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sidney and her friends must race to find the origin of a storm that has hit their small island home turning every animal into savage weapons"--
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Language
English
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Description
On the night of September 21, 1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color in the sky, it was too late to escape. In an age before warning systems and the ubiquity of television, this unprecedented storm caught the Northeast off guard, obliterated coastal communities, and killed seven hundred people. The Great Hurricane: 1938...
Author
Series
I survived volume 21
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
More than a century later, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is still America's deadliest disaster. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the horrible event churns with page-turning action and bold hope. The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat...
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