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1) One by one
Author
Language
English
Description
"Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet doesn't sound like the worst problem in the world, especially with others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight of your coworkers ... each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide. When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech startup, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. Then...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
Author
Series
Sigma Force volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"An international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet"--
5) Tsunamis
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind tsunamis, including where and why tsunamis happen and how to stay safe when the wave heads for shore. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
6) Floods
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs help early fluent readers understand how floods form, the damage they can cause, and how to stay safe in one.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
True accounts of major disasters in Pennsylvania history are retold in this engagingly written collection. From the Johnstown floods of 1889 to the heroic actions on United Flight 193 on 9/11, Pennsylvania has been home to some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each story reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived and the heroism...
Author
Publisher
[Stacy Galloway]
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Ural mountains of the Soviet Union in January of 1959 nine hikers set out on a winter excursion. In February a search party finds their bodies: some are burned; some have crushed ribs; some are missing their eyes and one is missing her tongue. This book explores the question of what happened to these experienced hikers and why they left their warm shelter to venture half-clothed into the freezing Siberian winter.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everybody reads Danielle Steel! Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a powerful and dramatic novel that once again confirms her reputation as America's favorite storyteller"--
"A 38-year-old American interior designer based in London and her independent-minded 74-year-old architect mother; a British investment banker in New York to see his ex-wife and young children; a resident ER doctor who experienced Hurricane Sandy when...
13) 7th sigma
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the desert Southwest, Kimble Monroe and others fight for their lives against the "bugs," self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines.
15) The noise
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse..."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
76 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the work of volcanologists Andy Lockhart, John Pallister and their team describes their life-risking efforts to investigate dangerous volcanoes that pose threats to more than one billion people worldwide.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
What Stands in a Storm tells the story of the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in the history of recorded weather on April 11, 2011.
Author
Publisher
Apollo Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
349 p.
Language
English
Description
On September 11, 2001, high school senior Lila Nordstrom watched from her classroom's window as the Twin Towers, mere blocks away, fell. Weeks later, at the urging of local officials and assurance from the EPA, Lila and her three thousand classmates were returned to their school; even though the air was thick with toxic debris, dust, and smoke.
In this remarkable, empowering memoir, Lila shares how the illnesses and deaths of her classmates related...