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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...
2) 2012
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A geophysical team investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth learns that the core of the Earth is heating up and warns the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world. Includes commentary, alternate ending, deleted scenes, featurette, and music video.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
944 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
407 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoning her abusive fianc�e in New York in 1943 to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe, Irene Woodward befriends Dorothy Dunford as they join the Allied soldiers streaming into France after D-Day where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elliot, Alma, Julian, and Jess run for safety but they have to fight for their lives when the train stops so life on Earth may come to an end.
Publisher
Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Waterways Engineering
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 vol. (unpaged) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Includes parameters for an application for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a local disaster that occurred in 2003 involving Church Run that runs through the City of Titusville. Also includes a draft document entitled: "Finding of No Significant Impact" City of Titusville Flood Project Crawford County, Pennsylvania FEMA -1485-DR-PA.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 8 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours, six people, along with their families, friends, and millions of other New Yorkers living around them, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband's worry. The successful interior designer is intent on seeing her lively architect mother and has an important personal appointment...
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...
Author
Publisher
Duopress, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Jos�e Andr�es, an award-winning chef, food activist, and founder of World Central Kitchen, a disaster-relief organization that uses the power of food to nourish communities after catastrophe strikes. When a terrible earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, chef Jos�e Andr�es knew he needed to help. Within a few hours of the disaster, he had gathered friends, they flew to the island, and they began cooking rice and beans for the hungry...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844.
1844. The Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought...
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details the events leading to and following the arrival of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans in 2005.--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A renowned broadcast journalist reports that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be unimaginably devastating and that the United States is shockingly unprepared.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisianaon August 29, 2005journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storms immediate damage, the city of New Orleanss efforts to rebuild itself, and the storms lasting affects not just on the citys geography and infrastructurebut on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nations great cities.
18) The Red Cross
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how the Red Cross provides disaster relief, runs blood drives, and supplies medicine and food to those in need throughout the world.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A former investigative reporter provides an account of the disastrous 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs and interviews.