Natural Disasters
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How to Survive Against the Odds: Tales and Tips for Animal Attacks and Natural Disasters
$26.00 Add to cartInspired by Wondery’s hit podcast, How to Survive Against the Odds takes you inside the stories of everyday people confronted by life-or-death situations and shows you how to survive nature’s most ext
- Author: Wondery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63387166
- Language: English
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Why Dinosaurs Matter
$24.99 Add to cartWhat can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.
By tapping into t- Series: Ted Books
- Author: Lacovara, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1501120107
- Language: English
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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next
$31.00 Add to cartThis informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hurricane… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1469666308
- Language: English
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
$23.95 Add to cart“Beyond Katrina” is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Trethewey’s
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 082034902X
- Language: English
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Eyewitness Natural Disasters
$16.99 Read moreDiscover the awesome power of nature in this visual guide to the dynamic natural phenomena across our planet.
Become an eyewitness to the weird and wonderful ways of our world, from tsunamis to tornad- Series: DK Eyewitness
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 074405639X
- Language: English
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Escaping the Giant Wave
$7.99 Add to cartWhen an earthquake hits on their family vacation, can Kyle and his sister survive the following tsunami?
The Worst Vacation Ever Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast- Author: Kehret, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689852738
- Language: English
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Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
$19.00 Add to cartCritically acclaimed science journalist, Mark Buchanan tells the fascinating story of the discovery that there is a natural structure of instability woven into the fabric of our world, which explains … [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0609809989
- Language: English
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Basher Science Mini: Extreme Weather: It’s Really Wild!
$8.99 Read moreThings are heating up, but not in a good way! Every year, millions of people across the globe find themselves at the mercy of Heat Wave, Drought, or Flood–they’re friends of Climate Change, who is wr
- Series: Basher Science Mini
- Author: Basher, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0753478897
- Language: English
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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
$24.95 Add to cartColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel’s black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were just a few of the s… [more below]
- Author: Menninger, Bonar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934572497
- Language: English
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River of Fire: Conflict and Survival on the Seal River
$18.00 Add to cartNew York’s Men’s Journal Magazine hired a studio photographer from Brooklyn, a post-master/writer from Thermond West Virginia and two Canadian river guides to paddle one of the country’s most dangerou
- Author: Wilson, Hap
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: December 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0995823537
- Language: English
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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Extreme Weather: Surviving Tornadoes, Sandstorms, Hailstorms, Blizzards, Hurricanes, and More!
$12.99 Read moreRecord heat. Record storms. Record drought, snow, rain, and ocean levels. What’s going on? In a world of crazy weather exacerbated by climate change, knowing about tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, der… [more below]
- Series: National Geographic Kids
- Author: Kostigen, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1426318111
- Language: English
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Paradise Found: A High School Football Team’s Rise from the Ashes
$28.99 Read more“Friday Night Lights meets Unbroken.” –Tony Reali “One of the most profound stories you will ever read.” –Ian O’Connor “Plaschke delivers a masterpiece.” –Jeff Pearlman
From L.A. Times columnist and
- Author: Plaschke, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0063014513
- Language: English
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America’s Most Select Airborne Firefighters
$18.99 Add to cartA Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association bestseller
“A fascinating look” (Esquire) inside the world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of
- Author: Ramos, Jason A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0062319639
- Language: English
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Deadly Natural Disasters
$9.99 Read moreA massive tsunami slams into a tourist’s train. A violent volcanic eruption overwhelms a hiker with hot ash and gases. A raging wildfire forces a family to flee without their beloved animals. These de… [more below]
- Series: True Survival Graphics
- Author: Foxe, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 166905893X
- Language: English
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Wildfires
$8.99 Read moreSmoke in the air. Crackling wood. Wildfire! Get to safety, fast. Dry weather, strong winds, and careless actions can all cause forests to burn. Firefighters battle wildfires from the ground and from a… [more below]
- Series: Wild Earth Science
- Author: Jaycox, Jaclyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666327557
- Language: English
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In Search of the Mount Cleveland Five: The Aftermath of Montana’s Worst Mountaineering Tragedy on Glacier Park’s Highest Mountain
$23.95 Read moreTwo days after Christmas in 1969, five young, forward-thinking mountaineers set out to climb Mount Cleveland, the highest peak in Glacier National Park. They were never seen alive again. The Mount Cle… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Terry G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1591522927
- Language: English
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The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
$21.00 Add to cartLike Winchester’s Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel c- Author: Klingaman, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042755
- Language: English
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Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place
$15.95 Read more“Pam Houston and Amy Irvine bring rivers and mountains and valleys onto the page and into your heart, reminding you how you are still part of a body that matters… This book is fierce love in motion.
- Author: Irvine, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1948814382
- Language: English
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
$18.95 Read moreWeaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, … [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1631499068
- Language: English
