Natural Disasters
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What Stands in a Storm: A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History
$18.99 Add to cartEnter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller–A Perfect Storm on land–that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-da… [more below]
- Author: Cross, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1476763070
- Language: English
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Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change
$18.95 Add to cartFrom leading climate scientist Dr. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather events–including deadly heat waves, forest fires, floo
- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Otto, Friederike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400744
- Language: English
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The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Janis Thornton reveals the stories of a day in Indiana like no other.
Palm Sunday 1965 started as the nicest day of the year, the kind of weather that encouraged Hoosiers to get out in the sun,
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Thornton, Janis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149977
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0609602330
- Language: English
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The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake
$21.99 Add to cart- Series: Disaster
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119962
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance: The Science and Wonder of Arizona Lightning
$32.99 Add to cart- Author: Holle, Ronald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 3031198786
- Language: English
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Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme We Ather
$24.00 Add to cartAn eye-of-the-hurricane view of storm chasing from the star of the Discovery Channel hit series Storm Chasers.
Only one in ten chases actually intercept a tornado-unless you’re Reed Timmer. The thrill- Author: Timmer, Reed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0451234596
- Language: English
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West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement
$19.95 Add to cartOn September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of creeks and rivers. Floodwaters ripped through the city’s Latino West S… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Char
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349731
- Language: English
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Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine Burned
$17.95 Add to cartIn October 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history. Wildfire Loose describes how the fires started and spread so quickly through rural villages, down Millionaire’s Row in Bar Ha… [more below]
- Author: Butler, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1608932966
- Language: English
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Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
$21.95 Add to cartIn 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… [more below]
- Author: Drye, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493037978
- Language: English
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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
$18.99 Add to cart“Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal, starred review
A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood–the deadliest flood in U.S. history–from NBC h
- Author: Roker, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062445537
- Language: English
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The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes
$30.00 Add to cartBraiding together illustration, observation, and reportage, artist and naturalist Robin Lee Carlson offers a watershed work that will forever change how we live with wildfire in the West.
When the natu… [more below]
- Author: Carlson, Robin Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 159714584X
- Language: English
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Granite Mountain: The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave.
A “unique and bracing” (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona’s disastrous 2013 Yarnel- Author: McDonough, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 031630817X
- Language: English
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Year of the Fire: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
$20.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice in Greenland. The flames ravaged pristine wilderness a… [more below]
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0878425446
- Language: English
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Ten Ohio Disasters: Stories of Tragedy and Courage That Should Not Be Forgotten
$15.95 Read moreTragedy and courage walk hand-in-hand in these gripping true tales from Ohio’s past…
These ten disasters from Ohio’s past are worth remembering for both their tragic lessons and their inspiring exam
- Author: Zurcher, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 149
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1598511254
- Language: English
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Perfect Storm
$45.99 Add to cart“Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he’s thirty feet higher than the men trying to
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 039304016X
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain: California’s Changing Weather and Climate
$29.99 Add to cart- Author: Ladochy, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: September 23 2023
- ISBN10: 303132272X
- Language: English
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A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche
$17.99 Add to cartThis “mesmerizing tale of human courage and heroism” (Nando Parrado, author of Miracle in the Andes) follows the astonishing ordeal of survival during an avalanche in California.
In 1982, at the Alpi- Author: Woodlief, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416546944
- Language: English
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The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast
$19.95 Add to cartThe Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast is the gripping story of the geological discoveries–and the scientists who uncovered them–that signal the imminence of a catastrophic tsunami on the Nort… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0870717324
- Language: English
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Tsunami!: Hawai’i’s Amazing History of the Monster Waves
$14.95 Read more- Author: Dudley, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1949307166
- Language: English
