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61) Geostorm
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong. The system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything...and everyone...along with it" --
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This is the fully revised and updated edition of the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present day. By examining many of the sinkings in considerable detail, analysing what went wrong and describing attempts made to rescue the crew and vessel, Edwyn Gray traces the development of the submarine.
63) Floods
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English
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Describes floods, how they occur, and the damage they cause.
65) Hurricanes
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English
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Describes hurricanes, how they occur, and the damage they cause.
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English
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Man's struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world's most exciting stories. Now, in the tradition of Moby Dick comes a New York Times best-seller destined to become a modern classic. Written by journalist Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm combines an intimate portrait of a small fishing crew with fascinating scientific data about boats and weather systems. In late October, North Atlantic seas are unpredictable. Still, one...
67) The purple cloud
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When he returns from his expedition to the Arctic, Adam Jeffson realizes that he is the sole survivor after a poisonous cloud has killed of every other creature on earth. As he journey's across the world, he sinks further and further into madness.
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English
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"It may seem unbearable to consider living in a world without television, video games, computers, or smartphones, but all these devices require power. What would happen if electricity could no longer be produced? It's time to start planning for this possibility. This ingenious guide walks readers off the grid and instructs about how to maintain a power-free lifestyle. Besides learning how to solve problems for a long-term, worldwide emergency event,...
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"New York. Athens. Boston. Tohoku. Newtown. Oslo. West. Wenzhou. New Orleans. Dhaka. Moore. Nairobi. These communities are just a few among the many that have been hit hard by one of the "wicked problems" of today's world: natural catastrophe, disease and contagion, systems or social collapse. If you haven't been directly touched by one of these disruptions yourself, you are sure to have been affected by them in some way. They harm people, destabilize...
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English
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When the entire technological infrastructure of the 21st-century quits working, the privileged but clueless Altman family struggles to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors and well-mannered looting as they try to figure out what is going on.
72) Tsunamis
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English
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Describes tsunamis, how they occur, and the damage they cause.
73) Hard rain
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver. When Annie's search turns up a different victim-shot...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family...
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English
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The author "wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version -- the real or the virtual -- is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration...
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English
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Forty years ago, during the height of the Cold War, a U.S. submarine sank under mysterious circumstances with a loss of ninety-nine lives. Now, drawing on exclusive interviews and newly declassified U.S. and Soviet intelligence files, Sewell and Preisler explain what really happened to the Scorpion, and why the truth has been officially denied for forty years. In March 1968, a Soviet sub mysteriously sank near Hawaii, hundreds of miles from its normal...
78) Ice storms
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English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to ice storms. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
79) The long Mars
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Series
Long Earth ; 3
Language
English
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"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration.""--
80) Floods
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English
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"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. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
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