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South of nowhere / by Deaver, Jeffery,author.;
"A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Colter Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive. But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of a secret conspirer"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Shaw, Colter (Fictitious character); Disasters; Levees; Missing persons; Missing persons; Sabotage; Siblings;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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South of nowhere [text (large print)] / by Deaver, Jeffery,author.;
"A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Colter Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive. But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of a secret conspirer"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Shaw, Colter (Fictitious character); Disasters; Levees; Missing persons; Missing persons; Sabotage; Siblings;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Hard rain / by Allen, Samantha Jayne,author.;
"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 dead, not drowned-Annie questions if the hero they seek is actually a killer. Flexing her new skills while relying on the wisdom of her eccentric, ex-cop grandfather, the case leads Annie into a web of drug dealers, preachers, and wayward drifters trying to make sense of life after a disaster. Annie's own convictions are put to the ultimate test as long-held secrets, corruption, and violence are exposed like the ruin that lies beneath receding waters"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Corruption; Floods; Murder; Natural disasters; Private investigators; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hurricanes and tornadoes / by Jennings, Terry J.;
Looks at how and why hurricanes and tornadoes occur, and what can be done to prevent them or to lessen their effect.
Subjects: Hurricanes; Tornadoes;
© c2000., Thameside Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Once a warrior : how one veteran found a new mission closer to home / by Wood, Jake,1983-author.;
"The powerful story of one Marine who found healing and renewed purpose after returning from combat, for himself and tens of thousands of fellow veterans. When Marine sniper Jake Wood came home in 2009 from grueling tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, his country asked yet more of him: to compartmentalize his traumatic memories, put his elite military training on a shelf, and adjust to living outside high-stakes situations. Jake feared he would join the huge population of veterans struggling to reintegrate. Since 2001, more service members have died by suicide than have been killed in Afghanistan. One activity helped Jake and his friend and fellow Marine Clay Hunt find a measure of hope: helping communities after disasters, where their training rendered them unusually effective in high-stakes situations. But as their new organization struggled to get off the ground and the VA tied up Clay's meds in red tape, Clay committed suicide. Reeling, Jake resolved to help as many disaster-affected communities and provide a mission to as many veterans as possible. Over the past 10 years, with no money or experience, he and his team have recruited over 100,000 volunteers to his organization Team Rubicon. It's established a reputation for delivering desperately needed aid faster and better than other organizations hindered by bureaucracy. Racing against the clock, veteran volunteers utilize their military training to untangle complex problems quickly and keep calm under pressure in catastrophic scenarios. What's more, Team Rubicon gives meaningful direction to men and women who need the disaster response work as much as the work needs them. Having a continued purpose--a mission that matters--can be the key to a veteran's successful transition from war to peace"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Wood, Jake, 1983-; United States. Marine Corps; United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 7th. Battalion, 2nd.; Team Rubicon (Organization); Afghan War, 2001-; Disaster relief.; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Marines; Philanthropists; Veterans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The impossible [videorecording] / by Atienza, Belén.; Bayona, J. A.(Juan Antonio); Etura, Marta,1978-; Holland, Tom,1943-; Joslin, Samuel.; McGregor, Ewan,1971-; Pendergast, Oaklee.; Sanchez, Sergio G.; Watts, Naomi,1968-; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Summit Entertainment.;
Music by Fernando Velázquez ; cinematography, Óscar Faura ; edited by Elena Ruiz, Bernat Vilaplana.Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast, Marta Etura.Based on a true story of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage, and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.Winner of 2012 Academy Award for Best actress in a leading role (Naomi Watts)
Subjects: Families; Feature films.; Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004; Natural disasters; Tsunamis; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., Summit Entertainment ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Saltcrop / by Kitasei, Yume,author.;
"From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister - and Earth's environmental salvation. In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother. But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora left home a decade ago in pursuit of a cure for failing crops all over the world. When Skipper and her other sister, Carmen, receive a cryptic plea for help, they must put aside their differences and set out across the sea to find-and save-her. As they voyage through a dying world both beautiful and strange, encountering other travelers along the way, they learn more about their sister's work and the corporations that want what she discovered. But the farther they go, the more uncertain their mission becomes: What dangerous attention did Nora attract, and how well do they really know their sister-or each other? Thus begins an epic journey spanning oceans and continents and a wistful rumination on sisterhood, friendship, and ecological disaster"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Apocalyptic fiction.; Novels.; Environmental disasters; Missing persons; Quests (Expeditions); Sisters; Sea level; Sailing; Survival;
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Star wars. [graphic novel] / by Soule, Charles,author.; Cowles, Clayton,letterer.; Di Vito, Andrea,illustrator.; Genolet, Andrés,illustrator.; Musabekov, Madibek,illustrator.; Rosenberg, Rachelle,colourist.;
With the discovery that the Empire is building a second Death Star, disaster looms for the Rebel Alliance!T.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Science fiction comics.; Organa, Leia (Fictitious character); Skywalker, Luke (Fictitious character); Jedi (Fictitious characters); Space warfare;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All that is solid melts into air / by McKeon, Darragh,1979-;
Includes bibliographical references.A story about the lives of everyday ordinary people in Ukraine trying to survive after Chornobyl as the Soviet Union struggles to deal with a disaster of this proportion.LSC
Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986; Nuclear accidents; Environmental disasters;
© c2014., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Incredible space missions / by Jeffrey, Gary; Lacey, Mike;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index.Space race -- Early space technology -- The first spacewalk -- Apollo 11: the moon landing -- Apollo 13: disaster in space -- Shuttles and the ISS.
Subjects: Astronautics;
© 2008., Rosen Central,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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