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62) Cry wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sebastiano Cangio is loving his dream job as a ranger in the stunning Sybillines national park in mystical Umbria. Then the first body is found. Recognizing the hallmarks of a mafia killing and determined to stop Umbria being destroyed by organized crime, Cangio is pitted against a trail of bodies, greed and corruption that leads right to the top.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Matthew J. Davenport's The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death...
65) Earthquake!
Author
Series
Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 12
Left Behind. The kids volume 12
Left behind the kids volume 12
Left Behind. The kids volume 12
Left behind the kids volume 12
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When the great earthquake called "the wrath of the Lamb" strikes, the members of the Young Trib Force are separated, with some of them in custody, and they must rely on their Christian faith to help them survive the disaster.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where 15-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who's become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their...
67) The quake
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Norwegian
Description
In 1904 an earthquake shook Oslo. Its epicenter was in the Oslo Rift which runs directly through the Norwegian capital. There are recorded quakes from the rift on a daily basis and geologists cannot be sure, but arguments indicate that people can expect major future earthquakes in this area.
68) Mi ciudad sings
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
After experiencing a devastating earthquake, the spirit of a charming and vibrant Mexican neighborhood might be shaken, but it cannot be broken. As a little girl and her dog embark on their daily walk through the city, they skip and spin to the familiar sounds of revving cars, clanking bikes, friendly barks, and whistling camote carts. But what they aren't expecting to hear is the terrifying sound of a rumbling earthquake...and then...silence.
69) Under fire
Author
Series
Elite force volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Rachel Flores' tumultuous relationship with Major Liam McCabe ended abruptly, she refocuses her energy onto her career. She plans to forget Liam and live a peaceful life supplying therapy dogs for recovering military vets-until a patient reveals a traitorous plot within the epicenter of military intelligence. Rachel finds herself ensnared within a web of danger, and only one man can help her ...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 24
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is called zero point energy, and it really exists--a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however--until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Junior tells of the games he played in his mind during the eight days he was trapped in his house after the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Includes author's note about Haitian children before the earthquake and her own children's reactions to the disaster.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Hannah Steele loves living on Pelling, a tiny island near Seattle. It's a little disconnected from the outside world, but she's always felt completely safe there. Which is why when she's asked one day to babysit after school, she thinks it's no big deal. Zoe and Oscar are her next-door neighbors, and Hannah just took a babysitting class that she's pretty sure makes her an expert. She isn't even worried that she left her inhaler at home. Then the shaking...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was overcome by the violent shocks of an enormous earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. The tremors and rumbling, affecting a swathe of California more than two hundred miles long, triggered a vast firestorm in the city, effectively destroying the gold rush capital that had stood there for half a century. Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary...
Publisher
U. S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"A documentary showing the century of progress that science and engineering have made since the 1906 Earthquake. The San Andreas Fault and quakes in general are demystified by a diverse team of experts. Historical recreations, hundred-year-old film footage, and stunning still photographs convey the extent of destruction and the human response to this colossal event. The program features 3D animations, cutting edge research and expert interviews...
77) Earthquakes
Series
Publisher
Discovery School
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Scientists discuss how earthquakes are forecast. Examines the causes of earthquakes, covering: plate tectonics, waves, vibrations, and faults.
78) 1906: a novel
Author
Publisher
Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
79) A world below
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Mr. Baker's eighth grade class thought they were in for a normal field trip to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, but their journey takes a terrifying turn when an earthquake hits and the students are plunged into a frigid underground lake, forcing them to fight for survival and find their way back above ground.
80) Wildfire run
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
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