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"Everybody reads Danielle Steel! Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a powerful and dramatic novel that once again confirms her reputation as America's favorite storyteller"--
"A 38-year-old American interior designer based in London and her independent-minded 74-year-old architect mother; a British investment banker in New York to see his ex-wife and young children; a resident ER doctor who experienced Hurricane Sandy when...
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"After losing his family in a tsunami in Brisbane, Australia, former police officer Frank Mercy rescues Ian from a submerged car and takes him home to his Midwestern farm. As the boy exhibits a telepathic gift, Frank and new love Claudia will travel to England to keep him safe from a sinister group who want him back"--
4) Zeitoun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Describes how Abdulrahman Zeitoun remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, his subsequent efforts to help other victims, his disappearance a week later, and the effect of these events on his wife Kathy and their children.
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English
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New York Times best-selling author Douglas Brinkley is widely regarded as one of America's leading historians. In The Great Deluge, Brinkley delivers an eye-opening account of the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
96 pages : chiefly color illustrations, 26 cm
Language
English
Description
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism,...
7) Wave
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously...
8) The Titanic
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Everyone bought into the ultimately fatal myth of her being unsinkable. What makes the Titanic saga so compelling are the private stories of those who embarked on the fateful crossing, many of whom we meet in this gripping drama.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
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[DVD].
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (943 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When all technology and electricity has suddenly and mysteriously blacked out, what's left is a post-apocalyptic landscape inhabited by ruthless paramilitary groups, heroic freedom fighters, and a family struggling to survive. Seen through the eyes of the fiercely determined young woman, Charlie Matheson, it follows a band of rebels including Charlie₂s mother Rachel and Uncle Miles as they face danger in their attempts to overthrow the Militia,...
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HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (4 hr., 17 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The world watched in horror as Hurrican Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Many were shocked, not only by the scale of the disaster, but the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery efforts. Structured into four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans. Tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this...
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