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The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado

By: Bailey, Holly

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Viking: May 2015

Seller ID: 333508

ISBN: 052542749X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A gripping, heartbreaking and heartwarming account of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. It will leave you emotionally drained but glad you journeyed into the heart of this extraordinary storm with Bailey as your guide. --Daniel James Brown, #1 NY Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat

Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award// Winner of the American Meteorological Society s Louis J. Battan Award

An acclaimed reporter returns to her hometown after the worst twister on record and emerges with a suspenseful story of hu...
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The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea

By: Freeman

Price: $6.50

Publisher: NAL Hardcover: October 2013

Seller ID: 297621

ISBN: 0451465768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS" Bounty," an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic--a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy.
Crewed by an eclectic team of seafarers, the "Bounty" was led by Robin Walbridge, their highly respected captain with decades at the helm, whose decisions--sometimes questionable--decided the fate of his ship and crew.
Departing from Connecticut as the stor...
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A Nation Forsaken: EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe

By: Maloof

Price: $12.50

Publisher: WND Books: January 2013

Seller ID: 159326

ISBN: 1936488566

Condition: Used - Very Good

There have been warnings from scientists and other experts for years that the Nation's electrical grid system and other critical infrastructures that have almost complete dependency on electricity and electronic components are highly vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event either from natural or man-made causes.

However, Congress and the administrations of previous and current presidents largely have ignored those warnings. Events such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States and then the devastating Hurricane Katrina that revealed vulnerabilities t...
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Viking Adult: May 2000

Seller ID: 38290

ISBN: 0670891576

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed--at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port b...
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Movie Tie-in)

By: Philbrick

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 2015

Seller ID: 299353

ISBN: 0143126814

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard.
Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in a film based on this National Book Award-winning account of the true events behind Moby Dick.
In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known docu...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

By: Winchester, Simon

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harper: October 2005

Seller ID: 303954

ISBN: 0060571993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.
In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an en...
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Unshaken: Rising from the Ruins of Haiti's Hotel Montana

By: Woolley, Dan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Zondervan: December 2011

Seller ID: 316127

ISBN: 0310335086

Condition: Used - Very Good

After a last-minute hotel switch, no one, not even Dan Woolley's wife, knew where he was staying when the 7.0 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010. Just moments after walking into the lobby of the Hotel Montana, Woolley watched the walls buckle as the six-story hotel collapsed on top of him. In a harrowing story of survival, he recounts the nearly three days he spent trapped beneath the rubble. He details his survival methods--including using an iPhone app to treat his life-threatening injuries, conversations with strangers buried nearby, letters to his family, and the sma...
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Category: Disasters

The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado

The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea

A Nation Forsaken: EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Movie Tie-in)

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Unshaken: Rising from the Ruins of Haiti's Hotel Montana