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Asian Americans Civil rights Disaster relief Disaster relief Louisiana New Orleans Disaster victims Louisiana New Orleans Disaster victims Louisiana New Orleans Biography Emergency management Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects Louisiana New Orleans Hurricanes Louisiana New Orleans New Orleans (La.) BiographySummary: "Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COOSummary: Examines the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan. Looks at the lives of some of the refugees from the town of Futaba. Raises questions regarding the future of nuclear power in Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUCRipley, Amanda.
Summary: Nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.935 RIPRipley, Amanda.
Summary: Nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.935 RIPHorne, Jed
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 HORReader's Digest (COR)
Summary: "Alive! is a heart-stopping collection of survival stories from the archives of Reader's Digest's 'Drama in Real Life' series. Readers will be on the edge of their seats as they are drawn into the dramatic tales of everyday people suddenly cast into lifeor death situations. Editors have mined the Reader's Digest archives to bring readers Alive! Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 ALIRose, Chris
Summary: The author, a Pulitzer-winning columnist for the Times-Picayune, chronicles the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his collection of candid essays.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3350 ROSBrown, Don
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976 BROBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: An account of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath and the ongoing crisis confronting the region.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.335 BRILittle, Margaree
Summary: Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Margaree Little was working for a humanitarian mission near Tucson when, along with a group of volunteers, she found the unidentified body of a man, who a medical examiner would later estimate died at least six months before. This discovery serves as the jumping-off point to a stunning, elegiac series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Way Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LITFies, Brian
Summary: "Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.379 FIEBrill, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BRIEggers, Dave.
Summary: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared--arrested and accused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2009
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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Summary: Joshua Clark never left New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, choosing instead to band together with fellow holdouts in the French Quarter, pooling resources and volunteering energy in an effort to save the city they loved. When Katrina hit, Clark, a key correspondent for National Public Radio during the storm, immediately began to record hundreds of hours of conversations with its victims, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 CLADeraniyagala, Sonali.
Summary: A memoir of the author's experiences as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami that killed her parents, husband, and two young sons recounts her struggles with profound grief and survivor's guilt and her gradual steps toward healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DERANIYAGALA, SONALI DERMarkle, Sandra.
Summary: "... shows how people use their brains, as well as their bravery, to rescue people in trouble all over the world"--Front flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.3481 MARMontana-Leblanc, Phyllis.
Summary: Hurricane Katrina survivor LeBlanc--featured in Spike Lee's acclaimed HBO documentary "When the Levees Broke"--offers an astounding and poignant account of her struggle to survive one of the nation's worst disasters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 MONSummary: "This astonishing powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 363.34 TROCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TROKoontz, Robin Michal.
Summary: Presents an accounting of Hurricane Katrina from start to finish, including rescue efforts and survivor stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What KoontzRissman, Rebecca
Summary: In "narrative nonfiction format, this ... book follows a selection of people who experienced the 2011 Japan Tsunami"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.34 RISFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDYoo, Paula
Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur YooCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOGruber, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002