Summary: The Super Outbreak of 1974 was the most intense tornado outbreak on record, tearing a vicious path of destruction across thirteen states, generating 148 tornadoes from Alabama to Ontario, damaging thousands of homes, and killing more than 300 people. Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying the outbreak's aftermath in the most extensive aerial tornado study ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Discusses the mysterious sinking of the U.S. submarine USS Scorpion near Hawaii in 1968, involving the sinking of a Soviet sub months earlier, secret codes confiscated from a U.S. intelligence ships by North Korea, and a government cover-up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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Summary: A former Marine describes his efforts to prepare himself for extreme disaster scenarios, from learning emergency medicine and wilderness survival skills to navigating clogged evacuation routes and mastering a variety of defensive weapons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2012
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Summary: Explores the phenomenon through which people become resourceful and altruistic after a disaster and communities reflect a shared sense of purpose, analyzing events ranging from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Hurricane Katrina.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SOLGoldsmith, Kenneth.
Summary: "What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the series of Andy Warhol paintings by the same name,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811.54 GOLBruns, Roger.
Summary: Collects speeches, memos, and other documents written for the possibility of failure in wars and foreign relations throughout American history, left unsaid and unpublished due to turn of events and sudden changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.91 HILForstchen, William R.
Summary: A post-apocalyptic, dire and frightening all-too-possible future for humankind. When an Electro-Magnetic Pulse weapon sends the United States into chaotic ruin, one man battles to save his family and their small North Carolina town.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF FORTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: Survivors of a supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park must rise from the ashes of the apocalyptic catastrophe to continue civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2011
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Contents: Head candy -- How to use this book -- Flashback : grooving to that feeling of impending doom -- What is urban and suburban survival? -- The foundation of your self-reliance--and trust -- Predator vs. prey : a clue into your survival psychology -- You are what you eat, and think, feel, speak, act, and focus your attention upon -- Gettin' hammered by stress and fear -- The art of creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Smith, Publisher 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 LUNTurtledove, Harry
Summary: In the aftermath of the supervolcano's eruption in Yellowstone Park, North America is covered in ash. Farmlands cannot produce food. Machinery has been rendered useless. Cities are no longer habitable. And the climate across the globe grows colder every day. Former police officer Colin Ferguson's family is spread across the United States, separated by the catastrophe, and struggling to survive...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: Survivors of a supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park must rise from the ashes of the apocalyptic catastrophe to continue civilization.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURJohnson, Stephen P. (Stephen Paul)
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.93834 JOHWilliams, Geoffrey
Summary: The incredible story of a flood of near-biblical proportions-its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America's natural-disaster policies for the next century. Fourteen states in all, along with every major and minor river east of the Mississippi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 WILTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuary. People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced before the eruption. But supplies are running low....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: A former police officer and his family struggle to survive and reestablish a civilization in the wake of a supervolcano eruption in Yellowstone National Park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2012
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Summary: "A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood--the deadliest flood in U.S. history--from NBC host and legendary weather authority Al Roker. Central Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889: After a deluge of rain--nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours--swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.8 ROKSummary: The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SURSummary: Wake Island: A handful of U.S. Marines holdout against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2011
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Summary: "From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 OSTBraun, Eric
Summary: "The date is April 27, 1865. You are crammed onboard the steamboat Sultana with more than 2,000 passengers. Many of them are soldiers heading home after the Civil War. You're cruising on the Mississippi River when a massive explosion rips through the ship. Do you dive into the water to save yourself or stay onboard to help the survivors? Will you try to swim for shore or wait for help to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRASummary: In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2009
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006