Tarshis, Lauren.
Summary: Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TARUhlberg, Myron.
Summary: When flood waters from broken levees submerge their New Orleans neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a young cornet player and his parents evacuate their home and struggle to survive and stay together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Envi Issues Uhlberg 2011Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy and his dog become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PHIUhlberg, Myron.
Summary: When flood waters submerge their New Orleans neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a young cornet player and his parents evacuate their home and struggle to survive and stay together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Li'l T and his family face great losses caused by Hurricane Katrina, including leaving Buddy, their very special, three-legged dog, behind when they must evacuate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HERLamana, Julie T.
Summary: At the end of August 2005, ten-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAMMessner, Kate
Summary: When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESDowns, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWBabst, C. Morgan
Summary: "When a fragile young woman refuses to leave New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, her parents are forced to go without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and their daughter catatonic, the victim or perpetrator of some unknown violent act"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABBurke, James Lee
Summary: Former cop Dave Robicheaux has lived through too much inner turmoil and seen too much of man's dark side to believe that there are any surprises left for him in this world. But the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina seems to make a wreck of his soul even as it pummels New Orleans. In the aftermath, two black men are murdered in the ninth ward--and Robicheaux refuses to allow another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BURDunbar, Anthony P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NewSouth Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNNeubecker, Robert
Summary: When a terrible storm hits the Gulf Coast, Bubba the bass boat, Bennie the airboat, and Sal the speedboat are called upon to help rescue people and animals. Inspired by the true story of rescues during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Includes facts about hurricanes and the Cajun Navy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NEUWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARJames, Chantal
Summary: ""None but the righteous" is a southern gothic fever dream, a voodoo-laced journey through the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Set adrift when his hometown of New Orleans is ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, Ham struggles for belonging between the Atlanta home ofa childhood friend and the rural Alabama home of the mother of his child. As he reckons with his impending fatherhood, Ham navigates his new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMPhelan, James.
Summary: It's 2005, and Walker has just entered the CIA. After a distinguished ten-years within Air Force special ops, he's re-upped to avoid a desk job. But his first job will move the front line far closer to home - his first mission is stateside. New Orleans, pre Katrina. Walker is sent on a mission by Harold Richter, CIA field operations legend and trainer of agents provocateur. The task he sends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHEWard, Jesmyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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Summary: The story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans. In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Zapata 2020Wagner, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WagneTarshis, Lauren
Summary: Historical fiction. When disaster strikes, heroes are made. New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in the thrilling I SURVIVED series In this collection, witness unforgettable kids who, against all odds, survived sinking ships, shark attacks, the most destructive hurricane to hit North America, and the bombing that launched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TARGran, Sara.
Summary: Augmenting her brilliant deductive skills with dream analysis, marijuana, and the written work of a mysterious French detective, private investigator Claire DeWitt reluctantly returns to post-Katrina New Orleans to solve the disappearance of an unpopularprosecutor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAKoontz, 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