Hunter, Denise
Summary: "After her mother became bedridden and her father bailed on the family, Sophie found herself serving as a second mother to her twin brother, Seth, and younger sister, Jenna. Sophie supported her siblings through their college years, putting aside her own dream of opening a bookshop in Piper's Cove--the quaint North Carolina beach town they frequented as children. Now it's finally time for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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Summary: The accident caused Sophie's dad to walk out of her life, and left her older sister, Meredith, barely able to walk at all. Sophie is trying to keep the family business running, get accepted to veterinary school, and protect her mom and sister from another disaster. But when a hurricane forms off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks and heads right toward their island, Sophie realizes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blink 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION HOYSmith, Roland
Summary: After barely surviving a terrifying hurricane, Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have made it to the safety of Nicole's family farm, which is also the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, where flood waters are rising and dangerous circus animals are on the loose.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SMITarshis, Lauren
Summary: "It's 1900, and Charlie feels lucky to live in Galveston, Texas. Sure, there are storms sometimes. But nobody worries about hurricanes. Even a famous weather expert says it's impossible for a strong hurricane to strike Galveston. Which is why few people worry on the morning of September 8, when a big storm starts to brew. but Charlie watches with growing horror as monster waves rise up from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SMIBrunellière, Lucie
Summary: "A scientific team has boarded the submarine Oceanos to explore the ocean's depths. Suddenly, it gets caught in a violent storm, causing it to drift thousands of miles off-course. From the glittering surface of the sea to the darkness of the abyss, Deep in the Ocean takes readers on a bewitching journey through fascinating waters--some warm, colorful, and crowded with sea creatures, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed, an imprint of ABRAMS 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRUSmith, Roland
Summary: Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMISmith, Roland
Summary: "The president's daughter has been kidnapped by the elusive and lethal Ghost Cell. Quest (Q) and Angela are in hot pursuit with vicious winds and blinding rain thwarting them at every turn. It's a desperate high stakes chase"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMICallender, Kheryn
Summary: Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CALPrusa, Carolyn
Summary: Ramona's got a bratty boss, a toddler teetering through toilet training, a critical mom who doesn't mind sharing, and oops, a cheating husband. That's how a Category Four hurricane bearing down on her life in Savannah becomes just another item on her to-do list. In the next forty-eight hours she'll add a neighborhood child and the class guinea pig named Clarence Thomas to her entourage as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Mira lives in a small island beach town off the coast of New Jersey year-round, and when a devastating superstorm strikes she will face the storm's wrath and the destruction it leaves behind alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KEPSteel, Danielle
Summary: "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 she was a medical student; two young men, 21-year-old NYU students; their friends; and others are thrust together when a major hurricane descends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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Summary: "On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery's just discovered a billing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 30Lafaye, Vanessa.
Summary: Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincaids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate, destitute veteran he's become--unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAFCleeton, Chanel
Summary: "For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person's paradise can be another's prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez's family in a precarious position, she agrees to an arranged marriage with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLEGunderson, Jessica
Summary: In early September 1900, twelve-year-old Carrie of Galveston is looking forward to spending Saturday night at her friend's house, until her parents are invited to a very important party and she is forced to stay home and take care of her little brother; but a boring chore turns into a nightmare when the storm surge from the Great Hurricane hits and their house is swept off its foundation--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUNGrau, Shirley Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABeasley, Kate
Summary: Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J FIC BEACleeton, Chanel
Summary: "In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person's paradise can be another's prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLERoss, Ann B.
Summary: Miss Julia takes a trip to the beach, only to confront a hurricane roiling off the coast--and all the trouble it washes ashore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSDorsey, Tim
Summary: Though another devastating hurricane is raking Florida, its awesome power can't stop the Sunshine State's most loyal son, Serge A. Storms, from his latest scenic road trip: a cemetery tour. With his best bro Colman riding shotgun, Serge hits the highway in his '69 gold Plymouth Satellite, putting pedal to the metal on a grand tour of the past. Beginning in Key West, the sunshine boys' odyssey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DORLafaye, Vanessa.
Summary: Based on real historical events, Lafaye's debut novel is at once a love story set in a time of great turmoil and a vivid deiction of a major natural disaster. This book evokes what happens when people, sweating under the weight of their pasts, are tested to the absolute limits of their endurance.--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2015