Al Roker
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today s new age of extreme weather. On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the booming port city on Texas s Gulf Coast. By dawn...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Billy Blessing, a celebrity chef in New York City, becomes a suspect in a murder case when an executive producer he had been at odds with dies after eating a dish from his restaurant; after the Manhattan district attorney shuts him down, Blessing becomes a sleuth, running into unsavory characters at every turn.