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1) Hurricanes
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Provides information about hurricanes, describing the conditions that lead to their formation, discussing what happens during the course of such storms, explaining how they are tracked and named, and looking at some historic hurricanes.
5) Hurricane!
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy describes the experiences of his family when a hurricane hits their home on the island of Puerto Rico.
7) Hurricane!
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl and her father prepare their beach cottage for the coming hurricane, which topples their swing tree and washes away their stairs. Includes section of hurricane facts.
11) Second wind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart finds his life in danger after the plane he is riding in on an adventure into the eye of a Class V hurricane is destroyed, stranding him on Trox Island where he discovers a notebook that contains very sensitive information.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Environmental journalists Chris Mooney details his experiences following scientists studying hurricanes during 2006, discusses the debate over whether global warming is the cause of stronger storms, and comments on the influence of the media, special interest, and politics on the argument.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The best-selling author of Leviathan returns with the first major historical account of America's hurricanes, and reveals how they've shaped our nation. From the moment European colonists laid violent claim to this land, hurricanes have had a profound and visceral impact on American history-yet, no one has attempted to write the definitive account of America's entanglement with these meteorological behemoths. Now, best-selling historian Eric Jay...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In October 2012, Megastorm Sandy cut a path of devastation across the Caribbean and the East Coast, killing hundreds and doing tens of billions of dollars in damage. To many, it was a wake-up call. Now, one year after Sandy's deadly strike, NOVA follows up on the 2012 film Inside the Megastorm with a fresh investigation of the critical questions raised by this historic storm: Was Megastorm Sandy a freak combination of weather systems? Or are hurricanes...
15) Camino winds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets, many of whom suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying...
17) The Beach Club
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Mack Petersen, manager of the hotel, has been working at The Beach Club for 12 summers. Only this summer is different. His boss, the owner of the hotel, Bill Elliot, shows up in the spring with a new set of demands. His girlfriend Maribel is pressing Mack to get married and Vance, the African-American bellman, who has hated Mack since the day Mack stole his job 12 years ago, threatens him in a deadly scene. Mack knows something's got to give. Love...
20) Sharknado
Publisher
Distributed by GT Media
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace, and nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air.
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