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Language
English
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"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 upon New York City and wreaks unimaginable chaos and...
Author
Publisher
Springer Publishing Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
PART 1: OVERVIEW OF DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE // 1. When Disaster Strikes: Disaster Response -- 2. Before the Storm: Preparedness -- 3. Crisis Intervention and the Mental Health Response // PART 2: VULNERABLE POPULATIONS // 4. Pregnant Women, Infants and Children and Disasters -- 5. Persons with Disabilities and Disasters -- 6. Older Adults and Disasters -- 7. Persons with Chronic Mental Health Issues and Disasters -- 8. Persons with Alcohol...
Author
Publisher
Nimbus Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of three children--six-year-old Beth Cook traveling third class, eight-year-old Charlotte Murphy, second class, and eleven-year-old John Crosby, first class--all traveling on the doomed Titanic that sank on April 14th, 1912.
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone Press imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Bitter cold. Extreme heat. Dangerous terrain. Sudden storms. When you're in the wild, you're at the whim of nature, and anything can happen. Could you survive a wilderness disaster? Discover the true tales of people who did, and find out how they lived to tell their stories"--
8) Hurricanes
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Love was the one thing Lily always thought she did better than her mother. She beleived that she knew exactly what love took, what it cost and what it meant - and she thought of her long marriage to Tom as proof of it. But in the short period between Christmas of 2007 and the start of fire season, everything she understood about love unraveled. That's when Lily realized how very litle she knew about the way love worked. Would you do it all again,...
11) Wave
Author
Language
English
Description
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously...
Author
Series
Brunner-Routledge psychosocial stress volume no. 27
Publisher
Brunner-Routledge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
17) Two if by sea
Author
Language
English
Description
After losing his family in a tsunami in Brisbane, Australia, former police officer Frank Mercy rescues Ian from a submerged car and takes him home to his Midwestern farm. As the boy exhibits a telepathic gift, Frank and new love Claudia will travel to England to keep him safe from a sinister group who want him back.
Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this epic adventure thriller, a family struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology-computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights-has mysteriously blacked out-forever. A grand romantic saga about family-not just the family born into, but the family chosen. A swashbuckling journey of hope and rebirth, seen through the eyes...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Inside the Megastorm takes viewers moment by moment through Hurricane Sandy, its impacts and the future of storm protection. Through first person accounts from those who survived, and from experts and scientists, Inside the Megastorm gives scientific context to a new breed of storms.