Presents the stories of people who survived devastating events, including floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, explosions, and volcanic eruptions.

"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"--

"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,...

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...

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...

Chronicles the events and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, describing how it devastated the shores of Louisiana and Mississippi in August 2005.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared-- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda.