Rissman, Rebecca
Summary: In "narrative nonfiction format, this ... book follows a selection of people who experienced the 2011 Japan Tsunami"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.34 RISGwin, Minrose
Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWIEaton, Gale
Summary: Civilization rearranges nature for human convenience. Clothes and houses keep us warm; agriculture feeds us; medicine fights our diseases. It all works—most of the time. But key resources lie in the most hazardous places, so we choose to live on river flood plains, on the slopes of volcanoes, at the edge of the sea, above seismic faults. We pack ourselves into cities, Petri dishes for germs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2019