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Gwin, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWI

Rajan, Rekha S.

Summary: The Jackson family travels to Texas, where a hurricane is heading down the coast, and there are animals, wildlife, and people in danger--but first they have to ride out the storm at a local shelter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic

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Rajan, Rekha S.

Summary: The Jackson family rush to Minnesota where a blizzard is putting both people and animals in danger from freezing temperatures, and blinding snow.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic

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Helakoski, Leslie

Summary: After a natural disaster, a community comes together and slowly, joy, healing and music find their way back into the city, in this powerful message of resilience and the incredible strength of shared humanity even on the darkest days.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEL

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

Summary: After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphia 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PFE

St. Jude, Jen

Summary: "When you can't save the world, how do you save yourself? Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. But on the morning Avery plans to jump into the river near her college campus, the world discovers there are only nine days left to live: an asteroid is headed for Earth, and no one can stop it. Trying...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ST. J

Dashner, James

Summary: Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAS

Dashner, James

Summary: "Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the other, the Flare. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Media Enterprises 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Day, Kate Hope

Summary: "In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel realities. Ginny, a devoted surgeon whose work often takes precedence over her family, has a baffling vision of a beautiful co-worker in Ginny's own bed and begins to doubt the solidity of her marriage. Ginny's husband, Mark, a wildlife scientist, sees a vision that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAY

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAY

Rollins, James

Summary: To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROL

Rosnay, Tatiana de

Summary: "The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, in the tradition of THE NEST. "Hypnotic, passionate, ominous and tender--unforgettable." --Jenna Blum, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Those Who Save Us The Rain Watcher is a powerful family drama set in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROS

Attema, Martha

Summary: "For 16-year-old Klara, a devastating flood reveals a dark family secret. It is February 1953 in the Netherlands and Klara is expected to marry the son of a prominent farmer. In this small island community, steeped in tradition, the Church controls the lives of its citizens but Klara longs to escape. When a spring tide merges with a brutal storm it causes the dikes to breach, unleashing death...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ronsdale Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ATT

Nance, John J.

Summary: A seismologist's warnings that a Pacific island targeted for resort development will be destroyed in an earthquake are disregarded in the wake of an ambitious builder's plans to make millions through a new casino and hotel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NAN

Rosnay, Tatiana de

Summary: Paris. The Malegarde family gathers to celebrate Paul's 70th birthday, and his 40th anniversary with Lauren. Photographer Linden Malegarde is home from the US; he has grown distant from his blunt older sister Tilia. The family members fight to keep their unity, figuratively drowning under the weight of their secrets. And as the rains fall, The Seine overflows its banks and floods the city. --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rosnay 2018

Dashner, James

Summary: "Mark struggles to make sense of his new, post-disaster world in this prequel to The Maze Runner"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FICTION DAS

Bybee, Catherine

Summary: When a wildfire nearly destroys Parker Sinclair's family home, it's just one more disaster to add to her mountain of stress. For the past two years, she has shouldered the responsibility of raising her younger brother and sister after their parents' untimely deaths. Forced to leave college for a crappy job that barely pays the bills, Parker manages her family property, which consumes every...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYB

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane

Summary: When a devastating earthquake cuts the San Francisco Bay Area off from the outside world, Lily travels into the disaster zone to search for her sister, and is joined by a group of feral children and others in their quest for survival.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rare Bird Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLE

Dashner, James

Summary: Reveals how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze against the backdrop of an apocalyptic world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Nance, John J.

Summary: A seismologist's warnings that a Pacific island targeted for resort development will be destroyed in an earthquake are disregarded in the wake of an ambitious builder's plans to make millions through a new casino and hotel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAN

Rosnay, Tatiana de

Summary: "Linden Malegarde has come home to Paris from the United States. It has been years since the whole family was all together. Now the Malegarde family is gathering for the seventieth birthday of Linden's father, Paul. The members of the Malegarde family are on edge, holding their breath, afraid one wrong move will shatter their delicate harmony. Paul, the quiet patriarch, an internationally...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROS

McGinnis, Mindy

Summary: Lydia Chass doesn't mind living in a small town; she just doesn't want to die in one. A lifetime of hard work has put her on track to attend a prestigious journalism program and leave Henley behind--until a school error leaves her a credit short of graduating. Undeterred, Lydia has a plan to earn that credit: transform her listener-friendly local history podcast into a hard-hitting,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCG

Ward, Jesmyn.

Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAR

Rollins, James

Summary: "The Titan Project--an international research station off the coast of Australia--discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion a geological disaster that destabilizes an entire...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROL

Levin, Adam

Summary: "From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absurdity, the humor, and the tragedy of survivorship. A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city's mayor must struggle to move forward while the world-quite literally-caves beneath their feet. With this polyphonic tale of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEV

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