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2) Flood!
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
All living things need water to survive. But when there's too much rain, a flood can happen. Learn how floods form and how we try to avoid them.
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"Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp. Among the refugees is Iraxi: ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince, she's pregnant with a child that might be more than human. Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine"--Back cover.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earth's...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather's wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire houses as every river breaks its banks. In the midst of the rising waters, Boyd sets out across the ravaged back country. She is determined to rescue her missing friend, and she's not alone in...
11) Hard rain
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Series
Annie McIntyre mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice...
14) A better man
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"It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. Increasingly...
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Publisher
Arcturus
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Discover the extraordinary power of nature in this comprehensive visual encyclopedia. Full of fascinating facts and dramatic photography and based on the latest research, this is the definitive guide to natural disasters. You'll discover their causes, explore how they unfold, and see for yourself the ways in which scientists and rescue workers protect the public." --
"This comprehensive visual encyclopedia is the perfect introduction to this dramatic...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many others this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam...
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