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Author
Series
Jo Beckett series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
Formats
Description
In the wake of an ongoing string of high-profile murder-suicides in San Francisco, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is hired by the SFPD to perform investigative autopsies and discovers a harrowing commonality among the suicide victims.
3) Aftershocks
Author
Formats
Description
When a major earthquake hits California, trapping seventeen-year-old Ruby with Charlie, a near-stranger, in a laundromat, they struggle to stay alive and hopeful with only memories and each other's voices to sustain them.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"On the eve of the San Fransisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive"--
8) Wildfire run
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
When a sudden earthquake hits during a visit to the skate park, Joey and his friends are trapped on opposite sides of a collapsed overpass and must rescue each other while enduring aftershocks and making their way safely home.
12) Before takeoff
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover...seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually...a button. Which she presses...Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles...
13) Mi ciudad canta
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Description
After a devastating earthquake hits, a little girl and her neighbors help each other rebuild their city. Includes author's note.
14) A world below
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
281 pages
Description
Mr. Baker's eighth grade class thought they were in for a normal field trip to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, but their journey takes a terrifying turn when an earthquake hits and the students are plunged into a frigid underground lake, forcing them to fight for survival and find their way back above ground.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Earning money to help his family in 1906, ten-year-old newsboy Leo explores the hilly city's bustling business world and modern innovations before a massive earthquake and decimating fire change everything he has ever known.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 20 cm
Description
In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where 15-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who's become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their...
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