Disasters category: 785 books
by Richard M. Lytle
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana. He drifted to sleep, and his train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. Soon after, the sleeping engineer's locomotive plowed into the circus train. In the...
by Keith C. Little
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Learn Emergency Preparation, Climate Change Emergency , Earthquake Emergency , Fire Emergency, Hurricane and Flood Emergency!
Mayday Over Wichita
The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
On the cold Saturday morning of January 16, 1965, a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker carrying thirty-one thousand gallons of jet fuel crashed into a congested African American neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas. When the fire and destruction finally subsided, forty-seven people--mostly African American children--were...
by Stephan G. Bullard, Bridget J. Gromek, Martha Fout
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Point Pleasant's Silver Bridge, the first eyebar suspension bridge in the United States, was an engineering marvel when it was constructed in 1927 and 1928. Located on US Highway 35, the bridge spanned the Ohio River and linked Point Pleasant, West Virginia, with the towns of Kanauga and Gallipolis,...
Phoenix Rising
Stories of Remarkable Women Walking Through Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
How do you go on after you’ve lost everything? True stories of surviving the Colorado wildfires and finding hope for the future.
Over several terrifying summers, deadly wildfires raged across Colorado. Lives were lost, and the flames destroyed thousands of homes. When the smoke cleared and...
by Carrie Nugent
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale—an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how.
What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit...
Inside the Inferno
A Firefighter's Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
An action-packed, on-the-ground memoir of the Fort McMurray wildfire and the courage, resilience, and sacrifice of the firefighters who saved the city.
In May 2016, what began as a remote forest fire quickly became a nightmare for the ninety thousand residents of Fort McMurray. A perfect combination...
Upheaval in Charleston
Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
On August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Florida, and west to the Mississippi River. When the dust settled, residents of the old port city were devastated by the death and destruction.
Upheaval in Charleston...
by David M. Brown; Michael Wereschagin
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the schools basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a...
Coming Back Alive
The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.
One hundred fifty...
by David Healey
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Even before John Smith's crew weathered its first squall, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries had been ravaged by every type of storm imaginable. A 1769 hurricane altered the course of history, demolishing the shipping channels of Charlestown and making Baltimore the dominant port. A once-in-five-hundred-years...
The Irish Potato Famine
A Cause-and-Effect Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In the mid-1840s, potato blight ruined the crops of impoverished farmers across Ireland. Many families went hungry without their main source of food. Disease struck down people weakened by starvation as the government struggled to address the problem. Would the country ever recover?
To understand...
by Michael Skidgell
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Almost 7,000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Show on Earth" quickly became one of terror and tragedy as the paraffin-coated circus tent caught fire. Panicked crowds rushed for the few exits, but in minutes,...
Fire Monks
Zen Mind Meets Wildfire
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The "vivid" and "electrifying" true story of how five monks saved the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States from wildfire (San Francisco Chronicle).
When a massive wildfire surrounded Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, five monks risked their lives to save it. A...