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1) Earthquakes
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English
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Read and find out about one of nature's most mysterious forces-the earthquake. Some earthquakes are so small that you don't even feel them, while others can make even big buildings shake! Learn why earthquakes happen, where they are most likely to occur, and what to do if one happens near you.
2) Sisterland
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY
Slate • Daily Candy • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian (U.K.)
“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterland is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and motherhood.”—Maggie Shipstead, The...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY
Slate • Daily Candy • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian (U.K.)
“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterland is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and motherhood.”—Maggie Shipstead, The...
4) Earthquake!
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Examines why and where earthquakes happen, the way they are measured, the destruction they can bring to a community, and steps that can be taken to stay safe if one strikes.
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English
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"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...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about earthquakes. What is an earthquake? What causes an earthquake? What is "plate tectonics" and "subduction?" What are "divergent" "convergent," and "transform" boundaries? What are the "core" "mantle" and "crust" of the earth? What are the biggest earthquakes of all time, and what have seismologists learned from them? What can people do to protect themselves if they are caught in an earthquake?...
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English
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"From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles."--
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career...
12) Earthquake shock
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Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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.
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Series
I survived volume 5
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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.
16) Forces of nature
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Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
An exploration of weather that provides information on thunderstorms, earthquakes, blizzards, hurricanes, and other phenomena and offers tips on how to prepare for and stay safe during extreme weather conditions.
17) The red zone
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
"A vivid and poignant portrayal of a boy and his town in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Italy"--
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Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
19) Rivers of fire
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Series
Atherton volume 2
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
After Atherton's three-tiered world collapses, ending the geographical division of the social classes, Edgar, Samuel, and Isabel try to restore the flow of water and uncover the world's mysterious origins in the process.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 24
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
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