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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband Julius had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old friend of her husband's has agreed to take her in. Along the way, a refugee ship headed for Cuba offers another chance at...
Author
Series
Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Natural disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods are occurring with increasing frequency. In emergencies, pure drinking water is quickly the most important item. Low Cost Emergency Water Purification Technologies provides the tips and techniques for supplying potable drinking water at low cost in the direst circumstances. Succinct and readable, this manual describes the various options for correcting unsanitary or unsatisfactory drinking water....
1623) Blindsided
Author
Language
English
Description
In a New York Penthouse, cut off from the rest of the world, a young blind woman fights for her life against two sadistic criminals.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
Language
English
Description
A beautifully rendered graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Álvaro Sarraseca.
It's been years since the Nazis invaded Max Rosen's home country of Poland. All the Jewish people, including Max's family, have been forced to live in a ghetto. At least Max and his sister, Zena, had Papa with them . . . until two months ago, when the Nazis took him...
1625) The hard tomorrow
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working--or 'working'--on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants--kale,...
1627) The black stallion
Series
Criterion collection volume 765
Language
English
Formats
Description
This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel by Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home), in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse, is a cinematic tour de force. After surviving a shipwreck together, a young boy and a horse develop a bond, and begin training to race once they are rescued.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (520 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we'll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. While there may or may not be a dark and powerful force inhabiting the wilderness, their survival could depend upon what they choose to believe. Meanwhile, twenty-five years later, each survivor must ask themselves Is the darkness coming for them, or is it coming from them?
1629) Arctic storm
Author
Series
Watch eyes trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, thirteen-year-old Anya, a Chukchi shaman, will do anything to protect the sled dogs she has raised so she joins forces with sixteen-year-old seafarer Rune Johansson to make a stand against phantom predators hiding in the Arctic West as a powerful ice storm brews.
1630) Defiant
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
1631) After the ashes
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1883 thirteen-year-old Katrien Courtlandt is more interested in science and exploring the Javanese jungle for beetles with her native friend, than in becoming a young lady like her despised cousin Brigitta--but when Krakatoa erupts, the tsunami hits, and their families are swept away the two cousins must struggle to survive together.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On May 31, 1889, heavy rains and a dam failure sent flood waters sweeping into Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The 50-foot-high wall of water quickly demolished much of the town. Will you and your new husband be able to escape certain doom as you wait for your train to leave the station? Can you climb onto your house's roof for safety before the building completely fills with water? Will you join in the effort to save others who are floating by on the roofs...
1633) Tunnel
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
When a tunnel collapses on Jung-soo, his ensuing rescue operation becomes the subject of widespread media coverage and frenzy. But days go by, nerves stretch thin, and Jung-soo must struggle for his life in the suffocating darkness alone.
Series
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxxiii, 724 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Despite preemptive preparations, disasters can and do occur. Whether natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, or terrorist attacks, the risk cannot be completely eliminated. A carefully prepared response is your best defense. Handbook of Emergency Response: A Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approach presents practical advice and guidelines on how to plan the coordinated execution of emergency response. A useful tool to mitigate logistical...
1635) Surviving the Hindenburg
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, fourteen-year-old Werner Franz works as a cabin boy aboard the German zeppelin, the Hindenburg, and resourcefully survives its fatal crash"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (481 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Fugitive: A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime.
Presumed Innocent: Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to...
1637) When I came West
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A harrowing account co-written by a celebrated French-American war journalist who was held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013 describes how he was betrayed by his fixer and bound, beaten and blindfolded by captors who introduced him to their language and culture, inadvertently helping him discover within himself a faith that helped him to survive.
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