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  Dark Water Rising

  by Marian Hale

  A poignant coming-of-age novel set during the Galveston Storm of 1900   I looked south toward the gulf, trying to keep an eye on the stalking sea. Wild waves rose up like a great hand and wrenched loose the Pagoda’s long staircase, sending planks tumbling through the air. With horror I watched the end of one twin building sway and dip into the surf. I yelled at Josiah, but my words disappeared on the wind. I... (more)
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  Hurricane: A Novel

  by Terry Trueman

  outside, the wind is howling. it is a monster shrieking to get inside. outside, the rain is a solid wall of water. everything is dark. everything is destroyed. everything is gone.... Everything except for the desperate courage of those who survive that terrifying night. After hours of cowering in the dark with no lights, no warmth, and the terrible noises of the rain and wind pounding on the walls,... (more)
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  Maggie O'Dell: Book 8

  Damaged

  by Alex Kava

  New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava joins the Doubleday list with her best novel yet. On Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane that has entered the Gulf of Mexico. When the air crew patrols the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to... (more)
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  Hurricanes in Paradise

  by Denise Hildreth

  When Riley Sinclair stepped into her new job as director of guest relations at a posh resort on Paradise Island, she felt the final pieces of her once-broken life coming together. But the waters become choppy when Riley discovers that some who come to the Atlantis Hotel are accompanied by paralyzing secrets and overwhelming fears. Riley and three guests are in desperate but unknowing need of each other, eventually... (more)
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  Eyewall

  by Harold W. Bernard

  No one was aware of the storm's sudden force. Not the Hurricane Hunter crew trapped in its center. Not the family marooned on a resort island while searching for their missing teen. A deadly Category Five hurricane has never hit the Georgia coast in modern times. Until now. "You can't put it down." - Jack Williams, science author and founding weather editor at USA Today "A one-sitting, white-knuckle... (more)
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  Blown Away!

  by Joan Hiatt Harlow

  It's the summer of 1935, and in the sleepy Florida Keys, thirteen-year-old Jake Pitney's life is quiet and easy. But all of this changes once Jake begins helping out the town's eccentric fisherman, Sharkey, with work. On a trip to Key West, Jake is dumbfounded when Sharkey buys a mule named Jewel and her faithful sidekick, a dog named Rudy. Despite their troublemaking ways, Jake grows fond of the mischievous duo... (more)
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  Stormy Weather

  by Carl Hiaasen

  Two honeymooners at a hotel in the Florida Keys are at the center of a chaotic adventure that brings together a seductive con artist, a shotgun-toting mobile home salesman, a law school dropout, a Gaboon viper, and a troop of storm-shocked monkeys. Reprint.
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  Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

  by R. A. Scotti

  This spellbinding narrative, focusing on the extraordinary human drama that unfolded as an unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions conspired to bring a deadly tropical cyclone to the Northeast in the summer of 1938, summons back the most ferocious storm ever to hit the East Coast. It was a natural disaster so intense that it indelibly marked not only the lives of families across seven states but also the... (more)
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  Two Bobbies

  A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival

  by Kirby Larson

  Bobbi and Bob Cat are the best of friends. When their hometown of New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, many lost everything. But not Bobbi and Bob Cat—they still had each other. Only by staying together could they survive. This is the story of their remarkable friendship.
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  The Great Deluge

  Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

  by Douglas Brinkley

  In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama. First came the hurricane, one of the three strongest ever to make landfall in the... (more)
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  The Magic School Bus

  Inside A Hurricane

  by Joanna Cole

  When Ms. Frizzle's class takes a field trip to the local weather station, they end up in a hurricane.
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  Hurricane Song

  by Paul Volponi

  Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome! Miles has only lived in New Orleans with his dad, a musician, for a few months when Hurricane Katrina hits. Father and son haven't exactly been getting along. Miles is obsessed with football; his dad's passion is jazz. But when the storm strikes, they're forced to work through their differences to survive a torturous few days in the Superdome. ... (more)
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  ACRO: Book 1

  Riding the Storm

  by Sydney Croft

  A storm's rage. A woman's desire. A man with the power to set them both free. He can summon lightning at will. Emerge unscathed from the center of a tornado. Strip a woman down to her barest defenses through the sheer force of his sexuality. He's gorgeous, dangerous, and the target of parameteorologist Haley Holmes's latest mission. Haley has been dispatched to the Louisiana bayous to investigate the... (more)
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  Question and Answer

  Do Tornadoes Really Twist?: Questions and Answers About Tornadoes and Hurricanes (Scholastic Question & Answer)

  by Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger

  Whether children hear about tornadoes and hurricanes on television, live in vulnerable areas or learn about severe weather at school, they are fascinated with and terrified by powerful storms. Kids want to know more about them, both to satisfy their curiosity and to ease their fears. This book explains everything about these storms, from how hurricanes get their names to what a tornado looks like from a distance. (more)
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  Hello Reader!

  Hurricanes!

  by Lorraine J. Hopping

  Introduces early readers to hurricanes by revealing how these powerful storms form, describing what happens during a hurricane, and explaining how they are studied.
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  Faye Longchamp Mysteries: Book 1

  Artifacts

  by Mary Anna Evans

  Faye Longchamp has lost nearly everything except for her quick mind and a grim determination to hang onto her ancestral home, Joyeuse, a moldering plantation hidden along the Florida coast. No one knows how Faye?s great-great-grandmother Cally, a newly freed slave barely out of her teens, came to own Joyeuse in the aftermath of the Civil War. No one knows how her descendants hung onto it through Reconstruction,... (more)
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  Category 7

  by Bill Evans

  A Category 4 hurricane, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour, tears roofs off buildings, smashes windows and doors, and can send floodwaters up to the second floor.  Evacuation is suggested for up to six miles inland.    Hurricane Katrina was a Category 4 when she made landfall.    Hurricane Simone is a Category 7—the biggest, strongest storm in recorded history.  When she hits New York City, skyscrapers will... (more)
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  Hurricane Wolf

  by Diane Paterson

  Hurricane Anna is coming! Noah and his family are getting ready for the storm. First they board up the windows, then they get supplies for the house, like extra food and batteries. They even fill up the bathtub with water for emergency washing and drinking. Finally, they are as ready as they can be. When the storm comes it howls like a wolf. Noah watches through a peephole as trees bend, rain shoots sideways,... (more)
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  Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928

  by Robert Mykle

  Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a category 4 hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach, killing over 2,500 people in Florida alone, making it the second deadliest storm in U.S. history.
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  The Greatest Story Ever Sold

  The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

  by Frank Rich

  New York Times columnist Frank Rich examines the trail of fictions manufactured by the Bush administration from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, exposing the most brilliant spin campaign ever waged. When America was attacked on 9/11, its citizens almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president as he went to war. What they didn't know at the time was that the Bush administration's highest priority was not... (more)