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Storm Warnings
Foul Weather Tales Show Mother Nature at Her Worst

FICTION:

Down in the Flood, Kenneth Abel

coverMurder With Puffins, Donna Andrews

Firestorm, Nevada Barr

The Delicate Storm, Giles Blunt

Chill Factor, Sandra Brown

Silent Wager, Anita R. Bunkley

In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden, Kathleen Cambor

61 Hours: A Reacher Novel, Lee Child

The House on Salt Hay Road, Carin Clevidence

coverWhiter Than Snow, Sandra Dallas

One Amazing Thing, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

First the Dead, Tim Downs

Gardens of Water, Alan Drew

Category 7, Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson

White Corridor, Christopher Fowler

coverSecond Wind, Dick Francis

People of the Nightland, W. Michael and Kathleen Gear

Ice Cold: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel, Tess Gerritsen

The Staggerford Flood, Jon Hassler

Ice, Linda Howard

The Fireman’s Fair, Josephine Humphreys

Damaged: A Maggie O’Dell Novel, Alex Kava

Dunston Falls, Al Lamanda

Storm Track, Margaret Maron

Saving Cascadia, John J. Nance

coverThe Wildfire Season, Andrew Pyper

The Cold Kiss, John Rector

Chasing Fire, Nora Roberts

Canvey Island, James Runcie

Miracle, Danielle Steel

Red River, Peter Tonkin

A Race to Splendor, Ciji Ware


NONFICTION: The True Tales

coverSudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938, R.A. Scotti  363.34922 SCO

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
Simon Winchester  551.21 WIN

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes, Jay Feldman  551.22 FEL

Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America, Jerry Thompson  551.22 THO

Extreme Waves, Craig B. Smith  551.463 SMI

Extreme Weather: Understanding the Science of Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods, Heat Waves, Snow Storms, Global Warming and Other Atmospheric Disturbances, H. Michael Mogil  551.55 MOG

Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme Weather, Reed Timmer  551.55 TIM

coverDivine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes,
Kerry Emanuel  551.55209 EMA

Tornado Hunter: Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth,
Stefan Bechtel  551.553 BEC

Adventures in Tornado Alley: The Storm Chasers,
Mike Hollingshead  551.553 HOL

F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century, Mark Levine  551.553 LEV

Out of the Blue: A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival, John S. Friedman  551.5632 FRI

coverFreaks of the Storm: From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder: The World’s Strangest True Weather Stories, Randall S. Cerveny  551.6 CER

Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue, Bob Drury  940.545 DRU

Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces,
Robert Clark  945.510926 CLA

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea,
Sebastian Junger  974.45 JUN

  coverZeitoun, Dave Eggers  976.335064 EGG

  Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History,
Erik Larson  976.4139 LAR

The Children’s Blizzard, David Laskin  978.02 LAS

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Timothy Egan  978.032 EGA

coverSan Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires, Dennis Smith  979.461051 SMI

The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America’s Deadliest Avalanche, Gary Krist  979.777 KRI


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