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books about: hurricane

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Hurricane

Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned

Cathy Scott

Howell Book House, 2008

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING BOOK
Over the past year, I've had the privilege of listening to Cathy read special parts of the book Pawprints of Katrina before she would finish a chapter and send it to her publisher. With each story or chapter, Cathy and I were reliving those days spent in NOLA. As we ...

City of Refuge: A Novel

Tom Piazza

Harper, 2008

Good Post-Katrina Story
Until I read this book, I had no idea that there was such a thing as Post-Hurricane Katrina fiction. Although I'd heard the stories that came out from New Orleans after the hurricane, I felt detached from New Orleans and the people impacted by the storm. Tom Piazza ...

The Magic School Bus Inside A Hurricane (Magic School Bus)

Joanna Cole

Scholastic Press, 1996

Aw, heck. What's not to like?
For those familiar with the "Magic Schoolbus" series, Mrs. Frizzle's adventures with her class all have a similar plotline. Mrs. Frizzle explains some scientific topic, whether it's the solar system, the dinosaurs, etc. and then lures her children onto her special ...

The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story

Julia Reed

Ecco, 2008

Green & Blue
I admit it, this book made me green with envy. Like the author and many others, I've always been drawn to New Orleans and have dreamed of living there for years. At the same time this book will make you blue at the damage done by hurricane Katrina to this lovely, ...

The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Ken Wells

Yale University Press, 2008

"Damn, that SOB is coming up fast!"
I've rarely read as gripping, horrifying, and inspiring a book as Ken Wells' story of what happened when The Storm hit the low-lying bayou parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines. As a reporter for the "Wall Street Journal," Wells, himself a Louisiana native, saw the ...

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Erik Larson

Vintage, 2000

I've always said the Weatherman prevails even when he's wrong{{
Erik Larson has documented an extraordinary narrative of an epic storm which killed over 6,000 people and wiped out the City of Galveston, Texas. Here we find Isaac Cline employed as the resident U.S. Weather meteorologist failing to warn the residents of ...

Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Ellen Prager

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

Sea Stories--and the Science from Them
What a wonderful little book! Very accessible; very enlightening. The sea stories--all by ocean scientists--are engaging and often quite humorous. They share important knowledge about the ocean, but also the unexpected ways much of that knowledge is gained. The ...

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Douglas Brinkley

William Morrow, 2006

How hard it is to face the truth how hard it is to stay in a room
Brinkley's facts are confirmed by contemporaneous news reports and videos available on YouTube. Furthermore, New Orleans was written off because the white people with cars got out, and black and white people so feckless as to not have cars don't count in America. They ...

Organize for Disaster: Prepare Your Family and Your Home for Any Natural Or Unnatural Disaster

Judith Kolberg

Squall Press, 2005

Great advice
A lot of the information is common sense, but there were many suggestions that I had not thought of before. I would definitely recommend it to everyone, and will likely give this book as gifts this Christmas to my family members.

Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival

Kirby Larson, Mary Nethery

Walker Books for Young Readers, 2008

Pawsitively Tender
Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery bring us a completely satisfying story of friendship that reaches across the canine-feline divide and lifts us two-legged critters to a higher plane of existence. We can only hope to achieve the same quality of love and compassion that ...

Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter

James S. Hirsch

Mariner Books, 2000

Skip the movie, Read this Book
I read this book and then saw the movie. This is a familiar formula for disappointment. The book is much better and richer than the movie. The movie portrays Carter as some kind of saint, deeply-principled, who is railroaded by the justice system. As the book reveals, ...

Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

Michael Eric Dyson

Basic Civitas Books, 2007

A compelling and descriptive audio about Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath
Here is a compelling and descriptive audio about Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. Professor Michael Eric Dyson points out that the majority of the people most affected were black and poor, and sees the problem as more than just a simple emergency response failure. ...

Love Is Like A Hurricane Volume 1 (Yaoi) (Love Is Like a Hurricane)

Tokiya Shimazaki

801 Media, Inc., 2007

Sooooooooo Cute!!
I liked this manga a lot. Out of the 4 couples I rather liked the 1st one with Mizuki and Azuma. Azuma is confident that he can win Mizuki over and Mizuki is hilarious when he tries to push Azuma away but he still ends up with Amuza in the end. Also the other ...

Stormy Weather

Carl Hiaasen

Grand Central Publishing, 2001

Skink for President!
[...] When I first read this book, it was back when it had the flamingo on the cover, so it has been awhile. But my opinion about the book has not changed. Having gone through Hurricane Andrew in Homestead, this book touched more than a nerve. Only those that ...

The Hurricanes: One High School Team's Homecoming After Katrina

Jere Longman

PublicAffairs, 2008

True story of Louisana
Jere Longman has written an excellent book chronicling one parish's reaction to Hurricane Katrina, focusing on the high school football team but weaving in incredibly useful information about the people and history of Plaquemines Parish and all of Southeast Louisiana. ...