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21) The incense game
Author
Series
Sano Ichirō novel volume 16
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
When the shogun's carefully regulated court is thrown into chaos by a massive earthquake in 1703 Japan, Sano Ichiro investigates the poisoning murders of a nobleman's daughters to prevent the regime's takeover.
22) Beyond me
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, eleven-year-old Maya overcomes her own fear to help others at home and in northeast Japan, where a tsunami caused great damage. Includes author's note about the facts behind the story.
Author
Series
Kurt Austin adventures volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a scientist discovers a possible way to tap an unlimited energy source using machines that cause massive earthquakes, Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their NUMA teammates race against time to locate the scientist's machines and to prevent catastrophic disasters.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
25) Ancients
Author
Series
Event Group thriller volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When an ancient weapon of unprecedented destruction with ties to the fall of Atlantis is discovered in the South Pacific, Colonel Jack Collins and his covert team of Event Group agents work to prevent the weapon from falling into the hands of hate groupswho would destroy the world.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Nadine goes to live with her father in Miami while her cousin Magdalie, raised as her sister, remains behind in a refugee camp, dreaming of joining Nadine but wondering if she must accept that her life and future are in Port-au-Prince.
28) Before takeoff
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. They couldn't be more different, but seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually... a button. Which she presses. Which may or may not unwittingly break the rules of the universe--at least as those rules apply...
29) Aftershocks
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
On April 18, 1906, the great Golden Gate metropolis of San Francisco was struck by a devastating earthquake that leveled one of the most cultured, exciting (and, some said, wicked) cities in the United States.In Aftershocks, Wheeler recreates the calamity through the eyes of the people of San Francisco: an architect more concerned with what the destruction spells for his career than what it means to his family; a photographer who captures the history...
Author
Series
[Frost files] volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Teagan Frost's life is finally back on track. Her role working for the government as a psychokinetic operative is going well. She might also be on course for convincing her crush to go out with her. And she has even managed to perfect her paella recipe. But Teagan is about to face her biggest threat yet. A young boy with the ability to cause earthquakes has come to Los Angeles--home to the San Andreas Fault, one of the most lethal lines in the world....
31) Epicenter
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Attorney McKenna Bradford enters the top floor of Lincoln Tower, she expects an uncomfortable business lunch with an unwelcome client - but she doesn't expect him to confess murder. And she certainly doesn't expect a massive earthquake to hit downtown Los Angeles, trapping her in a crumbling high-rise with a cold-blooded killer. As McKenna struggles to elude her enemy amidst the massive destruction, others in the building fight their own battles....
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 6
Publisher
Bear Grylls
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fatima is scared of the dark. She has to get through a ruined city at night, avoiding the dangers of crumbling buildings, cracks in the ground and fallen masonry without power or light.
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