More Than a Dream more books like this

by Lauraine Snelling

Book 3 of RETURN TO RED RIVER by bestselling author Lauraine Snelling. Thorliff's goal of becoming a writer is within reach. Working for a newspaper in Northfield, Minnesota, he is busy writing articles and stories for the Minneapolis Tribune and Harper's Magazine. But his idyllic world comes to a sudden halt when an epidemic hits the town of ...

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To Dream of the Dead more books like this

by Phil Rickman

December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively-atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a ...

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Everything in Its Path more books like this

by Professor Kai T Erikson

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Flood Disaster more books like this

by Peg Kehret

Warren and Betsy have decided to use the Instant Commuter one last time to travel back to the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, and fulfill a child's dream before her life ends. But as the little girl clings to the couple upon their return to the present, how can they take her spirit back to her own time knowing that death awaits her?

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Julie more books like this

by Catherine Marshall

Julie Wallace never dreamed that her longing to write would sweep her into a life-changing drama. As she joins her father in his struggle to keep the local newspaper going, she is drawn into dangerous confrontations. But when danger threatens, Julie learns the price of justice and love is high.

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Isaac's storm : the drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900 more books like this

by Erik Larson

Galveston, Texas, 1900. Reports of a storm in the Gulf of Mexico are relayed to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the new Weather Bureau. But storms stay out at sea and veer East to run parallel to the coast normally. This one didn't ...Isaac Cline was confident of his ability to predict the weather: he had new technology at his disposal, 'perfect ...

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They took the lifeboat up the mountainside : the Lynmouth flood, 15th August, 1952 more books like this

by William Thomas Baker

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The Conqueror Worms more books like this

by Brian Keene

Non-stop torrential rains have flooded most of the United States, destroying coastal cities. In West Virginia, the floods have forced mammoth carnivorous earthworms above ground to find food. Original.

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Flood more books like this

by Stephen Baxter

The "deeply scary"("BBC Focus") new novel from a national bestselling and critically acclaimed author. Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona. After five years of being held captive together, they make a vow to always watch out for one another. But they never expected this... The world they have returned to ...

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Staggerford Flood more books like this

by Jon Hassler

In this sequel to STAGGERFORD, the citizens of the tiny Minnesota town again become involved in a series of small but absorbing adventures, including Agatha's attempt to commemorate the famous flood, Lillian's embarrassing celebrity-worship, and young Frederick's ridiculous new summer job.

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Wild Palms more books like this

by William Faulkner

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these seperate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.

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In Sunlight in a Beautiful Garden more books like this

by Kathleen Cambor

The 1889 collapse of a dam in Johnstown, Pennsylvania--an accident in which 2200 people were killed--is the focus of this story about the people whose lives were affected by the tragedy. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

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Ben's Dream more books like this

by Chris Van Allsburg (Illustrator)

In this story, Ben dreams that he and his house float by the flooded monuments of the world.

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The Deluge more books like this

by Mark Morris

After a mysterious flood leaves most of the Earths surface underwater, the few survivors are forced to battle monstrous creatures to stay alive. Original.

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Unicorns in the Rain more books like this

by Barbara Cohen

An invitation from a stranger on a train takes Nikki to unicorns and the boarding of an ark.

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Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood more books like this

by Kai T Erikson

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Fire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China more books like this

by Ralph D Sawyer, Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer

An expert in Chinese Warfare, best-selling author Ralph Sawyer, offers a compelling account of the development of incendiary and aquatic warfare tactics in ancient China as pivotal elements in turning the tides of battle. }China's official histories are replete with intriguing examples of incendiary and aquatic warfare being employed (particularly ...

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Nora's Ark more books like this

by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator)

Based on the Vermont Flood of 1927, this heartwarming story is illustrated by a Caldecott Medal-winning artist, who captures both the sweeping drama of the flood and the comfort of a cozy kitchen filled with friends, neighbors, and good cheer. Full color.

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The Terrible Wave more books like this

by Marden Dahlstedt

During the disastrous flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a spoiled teen-age girl learns to accept responsibility as she and her companions search for their families and friends.

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Glacial Lake Missoula: And Its Humongous Flood more books like this

by David D Alt

Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the tale of a huge Ice Age lake that, when it suddenly drained, unleashed more than ten times the combined flow of all the modern rivers of the world. The book follows the path of the floodwaters as they raged from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle, then scoured eastern Washington and ...

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Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm more books like this

by Casey Edward Greene (Editor), Shelly Henley Kelly (Editor)

It had no name and gave no warning, but crept stealthily into the Gulf and then roared ashore, killing six thousand people. Nearly one hundred years after its landfall, the hurricane that struck Galveston Island on September 8, 1900, remains the worst natural disaster the nation has seen. In Through A Night of Horrors, witnesses describe, in many ...

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Euphonia and the flood more books like this

by Mary Calhoun, Simms Taback

Curious to see where the flood is going, an old woman packs her broom and pig into her boat and sets out to follow it.

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Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces more books like this

by Robert Clark, Pro, LL.

On November 4, 1966, the city of Florence was inundated by the waters of the Arno River. Beyond the human and economic cost, the flood destroyed or damaged hundreds of works from the Western world's greatest collections of art. This work brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present.

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The Buffalo Creek disaster : the story of the survivors' unprecedented lawsuit more books like this

by Gerald M. Stern

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Faces from the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Remembered more books like this

by Richard Moore, Jay Barnes

On September 16, 1999, rainfall from Hurricane Floyd swelled North Carolina's rivers, flooding tens of thousands of homes, businesses, and communities across the eastern third of the state; taking 52 lives; and causing an estimated 6 billion dollars in damages. Faces from the Flood is a compelling look back at the state's most destructive natural ...

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