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Abby Sallenger

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Anapolis, MD, The United States

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http://www.AbbySallenger.com

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Nonfiction, History, Science

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"Gripping true-life adventure story that is impossible to put down!" From latest review of ISLAND IN A STORM -- http://www.historyinreview.org/island...

C-SPAN's BookTV interview of Abby at Virginia Festival of Books on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/Hq-hlGmr8ss

ISLAND IN A STORM was named an outstanding 2010 title by Choice magazine of the American Library Association. It’s a true story of an eighteen-year-old French Creole woman who overcame incredible odds to survive a nineteenth-century hurricane disaster.

Abby received his BA in Geology and PhD in Marine Science from the University of Virginia and is the former chief scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Center for Coastal Geology. He presently leads the USGS Storm Impact research group, i ...more

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Accolades for Abby Sallenger's ISLAND IN A STORM

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Choice magazine of the American Library Association named ISLAND IN A STORM a 2010 outstanding academic title

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“[F]ast-moving narrative… He makes it all vivid and immediate and very human..."
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Published on April 09, 2011 13:28 • Tags: beaches, climate, environment, erosion, history, hurricane, louisiana, nature, storm

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Abby’s Quotes

“On the Gulf side of these islands you may observe that the trees—where there are any trees—all bend away from the sea; and, even of bright, hot days when the wind sleeps, there is something grotesquely pathetic in their look of agonized terror. A group of oaks . . . I remember as especially suggestive: five stooping silhouettes in line against the horizon, like fleeing women with streaming garments and wind-blown hair,—bowing grievously and thrusting out arms desperately northward as to save themselves from falling. And they are being pursued indeed;—for the sea is devouring the land.”
― Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Memory of Last Island

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“Floods are an act of God; flood
damages result from the acts of men.”
― Gilbert White

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message 4: by Jeffrey

Sep 22, 2017 10:41AM

I'm so excited because my book, Brain Bleed was just nominated for the 2017 Readers Choice Awards! Please vote for it at www.tckpublishing.com/readers-choice-.... You can find it and vote under the mystery category. Click on the right arrow above until you reach #10. I am in that category.
I would appreciate the vote and support from all my friends.

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message 3: by Abby

Jul 11, 2011 04:35AM