Disasters


Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Johnstown Flood
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
A Night to Remember
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Children's Blizzard
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Pompeii by Robert   HarrisA Day of Fire by Kate QuinnCurses and Smoke by Vicky Alvear ShecterVacation Under the Volcano by Mary Pope OsborneThe Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence
Pompeii
30 books — 25 voters
The House of the Lost on the Cape by Sachiko KashiwabaHorses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure by Hideo FurukawaStrong in the rain by Lucy BirminghamThe Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden by Heather   Smithtsunami vs. the fukushima 50 by Lee Ann Roripaugh
Tohoku Earthquake
44 books — 4 voters

No Safe Harbour by Julie LawsonTides of Honour by Genevieve GrahamBarometer Rising by Hugh MacLennanWho's a Scaredy-Cat! by Joan PayzantThe Birth House by Ami McKay
Halifax Explosion Fiction
30 books — 20 voters
Last Things by Betta FerrendelliJestus by V.S. SuryThe Big Wave by Pearl S. BuckEscaping the Giant Wave by Peg KehretThe Killing Sea by Richard Lewis
Tsunamis in Fiction
101 books — 36 voters

Delly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Scar by Charlotte MoundlicA Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. HolmesPearl's Marigolds For Grandpa by Jane Breskin ZalbenThe Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Bibliotherapy for Child Trauma
170 books — 12 voters
The Tsunami Countdown by Boyd MorrisonLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferGirls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke RobsonBlind Thrust by Samuel MarquisErupt by Lou Cadle
Natural Disaster Fiction
131 books — 88 voters

Vernor Vinge
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories. ...more
Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

Thomas Jefferson
Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
Thomas Jefferson

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