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1) Earthquake
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Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col.maps ; 28 cm.
Description
Discusses the causes and effects of earthquakes, examines the destructive power of historic and modern earthquakes, and explains how scientists use tools to predict them. Includes related projects.
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San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose...
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June 12, 2030 started out like any other day, until a massive earthquake devastated Los Angeles, and the government, always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, was unable to respond. The fallout from the earthquake sets in motion a sweeping novel of ideas that pits national hope for the future against assurances from the past, in this all-too-believable imagining of where today's challenges could lead us tomorrow.
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Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
73 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
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Looks at some of the visible ways that the earth can be changed in a matter of minutes, and discusses how the natural forces involved in earthquakes and volcanoes can raise mountains, build islands, change weather and help to produce varieties of plants and animals.
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Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
viii, 357 pages ; 24 cm.
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A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes. You need to worry about them only if you're in San Francisco, right? Wrong. We have been making enormous changes to subterranean America, and Mother Earth, as always,...
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Series
I survived volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco - not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken - literally...
11) Earthquakes
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Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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Pub. Date
2013
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY
Slate • Daily Candy • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian (U.K.)
“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterland is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and motherhood.”—Maggie Shipstead, The...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY
Slate • Daily Candy • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian (U.K.)
“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterland is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and motherhood.”—Maggie Shipstead, The...
14) 10.0 earthquake
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a series of earthquakes start tearing apart Los Angeles, scientist Emily theorizes that it's all building to a super quake that will drop the entire city into a lava-filled chasm. Engineer Jack, whose company is responsible for the quakes due to their deep fracking, feels obligated to help, and races with Emily through the ruined city with the hopes of diverting the epicenter to a less populated area and potentially save millions of lives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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"When a sudden earthquake strands Celia's parents out of town, she finds herself on her own in a shaken city. She tries to reach out to other kids around her apartment building. Some of them, like the sad boy named Demetri, seem wary of letting her too close. The others call themselves Hunters. They claim the earthquake was caused by monsters only kids can see. And they think Celia is destined to save the city. Celia doesn't feel destined to save...
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Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
330 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
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No, la ciencia no puede pronosticar un terremoto en particular. La sismología -esa ciencia híbrida en la que confluyen la física, la geología, el análisis de riesgos- ha buscado explicar cómo se desatan los movimientos en la corteza terrestre para, entre otros objetivos, saber cuándo y dónde ocurrirán esas sacudidas, pero hasta hoy no existe un método confiable para predecir temblores. Susan E. Hough presenta en esta obra los principales...
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Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always,...
20) Mi ciudad sings
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Description
After a devastating earthquake hits, a little girl and her neighbors help each other rebuild their city. Includes author's note.
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