disasters

Describes the Boston Marathon Bombing in Massachusetts, heroic rescue, recovery, and outreach efforts to help bombing victims, and survivor stories.

A history of nuclear meltdowns and disasters that examines each incident in turn and analyzes what happened and why.

A collection of survival stories from the archives of Reader's Digest's 'Drama in Real Life' series. Whether out on a planned adventure or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, the heroes of these stories are connected by their fierce desire to survive against all odds. Wildfires, blizzards, attacks by grizzlies, jet crashes in the jungle, are just some of the conditions people face in these stories of survival.

Presents accounts of some of the world's most devastating volcano eruptions, each with a time line, photographs, and definitions of key terms.

Presents detailed accounts of some of the world's worst sea disasters including the Titanic, the Andrea Doria, and Deepwater Horizon, each with a time line, photographs, and definitions of key terms, and includes information on several additional tragedies at sea.

Describes the impact of several historic earthquakes around the world, including San Francisco, 1906 and 1989; Haiti, 2010; Japan, 2011; and others in Mexico City and China.

Ties geography lessons to earth science as readers learn about natural disasters while practicing map skills.

When a plague turns anyone over the age of sixteen into flesh-craving monsters, a group of teenagers escape from their infested high school and head for London with the hopes of finding a safe haven there.

A catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain ... Five thousand years later, their progeny -- seven distinct races now three billion strong -- embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown ... to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.