Accused of the murder of his wife in 1995, Matt Kirkland made a daring escape from Louisiana justice. Now, new evidence leads him back to the Big Easy where he teams up with an assistant district attorney and a beautiful FBI agent in a race against the oncoming fury of a hurricane that ultimately metes out the justice the legal system failed to dispense.
Hurricane Watch is a compelling history of man's relationship with the deadliest storms on earth. Includes: - The story of the nineteenth-century Cuban Jesuit whose success at predicting the great cyclones was considered almost mystical.
The next, everything has changed. The sky has turned deep purple, and you feel as if the air has been sucked from your lungs. That can mean only one thing: A hurricane is coming!
Written in Lauren Denton's signature Southern style, Hurricane Season tells the story of one couple's unconventional journey to a full life and the relationships that must be mended along the way.
In early November 1913, not quite 19 months after the loss of the Titanic in midatlantic, an autumn gale descended on the Great Lakes. Gales of November - like the...
A fallen tree becomes a vehicle for adventure in an illustrated look at hurricanes by the Caldecott Medal-winning author of Free Fall. Reprint.
HURRICANE recounts the harrowing, inspiring odyssey of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a black boxer wrongly convicted of three murders, from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment. On June 17, 1966, two...
... A Gold Hunter's Adventures, Etc. (San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939). 38. Bennett A. Cerf, editor at Random House, “Notes on George Stewart's Life and Death of a Storm,” George Rippey Stewart Storm Collection, Record Group C0128, ...
"Describes how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how people can protect against their destruction"--Provided by publisher.
The world, itself, seems to bring together Henry, whose best friend died near their home in the mountains of Vermont, and Zavion, who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, so that the boys can help each other heal.
Through an unlikely friendship with the aging, cantankerous owner of an old boxing gym, Em is thrown into the path of the most dangerous man that she has ever met. Cormac "the Hurricane" O'Connell is cut, tattooed and dangerous.