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A heartwarming coming-of-age drama.
Julie Barnes delivers a soothing story for a time of rapid change.
Follow Rylee, the daughter of a struggling single parent, who questions the meaning of life after the death of a young friend. During her search for understanding, she learns three lessons that illuminate her world. Rylee must quickly put the sage advice into action, as one of Florida's most destructive hurricane seasons brews off the coast.
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Loaded with surprises and exciting facts about weather, this thrilling tale follows Kobee Manatee as he travels across the mighty Atlantic Ocean into the strong Gulf Stream current . . . during hurricane season! His daring adventure begins when Kobee decides that he wants to surprise his sister Kim, who lives in the Bahamas, on her birthday. Will Kobee and his friends, Tess and Pablo, be able to travel safely from their home in Key West, Florida,...
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"They Call the Wind Maria" is the true story of one family's love and survival in a brutal hurricane season. In the chaos of Hurricane Maria's arrival in Puerto Rico Allie and her family leaped into a last-minute survival plan. They would embark on a 9-foot dinghy, through the open sea, with a GPS that could scarcely catch a signal, and without any opportunity to say goodbye to those they love.
This gripping story captures the raw, detailed emotions...
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This book proves that, with a little planning and minimal effort, you can eat surprisingly well during power outages. In hurricane season, this book is a crucial resource. It can be used for any emergency or anytime you are without power. And you can use this book for quick, easy meals anytime, especially for camping or for quick summer meals. You will find shopping lists for creating the ultimate emergency pantry, more than 70 recipes using nonperishable...
65) Hungry Dweller
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A diverse group of people travel to an elite luxury resort in the South Pacific. They begin their journey in high spirits and look forward to retreating from their hectic lives for a much-anticipated tropical vacation. Soon, suspicions begin to take root as the facade of the prosperous resort begins to crumble. And then, nature has another plan. Hurricane season delivers a massive storm that disrupts their idyllic holiday, transporting them to a place...
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With these great, factual songs, any young meteorologist will soon learn much about temperature, clouds, storms, tornadoes and hurricanes, seasons, tools to predict the weather, water cycle, warm and cold fronts and more! Track List: 1. When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Meteorologist 2. What Does A Meteorologist Do? 3. The Weather's Always Changing 4. Tools To Predict The Weather 5. What Is Wind? 6. It's Called The Water Cycle 7. Tornadoes And Hurricanes...
67) All Flavors
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A heartwarming coming-of-age drama.
Julie Barnes delivers a soothing story for a time of rapid change.
Follow Rylee, the daughter of a struggling single parent, who questions the meaning of life after the death of a young friend. During her search for understanding, she learns three lessons that illuminate her world. Rylee must quickly put the sage advice into action, as one of Florida's most destructive hurricane seasons brews off the coast.
Encouraging...
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Winner, Silver Medal in the Children's Adventure Category, 2015 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Loaded with surprises and exciting facts about weather, this thrilling tale follows Kobee Manatee as he travels across the mighty Atlantic Ocean into the strong Gulf Stream current . . . during hurricane season! His daring adventure begins when Kobee decides that he wants to surprise his sister Kim, who lives in the Bahamas, on her birthday....
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Captain Bennett's Folly is a direct descendant of Fleming's earlier comic novels, Colonel Effingham's Raid and Lucinderella. Like them, there is a narrator - in this case Walker Williams - who reports an adventure replete with rogues and innocents, while making an artful, funny and wistful case about the immorality of our times. Walker spins out a tale of how he and his hedonistic family journey to the Florida Keys during the hurricane season in order...
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House on Sunrise Lagoon volume 1
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"Eleven-year-old Sam, who lives with her siblings and mothers in a house on Sunrise Lagoon, tries to come up with a plan to save the family's charter boat business before the summer is over"--
72) Hurricane Maggie
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British-born Maggie Barrington has become a very successful New York lawyer. When her marriage breaks up, she goes to Cuba, ostensibly on business but secretly in search of her cantankerous Marxist concert pianist father who decamped to Havana when she was a child and whom she has cut out of her life.
When she finally tracks him down, she is pitched into a series of life-changing dramas that entangle her not only with her newfound family but also...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456 ... with the impending birth of a baby to Joe and Jess Abernathy-Vaughn. Things are nearly back to normal for fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall. The Luna City Café & Coffee is doing well, he has moved up from tending a single potted plant to a pet, and a flirtatious relationship with Kate Heisel, star reporter for the local newspaper. But his past may be about to catch...
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Galveston Island, 1900.
A year of training in the Signal Corps did nothing to prepare Alfred Ridgeway for his new post with the U.S. Weather Bureau on the edge of the Texas gulf. Raised on a farm in Indian Territory, Alfred finds the wealth and grandeur of Galveston Island overwhelming and lacking a place for a man of his status.
Despite his expectations, Alfred finds himself thrust into the strained relationship of renowned climatologist Isaac...
75) Outbreak
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The waters off the West African coast are a menacing red, full of algae thick enough to stand on in places. In nearby villages, mysterious deaths start to occur--and the panic mounts. But before an alarm can be sounded, the sea currents shift, the algae vanishes, and the deaths stop. Everyone is relieved when things return to normal, and local government officials are happy to sweep the publicity nightmare under a rug. An American biological researcher,...
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During June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a 23-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. She lost communications, but nevertheless decided to keep going, without updates on the location of the Gulf Stream and the weather--in what became the North Atlantic's worst hurricane season. When a series of violent storms nearly killed her, she had to signal for help and go home in what felt like complete disgrace....
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"The best-selling author of Leviathan returns with the first major historical account of America's hurricanes, and reveals how they've shaped our nation. From the moment European colonists laid violent claim to this land, hurricanes have had a profound and visceral impact on American history-yet, no one has attempted to write the definitive account of America's entanglement with these meteorological behemoths. Now, best-selling historian Eric Jay...
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The beacon of the historic Cape St. George Lighthouse still guides mariners into Apalachicola Bay. Founded in 1831, the town of Apalachicola took its name from Creek Indians, to whom it signified a land of friendly people. Sheltered from the Gulf of Mexico by a string of barrier islands, the port flourished as the only site in Florida on a river that is navigable for over 300 miles to the fall line at Columbus, Georgia, Apalachicola's sister city....
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There is no place for politics during an emergency. Politics play a role in how the Caribbean is managing during the tumultuous hurricane season.
The longtime colonial rule isn't the only reason Caribbean societies and ecosystems are now so defenseless. Many modern governments in the region are doing their part in making life generally worse for the downgraded communities.
From Jamaica to Belize, there is a widespread of corruption. There are rights...
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