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American Book Award Winner
Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
A NPR, Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Library Journal Best Book of the Year
At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of
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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 16
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When a massive earthquake devestates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court is left teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation - except when a nobleman's daughters are found dead and their father threatens to topple the regime unless Sano Ichiro tracks down the killer. Sano and his wife strive to solve the case in a world that is crumbling around them.
5) Aftershock
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Forensics prodigy Jessie Teska investigates a carefully staged fatal accident that is further complicated by a major earthquake that decimates San Francisco.
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In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Nadine goes to live with her father in Miami while her cousin Magdalie, raised as her sister, remains behind in a refugee camp, dreaming of joining Nadine but wondering if she must accept that her life and future are in Port-au-Prince.
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There you were, just minding your own business, and suddenly the earth split beneath your feet. Everything good, everything familiar tumbles around you in busted shards, or it's ash, or is on fire. That's the scene of the earthquake where Charlie's working, helping to dig out the living and ID the dead. But it's an all-too-apt metaphor for her personal life.
10) Before takeoff
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James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. Seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light -- and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually a button. Which she presses. Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles sprout...
12) Gardens of water
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In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Kurdish Muslim, wishes to move his family to the safety of his old village in order to take his fifteen-year-old daughter away from the relationship she is having with their neighbour, the seventeen-year-old American son of expatriate teachers. But when a massive earthquake hits the village, the Basioglu family is faced with greater challenges as their survival becomes dependent on their American...
13) Ladyworld
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"Eight teenage girls become trapped in an endless birthday party after a massive (imaginary?) earthquake. The girls' sanity and psyches dissolve as they run out of food and water. Eventually, they regress to their baser instincts, exploiting each other's fears and insecurities"--From www.imdb.com.
14) The quake cities
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A woman tries trying to find her way home in a world decimated by earthquakes, but there are people determined to stop her and harvest her DNA. Alice wakes up in the Los Angeles Quake Zone in 2025 having no idea how she got there. As her memories slowly return, she finds she's being hunted by several armed groups intent on capturing her alive. At the same time, Este, a survivor of the quakes that destroyed Los Angeles, makes a living as a pathfinder...
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"The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where 15-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who's become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their...
16) Raising Atlantis
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Conrad Yeats thrillers volume 1
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BURIED UNDER TWO MILES OF ICE.
In Antarctica, a glacial earthquake swallows up a team of scientists...and exposes a mysterious monument older than the Earth itself.
In Peru, archaeologist Dr. Conrad Yeats is apprehended by U.S. Special Forces...to unlock the final key to the origins of the human race.
In Rome, the pope summons environmental activist Dr. Serena Serghetti to the Vatican...and reveals a terrifying vision of apocalyptic disaster.
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Genevieve, a single mother, flies to Port-au-Prince in 2010 with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for Miles-- a chance to learn about his family's roots while coming to terms with his father's departure-- but it's also an excuse for Genevieve to escape New York City, where her life is dominated by her failed marriage and the daily pressures of raising Black children in America. For Genevieve, the journey is also a homecoming...
18) Aftershock
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During the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976, Deng's father sacrificed his life to save his wife and children. When Deng's mother faced the choice of choosing to save only one of her children, she chose her son, Deng's brother. No one knows Deng survived the earthquake, and she chose to be an orphan. 32 years later, Deng met her brother in Sichuan after the Wenchuan Earthquake. The mother and daughter finally united but it was hard for Deng to forget her...
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'¿Pesara más un edificio sobre mi cuerpo... o una muerte sobre mi conciencia?' ÆEsta temblando! Un romance a escondidas. Un departamento en la colonia Roma. Los objetos se desploman, las paredes se agrietan. '¿Moriremos?' La escala de Richter es alta y la fatalidad, tambien. Gritos. El pavor crece y se quiebra; de las fisuras manan los recuerdos de ella que, aterrorizada, espera la caida. Como destellos de vida, se dispara el recuento final de...
20) Here I am
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Three sons watch as their parents' marriage falter and their family home falls apart, while at the same time a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel.
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