Hurricanes

 

Zeitoun (Vintage) by Dave Eggers Paperback from Vintage Media Published: 2010- ISBN: 0307387941 The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family's unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. A New York Times Notable Book  An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year  A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year  A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year  A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year  A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year  An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Decade

Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America (P.S.) by Tom Piazza Paperback from Harper Perennial Media Published: 2011- ISBN: 0062008226 Tom Piazza's sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in desperate times. For his first book since his award-winning novel City of Refuge and his stunning and influential post-Katrina polemic Why New Orleans Matters, Piazza selects the best of his writings on American roots music and musicians, including his Grammy-winning album notes for Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues; his classic profile of bluegrass legend Jimmy Martin; essays on Jimmie Rodgers, Charley Patton, and Bob Dylan; and much more. In the book's second section, Piazza turns his attention to literature, politics, and post-Katrina America in articles and essays on subjects ranging from Charlie Chan movies to the life and work of Norman Mailer, from the New Orleans housing crisis to the BP oil spill, from Jelly Roll Morton's Library of Congress recordings to the future of books. The third and final section delivers a startlingly original meditation on fiction, sentimentality, and cynicism--a major new essay from this brilliant, unpredictable, and absolutely necessary writer.

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson Paperback from Vintage Media Published: 2000- ISBN: 0375708278 National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devestating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.

1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose Paperback from Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1416552987 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor -- in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators. Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life.

The Homeowner's Hurricane Handbook by Bob Stearns Paperback from Skyhorse Publishing ISBN: 1602396752 With chapters such as Nature of the Beast, to What To Expect In The Aftermath, the Hurricane Preparedness Handbook is a how-to guide for dealing with hurricanes before, during, and after--including understanding how where and when these powerful storms form, protecting yourself and your property, and how to deal with the repercussions.

 

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley Paperback from Harper Perennial Media Published: 2007- In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes--followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina. Bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley, a professor at Tulane University, lived through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with his fellow New Orleans residents, and now in The Great Deluge he has written one of the first complete accounts of that harrowing week, which sorts out the bewildering events of the storm and its aftermath, telling the stories of unsung heroes and incompetent officials alike. Get a sample of his story--and clarify your own memories--by looking through the detailed timeline he has put together of the preparation, the hurricane, and the response to one of the worst disasters in American history.

Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans by Keith Spera Hardcover from St. Martin's Press Media Published: 2011- ISBN: 0312552254 The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the city's vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith Spera's intimately reported Groove Interrupted, Aaron Neville returns to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina to bury his wife. Fats Domino improbably rambles around Manhattan to promote a post-Katrina tribute CD. Alex Chilton lives anonymously in a battered cottage in the Treme neighborhood. Platinum-selling rapper Mystikal rekindles his career after six years in prison. Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard struggles to translate Katrina into music. The spotlight also shines on Allen Toussaint, Pete Fountain, Gatemouth Brown, the Rebirth Brass Band, Phil Anselmo, Juvenile, Jeremy Davenport and the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. With heartache, hope, humor and resolve, each of these contemporary narratives stands on its own. Together, they convey that the funky, syncopated spirit of New Orleans music is unbreakable, in spite of Katrina's interruption.

Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith Paperback from Coffee House Press ISBN: 156689218X In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent," to the heartbreaking aftermath, these poems evoke the horror that unfolded in New Orleans as America watched it on television. Assuming the voices of flailing politicians, the dying, their survivors, and the voice of the hurricane itself, Smith follows the woefully inadequate relief effort and stands witness to families held captive on rooftops and in the Superdome. She gives voice to the thirty-four nursing home residents who drowned in St. Bernard Parish and recalls the day after their deaths when George W. Bush accompanied country singer Mark Willis on guitar: The cowboy grins through the terrible din, *** And in the Ninth, a choking woman wails Look like this country done left us for dead. An unforgettable reminder that poetry can still be "news that stays news," Blood Dazzler is a necessary step toward national healing. Patricia Smith is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including Teahouse of the Almighty, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. A record-setting, national poetry slam champion, she was featured in the film Slamnation, on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, and is a frequent contributor to Harriet, the Poetry Foundation's blog. Visit her website at www.wordwoman.ws.

	Hurricane Watch : Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth by Bob Sheets, Jack Williams (Paperback -- July 31, )

Great Storms of the Jersey Shore
by Larry Savadove, Margaret Thomas Buchholz
(Hardcover -- July 1, 1993)
 

	Hurricanes & Tornadoes (Wonders of Our World , No 1) by Neil Morris (Paperback -- June )

Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001
by John M. Williams, Iver W. Duedall
(Paperback -- June )

Florida's Hurricane History
by Jay Barnes, Neil Frank (Introduction)
Paperback - 344 pages
Univ of North Carolina Pr; ISBN: 0807847488
 

	Eye of the Storm: Inside the World's Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Blizzards by Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld (Hardcover -- May )

North Carolina's Hurricane History
by Jay Barnes
(Paperback -- June )
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Galveston and the 1900 Storm
by Patricia Bellis Bixel, et al
Paperback: 190 pages
Univ of Texas Pr; ISBN: 029270884X;

The Great Galveston Disaster : Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times
by Paul Lester
(Paperback -- March )

Do Tornadoes Really Twist? : Questions and Answers About Tornadoes and Hurricanes (Scholastic Q & A)
by Melvin Berger, et al
(Paperback -- November )
 

Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928 by Robert Mykle Hardcover from Cooper Square Publishers

Lunatic Wind : Surviving the Storm of the Century
by William Price Fox
(Hardcover -- September 1992)
 

	HURRICANES: Their nature and impact on society by R. A., Sr. Peilke, R. A., Jr. Pielke (Hardcover -- April 21, ) Special Order

The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome by Jim Carrier Paperback from Harvest Books

Storm of the Century : The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 by Willie Drye Hardcover from National Geographic

Hurricanes (Nature on the Rampage)
by Christy Steele
(Library Binding -- June )
 

Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson, Isaac Monroe Cline On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. By the time the water and winds subsided, entire streets had disappeared and as many as 10,000 were dead--making this the worst natural disaster in America's history. In Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson blends science and history to tell the story of Galveston, its people, and the hurricane that devastated them. Drawing on hundreds of personal reminiscences of the storm, Larson follows individuals through the fateful day and the storm's aftermath. There's Louisa Rollfing, who begged her husband, August, not to go into town the morning of the storm; the Ursuline Sisters at St. Mary's orphanage who tied their charges to lengths of clothesline to keep them together; Judson Palmer, who huddled in his bathroom with his family and neighbors, hoping to ride out the storm. At the center of it all is Isaac Cline, employee of the nascent Weather Bureau, and his younger brother - and rival weatherman - Joseph. Larson does an excellent job of piecing together Isaac's life and reveals that Isaac was not the quick-thinking hero he claimed to be after the storm ended. The storm itself, however, is the book's true protagonist--and Larson describes its nuances in horrific detail. At times the prose is a bit too purple, but Larson is engaging and keeps the book's tempo rising in pace with the wind and waves. Overall, Isaac's Storm recaptures at a time when, standing in the first year of the century, Americans felt like they ruled the world--and that even the weather was no real threat to their supremacy. Nature proved them wrong. --Sunny Delaney - Amazon.com Paperback: 323 pages Vintage Books; ISBN: 0375708278; (July 11, )

Twisters!
by Lucille Recht Penner, Kazushige Nitta (Illustrator)
Listed under Tornadoes
 
 
 
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