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Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus seventy-three seconds after launch, the unthinkable happened."--Provided...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Lauralyn LaPlant and her sister, Bridgette, could not be closer. Their shared passion for adventure draws them to scale a sheer cliff one fateful day, but despite their experienced precautions, Bridgette suffers a terrible accident and plummets to an untimely death. Shattered by grief, Lauralyn soon makes a sobering discovery: this was no accident--her sister's climbing rope was cut. But who wanted Bridgette dead, and why? It's up to Lauralyn and...
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"It's 3:05 on Sunday, April 27, 2003. This marks my twenty-four-hour mark of being stuck in Blue John Canyon. My name is Aron Ralston. My parents are Donna and Larry Ralston, of Englewood, Colorado. Whoever finds this, please make an attempt to get this to them. Be sure of it. I would appreciate it."
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped
...66) Alive
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Description
Presents five true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of disasters, from a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Thunder must learn how to get along with the other animals living there. When the magician gets into a car accident, however, the pets must join forces against an evil nephew who tries to sell his house.
70) The warning
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed cellular networks fail to resume service. Animals savagely attack humans. And the damaged power plant, where Jordan's father is an engineer, is under...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When a shipwreck lands a lowly mailroom clerk named Gulliver on the fantastical island of Lilliput, he transforms into a giant, in size and ego! Gulliver's tall tales and heroic deeds win the hearts of the tiny Lilliputians, but when he loses it all and puts his newfound friends in peril, Gulliver must find a way to undo the damage. Through it all, Gulliver may just learn that it's how big you are on the inside that counts.
73) Oil field worker
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Describes the dangerous job of being an oil field worker.
74) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A retelling of Daniel Defoe's novel about an adventurous Englishman who becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the seventeenth century and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island.
75) Adrift
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2018.
Description
Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017, 2000]
Description
Final destination: While boarding for a cross-country flight with friends, Alex has a premonition of the plane crashing. When he causes a ruckus and gets kicked off the flight, he and his friends watch in horror as the plane crashes, but Alex and his friends learn that they were fated to die on board the airplane, a fate that hunts them down one-by-one. Final destination 2: A teen with mild precognitive powers prevents a gruesome highway accident...
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers Book 3
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When Timothy Fisher decides to move his wife, Hannah, and daughter, Mindy, to Christian County, Kentucky, where two of his brothers now reside, Hannah is very reluctant to leave her Amish home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Author
Series
Tangled in time Book 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate......
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Travels more than a century between two love stories set in the Australian seaside town of Lighthouse Bay. In 1901, a ship sinks off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The only survivor is Isabella Winterbourne, who clutches a priceless gift meant for the Australian Parliament. One hundred years later, Libby Slater leaves her life in Paris to return to Lighthouse Bay and heal her broken heart.
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