Bellona is a city at the center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a...
Disasters
- Author:Delany, Samuel R.Summary:
- Author:Boon, KevinSummary:
Describes the worst fire in New Zealand history, which raged through Ballantyne's department store in 1947, killing forty-one people.
- Author:Mahaffey, James A.Summary:
From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters. Mahaffey here...
- Author:Draper, PennySummary:
One cold day in 1929, a tsunami strikes the Burin Peninsula in Newfoundland and suddenly twelve-year-old Murphy is doing a man's work, saving lives and caring for the people he loves.
Murphy wants to grow up fast and be a...