Disaster House

A un año del desastre, esta obra investiga qué salió mal en 19 de los edificios más dañados por el temblor. ¿Por qué hubo tantos muertos 32 años después del terremoto de 1985? El libro, así, pinta cuáles son los problemas que resquebrajaron México... y alerta: si no se solucionan, volverá a ocurrir una tragedia similar.

Abdulrahman Zeitoun fue uno de los héroes anónimos del Katrina. Durante los días que siguieron al paso del huracán, navegó por las calles inundadas de Nueva Orleans en una vieja canoa ayudando a sus vecinos. Una semana más tarde fue arrestado y acusado de pertenecer a Al Qaeda. Esta es la historia real de Zeitoun. Esta es la historia de Nueva Orleans.

Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means—now—to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. She was also seeking refuge from a health crisis that left her with chronic pain, and found a sense of healing through tending her garden beneath the redwoods of Sonoma County.

When college student Jimmy Johannsen returns to his small hometown to mourn the death of his sister, the last thing he expects to find is a nuclear holocaust. This colorful strip of Navajo desert, once his humble home, has erupted in chaos, and strange rumors shudder through what remains of the town. Now, with his shocked, hayseed mother under his arm, Jimmy must defend himself against a storm of horrors, as well as the wrath of the town's dwindling survivors, whose history adds up to a deadly sum of guns, conspiracy, and bad blood.

Genevieve, a single mother, flies from New York to Port-au-Prince with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for fifteen-year-old 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 the city, where her life is dominated by her failed marriage and the daily pressures of raising Black children in America.

In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis - the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. This Is Chance! is the thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster - and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together.

A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost.

In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient.

Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Blue Mountains for decades, and studied bushfires in Europe, Canada and the US. He risked his life in the 1994 Sydney fires and, later, during our catastrophic Black Summer of 2019-20. As a career firefighter, he worked his way up the ranks to become commissioner of one of the world's largest fire services, Fire and Rescue NSW, for nearly 14 years. When it came to natural disasters there was little, if anything, he hadn't witnessed first-hand.

An unnamed man is spending the evening with his ex-girlfriend. She’s obsessed with the 1956 John Wayne classic The Searchers, and she recounts the story as a way for them to talk about their histories, their families, maybe even their relationship. But as he gets more drunk and belligerent, she gets more and more uncomfortable with him being in her home.

La crisis ambiental se cobrará más vidas y golpeará más duraderamente a México que el Covid-19, simplemente no hemos querido verlo.

Nuclear war, hurricanes, pandemics, global economic collapse, or the power grid goes down. Name your disaster - you need to be prepared. The best way to be as prepared as possible is to build an emergency bunker. I will teach you how! Then, I’ll explain why you’re likely listening to this book. I'll go in-depth into how to plan, design, build and prepare your emergency shelter. I will cover all aspects so you can find a shelter that meets your needs and living situation.

Barely having survived his last adventure, it isn’t long before Peter Green is cast into peril once more. Thankfully, he seems to be getting a grasp of his “Other” abilities–his magic abilities–and it's starting to give him an edge in the battle against the victims of the otherworld. But what happens when disaster strikes where it hurts him the most, and his new best friends are placed in great danger? This may not be a mission that Peter and his friends return from.

Airframe is nonstop Crichton: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton hallmark since The Andromeda Strain.

Are you a “prepper”? Are you concerned about stockpiling food to prepare for a disaster? Most disasters that disrupt the food supply chain are more common than you might think. These disasters may be local such as floods, fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes, but they may also be on a more global scale, as is the case with pandemics, war, and widespread famine.

He tenido una idea insuperable. He decidido que voy a celebrar una fiesta y que va a ser una pasada. ¿Te vienes? ¿Cómo? ¿Que tus padres no te dejan porque últimamente la has liado? Tranqui, lo tengo todo pensado. ¡Únete a mi plan loquísimo y olvídate del significado de la palabra aburrimiento! Martina tiene 13 años, una imaginación desbordante y ¡un canal de Youtube de mucho éxito!

Two young lovers have a number of adventures together, much to the approval of those around them. They watch movies together, dance together, share beach and park catch ups, frolicking like no others. But one evening one of them becomes stuck under an old building where not even the fire brigade nor the emergency services can get them out. But as the last light fades there is a solution.

It'll help you organize and plan for any kind of disaster and teach you a lot of things that you didn't know. And why? Because the author is both a fire and a flood survivor himself.

Hoy, cuando los medios de comunicación han convertido la historia individual y colectiva en espectáculo, la literatura es el espacio privilegiado de la subjetividad.

Abby y Travis han de huir a Las Vegas donde quizá su amor los salve una vez más. Disfruta del día de la boda y ¡de la noche de bodas también! Como ocurre con todas las buenas historias, la espera ha merecido la pena.