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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
To what lengths would you go to undo the pain of the past?
Max Corbett has returned to New Orleans for the funeral of his former girlfriend, Gabrielle Doucette, but between the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of his ruined relationship, the city feels alien.
At Gabrielle's graveside, Max meets Ray. Over a bottle of bourbon in a dive bar, the two discuss Gabrielle's unique connection to the city. Ray suggests that this...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (49 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When Ricky Thompson and his family are unable to escape New Orleans before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, they take refuge in the Superdome and endure the horrible living conditions they encounter there.
Author
Series
Danny Chaisson volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Danny Chaisson's latest case is bid-rigging. But as his investigation proceeds, a gathering storm named Katrina blasts his world apart. Surrounded by death and destruction of New Orleans, the city he loves, Danny searches for one man who'd trusted Danny to guard his identity when he agreed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating corruption in the city's construction industry. But someone has leaked the identity of this crucial witness,...
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century--alone?" -- Provided by publisher....
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers when he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jimmy, a yellow Labrador puppy, is separated from his Lake Charles, Louisiana, family and survives the horrors of Hurricane Katrina on his own before being rescued and taken to New York City, where he tries to fit in with a new family and the many neighborhood dogs, and accept his new name.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans. In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather's...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
At the end of August 2005, ten-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.
Author
Language
English
Description
Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients...
13) Hours
Publisher
Pantelion
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nolan Hayes arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife, Abigail, who has gone into early labor. Things quickly spiral out of control when the birth goes tragically wrong and Hurricane Katrina hits, ravaging the hospital and forcing an evacuation. With his baby dependent on a ventilator and no one around to help, Nolan faces one life-and-death decision after another and must fight to keep his daughter alive.
Author
Publisher
A Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Henry Garrett is haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit. He pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to silence the ceaseless clamor in his head. But this quest for peace and quiet as the only guest at a roadside motel is destroyed when Henry finds himself at the center of a bizarre and violent tragedy....
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
16) Unbreak me
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Andra Lawler has hardly left her family's ranch in years, imprisoned by the trauma of her sexual assault. LJ Delisle hasn't made it out of New Orleans until now, stuck in a cycle of poverty and grief following Hurricane Katrina. When the black Creole cowboy leaves his home to train horses on the whitewashed ranches of Montana, the last thing he expects is to form a personal connection with Andra. Through LJ's gentle attention to her during their...
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (319 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In six classic programs, National Geographic reveals the sheer power and strength of nature's greatest forces. Natural disasters examined include tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, and avalanches.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gulf of Mexico. High winds and rain pummeled coastal communities, including the City of New Orleans, which was left under 15 feet of water in some areas after the levees burst. Track this powerful storm from start to finish, from rescue efforts large and small to storm survivors' tales of triumph." --
19) Ninth Ward
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 470L
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When a terrible storm hits the Gulf Coast, Bubba the bass boat, Bennie the airboat, and Sal the speedboat are called upon to help rescue people and animals. Inspired by the true story of rescues during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Includes facts about hurricanes and the Cajun Navy.