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Describes dangerous and destructive weather conditions around the world, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, hail, and drought with photographs, historical background, and legends.

A simple introduction to thunderstorms.

Here is the story of the largest storms on earth and how those storms are growing bigger and stronger. The tale of extreme weather doesn't begin with floods, fires, or even the air that carries this change to our lives. It begins with the ocean. Oceans create weather, climate, floods, droughts, and most of the geophysical fallout of global warming. Exactly how, award-winning writer Porter Fox contends, depends on invisible ocean currents, planetary...

Stories from more than a century of blizzards, plus surviving in and rescuing after a blizzard. "A discussion of blizzards, describing their characteristics, formation, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant blizzards and other snowstorms from history"-- Provided by publisher.

A hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

For the first time in Stephen King's remarkable publishing history, the master storyteller presents an all-new, original tale written expressly for the television screen.
They're calling it the Storm of the Century, and it's coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something...

A raccoon forages for food at night and at dawn returns to its home in a strong, old tree, which safely shelters the raccoon through wild winds and ferocious rain so that it can go out searching for food again.

"A young girl remembers the day a storm destroyed her home. As she helped her family pick up the pieces, she found something unbroken"--Provided by publisher. "Sometimes, in a child's life, the winds come. Sometimes, there are hard times. Acclaimed children's writer and storyteller Jan Andrews has always believed that these are the times children need stories the most. In her last-ever picture book, When the Wind Came, Jan has written a spare, beautiful...