NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter
“An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas...

Introduction - PART I: FAMILY PREPAREDNESS - CHAPTER 1: How to Use this Workbook - CHAPTER 2: Your Family Emergency Plan - CHAPTER 3: Your Family Emergency Supply Kit - CHAPTER 4: Home Evacuation Plan - CHAPTER 5: Family Communication Plans - PART II: UNDERSTANDING NATURAL DISASTERS: CHAPTER 6: Flood - CHAPTER 7: Tornado - CHAPTER 8: Hurricane - CHAPTER 9: Thunderstorms and Lighting - CHAPTER 10: Earthquake - CHAPTER 11: Winter Storm - CHAPTER 12:...

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...

The deadly danger of disasters doesn't end when the waters recede or the earth stops shaking; it has just begun. The Prepper's Long Term Survival Guide goes beyond the basics of surviving in the immediate aftermath of catastrophe and teaches readers how to cope with the problems and challenges that can continue for weeks, months, and even years. Including everything from pre disaster prepping tips to post catastrophe instructions for making life...

En 2111, los europeos habían construido una gigantesca presa que iba desde Gibraltar al norte de África. De esta manera, se consiguió desecar el mar Mediterráneo, que pasó a llamarse Valle del Nuevo Mediterráneo. En este inmenso valle prodigaba la agricultura y las industrias, y vivían millones de personas. Sin embargo, un técnico sismógrafo, se dio cuenta de que en pocas semanas habría un gigantesco terremoto en la zona de Gibraltar que...

Schleswig-Holstein, Ende Dezember 1978: In einem nie da gewesenen Schneesturm bleiben Autos liegen, fallen Strom, Telefon und Heizung aus. Während sich der Arzt Dr. Hans Fink im Schneetreiben zu Fuß aufmacht, um seiner Mitarbeiterin bei der Geburt ihres Kindes beizustehen, werden seine Schwägerin Sibylle und ihr Mann Thomas hilflos in ihrem Auto eingeschneit. Der Rentner Moretzka fragt sich, wie er jetzt an Alkohol kommen soll. Und auf dem Truelsenhof...

My story isn't the beginning or the middle. It is the end of the end. It was over before it could ever really begin. A tale of nothing and everything. The world stopped in a heartbeat. We were given a mere forty-eight hours. If that. It seemed cruel. Suddenly next-day delivery meant nothing, but getting ourselves to our family the next day meant everything. Those who weren't within driving distance of their family didn't have a hope in hell of returning...

Once a celebrated Naval officer, John Rowland has fallen from grace. After slipping into alcoholism, Roland is dismissed from the Navy and shamed. Having lost everything, Rowland now works as a deckhand on the Titan, operating deck machinery and keeping watch. However, Rowland is just as shocked and horrified as the civilian passengers when the mighty ocean liner collides with an iceberg, beginning the ship's slow sink to ruin. As the Titan sinks,...

"A 38-year-old American interior designer based in London and her independent-minded 74-year-old architect mother; a British investment banker in New York to see his ex-wife and young children; a resident ER doctor who experienced Hurricane Sandy when she was a medical student; two young men, 21-year-old NYU students; their friends; and others are thrust together when a major hurricane descends upon New York City and wreaks unimaginable chaos and...

Based on a true story The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision between the American Red Cross, the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the most famous boxing matches in...