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"Animal rescue worker Iris Mallery thinks she has created a stable and secure home for herself, but when her small town is battered by an earthquake, Iris needs to rebuild not only her own life, but the lives of the displaced dogs and cats now filling her shelter. The quake's effects are personal for Iris, but not for seismologist Casey Radnor. Casey is a scientist above all else, logical and disconnected from the natural disasters she studies. When...
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Frost files volume 2
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"Teagan Frost's life is finally back on track. Her role working for the government as a psychokinetic operative is going well. She might also be on course for convincing her crush to go out with her. And she has even managed to perfect her paella recipe. But Teagan is about to face her biggest threat yet. A young boy with the ability to cause earthquakes has come to Los Angeles--home to the San Andreas Fault, one of the most lethal lines in the world....
43) 1906: a novel
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Every disaster has a story, none more thrilling than this one. Set during the great San Francisco earthquake and fire, this tale of political corruption, vendettas, romance, rescue--and murder--is based on recently uncovered facts that will forever change our understanding of what really happened. Told by Annalisa Passarelli, a feisty young reporter, the novel paints a vivid picture of the post-Victorian city, from the gilded ballrooms of Nob Hill
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After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
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Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
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Burnished city volume 1
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"Ever since the city of Bezim was shaken half into the sea by a magical earthquake, the Inquisitors have policed alchemy with brutal efficiency. Nothing too powerful, too complicated, too much like real magic is allowed--and the careful science that's left is kept too expensive for any but the rich and indolent to tinker with. Siyon Velo, a glorified errand boy scraping together lesson money from a little inter-planar fetch and carry, doesn't qualify....
48) The gifted
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Three friends, rescued from the rubble of an earthquake miraculously healed of their injuries-then gifted with mysterious powers. One can see into the hearts of others, one has feet that carry him to people in need, and one can't stop talking about the Lord.
54) The Kizuna coast
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Rei Shimura and her husband Michael rush to Japan in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami -- she, to find her mentor Yasushi Ishida and his missing apprentice Mayumi, he, to battle the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
55) Fault line
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 7
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When Salt Lake City is hit with a major earthquake on the eve of the Winter Olympics, Em Hansen is sent in by the FBI to investigate the murder of a state-employed geologist just hours after the disaster.
59) Młot Edenu
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Against the clock, a crackerjack FBI agent and a maverick seismologist race to track down an enigmatic group of terrorists who threaten California with a man-made earthquake.
W oświadczeniu nadanym przez radio niezidentyfikowana grupa terrorystów grozi spowodowaniem potężnego trzęsienia ziemi. Gubernator Kalifornii i policja ignorują ostrzeżenie. Czy warto przejmować się tak absurdalnie brzmiącą groźbą Młoda agentka FBI Judy Maddox...
60) The renegades
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Michael Parson thrillers volume 3
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Joining troops to deliver aid to an earthquake-decimated region of Afghanistan, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson and his interpreter, Sergeant Major Sophia Gold, confront a Taliban splinter group that is shooting aid workers and everyone who accepts help.
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