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c2011., Adult, Thomas Allen Call No: Fic Pri Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in Victoria, B.C. survivors of a massive earthquake are faced with a veritable hell on earth situation where civility has been replaced with acts of desperation. The main character, Arthur Lear, emerges from the rubble only to descend into another disaster zone as he desperately tries to save the life of a mother and her son."--Publisher.
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c2009., Voice/Hyperion Call No: Fic Div Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Late afternoon in a passport and visa office in California, nine people are in the office when an earthquake rips through the building trapping these nine together struggling to survive.
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2010., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Moo Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down on the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecing the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in three hundred years. The author interweaves the stories of two sister, deftly alternating between the cataclysm and the long years of its grief-strewn aftermath.
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c2012., Adult, SilverOak Call No: Fic Add Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. As they struggle to reach the safe haven of the convent where they attend school, they are abducted by human traffickers and thrust into a hidden world of sexual violence and illicit commerce, where the most valuable prize is the innocence of a child. Halfway across the world, in Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crises. Haunted by the tragic death of his infant daughter and estranged from his wife, he makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical in India with an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers. In Mumbai, his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the sex trade and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. When he learns the fate of Ahalya and Sita, Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a deadly showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals. Spanning three continents and two cultures, this story chronicles an unforgettable journey through the underworld of modern slavery and into the darkest and most resilient corners of the human heart.
