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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Rift
Walter Jon Williams · 726 pages
Afloat
Erin Healy · 451 pages
Residents of apartments designed to float in the peaceful cove of a winding river become divided on how best to survive when a sinkhole gives way and torrential rains flood the cove, cutting them off from the rest of the world.
Flesh Eaters
Joe McKinney · 389 pages
They rise-- Out of the flooded streets of Houston, they emerge from plague-ridden waters. Dead. Rotting. Hungry. And as human survivors scramble to their rooftops for safety, the zombie hordes circle like sharks. The ultimate killing machines. They feed-- Houston is quarantined to halt the spread of the zombie plague. Anyone trying to escape is shot on sight, living and dead. Emergency Ops sergean
The Tilted World
Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly · 320 pages
In 1927, as the Mississippi River threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, two federal revenue agents investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local bootlegger.
Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 336 pages
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan… and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.
Night of the Twisters
Ivy Ruckman · 153 pages
A fictional account of the night freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family, and friends.
The End We Start From
Megan Hunter · 144 pages
La Belle Sauvage
Philip Pullman · 464 pages
Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy.... Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his daemon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
John M. Barry · 528 pages
In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands.
South of Nowhere
Jeffery Deaver · 414 pages
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
Robin McKinley · 269 pages
What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales fr
The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Lauren Tarshis
Running Wild
Michael Morpurgo · 138 pages
When 10-year-old Will's father dies in the Iraq war, his mother surprises him with a trip to Indonesia. She couldn't have known what awaited them both there. The first Will knows that anything is wrong is when Oona, the elephant he is riding along the beach, begins to spook. Then, suddenly, she takes off into the jungle with Will on her back. And that's when Will sees the tsunami come crashing in!
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina
Rodman Philbrick · 181 pages
A twelve-year-old boy and his dog become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
City of the Dead
Tony Abbott · 134 pages
Derek Stone just turned fourteen. He's lived in New Orleans with his dad and older brother, Ronny, his whole life. He's a little overweight and can't hear well out of his left ear. And he's on the run from the dead.
The Dead and the Gone
Susan Beth Pfeffer · 320 pages
Earthquake Terror
Peg Kehret · 132 pages
When Jonathan and his family go camping on Magpie Island, they look forward to a fun, relaxing weekend. But their fun quickly vanishes when Jonathan, his sister, Abby, and their dog, Moose, find themselves in the middle of a natural disaster. A devastating earthquake has hit, destroying their camper, knocking out the only bridge to the mainland, and leaving Jonathan, Abby, and their dog with no fo
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen · 192 pages
Brian Robison, a teenage boy struggling through his parents divorce, is flying up north to stay with his dad for the summer. However, his plane crashes and he is forced to survive the Canadian wilderness. Now living in a world completely opposite of his own, he is now able to discover himself in this forsaken and misunderstood beautiful world. The story is continued in "The River" "Brian's Wint
Take Me to the River
Will Hobbs · 184 pages
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.
Little Knife
Leigh Bardugo · 32 pages
A young girl's beauty causes discord in her small town, but her father's solution may prove far more dangerous. ***Little Knife*** is a companion story to the third book of the Grisha Trilogy, ***Ruin and Rising***, and the stories ***The Witch of Duva*** and ***The Too-Clever Fox***.
When Worlds Collide
Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer · 342 pages
"A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from oth
The Day After Tomorrow
Whitley Strieber · 249 pages