Author: Allan ZulloPublisher:
ISBN: 9781338585568
Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Ten stories of the people who risked their lives to save others during Hurricane Katrina.
Heroes of Hurricane Katrina
Author: Allan ZulloPublisher:
ISBN: 9781338585568
Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Ten stories of the people who risked their lives to save others during Hurricane Katrina.
Heroes of Hurricane Katrina
Author: Allan ZulloPublisher: 10 True Tales
ISBN: 9780545831239
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ten stories of the people who risked their lives to save others during Hurricane Katrina.
Heroes of Hurricane Katrina
Author: Allan ZulloPublisher:
ISBN: 9781484460375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Contains ten stories of everyday citizens who risked their lives during Hurricane Katrina.
10 True Tales: World War II Heroes
Author: Allan ZulloPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545312124
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Ten true stories of real-life heroes from World War II! Pfc. Jack Lucas -- just a teenager -- is on patrol on Iwo Jima when two grenades land at his feet. Can he save his comrades' lives? Lt. Col. James Rudder and his Rangers are climbing a 100-foot-high cliff on a secret D-Day mission. Can they survive the Nazis' devastating firepower? Sgt. Forrest Vosler is blinded and wounded from an attack by German fighter planes on his crippled bomber. Can he make it home?The world was saved by these and many more real-life heroes. You will never forget their incredible true stories.
Five Days at Memorial
Author: Sheri FinkPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307718972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
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 Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award
When Hurricane Katrina Hit Home
Author: Gail Langer KarwoskiPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625845367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Chazz Cohen lives with his grandmom in the Garden District of New Orleans. In his family, money is no problem. But money won't buy Chazz what he wants--a "real" home with his mom. Across town in the Ninth Ward, Lyric Talbert wishes her mom didn't expect so much from her, especially when her little brother gets sick. It seemed like the storm would blow over as so many had. But Katrina burst the levees, and the world turned to chaos for Chazz and Lyric and their families. They quickly learn that, though their worlds were different before the storm, it was their courage and compassion that would help them make it through. Through the alternating stories of Chazz and Lyric, acclaimed children's author Gail Langer Karwoski chronicles the disaster that forever changed New Orleans and its people.
Involuntary Heroes
Author: Mitchell F. CrustoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781611631814
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Constitution guarantees certain individual rights, such as the freedoms of religion and assembly and the protection from unlawful search and seizure. These civil liberties, however, are often undermined periods of emergency. Following an increasing number of upheavals throughout the country, including Hurricane Sandy, the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Ebola outbreak, there is a need to assess to what degree our civil liberties are protected in these circumstances. On the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this book examines the experiences of Katrina's "involuntary heroes," those whose civil liberties to no redress in the judicial system. It is essential reading for constitutional scholars and for members of the general public who truly want to understand constitutional rights within the context of this historic crisis. Book jacket.
Drowned City
Author: Don BrownPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054415777X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Sibert Honor Medalist ∙ Kirkus' Best of 2015 list ∙ School Library Journal Best of 2015 ∙ Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list ∙ Horn Book Fanfare Book ∙ Booklist Editor's Choice On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage--and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.
No Ordinary Heroes
Author: Demaree InglesePublisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806528311
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Describes how the decision not to evacuate the jail prior to Hurricane Katrina affected Dr. Demaree Inglese, medical director of the jail, and his staff as they struggled to keep alive after the levees broke.--Source other than Library of Congress.
A.D.
Author: Josh NeufeldPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307378144
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Presents the stories of seven survivors of Hurricane Katrina who tried to evacuate, protect their possessions, and save loved ones before, during, and after the flood.