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1) The sea wolf
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This gripping saga of the sea demonstrates Jack London's gift for expressing complex ideas with compelling action. A clash of two opposing views of morality is brought to life in the ruthless Wolf Larsen, a strong believer in the survival of the fittest, and Humphrey Van Weyden, a civilized man who is shocked by the cruelty of Larsen's nature.
2) The Titanic
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Everyone bought into the ultimately fatal myth of her being unsinkable. What makes the Titanic saga so compelling are the private stories of those who embarked on the fateful crossing, many of whom we meet in this gripping drama.
3) The river
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Tom and Mae Garvey are struggling to keep their homestead safe from the local power authority who wants to flood their land. When Mae's former beau, Joe Wade, turns out to be in charge of the plan to acquire the property, tensions run high, climaxing in a devastating confrontation on the flooded river banks.
4) Volcano
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Something unspeakably chilling is heating up The City of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city.
6) Wave
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"In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family-- parents, husband, sons --were swept away by a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to tell her tale. This is her account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its aftermath."--Page 4 of cover.
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"Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy goes out to join his volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the child's life with only seconds to spare. In that moment, Frank's own life is transformed. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when, instead of turning Ian over to the Red Cross, he takes the...
9) Titanic
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Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to gain custody of their two children. Their problems soon seem minor when the ship hits an iceberg.
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Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours six people, along with their families and friends, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton flew in from London to see her architect mother, but Grace Madison refuses to leave her apartment in the evacuation zone. British investment banker Charles Williams is looking for his daughters and ex-wife in SoHo. ER doctor Juliette Dubois fights to...
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Mysterious island : Escaping from a conderate prison camp by alloon, five survivors land on a uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from being a sactuary, the island is home to carnivorous monsters, bloodthirsty pirates, and the mad genius, Captain Nemo, who inhabits the mysterious island for his won strange ends. The Poseidon adventure : As the luxury liner Poseidon slices through the waters of an ocean storm, the greatest danger is already on board--a...
12) Poseidon
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Over 2,000 passengers and crew are celebrating New Year's Eve aboard the luxury cruise ship 'Poseidon' on the open sea. Without warning, at midnight, a rogue wave hundreds of feet high, slams into the ship and rolls it upside down. Most of the passengers and crew are killed outright, but several hundred remain alive in the ballroom, where the party was being held. Realizing their only hope of rescue lies at the surface of the water, a handful of survivors,...
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Twister: Storm chasers on the brink of divorce create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of violent tornadoes.
Perfect storm: An unusually intense storm system puts commercial fishermen in mortal danger.
Outbreak: Containment of a deadly airborne virus requires extreme measures.
Poseidon: A luxury ocean liner capsizes on New Year's Eve.
14) Titanic
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The story of a passionate romance aboard the Titanic's 1912 maiden voyage, framed by a present-day tale of a salvager who encounters a survivor of that ill-fated voyage.
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