Frank Carlson Library

A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.

For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in United States history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.

When a woman and her father become trapped by floodwaters from a hurricane in the crawlspace of their home, they discover yet another dangerous threat as alligators come with the rising water.

When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face if an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever encountered: Mother Nature.

A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...

As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...

The day the sky exploded: Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collision course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed. Epicenter: A detective assigned to transport a dangerous mobster discovers that she has been set-up to fail. The chain reaction: A dangerous leak in a nuclear waste storage facility threatens to contaminate a community's water source affecting thousands of lives if an engineer can't bypass...

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,...

"The Helios Project is a top-secret experiment to harness the sun's power to create a virtually limitless new energy source. When an enormous solar flare overwhelms the project's containment system, it unleashes swirling magnetic vortexes that consume anything metallic in their path. The magnetized funnels act like huge buzz saws, pulverizing cars, buildings and entire towns in their wake. The destruction only makes them grow stronger, and as these...

When his attempts to warn authorities about an impending earthquake fail, a geologist must race against time to save his estranged wife and two children.