Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History

5 best books like Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History (David M. Brown): Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing, Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods, The Great Hurricane: 1938

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0143036556

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Author

Timothy Egan

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen...

Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing

Author	Arnie Bernstein
ISBN	0472033468

On May 18, 1927, in a horrific conflagration of dynamite and blood, a madman forever changed a small Michigan town. Bath Massacre takes readers back more than eighty years to that fateful day, when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school, killing thirty-eight...

Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods

Author	Cary Griffith
ISBN	0873515897

In the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death. On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leading a trip deep into Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park. He stepped into a gap among cedar trees to...

The Great Hurricane: 1938

Author

Cherie Burns

On the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color in the sky, it was too late to escape. In an age before warning systems and the ubiquity of television, this...