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April 27, 2011 marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through twenty-one states in three days, seven hours, and eighteen minutes. It was the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history, which saw 348 people killed, entire neighborhoods erased, and $11 billion in damage. But from the terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes, neighbors, and strangers who rescued each other from hell on earth. With powerful emotion and gripping detail, Kim Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching stories of several characters--including three college students, a celebrity weatherman, and a team of hard-hit rescuers--to create a nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America. No, it's not Oklahoma or Kansas; it's Alabama, where there are more tornado fatalities than anywhere in the U.S., where the trees and hills obscure the storms until they're bearing down upon you. For some, it's a story of survival, and for others it's the story of their last hours.

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"Horrifying depictions of the monster storms and gut-wrenching scenes of loss make other accounts of Tuscaloosa's tragic tornados.-- ""Publishers Weekly Starred Review"" ""Her verbs pulsate, her narrative web sucks you in. Mostly, Cross makes you care about the people in What Stands in a Storm, their quirks and aspirations. You won't look at a coiling sky the same way after......[listening to] this powerhouse debut."" -- ""Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author"" ""The writerly brilliance--the terse dark poetry--of this debut book explodes from every page. Yet Kim Cross is too much of a writer to let mere masterful writing suffice. She has enlisted her sentences in the service of her tremendous reportorial mission: to recover and make sense of the thousands of fragmentary incidents, images, voices, and glimpses of human character ennobled by loss and imminent death--the sum and substance of the most catastrophic mass-tornado attack in recorded American history. This young writer has done the impossible: she has out-written apocalypse. A new star has appeared in our literary sky."" -- ""Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist"""

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Kim Cross is an editor-at-large for Southern Living and a feature writer who has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. Her writing has appeared in Runner's World, the Tampa Bay Times, the Birmingham News, and USA Today. Kim lives in Alabama. Tracy Brunjes is an accomplished radio personality, talk-show host, and broadcast instructor. She enjoys using her talents to bring audiobooks to life and can be heard on a multitude of radio and television commercials.

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