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100 1  Higginbotham, Adam,|eauthor. 
245 10 Midnight in Chernobyl :|bthe untold story of the world's 
       greatest nuclear disaster|h[Book Club in a Bag] /|cAdam 
       Higginbotham. 
246 30 Untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster / 
250    First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bSimon & Schuster Paperbacks,|c2020. 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    xx, 538 pages,16 unnumbered page of plates :
       |billustrations, maps ;|c22 cm 
300    12 books (xx, 538 pages ;|c22 cm) +|e1 book discussion 
       guide (in binder), in bag. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Please inquire at Adult Services Desk for specific 
       location. 
500    Book Discussion guide includes: "Tips and Tricks for 
       Leading a Book Club" ; Questions ; Author Biography ; 
       Reviews ; Read-alikes. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-517) and 
       index. 
505 0  Birth of a City. The Soviet Prometheus -- Alpha, beta, and
       gamma -- Friday, April 25, 5:00 p.m., Pripyat -- Secrets 
       of the peaceful atom -- Friday, April 25, 11:55 p.m., Unit
       Control Room Number Four -- Saturday, April 26, 1:28 a.m.,
       Paramilitary Fire Station Number Two -- Saturday, 1:30 
       a.m., Kiev -- Saturday, 6:15 a.m., Pripyat -- Sunday, 
       April 27, Pripyat -- Death of an Empire. The cloud -- The 
       China Syndrome -- The battle of Chernobyl -- Inside 
       Hospital Number Six -- The liquidators -- The 
       investigation -- The sarcophagus -- The forbidden zone -- 
       The trial -- The elephant's foot -- A tomb for Valery 
       Khodemchuk. 
520    "Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-
       making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 
       disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda,
       secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of 
       the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the 
       morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the 
       Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering 
       history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years 
       since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective 
       nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral 
       horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology
       slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what
       can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers 
       its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of 
       the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, 
       propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in 
       dispute. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews 
       conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well 
       as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from 
       recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has 
       written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings 
       the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women
       who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful 
       nonfiction thriller, and the definitive account of an 
       event that changed history: a story that is more complex, 
       more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. 
       Midnight in Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of 
       the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human 
       resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when 
       mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will--
       lessons which, in the face of climate change and other 
       threats, remain not just vital but necessary"--Publisher's
       website. 
650  0 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986. 
650  0 Nuclear power plants|xAccidents|zUkraine|zChornobyl. 
690    BOOK CLUB IN A BAG