In the 2024 One Maryland One Book selection, What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy, characters experience the aftermath of the devastating 2011 earthquake that shook the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. While earthquakes are rare and historically mild in Maryland, other natural disasters are inevitable. Having a plan and being situationally aware are your best tools for staying safe and achieving a positive outcome.

Join Brian Pearsall, Emergency Planner with Kent County Office of Emergency Services, to learn about the types of natural disasters that are most likely to affect Maryland’s Eastern Shore and how you can be ready when they do. In addition to taking home a wealth of knowledge, you will have an opportunity to start building an emergency kit with a selection of FEMA-recommended items and to work on creating an emergency plan that is customized to your unique needs.

Space is limited. Please register.

Ages 18+

While you do not have to read the book to attend this program, we encourage you consider it! Free copies of the book are available at all KCPL locations while supplies last. The book is also available for checkout. To place a hold on a copy of What Storm, What Thunder (available in mulltiple formats), visit our catalog.

About One Maryland One Book

One Maryland One Book (OMOB) is Maryland’s first-ever statewide community reading project and is the signature program of the Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities. Initiated in fall 2008, this year-long project culminates with three months of public programs and is designed to bring together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book. Readers are then invited to participate in book-centered discussions and other events at public libraries, high schools, colleges and universities, museums, bookstores, and community and senior centers.

One Maryland One Book is a program of Maryland Humanities.

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Maryland State Library.

For more information, please visit One Maryland One Book 2024.