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Also by Holly Bailey:

The Mercy of the Sky, May 2015
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The Mercy of the Sky
Holly Bailey

The Story of a Tornado

Viking
May 2015
On Sale: May 12, 2015
320 pages
ISBN: 052542749X
EAN: 9780525427490
Kindle: B00O2BS40G
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

An acclaimed national reporter returns to her hometown to give an inside account of the deadly tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, in May 2013—a dramatic, suspenseful story of human courage in the face of natural disaster.
 
Oklahomans have long been known for their fatalism and grit, but even old-timers are troubled by the twisters that are devastating the state with increasing frequency. On May 20, 2013, the worst tornado on record landed a direct hit on the small town of Moore, destroying two schools while the children cowered inside.
 
Oklahoma native Holly Bailey grew up dreaming of becoming a storm chaser. Instead, she became Newsweek’s youngest ever White House correspondent, traveling to war zones with Presidents Bush and Obama. When Moore was hit, Bailey went back both as a journalist and a hometown girl, speaking to the teachers who put their lives at risk to save their students, the weathermen more revered than rock stars and more tormented than they let on, and many shell-shocked residents. In The Mercy of the Sky Bailey does for the Oklahoma flatlands what Sebastian Junger did for Gloucester, Massachusetts, in The Perfect Storm, telling a dramatic, page-turning story about a town that must survive the elements—or die.

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