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"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
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Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea
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Ashes series (William W. Johnstone) volume 4
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"A bloodthirsty religious cult called the Ninth Order is spreading a doctrine of hate across the land. They're soulless and sadistic, and they're sending their armies of fanatics against Raines and his Rebels, plotting treachery within his own ranks. If their terrible plan succeeds, Ben Raines will die, and so will all his bright dreams for the future of America"--P. [4] of cover.
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Miki is living every woman's fantasy, stranded on a desert island with a rugged Navy SEAL. But little does Miki know she's a suspect in an international high-tech robbery, and her steely-eyed companion is ready, willing and able to do anything to make her talk.
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"December 1944, the Pacific theater: General Douglas MacArthur has vowed to return ot the Philippines. He will need the help of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey's Third Fleet. But at the height of the invasion, Halsey's 170 ships are blindsided by a typhoon of unprecedented strength and scope. Battleships are tossed like toys, fighter planes are blown off carriers, destroyers are capsized, and almost nin hundred sailors are swept into the roiling, shark-infested...
6) Aftershock
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When she is trapped by an earthquake with a group of strangers, including Garrett Wright, emergency paramedic Lauren Boyer turns to Garrett for help in saving the others when a gang of escaped convicts goes on the attack.
7) Honor bound
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"Medical missionary Cynthia Myers is trained to save lives. Captain Rick Norton of the Special Forces A-Team is ordered to take them. When Cynthia's past catches up to her, they must learn to put aside their differences to make it out alive from the treacherous jungles of a war-torn African country"--
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IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
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In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast...
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Jina Modell definitely doesn't feel like a "Babe," especially when she's working with the gruff, no-nonsense Levi Butcher, team leader for the GO-Team. When the Syrian base where she's stationed is attacked, Jina manages to escape. Levi would never willingly leave a soldier behind, especially a brave woman whose sweet voice haunts his every thought. Once he discovers Jina is alive, the tenacious warrior will walk into fire to save this intriguing...
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Let Rainer Stahlberg and The Survivalist's Handbook prepare you for any crisis. Here are step-by-step plans for surviving a range of disasters-both natural and manmade. This sit he ultimate handbook of disaster scenarios and survival techniques. With this one-of-a-kind guide, you can be ready for:
Nuclear, chemical, and biological attacks
Global energy crises
Worldwide economic collapse
Natural disasters
Drastic climate change
Political upheaval
And...
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"In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has discovered the power of battle-forged friendships. Suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan, he faced a daunting recovery. But coming home would have been much harder without the support of his brothers and sisters in arms. In Unbroken Bonds of Battle, Joey tells the stories of those very warriors, who for years have supported and inspired him on the battlefield...
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"Afghanistan born U.S. Army consultant Emma Selah works as a fluent and multi-lingual interpreter assigned to a special forces team. Deployed to a base in Djibouti, Emma and First lieutenant Jorge "Pina Colada" Pena start to form a relationship built on friendship, mutual respect, and undeniable attraction. Then she discovers that he has been married the entire time when news of his wife's untimely death reaches them. She gives him no room for excuses...
14) Afghan Luke
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This gripping drama follows a battlefield journalist (Nick Stahl) who returns to Afghanistan in search of more proof after his editors refuse to run his story about Canadian soldiers mutilating corpses. The trip quickly becomes a dangerous journey for both truth and personal justice.
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Imagine yourself in my shoes. Imagine being 18-years-old, and in just 24 hours the world you knew stopped existing.
Imagine being a teenager and learning all these skills that were designed for one purpose - to kill others. Growing up in Communist Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia), Mario Bekes witnessed a lot of social unrest - before finding himself in the middle of the Croatian War of Independence.
Mario's world quickly turned upside down. One morning...
16) N. Korea Camp 5
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Sgt Harold T. Brown age 91, passed away on Jan 20, 2022. He was survived by his wife Josephine of 67 yrs, & his 4 daughters Lorraine Brown, Kathleen Curtis, Vanessa Noxon, and Patricia Wilson. Harry was a P.O.W. in Korea from 1950-1953. He survived the death march. He attempted to escape 3 times and when caught paid a price for it. He was a man of valor and bravery. He was saddened to see his friends and others die. When the peace talks started conditions...
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A biography of the British World War II veteran and Japanese POW camp survivor, who went on to create a life-saving device.
Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too.
Taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Frank was forced to endure appalling...
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The life story of Mary Elizabeth LeBlanc in “Jackie Muise's Island Girl” is compelling and moving, not because she was highly unusual, but because she experienced, suffered, survived, and triumphed over challenges commonly faced by ordinary people during her era. She did so with inspiring fortitude and grace. Orphaned at an early age on PEI, she lives first with lightkeepers at Souris East Lighthouse, then with a St. Georges farming couple, Dolph...
19) Soldier of Valor
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Nothing had ever come easily for Jackson Levi, Montgomery, but he had character which exhibited passion and drive that superseded even impossible accomplishments. This true life inspired story has all the elements of passion, pain, loss and accomplishment. Truly an inspiring tale of one of life's true heroes. You will be inspired, and drawn through this story with enthusiastic joy for humanity.
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