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83) Durable goods
Author
Series
Katie Nash novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or...
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 11
Language
English
Description
"Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face-to-face with an insidious threat to strike terror into the heart of America. Fifteen years ago, in order to win a contract in the Kingdom, a desperate defense contractor used a shell company to provide a bribe to a wealthy Saudi businessman. Now a powerful player in the defense industry, he panics when the Panama Papers burst onto the public scene. Providing insight into the illicit...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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Description
Hiebert's book winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. She spins out the history of Nazi Germany's failed World War II atomic-bomb project by tracing the whereabouts of a small, blackened cube of Nazi uranium-- a cube that illuminated a little know but hugely consequential chapter of history: testimony to the...
86) Undetected
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Language
English
Description
"Researcher Gina Gray is on the verge of a breakthrough in sonar technology, and what she's told Navy Commander Mark Bishop is only the beginning.."--
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Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the six double agents--Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle, Garbo, and a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time--who would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety on 6 June 1944, D-Day.
The story of D-Day has been told from many points of view, but never before from the perspectives of the key...
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Language
English
Description
"A chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War."--Provided by publisher.
On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers...
92) The D.I
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drill instructor Sgt. Moore has the job of turning raw Marine recruits into lean, mean fighting machines, but can he reform both one young man who can't seem to take the pressure, and his own private life?
93) What was D-Day?
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Language
English
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D-Day spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
Kids Core, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The US Special Operations Forces across the military complete special missions to keep the United States safe. From night-vision goggles to mini submarines, US Special Operations Forces Equipment and Vehicles explores the gear that the different special forces groups use to complete these missions."--
96) One rough man
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Description
Pike Logan is a member of a band of secret government warriors known as the Taskforce, the operational arm of Project Prometheus, whose presidentially mandated mission is to hunt down terrorists and eliminate them by any means necessary. A personal disaster sidelines Pike, but he gets reluctantly dragged back into the fray after rescuing Jennifer Cahill, a student at the College of Charleston (S.C.), from two mysterious hit men. Meanwhile, in Guatemala,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women whove fought overseas from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is a rare eye-opening look into what wearing the uniform, fighting in combat, losing friends and coming home is really like. Readers who next thank a military member for their service will finally have a true understanding of what that thanks is for.
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A terrorist hit is coming. The CIA, FBI, and Department of Defense systems have spiked, but traditional intel is going nowhere. It falls to the Taskforce - a top-secret team outside the bounds of U.S. law charged with finding and destroying asymmetric threats - to stop the unknown conspirators. A shadowy trail leads the Taskforce into Egypt where they suffer losses in an attack, forcing Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill to helm the mission. (Bestseller)...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction.--Amazon.com
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