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1) Rescue
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"Engaging images accompany information about rescue missions. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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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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In 2006, 27-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. They moved to Somalia with hopes of starting a family. Then on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a colleague were kidnapped and held for ransom by a band of Somali pirates. For the next three months,...
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"Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and getting married to a new husband, thirty-three-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way. Susan comes to believe that a puppy and working on ski patrol at the last great ski town in Colorado will improve her life. When she learns about avalanches that bury people without warning, she challenges herself: ''What if I teach a dog to save lives?'' This quest propels her to train the best...
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Team hope volume 3
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Bush pilot Andee MacLeod and FBI agent Stirling "Mac" McRae must learn to trust God and each other after their plane crashes in the Alaskan forest, and with little hope of rescue, they are forced to lead the small group of survivors--one of which may be a terrorist--to safety.
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"The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him"--
10) Snow search dogs
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"Engaging images accompany information about snow search dogs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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Who flies rescue helicopters? What does the inside of a rescue helicopter look like? Learn all about these important machines in this book. The huge wheels, powerful engines, and loud noises of working machines seem to entrance children for hours. Now young students can pore over color photos as they learn about their favorite machines--inside and out. Each book builds vocabulary as it describes in simple language the basics of a machine: what it...
15) Harm's way
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Jonathan Grave thriller volume 15
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Henchmen of a vicious drug syndicate have snatched ten missionaries in a remote area of Venezuela and are holding them for ransom. The high-priority rescue op comes as a personal plea from FBI Director Irene Rivers, who has a very special interest in one of the hostages. The mission is strictly off the books, and there can be no international incident. With his key operatives Gunslinger and Boxers, Jonathan Grave infiltrates the enemy camp. Right...
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Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a Coast Guard station more than 800 miles away, the men scrambled to inflate life rafts. By 4:30, the wheelhouse was just barely visible, and most of the 47 crew were in the water, wearing the red survival suits--many torn or inadequately sized--that were supposed to...
18) The search
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Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 3
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Sarah Patrick, working search and rescue with Monty, her golden retriever who is part of the ATF K-9 unit, takes on a perilous new assignment to locate a kidnapped scientist.
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When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can. One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday...
