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- Clive Cussler Condor's fury [text (large print)] : a novel from the NUMA files / by Brown, Graham,1969-author.; Cussler, Clive,creator.;
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken-the men say-by baffling lights that circled the ship. Kurt and Joe deduce that the men are suffering from Havana Syndrome, which deepens the mystery and raises the stakes. Soon, they're confronting Cuban mercenaries who plan to use magnificent modern airships to hijack a nuclear submarine-culminating in a life-or-death showdown in the skies"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character); National Underwater and Marine Agency; Brainwashing; Hijacking of ships; Marine scientists; Terrorism;
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- The fifth act : America's end in Afghanistan / by Ackerman, Elliot,author.;
"A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy. Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and, later, as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August of 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict. Afghan nationals who had, for years, worked closely with the American military and intelligence communities now faced brutal reprisal and sought frantically to flee the country with their families. The official US government evacuation process was a bureaucratic failure that led to a humanitarian catastrophe. With his former colleagues, and friends, protecting the airport in Kabul, Ackerman was drawn into an impromptu effort alongside a group of journalists, and other veterans, to arrange flights and negotiate with both Taliban and American forces to secure the safe evacuation of hundreds. These were desperate measures taken during a desperate end to America's longest war, but the success they achieved afforded a degree of redemption. And, for Ackerman, a chance to reconcile his past with his present. The Fifth Act is an astonishing human document that brings the weight of twenty years of war to bear on a single week at its bitter end. Using the dramatic rescue efforts in Kabul as his lattice, Ackerman weaves in a personal history of the war's long progress, beginning with the initial invasion in the months after 9/11. It is a play in five acts, the fifth act being the story's tragic denouement, a prelude to Afghanistan's dark future. Any reader who wants to understand what went wrong with the war's trajectory will find a trenchant accounting here. And yet The Fifth Act is not an exercise in finger-pointing: it brings readers into close contact with a remarkable group of characters, American and Afghan, who fought the war with courage and dedication, in good faith and at great personal cost. Understanding combatants' experiences and sacrifices while reckoning with the complex bottom line of the post-9/11 wars is not an easy balance; it demands reservoirs of wisdom and the gifts of an extraordinary storyteller. It asks for an author willing to grapple with certain hard-earned truths. In Elliot Ackerman, this story has found that author. The Fifth Act is a first draft of history that feels like a timeless classic"--- Subjects: Ackerman, Elliot.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 8th. Battalion, 1st.; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Disengagement (Military science); Paramilitary forces;
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- Cars [videorecording]. by Newman, Paul; Hunt, Bonnie; Wilson, Owen; Marin, Cheech; Shalhoub, Tony; Larry The Cable Guy,;
Larry The Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Owen Wilson, Cheech Marin, Paul Newman.Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he is stranded in Radiator Springs, a town on old Route 66. He meets a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame. Special features include deleted scenes, featurettes, and more.CHVRS rating: G.- Subjects: Children's.; Children's films.; Animated.; Family Films.;
- © 2011., Disney,
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- Cars [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Newman, Paul; Hunt, Bonnie; Wilson, Owen; Marin, Cheech; Shalhoub, Tony; Larry The Cable Guy,;
Larry The Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Owen Wilson, Cheech Marin, Paul Newman.Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he is stranded in Radiator Springs, a town on old Route 66. He meets a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame. Special features include deleted scenes, featurettes, and more.CHVRS rating: G.- Subjects: Children's.; Children's films.; Animated.; Family Films.;
- © 2011., Disney,
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- Future weather [videorecording] / by Deller, Jenny.; Fairweather, Kristin.; Haney-Jardine, Perla,1997-; Ireland, Marin.; Jain, Anubhav.; Madigan, Amy.; Sadler, William,1950-; Taylor, Lili.; Lipstick Pictures (Firm); Virgil Films (Firm);
Editor, Shelby Siegel ; director of photography, Zak Mulligan ; music, Erik Friedlander.Amy Madigan, William Sadler, Perla Haney-Jardine, Lily Taylor, Marin Ireland, Anubhav Jain.Lauduree is a 13-year-old loner, passionate about nature and obsessed with ecological disaster. Greta, her grandmother, is a nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Lauduree is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom, she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures.PG.DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation.- Subjects: Abandoned children; Coming-of-age films.; Environmentalists; Feature films.; Grandparent and child; Grandparents as parents;
- © c2013., Virgil Films,
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- Junk raft : an ocean voyage and a rising tide of activism to fight plastic pollution / by Eriksen, Marcus,1967-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft" Over the past several years, the news media has brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--the famous swirling gyre of plastic litter in the ocean--into the public consciousness. When Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna, and set out to study marine pollution, they found that the reality is even more dire: instead of a stable mass of litter, they discovered that a "plastic smog" of microparticles permeates the world's oceans, defying simplistic clean-up efforts. What's more, these microplastics and their toxic chemistry have seeped into the food chain, threatening marine life and humans alike. Far from being a gloomy treatise on an environmental catastrophe, though, Junk Raft tells the exciting story of Eriksen's fight to raise awareness and solve the problem of plastic pollution, contributing to a fast-growing movement to stem the tide of trash. Eriksen writes of his voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii aboard his homemade "junk raft," and along the way he recounts the successful efforts to fight corporate influence and demand that plastics producers take responsibility for a problem they've created. Eriksen provides concrete, actionable solutions and an empowering message: it's up to bold, brash, unapologetically activist "citizen scientists" to challenge the status quo for the sake of the planet"--- Subjects: Eriksen, Marcus, 1967-; Plastic marine debris; Microplastics; Marine pollution;
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- Second chance pass / by Carr, Robyn.;
Vanessa Rutledge, who in the space of a few months buried her husband and gave birth to their son, turns to her husband's fellow Marine and friend, Paul Haggerty.- Subjects: Romance fiction.; War widows; Man-woman relationships;
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- Grill fire : 100+ recipes & techniques for mastering the flame / by Taylor, Lex,author.;
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- Subjects: Cookbooks.; Barbecuing.; Outdoor cooking.;
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- The boogeyman [videorecording] / by Beck, Scott,1984-screenwriter.; Blair, Vivien Lyra,actor.; Born, Eli,director of photography.; Cohen, Dan(Producer),film producer.; Dastmalchian, David,actor.; Gvozdas, Peter,1974-editor of moving image work.; Heyman, Mark,1979-screenwriter.; Hu, Madison,actor.; Ireland, Marin,actor.; Jonsson, Patrick,composer.; Levine, Dan(Film producer),film producer.; Levy, Shawn,1968-film producer.; Messina, Chris,actor.; Nichols, Maddie,actor.; Savage, Robert M.(Robert Michael),film director.; Thatcher, Sophie,actor.; Woods, Bryan,1984-screenwriter.; motion picture adaptation of (work):King, Stephen,1947-Boogeyman.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Director of photography, Eli Born ; music, Patrick Jonsson ; editor, Peter Gvozdas.Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, David Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland, Madison Hu, Maddie Nichols.Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13, terror, violent content, teen drug use, strong language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Monster films.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Families; Sisters; Monsters; Mothers; Psychiatrists; Supernatural; Suicide;
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- Save the sea turtles / by Musgrave, Ruth A.,1960-;
'Save the Sea Turtles' is a reader all about different kinds of sea turtles, from the smallest to the biggest, and how we can all help to keep their marine environment clean and safe.- Subjects: Readers (Publications); Sea turtles;
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