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A FLIGHT TO SAFETY-BUT THE BODIES KEEP PILING UP...
As told in the previous thriller, The Oven, CIA clandestine operative Woody Stressel and KGB undercover agent Ava Volkov become unlikely partners to solve the mystery of disappearing CIA operators who vanished and whose bodies were never found. The two of them barely escaped being tortured and cremated and having their ashes thrown out with used kitty litter. Woody and Ava became high-value targets...
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For most college football players, practice is the most difficult part of their day, and for many of them, playing for the NFL is the goal. At the United States Naval Academy, the twenty-one hours a day the players spend off the field are at least as demanding as the three that they spend on the field, and their post-college futures are determined: serving their country as officers leading Sailors and Marines. For over 130 years, Navy football has...
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TURN OBSTACLES INTO FUEL FOR FULFILLMENT AND SUCCESS
What does it mean to become the fire? It means not allowing yourself to be in the fire of life's challenges, getting burned, but instead using the fire to ignite your motivation and drive, passion and grit. It means not focusing on what you don't have or can't do, but instead leveraging what you do have and can do. It means using your differences to your advantage and seeing life's chaos as fuel...
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The cover of darkness was pulled back by the NODS scopes in their hands. The enemy had no idea what was about to befall them. With the rush of wings of dragons, the sounds of M-14s, M-870 shotguns, M-16's and grenades spoke the finality of death. This gave the human pack mules a taste of what would continue to reign upon them in the House of the Dragon. North and South Vietnam were at war. Indeed, all of Southeast Asia was at war. Due to national...
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TURN OBSTACLES INTO FUEL FOR FULFILLMENT AND SUCCESS
What does it mean to become the fire? It means not allowing yourself to be in the fire of life's challenges, getting burned, but instead using the fire to ignite your motivation and drive, passion and grit. It means not focusing on what you don't have or can't do, but instead leveraging what you do have and can do. It means using your differences to your advantage and seeing life's chaos as fuel...
8) Jolts, Synchronicities, Dream Catchers, and Milagros: A Memoir Into the Fire of Original Experience
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“Jolts, Synchronicities, Dream Catchers and Milagros: A Memoir into the Fire of Original Experience” challenges the reader to look below the surface and see what is most important to one's body, mind, heart and spirit. The book explores different themes that make up the author's journey of becoming as he presents a memoir that goes to the epicenter of being human.
The stories in this book span seven decades. They begin in a 3 flat apartment above...
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The melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America's history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist. Instead, they advocate multiculturalism, which promotes ethnic boundaries and distinct group identities. Both models have precedents across the centuries, as Jens Heycke demonstrates in a contribution to the debate that incorporates an international, historical perspective.
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Lightning and forest fires could strike terror in primitive humans, yet they also cherished fire as a life-giving gift from the gods. Eberhard Arnold surveys the symbolism of light and fire in the Bible, literature, and history to illuminate our love/fear relationship with God. The Holy Spirit, like fire, is a two-edged sword: it brings the blazing wrath of God's judgment, consuming all that is dead and cold in us, but also the radiant warmth of his...
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Little Genius Books
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2022.
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JUMP INTO THE DRIVER'S SEAT TO ENTER A WORLD OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY! With this new and innovative picture books series, children can race a fire engine to the rescue, build a house with a digger, and climb aboard a tractor to help out on the farm! Fire fighters have a very important job. They race in their fire engines to put out fires. Now, it's your turn to be the driver! I'm the Fire Engine Driver puts the reader in charge with a dashboard design...
13) Progress report on the NIST building and fire investigation into the World Trade Center disaster
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NISTIR volume 6942
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U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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2002.
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14) Die by the gun
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Chuckwagon trail novels volume 2
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After completing a successful cattle drive as the chuckwagon cook, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie signs up for another one on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. Pursued by a gang of ruthless killers hired by his enemies, with an ornery trail boss and the cattle owner's spoiled son as his crew mate, Mac sets off on a route overrun with kill-crazy rustlers and bloodthirsty Comanche. When the owner's son is kidnapped, the courageous cook...
15) Mail-Order Groom
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Harlequin
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2010
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Fleeing scandal, stage sensation Savannah Reed swaps sparkles and satin for calico and wool to be Morrow Creek's telegraph operator. Through the wires she finds her new leading man, but when he arrives--shot and left for dead on her doorstep--Savannah suspects she's jumped out of the limelight and into the fire....
Detective Adam Corwin awakens to Savannah's bewitching smile, but she's mistaken him for her mail-order groom!...
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"Haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist, Val Deniston has traded the chaos of New York City for a quieter life near the Chesapeake Bay. Living with her curmudgeonly grandfather in the tourist town of Bayport is hardly glamorous, but she enjoys working at the Cool Down Cafe at the fitness club, and finally has time to work on her long-planned cookbook. But when one of the club's patrons is found dead, she'll have...
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Thundercluck volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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When Thundercluck and the goddess Brunhilde anger the gods of Asgard, they are forced out and must face off against a seasoned foe.
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Chef Angie Turner of The County Seat-Idaho's finest farm-to-table restaurant-is preparing a private dinner in the mountains during ski season, but the trip's about to go downhill . . .
It's a rockin' New Year for Angie and her crew as they cater a bash for a famous band-and as a bonus, they'll get to stay at the singer's Sun Valley house for a whole week once the party's over. But there are hints of discord, and the event hits a sour note when one...
19) The Fortess
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Three women escaping from a war-torn planet crash land on another planet, it's a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire, but this time romance begins to flourish as the women grow to like the company of the three men they are forced to join in a never-ending battle of wits against a more powerful enemy.
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Quinn, a lost and forgotten little boy who never asked to be born. Deaf, mute and damaged, every day is a battle to survive ... In the orphanage, then the asylum. There seems to be no end to his suffering. Then one fateful day a giant load of trouble arriQuinn, a lost and forgotten little boy who never asked to be born. Deaf, mute and damaged, every day is a battle to survive ... In the orphanage, then the asylum. There seems to be no end to his suffering....