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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden
Format: Paperback
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On October 3, 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers embarked on a mission in Somalia to capture two warlords. It was a simple plan. What erupted instead was a night of bloodshed and death. It became the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. This is t |
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John Glenn: A Memoir
John Glenn - Bantam Books
Format: Print book
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He was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. Nearly four decades later, as the world's oldest astronaut, his courage riveted a nation. But these two historic events only bracket a life that covers the sweep of an extraordinary century. In this engrossing book, John Glenn... |
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Susan Casey - Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed... |
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Killing Pablo is the story of the fifteen-month manhunt for Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose escape from his lavish, mansionlike jail drove a nation to the brink of chaos. In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-revealed... |
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan... |
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Firehouse
David Halberstam - Hyperion; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“If you have tears, prepare to shed them.” --Frank McCourt "In the firehouse, the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses, and, most important, share terrifying risks; their loyalties... |
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy - Modern Library; New edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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quotThe fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner,quot writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. quotI venture that... |
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Cadillac Jack
Larry McMurtry
Format: Book
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In Cadillac Jack, Larry McMurtry -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove -- proves his unique talent for conjuring up the real, often eccentric people who inhabit the American heartland and for capturing the peculiarly American search for new frontiers and adventu |
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Spill
Les Standiford - Atlantic Monthly Pr; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An illegal plague virus is let loose from a runaway tanker in Yellowstone National Park on a national holiday. The PetroDyne Corporation wants to prevent the story leaking and a homicidal psychopath is also on the loose.
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