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Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life.

Told in alternating timelines and points of view, three boys prepare and execute a bold plan that results in a deadly plane crash, and in the the aftermath, three girls--a twin sister, a best friend, and an ex-girlfriend--try to piece together the truth about the boys they loved and thought they knew.

When their parents are killed in a plane crash, a group of former childhood friends, who are now entering their senior year in high school, are pulled back together by the tragedy. Josie, Jack, Archie, Harrison, and Dayana were inseparable as preschoolers, but life got in the way. As senior year approaches, with its parties, football, and college applications, they're basically strangers to each other. Then their parents die in a plane crash. To...

"On April 12, 1945, a fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission was simple: stop World War II by burning the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese em¬pire, thereby forcing an unconditional surren¬der. Yet the mission did not go as planned. On board one of the B-29s, the City of Los Angeles, a phosphorus bomb detonated inside the plane. Staff Sergeant Henry E. "Red" Erwin absorbed the blast of burning...

"Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler"-- Tibet, 1959. A Buddhist artifact of immense important disappeared during the Communist takeover. When National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea more than sixty years...

A Los Angeles crime reporter whose wife and daughters were killed in a plane crash meets a woman who claims to have survived the crash while a shadowy organization tries to stop her.

The Central Intelligence training program Treadstone produced two graduates of equal skill and determination --Jason Bourne and a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin. As Bourne's destiny circles closer to Arkadin's, it becomes clear that the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know, "Who is the more deadly agent?"

A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.

Follow Central Park Zoo animals, including, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, along with the psychotic penguins, the monkeys, and the lemur leaders as they unexpectedly are now stranded in the middle of Africa. While Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are rather happy with their new environment, they quickly realize that it's not all that it seems. Meanwhile, the penguins attempt to repair the plane that they accidentally...