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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the center of the Philippine Sea when she is struck by two Japanese torpedoes. The ship is instantly transformed into a fiery cauldron and sinks within minutes. Some 300 men go down with the ship. Nearly 900 make it into...
62) Cliffhanger
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Rocky Mountain rescue workers discover a distress call to locate five climbers is really a trap set by a merciless international terrorist, and millions of dollars and their own lives hang in the balance.
63) Saving Sinbad!
Author
Publisher
Kane/Miller
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Working as a builder's mate high on the church roof, keeping an eye out for your master and on the rest of the townsfolk, taking part in a dramatic rescue at sea - why, it's all in a day's work."
Author
Language
English
Description
"Training avalanche rescue dogs with his best friend's sister, Felicity Winslow, was never in Stone Keller's plans. But after a reckless motorcycle accident ends his rodeo career, he has nowhere to go but home to Colorado. Working with the dogs - and Felicity - could be exactly what he needs to put the pieces of his life back together." -- Back cover.
Publisher
Go Entertaiment Group Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Some are world-famous, such as the US Navy SEALS and the British SAS. Others lurk in the shadows, like India's Black Cats and Russia's Alfa group. But what unites them is that they're the toughest, most determined, and most highly-trained soldiers on the planet. This lavishly illustrated book forms the perfect partner to the thrilling and chilling six-DVD series Black Ops, which charts some of the most iconic, complex, and controversial Special Forces...
69) Dunkirk
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Intense war experience and some language.
Author
Language
English
Description
Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places: the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men: a Canadian, a Brit, and their captain, JP de Lutz, a dual citizen of the United States and France. Their capsized forty-seven-foot sailboat has disappeared below the tempestuous sea. The giant waves repeatedly toss the men out of their tiny vessel, and JP, with nine broken ribs, is hypothermic...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved ones left behind. The cases that are an embarrassment for park superintendents, rangers and law enforcement charged with Search & Rescue. The ones that baffle the volunteers who comb the mountains,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
McHale's navy: Retired naval commander Quinton McHale's days are dashed when his former nemesis threatens his beloved island base.
Thunderbirds: The Thunderbirds are under threat. Their arch enemy The Hood has trapped them in space and taken over their hi-tech crafts and technology for his own evil purposes. Unbeknown to The Hood though, Alan, the youngest Tracy boy, is still on their secret island. But does he have what it takes to save his family--...
Author
Series
Global search and rescue volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alaska. Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones's elite rescue team, but he also can't shirk his duty when the call comes in to rescue three lost climbers on Denali. Former CIA profiler and psychiatrist Jenny Calhoun's yearly extreme challenge with her best friends is her only escape from the guilt that has sunk its claws into her. As a consultant during a top-secret...
76) Frozen in time
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished. In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors...
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Language
English
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Description
A true story about a 4-yr-old deaf boy, Jeremy Coots, who wandered away from the babysitter's home south of Atchison, KS, near the Missouri River on February 18, 1977. The author Melodye (Coots) Hathaway describes in captivating and honest detail the 5-day search for her son and the aftermath that followed. She was in her ninth month of pregnancy with her second child as thousands of searchers over the course of 5 days came together to find her little...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took 52 Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. Journalist Bowden tells the story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them,...
