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241) Lethal Horizon
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"For David Rivers and his team, the mission was supposed to be simple-- retrieve a defecting militia leader and deliver him to CIA interrogators.
But nothing is simple in Yemen, where vast swaths of terrain are controlled by Houthi and Al Qaeda fighters. When they locate the asset, the team discovers why he has been deemed critical to their intelligence effort.
The defector has direct knowledge of the team's top target: Erik Weisz, the shadowy...
243) La cancion de Amina
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When they can no longer find enough to eat in the part of the forest where they live, a group of Mbuti, or Pygmies, sing to the forest to help them cross a crocodile-infested river, but Amina sings her own song and comes up with a safer way.
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A magnificent species whose survival is inextricably tied to the survival of the planet In what he calls “the most important environmental writing” in his long and award-winning career, best-selling author and journalist Mark Kurlansky recounts the sobering history of salmon and their perilous future. Kurlansky employs his signature multicentury storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle...
249) Dark Redemption
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"An assassin on the brink of destruction. The leader of a global crime syndicate. And the meeting of two fatal enemies...
David Rivers killed the man who betrayed his team. Now, he's after the faceless mastermind who gave the order. To the criminal world, this man is known only as the Handler. And for the first time, he is within David's reach. But in order to get close to the Handler, David must first serve him. This time, the task is new:...
250) Offer of Revenge
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"David Rivers wants vengeance. But there's only one way to kill his greatest enemy -- David must first join the secretive organization that slaughtered the only family he had. To prove his allegiance, he enters a life-or-death battle in the badlands of Somalia. But the closer David gets to his target, the more he realizes that the betrayal of his team was not as random as he thought. Someone inside the organization seems to know his true purpose,...
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"From beavers and otters to snakes, newts, and more, this one-of-a-kind board book features dozens of illustrations, educational captions, vocabulary words, cut-out accents, and hidden chambers to be revealed with each turn of the page. Learn all about aquatic animals and the amazing lives they live!"--
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"David Rivers is an expert in the art of violence. Together with his team of CIA operatives, he's executed dozens of covert assassinations--but this mission might turn out to be his deadliest yet. One man stands behind the transfer of high-level military hardware to an international terrorist syndicate. The CIA has uncovered his identity: Yuri Sidorov, a Russian arms dealer with state protection. With the arms deal only days away, David and the team...
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"In this collection of essays, Page Stegner threads together natural history, conservation polemic, ecology, and wilderness adventures on a number of the West's major white-water rivers. With twenty-five years of rafting behind him, Stegner moves effortlessly from his own experiences on the Colorado, Yampa, Green, San Juan, Dolores, and Missouri rivers to first explorations by historical figures like Lewis and Clark and John Wesley Powell, to modern...
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"After a summer of nine typhoons in 1931, the dams on the Yangtze River in China broke, completely flooding nearby towns and farms. Twelve-year-old Ting wakes up to a house full of water and her parents nowhere to be found. It's up to her to lead her younger brother and others to safety, battling high waters and greedy characters along the way. Will the children survive to be reunited with their parents? Part of the Girls Survive Graphic Novels series,...