Robert J Mrazek
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Unfairly disgraced former army officer Jake Cantrell has only one friend left: Bug, a wolf-dog he saved while serving in Afghanistan. Together, they try to put his bitter past behind him and Jake settles for employment at the bottom rung of the campus security ladder of a small upstate New York college. But things only turn worse when the college's richest and most powerful alumnus is found hanging from a campus footbridge on the eve of homecoming...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Attempting to unravel the conspiracy behind an opioid epidemic, former disgraced army officer Jake Cantrell is hired to find missing college student Deborah Chapman, a gifted young jazz vocalist--a search that results in a brutal showdown that could mean Deborah's rescue or his demise."--
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English
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"When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children. Florence was an unlikely warrior....
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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The award-winning author of Valhalla brings back archaeologist Lexy Vaughan and retired Air Force officer Steve Macaulay, as they race to save a priceless discovery from disappearing forever.…
One of the greatest archaeological finds of all time, Peking Man, the 780,000-year-old remains of our earliest known human ancestor, disappeared during World War II from a cargo ship bound for America.
Now
5) Valhalla
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Along the Greenland ice cap, an expedition team makes an astounding discovery. Buried five hundred feet below the ice cap is the wreckage of an ancient ship—and nine perfectly preserved Vikings. Rune markings indicate it went missing in 1016 BC.
Energized by the find, retired Air Force general Steven Macaulay assembles the foremost scholars of Norse archaeology, including Harvard academic and master decoder Lexy Vaughan. But the...
Energized by the find, retired Air Force general Steven Macaulay assembles the foremost scholars of Norse archaeology, including Harvard academic and master decoder Lexy Vaughan. But the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
One of the great untold stories of World War II finally comes to light in this thrilling account of the members of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet win critical victories at Midway and Guadalcanal. These thirty-five American men-many flying outmoded aircraft-changed the course of history, going on to become the war's most decorated naval air squadron, while suffering the heaviest losses in U.S. naval...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A Southern boy kills a man during the Civil War while defending his mother and finds in his pocket a map of buried gold. The novel follows his adventures to retrieve it, in the course of which he is captured by thieves and is rescued by an older girl. A first novel.
11) The congressman
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to stand and recite the pledge of allegiance, he knocks out another House member, confronts his angry ex-wife, and faces denunciation by the media for attacking one of the most cherished patriotic symbols in America. As his life spirals out of control, Charlie embarks on a journey to a remote island in the Atlantic whose eccentric inhabitants are in the middle...