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1) The search
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Sarah Patrick, working search and rescue with Monty, her golden retriever who is part of the ATF K-9 unit, takes on a perilous new assignment to locate a kidnapped scientist.
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Murphy Shepherd novels volume 3
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English
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"Because you're worth rescue." Murphy Shepherd's last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He'd like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for awhile. But Bones's brother must be stopped, and there are so many who still need to know they are worth rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn -- both physically and mentally. Then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and...
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Search and rescue (Katie Ruggle) volume 3
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English
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As survival expert George Holloway leads city girl Ellie Price through the treacherous Colorado Rockies in search of her missing father, they find themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous man intent on revenge.
4) Home free
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Sisterhood series volume 20
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English
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The vigilantes of the Sisterhood reorganize as a secret group called the CIC and dedicated to serving their friend, the president of the United States, Martine Connor.
5) Helicopters
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2018.
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English
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Helicopters are among the most mission-oriented machines. They often get their rotors spinning to pick up a sick or injured person, to a military zone, or to help with a wildfire. In this book, helicopters lift off, spin, and land for early readers.
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2013.
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English
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In 2006, 27-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. They moved to Somalia with hopes of starting a family. Then on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a colleague were kidnapped and held for ransom by a band of Somali pirates. For the next three months,...
8) Cliffhanger
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[2000]
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English
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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.
9) Hot zone
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Elite force volume 2
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[2011]
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English
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When he rescues attorney Amelia Bailey from the wreckage of an earthquake, master sergeant Hugh Franco becomes embroiled in a kidnapping plot and will stop at nothing to save this woman who holds his heart in her hands.
10) Helicopters
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Series
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2002.
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English
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An introduction to how helicopters can be used to help sick and injured people.
11) Beyond a doubt
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Rock Harbor series volume 2
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[2013], ©2004
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English
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Nothing seems beyond a doubt when Bree opens a cold-case file ... with clues too close for comfort. Arson. Theft. Murder. When Bree Nichols discovers a corpse in her own basement, a whirlwind investigation usher an unbidden danger to all she holds dear. Wihout safe haven in her lighthouse home-or in the arms of her new love-the young widow struggles to free her family from the tentacles of an age-old crime that strikes at the heart of Rock Harbor....
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Global Search and Rescue volume 1
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English
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"Jenny Calhoun climbs mountains to forget what she's done, who she was. But this time, when an excursion up Denali turns deadly, she is forced to accept the help of the one man she hoped she'd never see again--the man she nearly killed"--Provided by publisher.
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...
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Kate Rees novels volume 2
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[2023]
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English
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"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
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[2006]
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English
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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,...
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Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea
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After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Susannah Charleson was so impressed by the newspaper photo of an exhausted handler and his search-and-rescue dog that she decided to train a dog of her own. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Charleson got Puzzle, a strong, bright Golden Retriever, who from the start, exhibited a unique aptitude for search-and-rescue work. But the puppy's willfulness challenged even Susannah, who had raised...
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[2013]
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English
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In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast...
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