The Last Escape

The Last Escape
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 1518626327
ISBN-13 : 9781518626326
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Escape by : Bobby Adair

They were dead. All of them. In the wake of a massacre, Ella, Bray, and William flee into the wild, hoping to escape the brutal vengeance of an unforgiving leader. In Brighton, political and economic tensions boil. Famine is approaching. The monsters are amassing. And a costly decision must be made, one that will threaten the lives of humanity's last survivors...

The Last Survivor

The Last Survivor
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781493063727
ISBN-13 : 1493063723
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Survivor by : Frank Krake

THE LAST SURVIVOR is the incredible story of a man who survived three concentration camps and a major maritime disaster at the end of WW II. Stowed away on top of a train, twenty-year-old Wim Aloserij escapes the obligatory ‘Arbeitseinsatz’ (forced or “slave” labor) in Germany in 1943. The young man from Amsterdam then goes into hiding on a farm and sleeps for months in a wooden chest hidden underground. Despite his efforts to stay there, he is captured during a raid and taken to the infamous Gestapo prison in Amsterdam, after which he is imprisoned in Camp Amersfoort. A few weeks later he is sent on a transport to northern Germany. There, he is forced to work in Camp Husum and Camp Neuengamme, an experience many men will not survive but Wim nevertheless does, in part thanks to the harsh lessons he learned from his alcoholic and physically abusive stepfather. With the end of the war in sight, Wim ends up on the German luxury cruise liner the Cap Arcona, anchored in the Bay of Lübeck. While the Allies force Nazi Germany into submission on the docks, the RAF make a terrible mistake at sea. Fighter planes bomb several of the anchored ships, including the Cap Arcona, and in what soon becomes a veritable inferno 7,000 prisoners die. Together with just a few hundred other passengers, Wim survives one of the worst maritime disasters of all time.

Last Survivor

Last Survivor
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Publisher : Tony Park
Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : 9781922389053
ISBN-13 : 1922389056
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Last Survivor by : Tony Park

Only a bunch of heavily armed gardeners can save the world's most valuable plant. A priceless plant, a rare African cycad thought to be extinct and prized by collectors, has been discovered, then stolen. Joanne Flack, widowed and broke, is the prime suspect for the crime. While supposedly hiding out in London she single-handedly foils a terrorist plot, killing a lone-wolf gunman. Former mercenary turned CIA contractor, Sonja Kurtz, uncovers a link between the missing plant and the terrorist who tried to kill Joanne. The US Government thinks that if it can find the missing cycad it can foil an attack to rival 9-11. Hot on Joanne’s trail is retired US Fisheries and Wildlife Department special agent Rod Cavanagh who knows his plants and knows his target – he’s her former lover. Joanne is a member of the Pretoria Cycad and Firearms Appreciation Society. She, Sonja and Rod enlist the help of this group of ageing gardeners and gun nuts to find a plant worth a fortune and the traitor in their midst who is willing to kill for it.

Lone Survivor

Lone Survivor
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0751555940
ISBN-13 : 9780751555943
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Lone Survivor by : Marcus Luttrell

This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, and the desperate battle in the Afghanistan mountains in 2005, that led to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history.

Song of Dewey Beard

Song of Dewey Beard
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780803269361
ISBN-13 : 0803269366
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Song of Dewey Beard by : Philip Burnham

Profiles the Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Bighorn and the massacre at Wounded Knee, worked in Hollywood and for Buffalo Bill Cody's "Wild West Show," and fought for the transformation of the Black Hills.

Angel in the Rubble

Angel in the Rubble
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781451635201
ISBN-13 : 1451635206
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Angel in the Rubble by : Genelle Guzman-McMillan

The story of the last survivor pulled from the 9/11 Ground Zero debris after 27 hours and her journey from desperation to a miraculous salvation.

The Great Wall: Last Survivor

The Great Wall: Last Survivor
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Publisher : Legendary Comics
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 9781681160344
ISBN-13 : 168116034X
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Wall: Last Survivor by : Arvid Nelson

An original graphic novel inspired by the major motion picture The Great Wall from Legendary, Universal Pictures, China Film Co., Ltd and Le Vision Pictures, directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) and starring Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal and Willem Dafoe. The Great Wall: Last Survivor is written by Arvid Nelson (Rex Mundi) with art by Gian Fernando (13 Legends). What if an army was created to defend our world from an enemy so dangerous, its very existence must be kept a secret? Built to keep out the ferocious Tao Tei, The Great Wall is the most powerful defensive structure ever built; but it is the heroes within that make the wall great: The Nameless Order. Set sixty years prior to the film, in the mysterious lands of ancient China, tragedy forces young Bao into joining The Nameless Order and upholding the corps’ four principles: Discipline, Loyalty, Secrecy, and Sacrifice. Challenged by rivals, haunted by his past, and tested by desires, Bao spends his life preparing for one singular moment: when he will have to defend the world from ferocious monsters that have come to devour us all.

This World We Live in

This World We Live in
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9780547248042
ISBN-13 : 0547248040
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis This World We Live in by : Susan Beth Pfeffer

The highly anticipated follow-up to Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone

Lone Survivors

Lone Survivors
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9781429973441
ISBN-13 : 1429973447
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Lone Survivors by : Chris Stringer

A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ancient ancestors in different parts of the world) and his own "out of Africa" theory, which maintains that humans emerged rapidly in one small part of Africa and then spread to replace all other humans within and outside the continent. Stringer's new theory, based on archeological and genetic evidence, holds that distinct humans coexisted and competed across the African continent—exchanging genes, tools, and behavioral strategies. Stringer draws on analyses of old and new fossils from around the world, DNA studies of Neanderthals (using the full genome map) and other species, and recent archeological digs to unveil his new theory. He shows how the most sensational recent fossil findings fit with his model, and he questions previous concepts (including his own) of modernity and how it evolved. Lone Survivors will be the definitive account of who and what we were, and will change perceptions about our origins and about what it means to be human.

Triangle

Triangle
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781429994750
ISBN-13 : 1429994754
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Triangle by : Katharine Weber

Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told her story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to survive the fire when at least 146 workers, most of them women, her sister and fiancé among them, burned or jumped to their deaths from the sweatshop inferno? Are the discrepancies in her various accounts over the years just ordinary human fallacy, or is there a hidden story in Esther's recollections of that terrible day? Esther's granddaughter Rebecca Gottesfeld, with her partner George Botkin, an ingenious composer, seek to unravel the facts of the matter while Ruth Zion, a zealous feminist historian of the fire, bores in on them with her own mole-like agenda. A brilliant, haunting novel about one of the most terrible tragedies in early-twentieth-century America, Triangle forces us to consider how we tell our stories, how we hear them, and how history is forged from unverifiable truths.