Coastal defense and maritime law are the U.S. Coast Guard’s primary duties. Readers will learn this and more through this title, which explores the U.S. Coast Guard through the perspective of a child whose sister is currently in its service. The text teaches readers about the joys and struggles of having a family member in the military to demonstrate how important service members’ sacrifices are. Readers also learn about the branch’s past and present, as well as career opportunities the coast guard offers. Fact boxes and photographs help explore other topics, such as military technology, lifestyle, and more.

There Must Be a Way: A Life of Distraction By: Murphy van Benschoten About the Book There Must Be a Way is Murphy van Benschoten’s story of living with undiagnosed ADHD. Being constantly labeled negatively, van Benschoten shines a light onto a life with ADHD and how you can still strive to succeed in all you set out to do. Throughout her life, van Benschoten struggled with concentrating, in school, at work, and as an adult performing routine errands like hosting a family dinner and going to the grocery store. Using humor and raw emotion, she places on the page the everyday life of a person with ADHD, and her journey to diagnosis and management. Through her engaging story, anyone with ADHD or without will find great value in her journey and become more aware of the struggles and triumphs those with ADHD face every day.

It may be the smallest branch of the armed forces, but the U.S. Coast Guard plays a pivotal role in the military. Charged with ensuring the safety and security of the country through protecting and guarding the shores, members of the coast guard perform a unique job. This informative volume gives readers an up-close look at life in this branch of the military and explains its fascinating history. Striking photographs take readers on a journey from the early days of the coast guard to the high-tech military force it is today.

Ever since his younger sister Martha woke him early one Sunday morning holding a Rubic's Cube in the palm of her hand with all the colored squares in perfect alignment, in some backward way, twelve-year-old Richard Baimbridge became his sister's motivation. If she saw me give up on anything, regardless of how insignificant-forgetting a phone number, finding the right nut to fit a bolt, or fixing a broken toy-she'd go after it with fanaticism and would not give up until she'd figured it out.Being better than Richard challenged Martha and when she succeeded, it fulfilled her. Richard was proud of her, but not like their Dad. Their Dad loved it. It seemed the more Martha outdid Richard, the more he liked it. By the time Richard left home at eighteen, there was a gap between his father and him that an ocean couldn't fill.But when Martha is brutally attacked while investigating the rape and attempted murder of a thirteen-year old for the News & Observer, Richard Baimbridge moves back to his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, to assist his family in caring for his sister and comes face to face with his tormented past and a dark family secret.Despised by his father and haunted by his past, he fights to stay above the flood of childhood trauma while longing to return to the life he'd built in New York City. But when the police exhaust all leads in his sister's case, wheelchair-bound Martha refuses to let her case die and, with Richard as her legs, insists on continuing the investigation herself, drawing Richard into the darker side of Wilmington - a place of greed, violence, and murder - where he, himself, becomes a primary murder suspect.

What happened to beautiful 43 year old Natalie Wood on the night of 29th November, 1981, when she drowned in the dark waters off Santa Catalina Island, California? Almost thirty-three years later, we are no nearer solving the mystery. Pamela Lillian Valemont, a crime research numerologist of more than thirty-five years standing, decided to look into this mysterious case. Delving further, using a completely different set of diagnostic detective tools, she is able to furnish us with some astounding clues in answer to the question "Whatever happened to Natalie Wood?"

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Shortly before embarking on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe, Amelia Earhart confided to a friend, “I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip around the world is it.” This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. TIGHAR investigators had no agenda. They were not out to advocate, excuse, honor, or impugn. They saw the Earhart disappearance as an aviation accident and reasoned the answer to its cause and outcome should be discoverable if they could find, assemble, and analyze the relevant data. To understand why she died it was necessary to strip away the myths and sentimentality that have grown up over the years and examine the hard truths behind how Earhart's trip around the world came about and why it went so terribly wrong. The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard were major players in the 1937 flight, disappearance, and search for Amelia Earhart, and in the aftermath. The story of the pressures and frustrations the services faced and the mistakes they made contain valuable lessons for today's commanders. Gillespie's first book, Finding Amelia – The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance (Naval Institute Press, 2006) chronicled what was known at that time. This new book updates the story with important new information from historical documents discovered since then and also provides extensive prequel and sequel narratives that complete the saga and give new perspective to the life and death of an American icon.