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  My Noisy Cancer Comeback -...

  Fitz Koehler

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  The ultimate handbook for surviving cancer while thriving! Fitz's story is proof that anyone can endure hardships better by utilizing perspective, passion, and positivity. This is a must-have tale of triumph for every patient, survivor, caregiver, and runner! 
  This is the first of three books in the Cancer Comeback Series. Check out Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong and Healthy Cancer Comeback Journal, available in print formats.  
  Finding a cancerous lump in her breast seven weeks after a clean mammogram was terrifying. But fitness expert and race announcer Fitz Koehler refused to play the victim or allow cancer to steal her extraordinary career or time with family. In My Noisy Cancer Comeback, Fitz reveals the juicy and gory details of her 16-month battle, all while zigzagging across the United States. Enduring chemotherapy, radiation, and surgeries in the public eye wasn't easy. You'll laugh, cry, wince, and cheer as she chronicles the clash of an avalanche of side effects with 22 major race weekends. Her inspirational tale encompasses the terror of diagnosis, bald heads and black dresses, spectacular stages, parenting with cancer, perspective, and, most importantly, triumph. You'll walk away grittier, more optimistic, and inspired to conquer any obstacle.

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  The Greatest Gambling Story Ever...

  Mark Paul

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  The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing and inspired crowds of men and women alike, along with a trio of gamblers who embark on an unforgettable adventure that’s as epic as the historic victory of Winning Colors. It’s Seabiscuit meets Narcos, and the best true-life gambling story ever told. 
  In the late 1980s, a spectacular 3-year-old female racehorse named Winning Colors was being groomed for success under her famous “Hollywood” trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, and the billionaire owner of the San Diego Chargers pro-football team, Eugene Klein. Meanwhile, three fun-loving gamblers, Miami Paul, Dino Mateo, and Big Bernie believed that Winning Colors could be the unlikely female winner of the 1988 Kentucky Derby. 
  When the gamblers unknowingly place their longshot bet with members of a suspected drug cartel at a racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico, they must figure out how to claim their prize - without getting killed in the process. In a heart-pounding race of their own across the U.S.-Mexico border, the trio come face-to-face with suspected killers, are arrested by the Border Patrol, and fumble their way through the riskiest bet of their lives. 

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  Official US Army Survival Guide...

  US Army, Rick Carlile

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  Over 15 hours of life-saving survival information: the most extensive and comprehensive survival audiobook available anywhere.Created and trusted by US military forces, expertly adapted for the audiobook format.Essential preparedness for any survival situation. Listen and learn survival skills while you work, rest, or travel, and store it on your personal device so you'll have it when you need it.The indispensable field manual for preppers, hunters, campers, outdoorspeople, hikers and more. 
  PREFACE 
  As a soldier, you can be sent to any area of the world. It may be in a temperate, tropical, arctic, or subarctic region. You expect to have all your personal equipment and your unit members with you wherever you go. However, there is no guarantee it will be so. You could find yourself alone in a remote area—possibly enemy territory—with little or no personal gear. This manual provides information and describes basic techniques that will enable you to survive and return alive should you find yourself in such a situation.  
  If you are a trainer, use this information as a base on which to build survival training. You know the areas to which your unit is likely to deploy, the means by which it will travel, and the territory through which it will travel. Read what this manual says about survival in those particular areas and find out all you can about those areas. Read other books on survival. Develop a survival-training program that will enable your unit members to meet any survival situation they may face. It can make the difference between life and death. 
  CONTENTS 
  Chapter 1. Introduction. 
  Chapter 2. Psychology of Survival. 
  Chapter 3. Survival Planning and Survival Kits. 
  Chapter 4. Basic Survival Medicine. 
  Chapter 5. Shelters. 
  Chapter 6. Water Procurement. 
  Chapter 7. Firecraft. 
  Chapter 8. Food Procurement. 
  Chapter 9. Survival Use of Plants. 
  Chapter 10. Poisonous Plants. 
  Chapter 11. Dangerous Animals. 
  Chapter 12. Field-Expedient Weapons, Tools, and Equipment. 
  Chapter 13. Desert Survival. 
  Chapter 14. Tropical Survival. 
  Chapter 15. Cold Weather Survival. 
  Chapter 16. Sea Survival. 
  Chapter 17. Expedient Water Crossings. 
  Chapter 18. Field-Expedient Direction Finding. 
  Chapter 19. Signaling Techniques. 
  Chapter 20. Survival Movement in Hostile Areas. 
  Chapter 21. Camouflage. 
  Chapter 22. Contact with People. 
  Chapter 23. Survival in Man-Made Hazards. 
  Appendix A. Survival Kits. 
  Appendix B. Edible and Medicinal Plants. 
  Appendix C. Poisonous Plants. 
  Appendix D. Dangerous Insects and Arachnids. 
  Appendix E. Venomous Snakes and Lizards. 
  Appendix F. Dangerous Fish and Mollusks. 
  Appendix G. Ropes and Knots. 
  Appendix H. Clouds: Foretellers of Weather. 
  Appendix I. Evasion Plan of Action Format. 
  Glossary. 
  Provided for information purposes only. Any action you take is at your own risk. 
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  Modern-Day Castaway - A...

  Michael Atkinson

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  Could you survive alone, for 2 months at sea in a dugout canoe? 
  In 1846, James Morrill survived a shipwreck on Australia’s north coast. Though the young sailor was then embraced by the local Indigenous community, in Modern-Day Castaway, Michael Atkinson asks, ‘Could James have built a vessel and made the perilous journey to a historic rescue haven in the Torres Strait?’ 
  With the cyclone season fast approaching, Alone Australia contestant and solo adventurer, Mike Atkinson, sets sail on an extraordinary 1500-kilometre journey to the northern tip of Australia. His aim: to live entirely off the land and sea. 
  As malnourishment drains his body, Mike navigates his failing dugout canoe through the treacherous waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and along the wild and unforgiving coastline of Cape York. From crocodile defence tactics, to calamitous canoe failure, to fishing with adapted Indigenous tools, Modern-Day Castaway journals Mike’s epic struggle for survival. 
  This is a truly unique book. A cross between Tom Hanks Castaway (although this story is real, not fiction!), a genuine shipwrecked sailor’s tale and Mike’s awe-inspiring journey of discovery.

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  Hogan

  Curt Sampson

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  This updated edition of a NEW YORK TIMES best seller includes a final chapter, which chronicles the last years of his life and examines his enduring legacy. Included are quotes and tributes from many of golf's greats such as Byron Nelson and a perceptive assessment of the life and legend of the man who may have been the greatest golfer ever-Ben Hogan.

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  Sea Trial - Sailing After My Father

  Brian Harvey

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  Shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction
  		 
  An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his father
  		 
  After a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death. John Harvey was a neurosurgeon, violinist, and photographer who answered his door a decade into retirement to find a sheriff with a summons. It was a malpractice suit, and it did not go well. Dr. Harvey never got over it. The box contained every nurse’s record, doctor’s report, trial transcript, and expert testimony related to the case. Only Brian’s father had read it all — until now.
  		 
  In this beautifully written memoir, Brian Harvey shares how after two months of voyaging with his father’s ghost, he finally finds out what happened in the O.R. that crucial night and why Dr. Harvey felt compelled to fight the excruciating accusations.

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