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  Captains Courageous

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. 
  Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience. And when Harvey at last is reunited with his parents, who have thought him dead for months, he must face the hard decisions of how he will allow his experience to change his life.

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  Logged Off - My Journey of...

  Jordan Wells

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  How many likes did you receive on your last post?   
  Are you satisfied with that number of likes?  Jordan Wells once believed that social media was the beginning of great success for his career, his relationships with people, his whole life in general.  Wells was very much so mistaking.  In this memoir, you will take a journey into the mind of Jordan Wells, who will try to guide you out of this world we have fallen in love with so much; the great and powerful social media world.  You will read about the struggle Wells once had with his addiction to social media, and his excessive use of smartphones.  Wells will elaborate his theories on why people should take a sharp break from social media, to avoid being pulled into a never-ending downward spiral.  You will also read about Wells’ profound visions of what he believes could happen in the very far future, beyond the twenty-first century.   
  What do you gain from posting on an app?  Posting about your personal lives, your business, love, family, friends, and all of that personal information that gives you nothing in return except likes.  Likes, comments, views, and followers from random strangers that you will never even know. 
  After reading “Logged Off: My Journey of Escaping the Social Media World,” you will possibly have a change of heart on what you post on your social media accounts, or perhaps avoid social media at all cost. 
  The mission that Wells is hoping to accomplish with you, the reader, is to let you know that you have a choice. To present you with another alternative, to have a different perspective, and to see what life is like on the other side of the fence. 
  Jordan Wells has logged off, never to return. Will you?

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  Stalky & Co

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town, Westward Ho!, is not only unusual in having an exclamation mark, but also in being itself named after a novel, by Charles Kingsley.) The book is a collection of linked short stories, with some information about the eponymous Stalky's later life. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Lionel Dunsterville. The stories have elements of the macabre (dead cats), bullying and violence, and hints about sex, making them far from the childish or idealised world of the typical school story. Edmund Wilson, critic, in The Wound and the Bow, was both shocked and uncomprehending. Adapted by Tim Bulkeley from the Wikipedia entry.

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  Narrow River Wide Sky - A Memoir

  Jenny Forrester

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  In the vein of The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle, Jenny Forrester's memoir perfectly captures both place and a community situated on the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes, where she grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag.Forrester's powerfully eloquent story reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republicans, ranchers, Mormons, and Native Americans. With sensitivity and resilience, Forrester navigates feelings of isolation, an abusive boyfriend, sexual assault, and a failed college attempt to forge a separate identity. As young adults, after their mother's accidental death, Forrester and her brother are left with an increasingly strained relationship that becomes a microcosm of America's political landscape.Narrow River, Wide Sky is a breathtaking, determinedly truthful story about one woman's search for identity within the mythology of family and America itself.

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  Headhunter - 5-73 CAV and Their...

  Peter C. Svoboda, Lt. Gen...

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  Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected by the squadron command team, Lieutenant Colonel Poppas and Command Sergeant Major Edgar. With just more than 400 paratroopers, they were half the size of a full-strength battalion and the smallest unit in the Panther Brigade.The squadron deployed to eastern Diyala in August, 2006. Despite their size, they were tasked with an enormous mission and were given the largest area of operations within the brigade. Appropriately for a unit known by the call sign of its CO—Headhunter—5-73 would go on to pursue various terrorist factions including Al Qaeda in Iraq. They got results, and 5-73 was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for launching the Turki Bowl campaign from November 2006 to January 2007 against insurgent groups in Diyala Province. However the toll would be heavy—the squadron lost twenty-two paratroopers during the deployment.Headhunter is a unique account of the War on Terror. It's a soldier's story, told by those very paratroopers who gallantly fought to tame Diyala.

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  Bringing Adam Home - The...

  Les Standiford, Joe Matthews

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  “[An] account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh . . . as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Small Mercies 
   
  Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no federal databases of crimes against children. The six-year-old’s 1981 abduction and murder in Hollywood, Florida—unsolved for more than a quarter of a century—forever changed America. His parents went on to become fierce advocates for missing children, and his father, John Walsh, served as host of America’s Most Wanted. From New York Times-bestselling author Les Standiford, Bringing Adam Home is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and mother’s efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution. 
   
  “The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh [kidnapping]. . . . A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.” —Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent 
   
  “Compelling.” —Miami Herald 
   
  “[A] page-turner . . . tough to forget.” —People 
   
  “The definitive account.” —The Washington Post

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