This sweet story about a girl named Alma and a stray dog named Lulu shows how a girl and a dog can rescue each other. Lulu’s ears flap in the wind as the rescue truck rolls into the lot. Lulu’s tail thumps— Everything smells . . . new. Lulu sleeps under the moon, drinking from mud puddles and is covered in ticks until she is rescued. She waits for the Operation Rescue Dog truck, scared and uncertain. Alma misses her Mami, who is far away in Iraq. Alma wears Mami's scarf around her like a hug. She wonders: Can a dog feel like a hug? In this heartwarming and moving picture book, a lonely child and a lonely dog come together and find warmth, companionship, and love in each other.
Davis really wanted his family to be ordinary. For the Walker family, life was anything BUT ordinary after a terrible tragedy took his father leaving Gwen as a single mother to 5 young children and Davis as the man of the house at only 10 years old. Then, three years later, just as life was becoming more routine and normal, Davis and his brothers go to look for his younger sister Jessica only to find themselves deep in the woods of a strange land. After meeting Jeshua, a native to the land, they learn that Jessica has been kidnapped by the deceptive Friendly Faces, and they are forced to learn survival skills with the help of Jeshua and his friends in order to rescue his sister. In the meantime, they find the hope, grace, peace and strength to be able to live again after their tragic loss.
In today’s society, many believers have become indoctrinated by evil, narcissistic leaders. Believers must be able to identify these impostors. Operation Rescue is a mission totally inspired by The Holy Spirit. It speaks to the fact that within what is supposed to be “the church of God,” there are many leaders who are neither chosen nor called to be leaders, yet they have wormed themselves in and are entrusted with leadership positions, to the disadvantage of believers. Servant of the Lord PJ Adair, calls upon sincere and true leaders to remain steadfast, resilient, and unmovable, refusing to be misled or brainwashed by false leaders with hidden agendas. She encourages believers to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God; to be vigilant, always on guard; and to abide in the Word, testing the spirits to see if they are of God. Adair sites examples of unfavorable scenarios currently existing within some churches and presents biblical directives on how to overcome them. God-fearing leaders are challenged to embark on the greatest rescue mission of all time, being unwavering and steadfast as the prophets of old, in a bid to rescue those in imminent danger, who remain unaware of their fate as a result of false teaching.
The New York Times described what happened to New York businessman Jack Teich as a “front page horror.” Two hundred FBI agents and Nassau County police officers combined forces to form a dragnet, hunt for his kidnappers, and rescue him. Teich lay handcuffed and chained to the walls of a closet in the Bronx with a medical bandage wrapped around his head to cover his eyes. His captors demanded that his wife, Janet, drop a bag with $750,000 (the equivalent of four million dollars in today’s currency) in a locker at Penn Station, making the Jack Teich ransom one of the highest in U.S. history at the time. FBI and Nassau County police detectives spent over a year before finally uncovering the meticulously planned kidnapping ploy hatched by radical mastermind Richard Warren Williams. The FBI internally dubbed the Jack Teich kidnapping operation “Jacknap.” The real-life crime drama that followed proved stranger than fiction, involving a tense across-the-country manhunt, a trailer in California stuffed with tens of thousands of ransom dollars hidden inside, a contentious jury trial that dominated NYC headlines for months; a guilty verdict that was overturned twenty-one years later on a controversial technicality; a retrial stymied by a mysterious fire that incinerated court records; and a civil verdict ruling that the kidnapper pay Jack Teich back the ransom money, plus interest. Operation Jacknap tells the incredible true crime story that continues even now. Indeed, as of this writing, no one knows where the majority of the ransom money is located. Inside, Teich also details his offer of a reward to anyone helping track down the still missing money and kidnappers.
Chief Ray Downey has developed city and national rescue teams, and has been involved in numerous rescue operations, including the bombing of the World Trade Center, the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, and various natural disasters. He offers guidelines and recommendations on how to start a rescue company, the equipment needed, and the operational planning that is necessary for company development. Specific rescue company response incidents are also discussed.
A woman on the run. A wounded SEAL who wants to become invisible. Two strangers, one mountain cabin. The sole witness to a murder, stuntwoman Rachel Denning thought she’d found the perfect hideout in a remote cabin just outside Asheville, North Carolina. Until a strange man appears in her bedroom. After a few terrifying moments, she realizes it’s a mix-up—he’s not there to kill her—and Rachel finds herself with an unexpected protector in the form of a navy SEAL. Dallas Manning is just trying to recover. After being rescued from the Taliban, he’s on extended leave. Finding his mountain retreat occupied by a gorgeous knife-wielding stranger isn’t part of his recovery plan, and neither is training dogs. But an old friend enlists him to help train service dogs for veterans, and Dallas recognizes himself in Bella, a dog rescued from a bad situation. All Dallas wants is to be left alone so he can get his head straight, but Rachel stirs his protective instincts. Being trapped together makes it impossible to ignore their growing attraction, but neither of them can outrun their pasts. They’ll have to find a way forward together or risk losing it all. "With realistic characters, witty banter, a well-written storyline, and a bit of action thrown in, Keeping Guard will draw readers in from the first page until the last." —Harlequin Junkie Operation K-9 Brothers Book 1: Operation K-9 Brothers Book 2: Keeping Guard Book 3: Mountain Rescue K-9 Defenders Book 1: In His Protection Book 2: Her Delta Force Protector Book 3: To Hold and Protect
