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Author: Jessica Buchanan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1476725160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.
Author: Howard E. Wasdin
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1250016436
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Author: Chad Williams
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012-04-19
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1414374178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDays before Chad Williams was to report to military duty in Great Lakes, Illinois, he turned on a television and was greeted with the horrifying images of his mentor, US Navy SEAL Scott Helvenston, being brutally murdered in a premeditated ambush on the roads of Fallujah, Iraq. Steeled in his resolve, Chad followed in Scott’s footsteps and completed the US military’s most difficult and grueling training to become a Navy SEAL. One of only 13 from a class of 173 to make it straight through to graduation, Chad served his country on SEAL Teams One and Seven for five years, completing tours of duty in the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Iraq. Part memoir, part evangelism piece, SEAL of God follows Chad’s journey through the grueling Naval Ops training and onto the streets of Iraq, where he witnessed the horrors of war up close. Along the way, Chad shares his own radical conversion story and talks about how he draws on his own experiences as a SEAL to help others better understand the depths of Christ’s sacrifice and love.
Author: Sara Paretsky
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2011-12-13
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0062190814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKV.I.'s battleaxe Aunt Rosa is under investigation by the FBI and SEC after counterfeit stock certificates were found at St. Albert's Priory, where she serves as treasurer. As malicious as her aunt is, V.I. knows she's not dishonest, so V.I. vows to protect her from taking the fall. But V.I. starts questioning the strength of her family ties when a menacing voice on the phone threatens to throw acid into her eyes if she doesn't butt out. The stakes are high as she begins to sniff out a connection between Chicago's most powerful institutions: the Church and the Mob.
Author: Justin K. Sheffield
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781546077114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn uncompromising memoir of the life and heart pounding missions of a leader on SEAL Team Six, soon to be a Netflix Original Film. Sheffield completed hundreds of combat missions as a member of SEAL Team Six. He is one of the most experienced, effective, and deadly warriors in the world. In THE GOSPEL OF WAR, Sheffield combines his stories of combat with his insights on love, God, and the nature of evil, insights hard won under the most challenging circumstances imaginable. Sheffield planned and led the breathtaking rescue of kidnapped hostages from Somali pirates in 2012, one of the most complex and difficult missions ever conducted by Navy SEALs. It is through these kinds of missions that Sheffield came to understand his message for the world: we are all soldiers in a battle between good and evil and must choose each day which side we will serve. THE GOSPEL OF WAR is a pulse pounding account of modern warfare by one of America's most elite warriors.
Author: Vi Carter
Publisher: Young Irish Rebels
Published: 2023-03-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781915878168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe's a savage. She's a willing bride who dreams of freedom; only she gives up one cage to find herself in another. Emma I was a willing sacrifice in an arranged marriage. Until my father made a new deal and gave me to another. Now I must marry a savage. A Northerner- the very thing I had been taught to hate. I vow to never be his. I will never belong to Shay O'Reagan. I will defy him every step of the way. He may lay claim to my body, but he will never own my heart. Shay In order to secure my place in the Irish Mafia, I agree to an arranged marriage. A marriage with a willing bride, one groomed to be the wife of a mafia king. What I get is a redheaded beauty hell bent on my destruction. Turns out, she was meant to be the perfect mafia wife- just not mine. That treacherous detail doesn't stop me from wanting her. From needing to taste her ruby red lips. The fire that blazes in her defiant eyes lights a desire inside of me that demands I claim her as my own. While she wastes my time defying me with every breath, the North rises up demanding retribution for a crime that was buried a long time ago. The clock is ticking as I battle a war around me and within my own walls. Every minute takes us both closer to certain death. I'm unsure of who my true allies are and where my enemies are hiding. There's only one thing I'm certain of. I will never give up. I will fight to the end, no matter the cost. I am a King and I will die on my feet. "Mafia King" is the second book in the Young Irish Rebel Series. It is a Dark Mafia Arranged Romance, complete with HEA and no cliffhangers.
Author: Russell Shorto
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2022-02-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1324020172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Newsweek's Most Highly Anticipated New Books of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer—what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting—but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life—and wife—in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father—Tony, the mobster’s son—as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative.
Author: Alex Ferrari
Publisher:
Published: 2018-12-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781948080637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bipolar gangster, a naive young film director, and Batman--what could go wrong? Alex Ferrari is a first-time film director who just got hired to direct a $20 million feature film. The only problem is that the film is about Jimmy, an egomaniacal gangster who wants the film to be about his life in the mob. From the backwater towns of Louisiana to the Hollywood Hills, Alex is taken on a crazy misadventure through the world of the mafia and Hollywood. Huge movie stars, billion-dollar producers, studio heads, and, of course, a few gangsters populate this unbelievable journey down the rabbit hole of chasing one's dream. Would you sell your soul to the devil to make your dream come true? By the way, did I mention that this story is based on true events? No, seriously it is.
Author: Michelle Kuo
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1447286065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school; but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. And that’s when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again. Reading with Patrick is an inspirational story of friendship, a coming-of-age story for both a young teacher and a student, an expansive, deeply resonant meditation on education, race and justice, and a love letter to literature and its power to transcend social barriers.
Author: Larry Lawton
Publisher: Health Communications
Published: 2012-05-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780985408206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Peter Golenbock, Larry Lawton's true-life story is a Hollywood producer's dream. Larry and Peter show the world a life of a straightforward, no excuses man who refused to let a broken system keep him down. Think Goodfellas, only better. Gangster Redemption tracks Larry's life growing up in the Bronx, his connection to organized crime, and how he went on to steal over 15 million dollars in jewels, ultimately landing himself in one of America's most brutal maximum-security prisons where he was exposed to unbelievable torture. Through reading this book, readers will discover: a vivid account of Larry's crimes and how he managed to evade law enforcement and the FBI for nearly six years a secret life of corruption the truth about prison life, what is lost, how to avoid and dissolve bad associations, and how to turn ones life around how Larry developed the #1 program in the country designed to steer teens away from a life of crime Lawton's Reality Check Program is nationally recognized and used by judges, law enforcement, government officials, attorneys, and parents all over the country. It has kept thousands of teens and young adults from going to prison. His success rate is incredible and well documented. So is Larry Lawton's story.
