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Left for Dead

A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis

By: Pete Nelson

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Left for Dead

A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis

By: Pete Nelson

For fans of sea battles, adventures, and war stories like Unbroken, this is the incredible true story of a boy who helps to bring closure to the survivors of the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and helps exonerate the ship’s captain fifty years later. Hunter Scott first learned about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by watching the movie Jaws when he was just eleven-years-old. This was fifty years after the ship had sunk, throwing more than 1,000 men into shark-infested waters—a long fifty years in which justice still had not been served. It was just after midnight on July 30, 1945 when the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Those who survived the fiery sinking—some injured, many without life jackets—struggled to stay afloat as they waited for rescue. But the United States Navy did not even know they were missing. As time went on, the Navy needed a scapegoat for this disaster. So it court-martialed the captain for “hazarding” his ship. The survivors of the Indianapolis knew that their captain was not to blame. For fifty years they worked to clear his name, even after his untimely death. But the navy would not budge—not until Hunter entered the picture. His history fair project on the Indianapolis soon became a crusade to restore the captain’s good name and the honor of the men who served under him.

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Delacorte Press

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0375890181

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9780375890185

Warrior

One Man's Environmental Crusade

By: Pete Wilkinson,Julia Schofield

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Warrior

One Man's Environmental Crusade

By: Pete Wilkinson,Julia Schofield

Pete Wilkinson, one time Director of Greenpeace UK and leading environmental campaigner, is the Warrior of the title. He largely created the crusade that brought Green issues to the minds of the nation - and the world - through a series of imaginative demonstrations and direct actions with Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. This book is a personalised history of the development of environmental activism, but it does not confine itself to the glorification of the achievements of the major forces within the Green Lobby. The dramatic action of those early campaigns is here, but so is a revealing warts-and-all inside look at Greenpeace - its origins, its early history and current dilemmas. This is compulsive reading, exposing the politics and power-struggles within the environmental movement, and cutting through the red tape and bureaucracy that beset the Green movement today. The author brings to life the eye-catching campaigns that characterised the early days of Greenpeace: dressing up as giant plastic bottles; climbing the tower of Big Ben; dumping radioactive mud outside the Department of the Environment. All these stories are conveyed with humour and incisive (sometimes biting) wit. In powerful prose, the author carries us over the oceans to Antarctica, to marvel at this most beautiful and little-known continent - a region which has become a veritable dump for the rubbish left by explorers and generated by the permanent bases there. The drama and excitement of the battles between Greenpeace vessels and Japanese whaling ships is conveyed here, in a way that makes Warrior as involving as it is informative. Warrior is essentially a personal account of a life spent within a movement which represents the outstanding preoccupation - and perhaps the most important impulse for survival - of our era.

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James Clarke & Co.

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0718829107

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9780718829100

Lethal Secrets

By: Pete Earley

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Lethal Secrets

By: Pete Earley

Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley sets the stage for this shocking thriller with an actual security threat the CIA secretly investigated during the peak of the Cold War: that the Soviet Union's KGB had cleverly smuggled a nuclear bomb into the very heart of Washington, D.C. In Lethal Secrets, the bomb is now in the hands of a band of Chechen rebels, led by Movladi "the Viper" Islamov, who's threatening to detonate the device unless his demands are met. The fate of the city rests in the hands of a disgraced deputy U.S. marshal, Wyatt Conway, who is reluctantly called into action by his FBI and CIA rivals because he was once a friend of Islamov's, before the freedom fighter turned into an international terrorist. His only hope at getting to Islamov lies with Vladimir Khrenkov, a possibly corrupt Russian intelligence agent. Conway suspects Khrenkov of being the man who executed a top Russian mobster whom Conway was protecting in the federal witness protection program. Kept on short leash by Kimberly Lodge, a skeptical CIA beauty who finds him incompetent and foolish, Conway must find a way to manipulate and expose Khrenkov, keep Lodge and her bureaucratic cronies off his back, and prevent Islamov from igniting the spark for Armageddon.

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Macmillan

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0765346931

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9780765346933

Mondo Macabro

Weird and Wonderful Cinema Around the World

By: Pete Tombs

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Mondo Macabro

Weird and Wonderful Cinema Around the World

By: Pete Tombs

The author of "Immoral Tales" now brings readers into the exotic, erotic, and eccentric international film scene. Fully illustrated, this book includes an Indian song-and-dance version of "Dracula"; Turkish version of "Star Trek" and "Superman"; China's "hopping vampire" films, and much more. 332 illustrations. of color photos.

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Macmillan

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0312187483

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9780312187484

From Du Bois to Obama

African American Intellectuals in the Public Forum

By: Charles Pete Banner-Haley

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From Du Bois to Obama

African American Intellectuals in the Public Forum

By: Charles Pete Banner-Haley

In his groundbreaking new book Charles Pete Banner-Haley explores the history of African American intellectualism and reveals the efforts of black intellectuals in the ongoing struggle against racism, showing how they have responded to Jim Crow segregation, violence against black Americans, and the more subtle racism of the postintegration age. Banner-Haley asserts that African American intellectuals—including academicians, social critics, activists, and writers—serve to generate debate, policy, and change, acting as a moral force to persuade Americans to acknowledge their history of slavery and racism, become more inclusive and accepting of humanity, and take responsibility for social justice. Other topics addressed in this insightful study include the disconnection over time between black intellectuals and the masses for which they speak; the ways African American intellectuals identify themselves in relation to the larger black community, America as a whole, and the rest of the world; how black intellectuals have gained legitimacy in American society and have accrued moral capital, especially in the area of civil rights; and how that moral capital has been expended. Among the influential figures covered in the book are W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Ralph Bunche, Oliver C. Cox, George S. Schuyler, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Charles Johnson, and Barack Obama. African American intellectuals, as Banner-Haley makes clear, run the political gamut from liberal to conservative. He discusses the emergence of black conservatism, with its accompanying questions about affirmative action, government intervention on behalf of African Americans, and the notion of a color-blind society. He also looks at how popular music—particularly rap and hip-hop—television, movies, cartoons, and other media have functioned as arenas for investigating questions of identity, exploring whether African American intellectuals can also be authentically black. A concluding discussion of the so-called browning of America, and the subsequent rise in visibility and influence of black intellectuals culminates with the historic election of President Barack Obama, an African American intellectual who has made significant contributions to American society through his books, articles, and speeches. Banner-Haley ponders what Obama’s election will mean for the future of race relations and black intellectualism in America.

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SIU Press

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0809385627

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9780809385621

Fat for Fuel Ketogenic Cookbook

Recipes and Ketogenic Keys to Health from a World-Class Doctor and an Internationally Renowned Chef

By: Dr. Joseph Mercola,Pete Evans

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Fat for Fuel Ketogenic Cookbook

Recipes and Ketogenic Keys to Health from a World-Class Doctor and an Internationally Renowned Chef

By: Dr. Joseph Mercola,Pete Evans

Food is medicine. Hippocrates himself, 16 centuries ago, understood this essential truth about healing. Today, natural-health expert Dr. Joseph Mercola and superstar Australian chef Pete Evans share the firm belief that food can be a powerful tool to reshape our health. In this new volume—a companion to Dr. Mercola’s best-selling Fat for Fuel—they’ve joined forces to put this tool in your hands. Dr. Mercola is renowned for his visionary work in natural medicine; Pete Evans is acclaimed as an award-winning restaurateur, cookbook author, and TV chef, host of PBS’s Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking. Drawing on their combined expertise, The Fat for Fuel Ketogenic Cookbook is an impeccably researched, beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide to eating the ketogenic way—in true epicurean style. In its pages, you’ll find: • A clear explanation of what ketogenic eating is and how it can help transform your health • An in-depth discussion of key health topics, including metabolism, digestion, gut health, diabetes, and more • Practical guidance for following a ketogenic eating plan• Cooking techniques to ensure you get the maximum benefit from your food • Nearly 100 delicious recipes from Pete’s kitchen, aligned with both ketogenic and Paleo principles From basics like Beef Bone Broth, to showstopper entrées like Crispy Duck Confit, to irresistible treats like a Chocolate Fat Bomb, these dishes offer exquisite eating at every meal. And all are illustrated with gorgeous full-color photographs shot in Pete Evans’s own studio.

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Hay House, Inc

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140195541X

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9781401955410

The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends

The Players and Guitars That Shaped the Music

By: Pete Prown

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The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends

The Players and Guitars That Shaped the Music

By: Pete Prown

The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends features 150+ blues guitarists from prewar to today, featuring artist photography and an authoritative text detailing their careers and gear.

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Motorbooks International

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0760387567

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9780760387566

Piecework

Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

By: Pete Hamill

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Piecework

Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

By: Pete Hamill

A rich and varied collection of Pete Hamill's best journalism that spans decades and covers topics as diverse as Donald Trump, stickball, and Northern Ireland.. Veteran journalist Pete Hamill never covered just politics. Or just sports. Or just the entertainment business, the mob, foreign affairs, social issues, the art world, or New York City. He has in fact written about all these subjects, and many more, in his years as a contributor to such national magazines as Esquire, Vanity Fair, and New York, and as a columnist at the New York Post, the New York Daily News, the Village Voice, and other newspapers. Seasoned by more than thirty years as a New York newspaperman, Hamill wrote on an extraordinarily wide variety of topics in powerful language that is personal, tough-minded, clearheaded, always provocative. Piecework is a rich and varied collection of Hamill's best writing, on such diverse subjects as what television and crack have in common, why winning isn't everything, stickball, Nicaragua, Donald Trump, why American immigration policy toward Mexico is all wrong, Brooklyn's Seventh Avenue, and Frank Sinatra, not to mention Octavio Paz, what it's like to realize you're middle-aged, Northern Ireland, New York City then and now, how Mike Tyson spent his time in prison, and much more. This collection proves him once again to be among the last of a dying breed: the old-school generalist, who writes about anything and everything, guided only by passionate and boundless curiosity. Piecework is Hamill at his very best.

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Back Bay Books

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0316082953

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9780316082952

In the Arena

Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America

By: Pete Hegseth

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In the Arena

Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America

By: Pete Hegseth

A vigorous call-to-arms to reignite American citizenship at home and restore American power abroad, using the timeless truths of Teddy Roosevelt's iconic 'Man in the Arena' speech, by the Fox News contributor and decorated Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran. Pete Hegseth makes an impassioned and experiential argument for how Teddy Roosevelt's articulation of 'good citizens,' 'equality of opportunity,' and unapologetic U.S. leadership--'good patriots'--can renew our imperiled American experiment and save the free world, in this fascinating, first-hand challenge to elite progressivism, ahistorical foreign policy, and status-quo politics. Despite contention surrounding Teddy Roosevelt's legacy, Hegseth argues that the Rough Rider's exhortation serves as a timeless wake-up call for our Republic. Hegseth resurrects Roosevelt's famous 'Citizenship in a Republic' address--best known for the 'Man in the Arena' quote--as a roadmap for addressing the massive challenges facing America today. In order to rejuvenate what makes America exceptional, we must unapologetically get back into Roosevelt's arena--as engaged 'good citizens' at home and powerful 'good patriots' in the world. Bolstered by gripping personal experience, Hegseth channels Teddy Roosevelt's words to make a case for turning America's highest ideals into action through the gritty virtues of citizenship, the dogged pursuit of equal opportunity, and aggressive commitment to winning the wars we fight--including the Iraq War. An exceptional American experiment was entrusted to 'average citizens' in 1776 and has been perpetuated by every generation since"--Provided by publisher.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476749353

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9781476749358

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book

By: Pete Seeger,Paul Du Bois Jacobs

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Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book

By: Pete Seeger,Paul Du Bois Jacobs

For children raised on Abiyoyo here's a cozy collection of old and new classics to share with parents. Each section is preceded by an introduction describing the origins of the stories. Also included is a brief afterword for each story, suggesting ways to personalize the stories for the reader's own family. The book ends with a collection of story beginnings to help anyone become a storyteller.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156013118

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9780156013116

Rescue Dogs

Where They Come From, Why They Act the Way They Do, and How to Love Them Well

By: Gene Stone,Pete Paxton

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Rescue Dogs

Where They Come From, Why They Act the Way They Do, and How to Love Them Well

By: Gene Stone,Pete Paxton

A fascinating look at rescue dogs--where they come from, why every dog lover should consider adopting one, and how to make them part of your family. America's leading undercover animal investigator, Pete Paxton, has, among other exploits, infiltrated more than seven hundred puppy mills, worked undercover to close one of the largest and most infamous puppy mills in the United States, and shuttered the most notorious trafficker of dogs for experimentation in history. In this book, he shares stories of the amazing dogs he has rescued and brought to loving families, and also offers invaluable guidance and wisdom for anyone living with rescue dogs. Far too many people think rescue dogs have irredeemable anxieties, behavior issues, or other problems. In truth, rescue dogs can--and do--become wonderful companions. This groundbreaking book will help readers understand these dogs' unique ways of thinking, learning, and loving, and leaves no questions unanswered about the plight of dogs commercially bred in the United States--and what every dog lover can do about it.

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Penguin

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0525540350

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9780525540359

The South Carolina Aquarium Guide to Aquatic Habitats of South Carolina

By: Pete Laurie,David Chamberlain

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The South Carolina Aquarium Guide to Aquatic Habitats of South Carolina

By: Pete Laurie,David Chamberlain

Showcases the vibrant ecosystems sustained by South Carolina's waterways; Sure to foster a greater appreciation for South Carolina's waterways as well as a desire to conserve them for future generations, The South Carolina Aquarium Guide to Aquatic Habitats of South Carolina introduces readers, hikers, boaters, reachers, and students to the remarkable beauty and complexity of the state's wetlands. With almost a quarter of its acreage covered by water, South Carolina is a small state distinguished by biological diversity and an extensive range of habitats. This guide, written in an engaging and easy-to-read style by two experienced naturalists, tells the story of water's inexorable movement from mountains to coast, and of the abundant plant and animal species that benefit from its many stops, starts, and backtrackings along the way. Underscoring the fact that the state's streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, marshes and estuaries form a single, interrelated system, Pete Laurie and David Chamberlain explore the particular wetland habitats in each of South Carolina's five physiographic regions. They describe habitats as varied as waterfalls, blackwater swamps, and tidal creeks and as distin

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570034605

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9781570034602

Texas Land Ethics

By: Pete A. Y. Gunter,Max Oelschlaeger

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Texas Land Ethics

By: Pete A. Y. Gunter,Max Oelschlaeger

The authors offer a new vision for living on the land, a "land ethic" that respects the stability, integrity, and beauty of the "land community.

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University of Texas Press

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0292728026

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9780292728028

Family of Spies

Inside the John Walker Spy Ring

By: Pete Earley

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Family of Spies

Inside the John Walker Spy Ring

By: Pete Earley

For seventeen years, John Walker sold many of America's most vital secrets to the Soviets, using accomplices and even members of his own family to help him do his dirty work. Here is the whole story--told in Walker's own words--that exposes the most important spy operation in KGB history.

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Bantam

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0553282220

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9780553282221

Brussels

By: Jack Altman,Pete Bennett,Lindsay Bennett

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Brussels

By: Jack Altman,Pete Bennett,Lindsay Bennett

Packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! In this compact guide, our writers help you plan itineraries for short and longer stays. Complete with must-see sights on and off the beaten track as well as current hotel and restaurant recommendations. And the convenient size of the guide allows you to take it along in your pocket or handbag. Take the world in your pocket next time and travel with this handy Berlitz guide.

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9812462589

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9789812462589

Playing with Fire

By: Peter Telep,Pete Callahan

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Playing with Fire

By: Peter Telep,Pete Callahan

Engine Nine, Rescue Nine. Engine Nine, Rescue Ninehellip;"When lives hang in the balance, theyrs"re the first ones at the scene, working under pressure of life and death. They must be fast, skilled, and confident. They must trust in themselves and in one another, because the people of Los Angeles are counting on them. Theyrs"re paramedics just doing their jobs. Theyrs"re the team of Night Angel 9.The beat is tough enough without rainy nights added to the mix of blood, sweat, and tears. But one of the worst parts of the grind is dealing with the fallout from gang violence-a hazard of living and working in L.A. that most people would rather hide from than face. Unfortunately, itrs"s part of the job every day for rescue workers-and when a gang-related crime gets personal, the Night Angel 9 team must pull together to help one of their ownhellip;

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Berkley

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0425179583

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9780425179581

Produce Pete's Farmacopeia

By: Pete Napolitano

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Produce Pete's Farmacopeia

By: Pete Napolitano

The author presents each item, alphabetically, with information on season, selection, varieties, and recipes.

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Hearst Communications

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0688128475

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9780688128470

Meltdown

Asia's Boom, Bust, and Beyond

By: Mark Clifford,Pete Engardio

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Meltdown

Asia's Boom, Bust, and Beyond

By: Mark Clifford,Pete Engardio

Two prize-winning authors penetrate Asia's financial crisis, investigating why it happened and whether it has the force to derail America's remarkable boom.

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342

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Prentice Hall Press

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0735201412

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9780735201415

Destination 2020 White House

By: Pete Grant

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Destination 2020 White House

By: Pete Grant

Lady pilot Kelli Fitzgerald flies combat missions from an aircraft carrier during the Gulf War. A dangerous occupation, but the flak is cleaner than what she encounters on entering politics. By the author of Night Flying Avenger.

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0938539531

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9780938539537

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