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Audiobooks FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Man-woman relationships Fiction Military campaigns Search and rescue operations Search and rescue operations Fiction United States United States. Navy. SEALs. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, AmericanVincent, Lynn
Summary: Based on new primary sources and interviews with 108 survivors, Vincent and Vladic reveal the untold stories of the crew left adrift for five days in the Philippine Sea as they battled dehydration, sharks, insanity, and each other; the Army spy who shepherded the bomb aboard Indianapolis; the hidden history of the Top Secret ULTRA program that could have saved the ship; and the survivors'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.54 VINTalty, Stephan
Summary: The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him. At the height of the Vietnam War, few...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 959.704 TALKershaw, Alex
Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.545 Kershaw 2008Wilson, Anne A
Summary: Navy helicopter pilot Lt. Alison Malone has been assigned to a search-and-rescue team based at Naval Air Station Fallon Nevada, near the rugged peaks of the Sierra Nevada and far from her former elite H-60 squadron. A rule follower by nature, Alison is exasperated and outraged every time she flies with her mission commander, "Boomer" Marks, for whom military procedures are merely a suggestion....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff chronicles the untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.548 ZUCOwen, Mark
Summary: An account of the most personally meaningful missions from Owen's thirteen years as a SEAL, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates, in both success and failure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.009 Owen 2014Kava, Alex.
Summary: When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows that the difference between finding survivors and the dead is time. He and his sturdiest search-and-rescue dog, Bolo, get to work immediately, but the scene is rife with danger: continued rainfall prevents the rescue teams from stabilizing the land; toxic household substances spread by the crushing slide fill the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KAVOwen, Mark.
Summary: For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 OWENS, MARK OWEHillenbrand, Laura.
Summary: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. Then, on the ocean surface, the face of a young lieutenant appeared as he struggled to pull himself aboard a life raft. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War as told by the author of "Seabiscuit."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ZAMPERINI, LOUIS HILLENBRANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Zamperini 2010Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B ZAMPERINICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 940.54 HILDuvall, Dianne
Summary: After a spaceship is attacked, an Earthling survivor, Eliana, is finally rescued by Commander Dagon. As he and Eliana hunt for her missing friends, a bond grows between them, until Eliana becomes the hunted one.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUVGutman, Matt
Summary: From ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman comes the definitive account of the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their coach trapped in a flooded cave for nearly three weeks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 796.52 GUTManchester, William
Summary: "In this intensely powerful memoir, biographer-historian William Manchester looks back at his own early life. The memoir offers a firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences"--Container
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5483 MANHornfischer, James D.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 HorFeehan, Christine
Summary: Vienna Mortenson is tough, decisive, and not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy. Though Zale Vizzini's job puts him in harm's way, he wants something real with Vienna. But soon both of their lives are threatened.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEWillink, Jocko
Summary: Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Willink, the task unit commander, planned and executed the strategy for Task Unit Bruiser, which had huge impact in the 'Battle of Ramadi'. Babin, as commander of Charlie Platoon (one of two SEAL platoons in Task Unit Bruiser) led countless combat...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.3 WILSteel, Danielle
Summary: In the aftermath of five friends' summer adventure turned battle for survival, devastating secrets are revealed, new love appears on the horizon, and families are forced to reconsider what they once held dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: A supernova threatens to destroy all life on Earth while humanity grapples with an entirely new kind of alien invasion never before imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATGardner, Lisa
Summary: Missing persons expert Frankie Elkin is sent to a national forest in Wyoming looking for a young man who disappeared without a trace. But when the search team encounters immediate threats to their survival, Frankie realizes she's up against something very dark, and she's running out of time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC GARHood, Joshua
Summary: Retired airman Travis Lane joins a company that provides protection for clients worldwide. But it's trial by fire when his first mission takes him to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to find and retrieve a kidnapped American in the middle of a densely forested jungle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HOOBradley, James
Summary: Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.4 BRAStanton, Doug.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.545 STACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.545 STACarr, Jack
Summary: With the US divided, a secret cabal of global elites are ready to assume control. With the odds stacked against him, former SEAL James Reece is on a mission generations in the making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAREggers, Dave
Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 974.71 Eggers 2018Deutermann, Peter T.
Summary: Marsh Vincent, Mick McCarty, and Tommy Lewis were inseparable friends during their naval academy years, each man in love with the beautiful, unattainable Glory Hawthorne. Only Tommy wins her heart and marries Glory after graduation. Different skills set the three men on separate paths in the Navy, but they are all forever changed by the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. Glory, now...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011