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A chronicle of one of American history's most notorious cults, a book including first-person accounts follows Jim Jones from humble origins to "Jonestown" in Guyana, South America, and traces his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind control.
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The jungles are loaded with deadly dangers such as water and insect-related diseases, poisonous plants, and savage animals. This books detailed graphic illustrations and fast-paced narrative will wow readers while they learn about some of the most amazing jungle survival stories.
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13 Nights of Elvira volume 13
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Elvira is no stranger to "man-eating women", but she may have bit off more than she can chew in this indigestible entree, staring Adrianne. Barbau, Shannon Tweed, and Bill Maher who's still trying to live this turkey down.
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This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control. Tracing these developments through many of the past century's major conflagrations,...
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Into the Storm is the first book of The Violent Season trilogy. This first novel tells the story of two young Americans, Pat Green and Mickey Dwyer, as they go from childhood innocence in the streets of New York City to experienced infantrymen in the crucible of the Vietnam war. Growing up in the late 1960's, Pat and Mick are concerned only with getting through school, finding work, and making a life with their girlfriends. Then they find themselves...
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To prevent the rebirth of one of the cruelest regimes in history, an ex-CIA agent goes Nazi hunting in master storyteller Andrew Kaplan's riveting thriller In the hell of Auschwitz, the devil was named Mengele. His atrocities were unspeakable, and among his victims were the wife and child of a man named Wasserman, who was forced to watch them die. Mengele survived the war, disappearing into hiding in South America, and Wasserman ran too-fleeing to...
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1949 Snakes
1954 Toilet Paper and the Rattler
1961 Highway Patrol Friend
1962 Trouble in the Tiger Den
1963 Mast in the Mud
1963 Snow on the Palm Trees
1964 Enjoyin' a Hurricane
1968 Coots for Dinner
1968 Double Concord
1969 American Beer
1969 Déjà vu
1969 Grilled in Spanish
1970 42 Above
1971 Around the Next River Bend
1971 We Do Not Have Liftoff
1973 Blond Diners
1974...
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A New York detective's investigation of a Catholic priest's murder leads him to a shocking drug plot that reaches the highest seats of American power Detective Mel Freedman's life changes forever the day Joe Cullen walks into his New York City office to confess to murder. Cullen, a pilot and Vietnam veteran, has come to admit his guilt in the murder of an American priest, thrown from a helicopter to his death in the jungles of El Salvador 800 feet...
9) Mr. Majestyk
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A Vietnam veteran and trained killer, Vincent Majestyk finds peace as a farmer, growing melons, until the Mob, seeing him as an easy mark, tries to make him a victim in an extortion plot.
10) The secret agent
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In her acclaimed debut, The Cutout, former CIA analyst Francine Mathews defined a world of intrigue where only the savvy survive. Now, in The Secret Agent, Mathews propels us deep into the baffling history of a maverick American’s glittering life and his sudden, cataclysmic disappearance…. Here is the masterful story of secret agents of many kinds—in a realm where truth is the most dangerous secret of all.
Who was Jack...
Who was Jack...
11) State of wonder
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A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years-- a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
12) The death mask
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"World-renowned forensic sculptor Eve Duncan's skills frequently make her a target. And in this epic adventure, they make her the first choice to create an Egyptian death mask for a nefarious potential client. But Eve cannot be bought, not for all the riches in a gold mine. Her would-be employer soon realizes that he must threaten the lives of those she holds dear to procure Eve's services and force her to travel to Africa to mold the priceless mask....
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After Tarzan's son is kidnapped, Tarzan and Jane are lured into a dangerous trap that separates them. In their desperate search for each other and for their son, they are drawn deep into the dangerous African jungle, where the evil schemes of Tarzan's enemies Rokoff and Paulvitch threaten them at every step. The ape-man must draw on all of his animal strength and all of his human intelligence--as well as the help of the beasts of the jungle--to try...
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Summer Reading 2022: Read S'More
Adult Summer Reading and Activity Challenge 2025 Non-Fiction History Books
World Travels
Adult Summer Reading and Activity Challenge 2025 Non-Fiction History Books
World Travels
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"In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization located deep in the deadly wilderness. He never returned. In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann tells the epic story of Fawcett's quest for this 'Lost City of Z, " and unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century."--page 4 of cover
16) Outlaw
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Books of Mortals volume 4
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A father and his son leave Atlanta for Australia and find themselves taken as slaves by a savage, unknown jungle tribe.
"The story of how I, Julian Carter, and my precious two-year old son, Stephen, left Atlanta, Georgia and found ourselves on a white sailboat, tossed about like a cork on a raging sea off of Australia's northern tip in 1963, is harrowing. But it pales in comparison to what happened deep in the jungle where I was taken as a slave...
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"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
18) The partner
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Patrick Lanigan was once a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then he stole ninety million dollars from his own firm and ran for his life. For four years, he's evaded powerful men. Then, inevitably, they tracked him down at the edge of a Brazilian jungle. Patrick is coming home to the Mississippi city where it all began. As the trial begins, Patrick's former partners wait for their revenge. But another story is...
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En esta novela para niños y jóvenes, han ocurrido misteriosas muertes en la selva. Es un secreto a voces que nadie lo quiere enfrentar. Sólo el valor del Quinteto Fantástico revelará la verdad.
What is causing the mysterious deaths in the jungle? Only the courage of the Fantastic Five can reveal the answer.
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"In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives. Because Troy Phelan's new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary living deep in the...










