Robert Cooke
ROBERT COOKE, a native of Southern California, served four years in the coast guard before graduating from California State Polytechnic College and receiving a master's degree from UCLA a year later. Since then he has spent thirty-five years ... [... more]
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The Coast Guard
 How dangerous and far-reaching can an act of violence be?: Did you know that South Korea's coastline is monitored by soldiers that, after dusk, shoot anybody in sight in order to prevent the infiltration of spies? I didn't, but I learnt that peculiar [... more]
CDN$32.99
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Alex Haley
ALEX HALEY taught himself to write during a twenty year career in the U.S. Coast Guard. After retiring, he worked as a freelance magazine writer. His first book was The Autobiography of Malcom X, on which he was collaborator and editor. ROOTS: ... [... more]
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Barry Kaplan
From Detroit Gangs to New Healing Paradigms - Life Stories of Dr. John E. Upledger John Upledger has never avoided risks, whether performing an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane, as he did while on Coast Guard duty in the 1950s, or telling ... [... more]
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Richard Grant
Richard Grant was born in Norfolk in 1952, attended the University of Virginia, and served in the U.S. Coast Guard. He lives in Rockport, Maine, where he has been a contributing editor of Down East magazine, chaired the literature panel of the ... [... more]
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Money Is My Friend
Phil Laut is a graduate of Harvard Business School. He also graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and served as an officer in the Coast Guard, including a year spent as commanding officer of an eighty-two-foot patrol boat during the height ... [... more]
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Hardy Boys 02 The House On The Cliff
The Amateurs Help the Professional: The Series: In 1927, Franklin W. Dixon launched the "Hardy Boys" books, a series of books telling of the exploits of Frank and Joe Hardy, the sons of a big-city detective. The Hardy boys lived out in the [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood
That Others May Live: This is a true life adventure about the Air Force's para jumpers, a group of heroes I've never heard about. In fact almost no one realizes that they are the ones on tv doing all those splashy things.They are the ones that dove out [... more]
CDN$21.50
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Amelia Earhart: The Story of Amelia Earhart
From Amazon.com: Amelia Earhart may be one of the most famous women in history. Initially recognized as the first woman to fly the Atlantic, she went on to perform many other amazing airborne feats, including a solo Atlantic flight, another from Hawaii [... more]
CDN$15.62
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Furthermore
Intelligent, beautiful, and visceral...: My big bro' (who was attending Michigan State) turned me on to Shawn Phillips around my tenth birthday. I wore this album out in the mid-70's (getting into the zone for Little League games), and I still count it [... more]
CDN$22.99
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Stone Monkey
From Amazon.com: When a vicious smuggler known as the Ghost scuttles a ship filled with undocumented Chinese immigrants less than a mile from New York harbor, only a handful of survivors--and the Ghost himself--manage to escape the burning vessel. [... more]
CDN$30.05
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Sinbad of the Coast Guard
Author: George F., Jr. Foley Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 940.545973 EAN: 9780975869932 ISBN: 0975869930 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 2005-06-30 [... more]
CDN$17.66
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