Black Tornado


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Now a major web series.The 26/11 attacks, as they are now known, is widely regarded as the world's first hybrid terrorist attack. The attackers achieved through this long-drawn siege what Al Qaeda did through the high-visibility mass-casualty attack of 11 September 2001. The response to this attack was the first instance of all three wings of the Indian armed forces coming together to fight terror. The attacks tested the mettle of India's elite counter-terrorist force, the National Security Guard, whose strike element was entirely made up of army personnel; the navy dispatched its marine commandos in the initial hours of the attack; the air force flew the NSG into the city and air-dropped them over Nariman House. Black Tornado, as the operation was called by the NSG, is the story of these men called into action in the desperate hours following the most sensational terrorist attack the country has ever seen.




Tornado Season


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TORNADO SEASON arrives as a storm is raging. Yet its stories urge us not to seek shelter, but to leave it. To walk out of our inner place of hiding and face the whirlwind. To recognize it. To acknowledge it and fight it. Ethnicity and culture alongside the U.S.-Mexico border; deportation and immigration; life in the U.S. foster care system--of these tumultuous subjects Courtney Craggett writes with honesty, a big heart, and a complete lack of sentimentality. She shows us ordinary people who suffer, dream, hope, and strive for something just a little bit better. And by doing so, she elevates these stories from the realm of the timely into that of the timeless. Long after the storm has passed, the stories in TORNADO SEASON will ring true and dear for they sing of the innermost yearning of the human heart for freedom, justice, and love. --Miroslav Penkov




Storm Warning


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Veteran journalist Mathis has produced a compulsively readable account of one of the most terrible tornadoes in history--a mile-wide F5 twister--and the extraordinary people who kept it from becoming the deadliest.




Married To The Ruthless


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Being the youngest child of the De Hizon, Emerald strive hard to be the perfect daughter she could be to be loved and accepted by her own family. Life must be cruel when truth reaveled that she was only adopted. What can be more cruel when she finds out she was ought to be engage and bound to be married to the person he knew her brother! Sebastian Alexander De Hizon- the rebel,ruthless and dominant brother who hates her for unknown reasons. He bestowed her nothing but ruthlessness and showed her how against he was on the arranged marriage. With his strange behaviour and stolen glances. How her silly heart throbs whenever he come near her. Oh no! What are those meant for?




Storm Kings


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With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.




Tornadoes


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Discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of tornadoes, tornadoes of the past, and ways to survive them.







Bones of Plenty


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A powerful and absorbing novel about the struggles of a proud North Dakota wheat-farming family during the Great Depression.




Godly Pretending System


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Qin Long's confession had failed. This was his first love, and in the end, it turned out that this girl was actually a gold digger! Damn it, isn't it just love money! If I had money! Qin Long thought angrily. Thus, a bolt of lightning struck him. A voice resounded in his mind while he was unconscious. Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the highest technology, the Most Powerful Posturing System from the O2M star. "




Sword Soaring the Heaven


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In the end, he had to use his sword and go straight up to the third heaven. How could the will of a lifetime compare to that of a great Dao? Close]