Wasatch County Library

Drawing on research and a firsthand account of the 2012 expedition, this true story of survival, which moves between World War II and today, follows the survivors of a cargo plane crash in 1942 and their days spent fighting for their lives during an Arctic winter.

Presents information about search and rescue workers and volunteers, including different places where they may perform rescues, the equipment required, and how they use rescue dogs.

Combines firsthand interviews with scientific and cultural insights in a middle grade account of the 2018 Thai cave rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team and the critical, sophisticated engineering operation that saved the lives of 13 young people.

"Murphy Shepherd's last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He'd like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones's brother must be stopped, and there are so many who need to know that they are worth rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn--both physically and mentally. And then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and friend is taken. Without a trace....

In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of Operation Halyard, a story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery, is now being told for the first time.--From publisher description.

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks—a pulse-pounding account by a reporter who was there every step of their journey out.

After a practice

...

"Missing persons expert Frankie Elkin, goes into 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."

Set in the Pacific Northwest. An island provides sanctuary, the lush forests seduce the unwary, and a man and a woman find in each other the strength to carry on. Now a killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands...

"In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story hotel room; along the Missouri river, a hunter and his son stumble upon a lake whose surface is littered with snow geese, all of them dead; and in southern Alabama, Ryder Creed and his search-and-rescue dog Grace find the body of a young woman who went missing in the Conecuh National Forest and it appears she filled her pockets with rocks and walked into the river. Before long Ryder Creed and...