Gregg Hurwitz

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist— someone Nick has never heard of—has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he’ll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick the truth behind the events that shattered his life twenty years ago. At seventeen years old, Nick Horrigan made a deadly mistake—one that cost his stepfather his life, endangered his mother, and sent him into hiding for years. Now, what Nick discovers in that nuclear plant leaves him with only two choices—to start running again, or to fight and finally uncover the secrets that have held him hostage all these years.
 
As Nick peels back layer after layer of lies and deception, buffeted between the buried horrors of the past and the deadly intrigues of the present, he finds his own life—and the lives of nearly everyone he loves—at risk. And the only thing guiding him through this deadly labyrinth are his stepfather’s dying words: TRUST NO ONE. Acclaimed for years by both critics and his peers as one of the finest thriller writers today, Gregg Hurwitz has lived up to all the accolades and expectations with Trust No One, an electrifying and compelling novel that will be remembered for years to come.

Trust No One

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Immerse yourself in the world of "The Atomic City Girls" by Janet Beard. This captivating novel takes you on a journey through a historical city, exploring the lives of its inhabitants and the secrets that lie within its walls. 

With a trade paperback format and 384 pages, this book is perfect for adults who enjoy fiction and historical narratives. The story is written in English and was published by HarperCollins in 2018. The book measures 8.1 inches in length, 5.4 inches in width, and 1.1 inches in height, with a weight of 12.9 ounces. 

Discover the general and historical topics that Beard explores in this novel, set in the United States. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the lives of women in atomic cities and the impact of nuclear weapons on their environment. Add "The Atomic City Girls" to your collection today.


Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Alabama

The Atomic City Girls: A Novel Janet Beard, Trade PB VG

Jennet Conant

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist

"Gripping...an outstanding portrait of a technocrat, at work and at home."-- The Wall Street Journal

"Evocative...relentless"--The New York Times Book Review

"This is biography and history at its best."--Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit

The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant--a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War--told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.

James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center of the mammoth threats and challenges of the twentieth century. As a young eminent chemist, he supervised the production of poison gas in World War I. As a controversial president of Harvard University, he was a champion of meritocracy and open admissions. As an advisor to FDR, he led the interventionist cause for US entrance in World War II. During that war, Conant was the administrative director of the Manhattan Project, oversaw the development of the atomic bomb and argued that it be used against the industrial city of Hiroshima in Japan. Later, he urged the Atomic Energy Commission to reject the hydrogen bomb, and devoted the rest of his life to campaigning for international control of atomic weapons. As Eisenhower's high commissioner to Germany, he helped to plan German recovery and was an architect of the United States' Cold War policy.

Now New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant recreates the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century as her grandfather James experienced them. She describes the guilt, fears, and sometimes regret of those who invented and deployed the bombs and the personal toll it took. From the White House to Los Alamos to Harvard University, Man of the Hour is based on hundreds of documents and diaries, interviews with Manhattan Projects scientists, Harvard colleagues, and Conant's friends and family, including her father, James B. Conant's son. This is a very intimate, up-close look at some of the most argued cases of modern times--among them the use of chemical weapons, the decision to drop the bomb, Oppenheimer's fate, the politics of post-war Germany and the Cold War--the repercussions of which are still affecting our world today.

Man of the Hour

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Derek C. Maus

- Introductions provide contexts
- Annotated tables of contents
- Chronologies
- Bibliographies for further research
- Indexes

Although opinions vary on how close anyone came to using nuclear weapons during the Cold War, there is little debate that anxiety about the possibility of nuclear war was one of the major cultural issues of the period. This volume examines the political and cultural effects of nuclear weapons, both among their supporters and their detractors.

Living under the Threat of Nuclear War

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Andy Marino

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

From Andy Marino, author of The Plot to Kill Hitler series, comes another fast-paced historical thriller chronicling one family's desperate bid to escape the deadly Chernobyl disaster.

26 April 1986

01:18

Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds.

Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop.

Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride.

In five minutes, Reactor No. 4 will explode in a ball of fire. It will expel radiation across their town for nine days before it's finally contained. For the people of Pripyat, it will be far too late.

Two young siblings flee the Chernobyl disaster with their parents, but the Communist party is on their heels. Meanwhile, the friends and family they were forced to leave behind must contend with a disinformation campaign that's determined to pretend nothing is wrong-even as deadly radiation spills into the air.

Escape from Chernobyl

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

In her remarkable first novel set in the wide open spaces of the American West, McNamer tells a poignant coming-of-age story. Rima in the Weeds probes beneath the surface of a small town to reveal the drama, emotion, and even violence which link its inhabitants.

Rima in the Weeds

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L. Douglas Keeney

General Curtis Lemay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation

Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilation

During the Cold War, a flight crew had 15 minutes to get their nuke-laden plane in the air from the moment Soviet bombers were detected--15 minutes between the earliest warning of an incoming nuclear strike and the first flash of an enemy warhead. This is the chilling true story of the incredibly risky steps our military took to protect us from that scenario, including:

* Over two thousand loaded bombers that crossed American skies. They sometimes crashed and at least nine times resulted in nuclear weapons being accidentally dropped

* A system that would use timers and rockets to launch missiles even after everyone was dead

* Disastrous atmospheric nuclear testing including the horrific runaway bomb--that fooled scientists and put thousands of men in uniform in the center of a cloud of hot fallout

* A plan to use dry lake beds to rebuild and launch a fighting force in the aftermath of nuclear war

Based on formerly classified documents, military records, press accounts, interviews and over 10 years of research,15 Minutesis one of the most important works on the atom bomb ever written.

15 Minutes

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Ben Bova

Washington

In a chillingly realistic scenario for the future, the Peacekeepers, the U.N. Peacekeeping force that operates all strategic defense satellites in orbit around Earth, combat terrorism, tactical nuclear bombs and war in Central America and the Middle East

Peacekeepers

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Ohio

The Legacy of Chernobyl 

Tennessee

Fatal Choice 

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The book has some minor wear to the cover but is otherwise in good shape.

Atomic Iran: Countdown to Armageddon 

Peter Benoit

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New York

b>A True Book--Disasters The horror! The humanity! The heroes! Read these true, heartstopping tales about unimaginable devastation wrought by nature and humans, and the amazing spirit of the people who united in recovery in the aftermath of nuclear explosions, worldwide diseases, earthquakes and hurricanes, and terrorist attacks.

True Book - Disasters: Nuclear Meltdowns

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James Swallow

Book 2

Racing breathlessly from uncharted CIA prisons to the skyscrapers of Dubai, from stormbeaten oil rigs off the African coast to the ancient caverns beneath the city of Naples, Marc Dane returns in Exile, the explosive thriller from James Swallow, the internationally bestselling author of Nomad. A vicious Serbian gang whose profits come from fake nuclear weapons. A disgraced Russian general, with access to the real thing. A vengeful Somali warlord, with a cause for which he'd let the world burn. A jaded government agency, without the information to stop him. Only one man sees what's coming. And even he might not be able to prevent it . . .

Exile

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Mike Dunn

Quicksilver

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Jan Eliasberg

For readers of The Nightingale and The Alice Network, a thrilling historical debut about a female scientist working to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II, and a young military investigator determined to uncover her secret past. In 1945, Hannah Weiss, a Jewish-Austrian scientist, is removed from her laboratory at the Los Alamos National Lab and taken to Leavenworth Prison for interrogation. Major Jack Delaney, a rising star in the shadowy world of military intelligence, is convinced that someone in the United States has been sharing information with the Nazi party. The captivating, raven-haired, female scientist in New Mexico is his primary suspect. Across the globe, researches are racing to perfect the atomic bomb--a weapon powerful enough to stop WWII, and, perhaps, all future wars. But for Hannah, who has been sending mysterious postcards to a contact still in Germany, the trouble is just beginning. As Jack questions Hannah about her involvement with the infamous Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin ten years earlier, and her apparently friendly relationships with high-ranking members of the Nazi party, he slowly becomes seduced by her intelligence and quiet confidence. Is Hannah a Nazi spy, or is she protecting a far more personal and dark secret of her own? When Jack finally uncovers the truth about her life in Berlin before the war, Hannah must compromise her political allegiance, and choose between two lovers, and two versions of history. A vivid, page-turning, and inspiring re-imagination of the final months of World War II, and the brilliant researchers behind the first atomic bomb, Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman, and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery.

Hannah's War

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Brian VanDeMark

Massachusetts

Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb

This first major account of the Manhattan Project focuses not only on the nine brilliant scientists who invented the atomic bomb but also on the moral dimensions, the emotional dramas, and the interpersonal relationships, both before 1945 and after. photos.

Pandora's Keepers

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Ken Keyes

California

The Hundredth Monkey

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Book has wear, staining and discoloration from age. Please look over all pictures before purchasing.

The Prometheus Crisis - 1975 Book Club Edition 

Tom Clancy

David Michaels

Paperback book is in good shape.  There is a price sticker on the spine.  
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Arizona

A new phenomenon begins.

Created by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy

Based on the bestselling video game, this new series will take readers onto the battlefields of World War III with the technical savvy and explosive action that Clancy fans have come to expect.

Tom Clancy's EndWar

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Discord's Apple

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David McCullough

Paperback copy of Truman by David McCullough 

Oklahoma

Truman

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Bill O'Reilly

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Dropping the Atom Bomb and the End of World War II in the Pacific

Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe, but in the Pacific, American soldiers face an enemy who will not surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. Newly inaugurated president Harry Truman faces the most important political decision in history: whether to use that weapon.

Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's historical thriller Killing the Rising Sun, with characteristically gripping storytelling, this story explores the decision to use the atom bomb and the end of World War II in the Pacific.

The Day the World Went Nuclear

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This book is intended to be a simple, first introduction to the subject of physics. It stresses the essentials of physics. A rare book published in 1954. 

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