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Great Nonfiction Reads: Non-fiction Thrillers
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Laced with the first person accounts of people who survived disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, this book probes the human response to catastrophe and dares you to ask yourself "Would I survive a Zombie Apocalypse?"
"On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader . Less then 24 hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive. This is his story."
Roach "begins her journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment to study out-of-body experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech."
Learn what happened when a small group of men - highly placed within the United States military, governemnt, and intelligence services - began beliving in very strange things.