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1. Death in the jungle: murder, betrayal, and the lost dream of Jonestown

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Author:
Fleming, Candace
Publisher:
Anne Schwartz Book
Pub. Date:
2025
Lexile measure:
860L
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English
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How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history. Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones's humble origins as a child of the Depression... to his...

2. Defying death in the jungle

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Author:
Jeffrey, Gary
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English
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The jungles are loaded with deadly dangers such as water and insect-related diseases, poisonous plants, and savage animals. This book's detailed graphic illustrations and fast-paced narrative will wow readers while they learn about some of the most amazing jungle survival stories.

3. The spears of twilight: life and death in the Amazon jungle

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Author:
Descola, Philippe
Publisher:
New Press
Pub. Date:
[1996]
Language:
English
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4. Through the Jungle of Death

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Author:
Brookes, Stephen
Publisher:
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2002
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English
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A GRIPPING SURVIVOR STORY OF ONE FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM BURMA DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION.

5. The Jungle of a Thousand Easy Deaths

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Author:
MacLeod, Kate
Publisher:
Kate MacLeod
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Elyot, Keani and Alextra escaped the ancient monster at the heart of the catacombs under the city. But the Commonwealth enforcers launch search shuttles, and the side of the mountain offers no cover. The city above? No longer a safe haven for them. But below lies impenetrable jungle, stretching to the horizon in all directions. Keani loathes the idea of facing its many dangers. But she loathes the idea of abandoning her new friends even more. She...

6. Black Panther adventures

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Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date:
[2018]
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English
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Collects a series of adventures featuring Black Panther, including a run-in with the Fantastic Four, a battle with the Man-Ape, and a team-up with Hawkeye.

7. State of wonder: a novel

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Author:
Patchett, Ann
Lexile measure:
990L
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English
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3.2 stars
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A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.

8. Tarzan of the apes

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Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
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Dover thrift editions
Oxford world's classics
Tarzan volume 1
Tantor unabridged classics
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1200L
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English
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3 stars
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A central figure in American popular culture, Tarzan first came swinging through the jungle in the pages of a pulp-fiction magazine in 1912, and subsequently appeared in the novel that went on to spawn numerous film, full-length cartoon, and theatrical adaptations. The infant Tarzan, lost on the coast of West Africa, is adopted by an ape-mother and grows up to become a model of physical strength and natural prowess, and eventually leader of his tribe....

9. The testament

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Author:
Grisham, John
Lexile measure:
770L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A disgraced corporate attorney ventures into a potentially lethal jungle, on a job no one wants, in this “entertaining page-turner” (USA Today) from the master of the legal thriller.

In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and...

10. Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: a West African tale

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Author:
Aardema, Verna
Series:
Picture Puffins
Puffin Pied Piper giant books
Lexile measure:
770L
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English
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5 stars
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A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit. A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit ... and now the whole jungle is in an uproar because the sun won't rise. The animals discuss the situation and decide to punish the mosquito. Even today, whenever we hear a mosquito buzz, we smack it hard!

11. The reckoning

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Author:
Grisham, John
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English
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Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...

12. The eye of heaven

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Author:
Cussler, Clive
Series:
Fargo adventures volume 6
Language:
English
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"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...

13. Jungle Tales of Tarzan

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Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Series:
Tarzan volume 6
Language:
English
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It was true that Tarzan and Tantor were the best of friends, and that Tarzan never yet had tasted of the flesh of the elephant; but the Gomangani evidently had slain one, and as they were eating of the flesh of their kill, Tarzan was assailed by no doubts as to the ethics of his doing likewise, should he have the opportunity. Had he known that the elephant had died of sickness several days before the blacks discovered the carcass, he might not have...

14. The 6th extinction: a Sigma Force novel

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Author:
Rollins, James, 1961-
Series:
Sigma Force novel volume 10
Sigma Force
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English
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A remote military research station in Utah sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighbouring base rush in to discover everyone already dead - and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles has been annihilated. The land is entirely sterile-and the blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises...

15. Tropic thunder

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Publisher:
Paramount
Pub. Date:
2008
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English
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While filming an action movie in the jungle, death and hilarity ensue as the lead actors believe the murderous heroin-producing gang they encounter is a part of the script.

16. The lost city of the Monkey God: a true story

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"--

17. Saving fish from drowning

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Author:
Tan, Amy
Series:
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Language:
English
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Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China-dubbed the true Shangri-La and head south into the jungles of Burma. But after the mysterious death of their tour leader, the carefully laid plans fall apart, and disharmony breaks out among the pleasure-seekers as they come to discover that the Burma Road is paved with less-than-honorable intentions, questionable food, and tribal curses. And then, on...

18. River of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey

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Millard, Candice
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The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights...

19. Outlaw

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Author:
Dekker, Ted, 1962-
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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A father and his son leave Atlanta for Australia and find themselves taken as slaves by a savage, unknown jungle tribe.

20. Lost in Shangri-la: a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II

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Author:
Zuckoff, Mitchell
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English
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Describes the 1945 odyssey of three plane crash survivors in New Guinea who endured a harrowing journey through the jungle to seek help, their encounter with a primitive tribe who had never seen white people, and their eventual rescue by a band of paratroopers.
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