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Say Goodbye, as We Dance with the Devil Tonight Author: Vince Churchill God and the devil have a wager, and fourteen strangers, ranging from the seemingly ordinary to the vindictively insane, will determine the outcome. These people and their final gory gameshow-like confrontations with each other and the realm of obscene, devil conjured tests will determine whether good or evil rules in the end; the very existence of Heaven and Hell is in the balance. It’s Job all over again but this time, the outcome isn’t so certain. Once again, however, the contestants on both sides are hardly picked willingly. [...]

Man and mountains... Author:  David Roberts “It’s not like the old days.”  I expect almost every accomplished adventurer – once they’ve gotten old enough – has looked back and noted that today’s explorers have it easy in so many ways.   It’s this kind of sentiment that pushed acclaimed author and mountaineer David Roberts to write Limits of the Known, a look back at some of the great explorers in history and what’s driven them to take such incredible risks. Very likely approaching his final days on this planet, a recent diagnosis of metastatic throat cancer at the age of 72 [...]

No mercy... Author:  Rachel Slade Timing was everything.  On a run from Jacksonville, Florida to San Juan, Puerto Rico, it would typically take the 791-foot cargo ship SS El Faro less than three days to sail from port to port.  There’s really nothing in the way.  But that wasn’t quite true when the ship – fully loaded with large containers – left Florida on its final voyage on September 29th, 2015.  A storm – soon to be declared hurricane – named Joaquin was headed right toward their path.  In a tense and riveting account, journalist Rachel Slade tells the true [...]