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Bill O'Reilly's Killing volume 11
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English
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"In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
2) War
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
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English
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The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about the longest war in American history by Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: to defeat al-Qaeda and prevent...
7) Dead zero
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 7
Ray Cruz novel volume 01
Ray Cruz volume novel
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Ray Cruz novel volume 01
Ray Cruz volume novel
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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English
Description
"A latest work featuring Bob Lee Swagger finds the Marine Corps Master Sniper traveling to the remote deserts and caves of Afghanistan to track down a renegade Marine who is using extreme measures to complete a mission."--from NoveList.
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It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father . . . after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really...
9) The falling
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English
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"A new love story from Anna Todd begins with The Falling, the first novel in a new trilogy (Brightest Stars) from the #1 internationally best-selling author of the After series. Twenty-year old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Ft. Benning, Georgia. A dutiful officer's daughter, supportive sister to a troubled twin brother, and caring friend to her roommate, Elodie, she always puts the needs of others ahead...
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"At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three ... When [he] realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew...
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English
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Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.
Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II...
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English
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"Gripping war stories meet inspiring lessons in this straight-shooting and darkly funny account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields and in daily lives, from distinguished United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O'Neill and Dakota Meyer"--
"O'Neill and Meyer are two of the most decorated and recognized US service members. Here they combine the best of military memoirs and straight-talking self-help...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal. Once described by the Washington Post as 'the most interesting mayor you've never heard of,' Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move...
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[2021]
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English
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"Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of original interviews by James Patterson... and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann, who was part of the Ranger unit portrayed in the movie Black Hawk Down. These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared among comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women who've fought overseas, from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is a rare, eye-opening look...
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