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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to "Three Cups of Tea" continues the author's story of his humanitarian efforts to bring education into disadvantaged Middle East regions, describing such events as the 2005 earthquake and a tense eight-day abduction by the Taliban.
2) 12 strong
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince the Northern Alliance to join forces with them to fight the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. In addition to overcoming mutual distrust and a vast cultural divide, the Americans must adopt the rudimentary tactics of the Afghan horse soldiers....
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
"U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan and his crew are devising the air combat unit of the future. Known as Air Battle Force, it can launch concentrated, stealthy, precision-guided firepower to any spot on the globe within hours. Chased out of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters are planning to invade the oil rich Republic of Turkmenistan. Now, it's up to McLanahan and a handful of American commandos half a world away, aided...
4) The outpost
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events. A team of U.S. soldiers stationed at the deadliest outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 is relentlessly attacked by an overwhelming force of Taliban insurgents. Their fight for survival is the ultimate display of American valor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, and the losses incurred over the course of thirty years test the limits of their strength and courage.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2021, the Taliban regain power in Afghanistan. What will happen now to Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner? The gate was within reach now. All they would have to do was crawl up the bank of the gully, out of the sewer water, and up to the soldiers...Two more steps, and they were at the edge of the water. Three big steps, and they were out of the gully. A dozen more steps on dry land, and they would be at the gate, and...
Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are dying, and at Langley the CIA's chiefs wonder if the unthinkable has happened, if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. When they ask John Wells to investigate, he reluctantly agrees to return...
11) Silent enemy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Afghan National Police training center in Kabul is attacked by jihadists, Major Michael Parson accompanies wounded soldiers on planes bound for Germany only to discover that several of the planes have been sabotaged.
13) Osama
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Pushto
Description
Chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.
14) The ghost war
Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
John Wells became the only American CIA agent ever to penetrate al-Qaeda, but his handlers became distrustful of him, and he of them. He had to stop a devastating terrorist attack nearly alone. Now Wells is back in Washington. His wounds have healed, but his mind is far from clear. He is restless, uneasy in his skin, and careless with his safety. When the CIA finds evidence of a surge in Taliban activity, backed by an unknown foreign power, it takes...
15) The breadwinner
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
GN 710L
Language
English
Description
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
16) The network
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Under the expert guidance of an old-school hero and veteran of the elite British Special Air Service, MI6 agent Taverner prepares to enter Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to destroy a cache of the CIA's precious Stinger missiles before they can fall into the hands of al-Qaeda.
Author
Language
English
Description
For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Following the September 11 attacks, the United States successfully overthrew the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The U.S. established security throughout the country--killing, capturing, or scattering most of al Qa'ida's senior operatives--and Afghanistan finally began to emerge from more than two decades of struggle and conflict. But Jones argues that as early as 2001, planning for the Iraq War siphoned resources and personnel, undermining the gains...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Takes readers on a historical journey with 12 engaging chapters about the War in Afghanistan. With colorful spreads featuring the wars critical moments, key players, and lasting effects paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and a timeline, the book provides a holistic view of the event." -- Amazon.com.
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Language
English
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Description
President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most recent attacks.
Investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad dedicated his life to revealing the strategies and inner workings of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He had access to top-level commanders...
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