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1) The stringer
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What is a down-and-out old-school journalist to do at a time of media disruption? Slink away and die? Not if he's smart. Veteran reporter and TV war correspondent Mark Scribner is ambitious and cynically brilliant. As he soon figures out, he already has all the tools he needs in order to pivot his moribund journalism career to the next level - and beyond. The question is, how much of his soul will he have to sell to get there?"-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lapis Lazuli is a semiprecious gemstone found deep in the Sar-i-sang mountains of Afghanistan's remote Badakhshan province. For thousands of years, it has sustained the nearby mining villages, whose inhabitants lived peacefully in the mountainous landscape--until the Taliban, known to the denizens of the region as the Horsemen, came seeking riches stored deep beneath the earth. Taliban rule has turned the stone into a conflict mineral, as they steal...
3) The 'Stan
Author
Publisher
Dead Reckoning, an imprint of the Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The 'Stan is a collection of short comics about America's longest war. Individual stories highlight different perspectives--including a Taliban ambassador and Afghan and U.S. Army soldiers--but every account highlights the human element of war. The tales in this book--based on reporting by David Axe and Kevin Knodell and drawn by artist Blue Delliquanti--are all true and took place in roughly the first decade of the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan....
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