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Publisher
Gun Digest Books, an imprint of Caribou Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For nearly eight decades, Gun Digest has served as the trusted source for up-to-date, detailed, and exciting information about firearms. Gun Digest is the finest collection of great stories, historical reflections, in-depth reviews, and new-product roundups available anywhere. If it has anything to do with firearms and shooting sports, you'll find it here: more than 600 pages covering rifles, shotguns, muzzleloaders, handguns, airguns, optics, ammunition,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's hard to believe that there was a time when the jump shot didn't exist in basketball. When the sport was invented in 1891, players would take set shots with both feet firmly planted on the ground. Defenders controlled the sport, the pace was slower, and games would frequently end with scores fit for a football field. It took almost forty years before players began shooting jump shots of any kind and sixty-five years before it became a common...
10) Firearm safety
Author
Series
Publisher
Eldorado Ink
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A handgun, rifle or shotgun is a tool meant for certain purposes and can be dangerous if not handled properly.
13) Give and take
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Family has always been important to twelve-year-old Maggie: a trapshooter, she is coached by her dad and cheered on by her mom. But her grandmother's recent death leaves a giant hole in Maggie's life, one which she begins to fill with an assortment of things: candy wrappers, pieces of tassel from Nana's favorite scarf, milk cartons, sticks . . . all stuffed in cardboard boxes under her bed. Then her parents decide to take in a foster infant. But...
16) Shooter
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Bob Lee Swagger is a master marksman who has retreated from his duty as an off-the-books hired gun for the military. He has become disillusioned with his government, but finds that the government needs Swagger to scope out the location of a rumored attempt on the life of the president. A shadowy government operative begs Swagger to use his sniper's skills to out-fox the assassin. Ultimately he is double-crosses and framed for the attempted assassination....
18) The hollow ones
Author
Series
Blackwood tapes volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rookie FBI agent Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who becomes suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core. Devastated, Odessa is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. But what most troubles Odessa isn't the tragedy itself--it's the shadowy presence...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Willie and the crew travel to Scotland. But while on a bus tour to reawaken their Scottish roots, will they uncover more than expected? Jase tries his hand at the Highland Games, while Jep and Jessica are interrupted by Uncle Si during a romantic rendezvous. Back home, Willie kicks into gear as assistant football coach on Lil Will's team, while Mark Ballas pays a visit to dance partner Sadie and gets Willie and Kay out on the dance floor.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multi-generational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshiping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not...
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