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Author
Series
Sheriff of Babylon volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Baghdad, 2003. The War on Terror has been raging for two years. Iraq's capital city has been devastated, and without a police force to keep its citizens safe. In an effort to establish some semblance of order in the war-torn city, Florida cop-turned-military consultant Chris Henry has been assigned to train a new group of cadets who will take up the cause of law enforcement. But even those with good intentions are not immune to the chaos found in...
Author
Publisher
WorthyKids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring story of the American flag that flew over Ground Zero, traveled across all fifty states as it was repaired, and returned to New York, a restored symbol of unity"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Sheriff of Babylon volume 2
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The War on Terror still rages in Baghdad as cop-turned-military consultant Chris Henry must solve a deadly murder. He is forced to align himself with Nassir, the last policeman in Baghdad to try to unravel the bloody mystery. While Henry and Nassir search for answers there are forces in the shadows pulling strings that these men don't even know they're tied to. This mini-series continues with the wonderfully brutal script by Tom King (GRAYSON, THE...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country's first line of defense from...
Author
Series
Special Operations files volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's teenage experiences on dive boats, why he decided to become a Navy SEAL, his training, and a mission he and his team went on to shut down a terrorist training camp in a cave network in Afghanistan in 2002.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White...
31) Pride of Baghdad
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.
34) Chain of command
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The groundbreaking series offers unprecedented access to the U.S. military's mission to combat violent extremism in hot spots like Iraq, Afghanistan, West Africa and Latin America. From top commanders to the boots on the ground, the series paints an intimate portrait of how men and women handle authority and responsibility, and the sacrifices they make in their personal lives.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in...
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Following his best-selling book, Guantanamo Diary, which describes his decade of imprisonment and torture at Guantanamo Bay, Mohamedou Ould Slahi decides to go find his torturers. Slahi was imprisoned In the aftermath of 9/11 and accused of being part of Al-Queda but never proven guilty. He wants to take revenge, by inviting them for tea and most importantly by forgiving them. They will have different reactions once confronted by him.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states," Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international...
39) Obama's wars
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
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