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41) Cars and trucks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Bright photos and clear text will engage young readers as they learn about the extraordinary capabilities of military cars and trucks.
43) Obama's wars
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English
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Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
44) Air Battle Force
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 11
Language
English
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Description
In military circles it's known as Air Battle Force an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan, capable of launching stealthy, precision-guided firepower to anywhere on the globe within hours. And now McLanahan and his warriors have their first target.
Driven from Afghanistan, the parasitic forces of the deposed Taliban regime have decided to feed on a new host an isolated, oil-rich...
45) The secret
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 28
Language
English
Description
"1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body - the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window - generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. Reacher may be an exceptional...
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Sigma Force novels volume 16
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English
Description
It begins in Africa ... A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle -- known...
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Pike Logan thrillers volume 2
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English
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Charged with stopping an imminent terrorist attack, the Taskforce pursues leads to Egypt, where Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill find themselves in charge of a mission involving a weapon of unprecedented destruction.
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Pike Logan thrillers volume 9
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English
Description
In this heart-stopping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor, Pike Logan returns with his most dangerous and personal threat yet: a Taskforce Operator gone rogue.
For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule of law, it abandoned...
For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule of law, it abandoned...
49) The aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic Age of Flight
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English
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Explores "the saga of three extraordinary aviators-- Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle-- and how they redefine heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage"--
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English
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"America's first line of defense--Brad McLanahan and the heroes of the Iron Wolf Squadron--must counter a dangerous Russian strike from within the homeland in this cutting-edge tale from the New York Times master of the high-tech military thriller, Dale Brown. On a remote island estate, a billionaire investor sells his air freight company to a mysterious new owner. The purchaser is none other than the President of Russia, Gennadiy Gryzlov. The Russians...
51) No plan B
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 27
Language
English
Description
Witnessing a woman pushed to her death in front of a bus, Jack Reacher, following the killer on foot, is unaware that this is part of a secret conspiracy with many moving parts with no room for error and any threats will be permanently removed, including Reacher.
In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts: One sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other...
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English
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Snipers: skilled, cautious, and keen-eyed shooters who hide and wait for their assigned targets to appear. For a sniper, staying out of view-whether within some bushes or peeking over a rooftop-is job one. But snipers don't stay hidden for readers of this engrossing book, which pulls back the cover and the camouflage, providing a detailed and inside look at the training, the tools, and the history of how a select few get to be top guns in the U.S....
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English
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During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POWs as "evil Nazis." To them, they were ordinary men and very human. And while their stay was not entirely free from conflict, many former captives returned to the Cornhusker State to begin new lives after the cessation of hostilities. Drawing on first-person...
54) Navy baby
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Series
Navy series (Debbie Macomber) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Finding herself pregnant after a single night of passion with a total stranger--seaman Riley Murdock--sheltered Hannah Raymond is reunited by fate with the father of her child and forced into marriage by her minister father.
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English
Description
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...
56) Durable goods
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Series
Katie Nash novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or...
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Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 757 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the intentions of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
59) Navy brat
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Series
Navy series (Debbie Macomber) volume 3
Language
English
Description
Erin MacNamera, the headstrong daughter of a career navy man, determined early that she would never fall for a navy man, until handsome Lieutenant Brandon Davis showed up and she found that resisting him was not as easy as she thought.
60) Varina: a novel
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English
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"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
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