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Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had. Reacher is there to meet — in person — the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone. But it isn’t Turner behind the CO’s desk....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs — a violent but brief interlude between times of peace. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war expands, so does the role of the US military. Today, military personnel don’t just...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air...
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Series
Language
English
Description
For the visitors to Wilsonville, the largest theme park in the world, the day began with a smile. By the end, they wonder-will they be able to escape with their lives? Retired Delta Force operator, Master Sergeant Jonathan "Jad" Bell, is Wilsonville's lead undercover security officer. The threat begins with the announcement of a hidden dirty bomb, but quickly becomes something far, far worse. Trained since the age of seventeen to save innocent victims...
46) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.
47) Enemy of mine
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In retired Delta Force officer Brad Taylor's third Pike Logan thriller, a tentative peace between Israel and Palestine has been brokered by the United States. But the Taskforce - a clandestine team operating outside of US law to protect the country from terrorism - gets wind of an assassination plot on the American envoy sent to solidify the treaty. The Taskforce must devote every resource to saving his life - and preventing another bloody outbreak...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"Two women--a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947--are brought together in a ... story of courage and redemption"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are in Turkmenistan with the Taskforce -- a top-secret antiterrorist unit operating outside U.S. law -- when Jennifer gets a call from her brother, Jack. While investigating Mexican drug cartels, Jack has become caught between two rival groups. The desperate call to his sister is his last before he's kidnapped. In their efforts to rescue Jack, Pike and Jennifer uncover a plot much more insidious than illegal drug trafficking...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that a vicious assassin has his sights set on her, a woman preparing to testify against sinister forces in Bolton, South Dakota calls on the help of Jack Reacher, a former United States Army Military Police Major, whose tour bus recently crashed near the woman's town. Over the course of the next 61 hours, both their lives change dramatically in this climactic thriller.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
624 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four “revolutions” in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise and fall of empires. War Made New begins with the Gunpowder Revolution and explains warfare’s evolution from ritualistic, drawn-out engagements to much deadlier events, precipitating the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors — including the spymaster at the heart...
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (10 hrs. 35 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, the frozen battlefields of Korea, the sweltering jungles of Vietnam, to the blistering sands of Iraq, this is war as you have never seen it before. This is the story of war that can only be told by the men and women who experienced it. In this collection, four generations of veterans recall the horrors of engagement and the relationships they forged under the most harrowing circumstances, providing a perspective...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska ... and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can't let go. The Duncan's want Reacher gone -- and it's not just past secrets they're trying to hide. They're awaiting a secret shipment that's already late -- and they have the kind...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the efforts of US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen to aid the children in Russian-blockaded West Berlin by dropping packages filled with candy from the air. Features personal photographs, along with letters and drawings from the children of Berlin.
57) The last odyssey
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times' bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action. For eons, the city of Troy whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell [...] weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle -- 100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; over 1,000 in Afghanistan--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers in...
60) Days of rage
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Taskforce is used to being the hunter, but this time they're the hunted. Intent on embroiling the US in a quagmire that will sap its economy and drain its legitimacy, Russia passes a potential weapon of mass destruction to Boco Haram, an extreme Islamic sect in Nigeria. A relic of the Cold War, the Russian FSB believes the weapon has deteriorated and is no longer effective, but they are wrong. Boco Haram has the means for mass destruction, which...
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