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Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
xi, 162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"[The author] presents the story of the FBI's investigation of the Unabomber and the agent who helped bring him to justice."--
Author
Series
Kurt Austin adventures volume 20
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship....
284) Anonymous sources
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alexandra James, a beautiful, driven, yet troubled New England Chronicle reporter is assigned to cover the death of Thom Carlyle, son of one of the most powerful men in Washington. Just back from a year abroad, Thom falls from the top of a Harvard bell tower on a warm summer night. Did he jump, or was he pushed? For Alex James, who can get in anywhere, sleep with anyone, out-drink and out-shop her demons, it is the story of a lifetime. As she chases...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1995, 1994
Physical Desc
xxvii, 733 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mirrors the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia, denouncing both nihlists and revolutionairies.
Based on a true event, in which a young revolutionary was murdered by his comrades, The Possessed provoked a storm of controversy for its harsh depiction of a ruthless band of Russian intellectuals, atheists, socialists, anarchists, and other radicals who attempt to incite the population of a small provincial town to revolt against the government. In...
286) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
Author
Series
National parks thriller volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is awakened by his boss with that news and sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things - one that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and two, that threats of a second terrorism...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious novel, written in the voice of eighth-grader Wyatt Palmer, Dave Barry takes us on a class trip to Washington, DC. Wyatt, his best friend, Matt, and a few kids from Culver Middle School find themselves in a heap of trouble-not just with their teachers, who have long lost patience with them-but from several mysterious men they first meet on their flight to the nation's capital. In a fast-paced adventure with the monuments as a backdrop,...
Author
Series
I survived volume 4
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father's, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, Kane journeys to the borders of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, where violence is the only way to survive, to exfiltrate a man with vital information, but instead meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction"--
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