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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marine Corps master sniper Bob Lee Swagger travels to the remote deserts and caves of Afghanistan to track down a renegade Marine who is using extreme measures to complete a mission.
Author
Series
Neighbors of Lancaster County volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The passing of time and the distance between Zane and Lila haven't been enough to halt their feelings for each other. But all choices have consequences, and with Lila preparing to marry another, will these one-time sweethearts ever find the life together that they both still long for?" -- back cover.
As high school ends, Zane Beck can't help but look at his Amish neighbor, Lila Lehman, with different eyes. Her father arranges for her to be courted...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The teenage son of an U.S. MIA in Afghanistan hires Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators--to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"At a stark outpost in the Kandahar mountain range, a team of American soldiers watches a young Afghan woman approach. She has come to beg for the return of her brother's body. The camp's tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil as the men argue about what to do next. Taking its cues from the Antigone myth, this significant, eloquent novel recreates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of war, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by...
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Description
A transport plane carrying a high-ranking Taliban prisoner is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan's mountainous Hindu Kush. The storm makes rescue impossible and, for the navigator and a female Army interpreter, the battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on Earth. They struggle not only against the hazards of nature, but also the Taliban stalking them, villagers with unknown loyalties, and a prisoner who very much...
Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Wells, an undercover operative for the CIA, travels to Kabul to investigate a drug trafficking operation that involves the agency, the military, and the Taliban.
8) Silent enemy
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Edition
Berkley Premium ed.
Language
English
Description
When the Afghan National Police training center in Kabul is attacked by jihadists, Major Michael Parson accompanies wounded soldiers on planes bound for Germany only to discover that several of the planes have been sabotaged.
9) Running fire
Author
Series
Operation Shadow Warriors volume 7
Publisher
HQN Books
Language
English
Description
"Temporarily assigned to the Shadow Squadron in a troubled region of Afghanistan, Chief Warrant Officer and pilot Leah Mackenzie is no stranger to conflict--even if most of her physical and emotional scars are courtesy of her vicious ex. Still, she's got a bad feeling about picking up a team of stranded SEALs. A feeling that's all too justified once enemy fire hits their helicopter and all hell breaks loose.... SEAL Kell Ballard's goal was to get...
10) Hazard
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma...
11) Redeployment
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Language
English
Description
"Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn...
12) Nuevo destino
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Edition
Primera edicion.
Language
Español
Description
Una colección de relatos que traslada al lector a la primera línea de fuego de las guerras de Irak y Afganistán, instandole a comprender lo que allí sucedió y qué fue de los soldados que volvieron a casa.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Redeployment, a short story collection from a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who served several combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan--a powerful depiction of life on the front lines of today's warfare. A mesmerizing debut collection that reveals what it is like to be a member of an elite special operations team, when so many missions take place behind night vision, ancient credos, and layers of secrecy. Told without a trace of bravado,...
Author
Series
For God and country war heroes volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"A chance encounter on a beach in Maryland leads to love and self-sacrifice in Afghanistan in this tale of espionage and intrigue"--
When Lauren Cantrell said goodbye to the guy she had just met on the beach at Ocean City, Maryland, she had no way of knowing their paths would ever cross again. And the last person in the world Rad expected to see at a special ops briefing in Afghanistan is the girl he met at the beach two weeks ago-- the one he can?t...
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Language
English
Description
Moody : All she needed were stamps and signatures. Marie and her translator stood in the government offices in Kabul, Afghanistan to complete the paperwork for her new literacy project. The women in her home town - the northern village of Shehktan - would learn to read.
18) Enduring freedom
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Language
English
Description
"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--
19) The human body
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Language
English
Description
"Depicts the struggle, the vicissitudes, and the internal and external growth of a platoon of young Italian soldiers that are sent for the first time on a mission to the forward operating base (FOB) Ice in Gulistan, Afghanistan, which the writer described as 'a sandy enclosure exposed to adversity.' During the night the camp is obscured: it is invisible, there are no man-made or natural noises, only the incessant activity of the human body that penetrates...
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