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21) The summer house
Author
Language
English
Description
Investigating four Army Rangers who have been implicated in the destruction of a luxurious summer lake resort, Army Major and former NYPD cop Jeremiah Cook is stonewalled by local law enforcement and dangerous secrets.
22) Battle tanks
Author
Series
Publisher
Gloucester Press
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, technology, and future of different types of tanks, focusing on the engines, weapons, crews, defenses, combat use, and the development of anti-tank weapons.
23) Combat aircraft
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the many uses of combat aircraft in modern warfare.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From #1 bestselling author and master storyteller James Patterson, and Matt Eversmann, First Sergeant, USA (Ret.), the decorated war hero immortalized in the film Black Hawk Down, come firsthand wartime experiences of American military. The sacrifices of service are indescribable -- except by those who have made them. Their personal stories of battlefield life reveal: - The goal to "be ready every day, every single day," -- and how that can quickly...
25) Better off dead
Author
Series
A Jack Reacher novel volume 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher gets caught in the middle of an off-the-books FBI drug investigation when he spots an old nemesis--believed to be dead for ten years--alive and well in Boston and his attempts to tap into his old resources for help brings the federal agents to his door.
27) Bomber planes
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill., col. photos.
Language
English
Description
This book describes the design of various types of bombers, their uses in combat, and their role in the future.
28) Spy planes
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill., photos.
Language
English
Description
This book discusses the history of surveillance from the sky, describing different types of reconnaissance aircraft and their role in the future.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 8
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
Author
Series
John puller volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
ix, 110 p : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.
33) First kill
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
First Kill traces the origin story of CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey, whose first assignment as a new Air Force OSI graduate is sabotaged by an unknown adversary in Washington.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two former roommates and best friends were...
35) The devil's sea
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler. In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes various military, space, and other robots used to carry out missions that are too dangerous for human beings"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...
Author
Series
Brad McLanahan volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 437 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a new administration challenges the Russian agression head on, Brad McLanahan and the Iron Wolf Squadron devise a plan to destroy Russia's new high-tech space station that has the ability to destroy satellites and attack strategic targets around the globe.
40) Cold barrel zero
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
John Hayes is a Special Operations legend who went rogue on a deep-cover mission and betrayed his own soldiers. Disgraced and on the run, he returns to the United States to get back to his wife and daughter and take revenge on his accusers with a series of devastating attacks. Only one man can stop him: Thomas Byrne. He once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic, but he gave up the gun. Now a surgeon, he moves from town to town, trying to forget...