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Author
Series
Nick Flynn volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When Nick Flynn left the US Air Force to join the Quartet Directorate, he did so with the full knowledge that no one could ever know. This covert private force--called Four by its members--promised him the chance to lead his own missions and make his own decisions. When a former senior CIA executive goes dark, Flynn and his team are ready to step in. What begins as a quiet check on his home turns into a firefight against a familiar enemy who is more...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 27
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. The plan: It's coming Fall 2022. No Plan B. In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts. One guy sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what actually happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving...
23) 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.
24) 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.
25) 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...
Author
Series
Language
English
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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.
28) 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...
29) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
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...
32) 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
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the sophisticated D-Day operation through which extraordinary spies deceived the Nazis about the location of the Allied attack, profiling the successful Double Cross System and the remarkable individuals who used the program to save thousands of lives.
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.
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.
37) 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...
39) The devil's sea
Author
Series
Language
English
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"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...