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81) Nemesis
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Special Agent Lacey Sherlock interrogates a terrorist she prevented from launching a grenade at an American airport while Dillon Savich tracks a killer who styles himself like a Hollywood Dracula.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
xix, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the elite military sniper program through the personal experiences of a covert operations specialist describes its requirements, what inspired the author to become a SEAL, and his work as a trainer of American snipers.
Author
Series
A Nick Flynn novel volume 1
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity ... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 245 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons and prepared to launch his attack. But when he emerged, he encountered something he hadn't anticipated: three Americans who refused to give in to fear. Anthony...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the hijacking of a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better. Working with one of...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's 'Hometown Victory' when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opioids to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a twenty-three-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything--including the plum NFL job...
89) A delicate truth
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book, in graphic novel format, describes the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 and discusses the creation of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission.