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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily" (USA Today) in post-9/11 Afghanistan, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.
In 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of American patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later,...
In 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of American patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later,...
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 18
Language
English
Description
A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An account of the tragedy that resulted in the most firefighter deaths since 9/11 tells the full story of the events on Arizona's Granite Mountain on June 30, 2013, when nineteen wildland firefighters lost their lives while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Project Recover, a small team of accomplished scientists, historians, and military veterans, scour the depths of the ocean and the farthest corners of the earth, to search for and recover the remains of the more than 80,000 Americans who have been missing in action since World War II. They aim to deliver closure, solace, and kinship to MIA families who have gone generations without answers.
10) American mother
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after her son Jim, a freelance journalist, was captured and killed by ISIS - a brutal act that produced one of the 21st century's most haunting images - Diane Foley is offered the opportunity to meet her son's murderer over three days in a Virginia courthouse. So begins American Mother-- which reads alternately like a thriller, a biography, a mystery, a memoir, and a literary examination of grace. In this astonishing book, we are all invited...
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