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Publisher
Distributed by Warner, Elektra, Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Soon after the start of hostilities in Iraq, Rome-based, love-struck poet and lecturer Attilio heads to Baghdad when he learns from his friend, an Iraqi poet, that the woman he loves has been critically injured in a bomb explosion. Attilio does everything in his power to save her, risking his own life amidst the chaos of war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
"Con sólo un libro para investigar y otro de rimas mágicas, Annie y Jack viajan 1,200 años atrás, a la era dorada de Bagdad. La travesía comienza en el desierto, en la estación de las tormentas de arena. Al principio, la misión es un misterio, hasta que un grupo de bandidos ataca a una caravana de camellos y Annie y Jack tienen que proteger una extraña caja. ¿Qué habrá adentro? ¿Cómo le servirá su contenido al gobernante de Bagdad para...
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"Europe is in the grip of the Dark Ages, but there is a light in the dark: Baghdad. The great city has become a center of learning, populated by scholars, merchants, and explorers from all across the known world. But danger lurks in the desert ... and Dak, Sera, and Riq must act fast to save the world's greatest library from utter destruction."--
Author
Series
Reverend Clare Fergusson mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
At the Millers Kill Community Center, five veterans gather to work on adjusting to life after war. The Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of bad memories she's using alcohol to wipe out. Dr. George Stillman is denying that the head wound he received has left him with something worse than simple migraines. Officer Eric McCrea is battling to keep his constant rage from affecting his life as a cop, and as a father. High...
10) The hurt locker
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate...
11) The hurt locker
Publisher
Summit Enter
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amid violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.
12) Spoils: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already smoldering insurgency intent of making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. This novel explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra Wigheard, a nineteen-year-old gunner on an American Humvee who is captured...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can't believe that his hero doesn't have very good reasons. Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge,...
14) Green zone
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
15) Correspondents
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
13 CDs (15 hrs. 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Both sides of Rita's family came to the United States in the golden years of immigration, and in her home north of Boston Rita grows into a stubborn and relentlessly bright young woman. She studies Arabic at her university and moves to cosmopolitan Beirut to work as a journalist and is then posted to Iraq after the American invasion in 2003. In Baghdad, her safety depends on her talented interpreter, Nabil al-Jumaili, an equally driven young man from...
16) The navigator
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
12 CDs (ca. 14 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Someone has killed for a statue stolen from the Baghdad Museum years ago, and the NUMA team must find why.
17) Landfall
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiii, 473 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Set during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush years-amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina-Landfall brings Thomas Mallon's cavalcade of contemporary American politics, which began with Watergate and continue with Finale, to a vivid and emotional climax. The president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high-speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually...
18) The death trust
Author
Series
Vin Cooper thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
As shocking as today’s headlines, this internationally bestselling thriller plunges readers into the revelation of a terrifying conspiracy that begins with a sniper’s bullet on a routine patrol in Iraq…and leads all the way back to the White House–where the ultimate betrayal of trust is being played out…. Amid the dust, death, and chaos of Iraq, an American soldier on a routine patrol is killed by an unseen enemy. It’s a tragedy but not...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the ancient city of Baghdad, a shy shoemaker named Tack falls in love with the adventure-loving Princess Yum-Yum. When an evil wizard threatens their beloved city, it's up to Tack and the Princess to defeat him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 431
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
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