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2) The warriors
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Relieved to be reassigned to a comparatively peaceful air base in Kyrgyzstan, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson discovers a cache of opium on the base that leads him and interpreter Sergeant Major Sophia Gold into a lethal conflict.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Pub. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When their plane is shot down in a blizzard while transporting an important Taliban detainee, navigator Michael Parson and Army interpreter Sergeant Gold fight for survival in the harsh terrain of Afghanistan, where they struggle to outmaneuver terrorists and dubiously trustworthy villagers.
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Marine Corps master sniper Bob Lee Swagger travels to the remote deserts and caves of Afghanistan to track down a renegade Marine who is using extreme measures to complete a mission.
6) Semper fido
Author
Series
Dog tags volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
219 p.; cm.
Description
Gus Dempsey is a newly trained dog handler in the United States Marine Corps, and when he is deployed to Afghanistan he is paired with Loki, a bomb-sniffing black Labrador with a mischievous streak.
Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 6
Formats
Description
John Wells, an undercover operative for the CIA, travels to Kabul to investigate a drug trafficking operation that involves the agency, the military, and the Taliban.
8) Redeployment
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story about the inescapable weight of the past. A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can't leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he...
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xvii, 234 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"The anthology, which features a foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the our wars' generation: Brian Turner, whose poem "Hurt Locker" was the movie's inspiration; Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen...
12) King and Maxwell
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Series
Description
The teenage son of an U.S. MIA in Afghanistan hires Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators--to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?
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