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102) Amok
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
1991. A restless young man called Dox is back home in Texas. His friends have missed him, and his mother and sisters need him. But after four years as a Marine and another two as a CIA contractor fighting the Soviet Union alongside the Afghan mujahideen, small-town life in Abilene is a suffocating dead end. Another secret war, this one in Southeast Asia, offers a big payday and the solution to his family’s troubles. But secret wars are never what...
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Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection betwee the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap. A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private--the world's largest investigation agency--with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first...
104) Border river
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Desperately hoping to turn the tide of the Civil War, Confederate soldier Clete Mattson steals $2 million in gold bars from the Union and heads for the Mexican border town of Zona Libre, where he hopes to buy munitions and supplies. With Yankee troops in hot pursuit, Clete soon discovers he might be in a worse situation with a greedy despot, crooked businessmen, and other shady characters intent on double-crossing him.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She...
106) No slam dunk
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh-grader Wes is a good teammate but this basketball season has been challenging because of his ball hog teammate Dinero, who is determined to steal the spotlight, and Wes's army veteran father who is suffering from PTSD.
107) Run for cover
Author
Series
Michael Gannon novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
6 CDs (450 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fresh from a lethal entanglement with some of the deepest and darkest players in the global intelligence services, Michael Gannon heads to the safest place he can think of: deep in the wilds of Utah on the ranch of one of his oldest and closest war buddies. But when his friend's brother is found dead in the rocky foothills of Grand Teton, Gannon realizes there are some things more important than keeping your head down. Is his death just one in a string...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 22
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, "one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes" (The Washington Post). Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005.A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 397 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Describes the experiences of three women soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to reveal how their military service has affected their friendship, personal lives and families, detailing the realities of their work on bases and in war zones and how their choices and losses shaped their perspectives.
111) This way home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
June 1945. Even as the people of France celebrate the end of World War II, they are overwhelmed by the recovery work which lies ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church, school, and hospital has been destroyed. Disparate factions, from Communists to Resistance fighters to those who supported appeasement of the Nazis, must somehow unite and rebuild their devastated country. Asher lost his family during the war, and in revenge, he served...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"When America entered World War II in 1941, [it] faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"This is the first biography of Nadine Ramsey, a stunt and racing pilot who served as one of 1,102 Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. The WASP flew domestic flights for the military, freeing up male pilots to enter the European and Pacific theatres of war. Nadine was one of only 303 women who ferried military aircraft. She was also the first Kansas woman to obtain a Civil Aeronautics Authority private flying license, and...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (573 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disc 1: First, Bill and Jack are railroad men. When Bill comes to stay with Jack and his wife, Bill and Lily fall in love. Jack confronts Bill about his suspicions and the two fight, leaving Jack seriously injured. Last, Joan Gordon is a singer tiring of her relationship with Eddie. She flees to North Dakota to become a mail-order bride. Happiness is threatened by her stubborn husband, a lecherous neighbor and the appearance of Eddie.
Disc 2: First,...
117) Two roads
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (426 min.) : sd., b&w or col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
[Human desire] A Korean War veteran comes back to his job as a railroad engineer, and becomes entangled with a violent co-worker and the man's alluring wife in a web of deception, suspicion, and murder .
[Pushover] A cop, staking out the apartment of a bank robber's girlfriend, makes a move on her to get information. But he makes the mistake of really falling for her, testing his loyalties with deadly results.
[The brothers Rico] A businessman and...
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