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641) Kennedy 35
Author
Series
Box 88 volume 3
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices which will have devastating consequences not only for his career at top-secret intelligence agency BOX 88, but also for his relationship with Martha. 2023: Eric Appiah, an old friend from Kite's days at school...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 4
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This important and comprehensive book commemorates the 20th anniversary of September 11 as told through stories and images from the correspondents and photographers of The Associated Press--breaking news reports, in-depth investigative pieces, human interest accounts, approximately 175 dramatic and moving photos, and first-person recollections. AP's reporting of the world-changing events of 9/11; the heroic rescue efforts and aftermath; the world's...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book offers the first comprehensive narrative history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the hostage taking by Palestinian terrorists of Jewish athletes and their tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by German police. Drawing on a wealth of contemporaneous sources, including recently opened files in the German and Olympic archives, eminent historian...
645) No true believers
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
High school senior Salma Bakkioui, who has a connective tissue disorder, faces prejudice and hidden danger, especially after being framed for a Muslim terrorist act she did not commit.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The United States is at a historical inflection point as leading military powers are increasing the use of remote weapons, broadening the scope of targeted killing operations, and turning to artificial intelligence to control their weapons systems. This book deals with the complexities of the future of war"--
647) Los usurpadores
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
El peor atentado en Occidente desde el episodio de las Torres Gemelas desestabiliza México y deja al gobierno al borde del colapso justo cuando se avecina la sucesión presidencial. ¿Qué se esconde detrás de esta masacre? ¿Alguna disputa entre cárteles de la droga? ¿Una manifestación sangrienta por parte de grupos subversivos? Afectados por los hechos, desde la dirección del periódico El Mundo, el diario digital Lapizarra y la agencia de...
648) Picture in the sand
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy League university, his middle-class Egyptian-American family is filled with pride and excitement. But that joy turns to shock when they discover that he's run off to the Middle East to join a holy war instead. When he refuses to communicate with everyone else, his loving grandfather Ali emails him one last plea. If Alex will stay in touch, his grandfather will share with Alex - and only Alex - a manuscript...
649) Consent to kill
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
Having earned numerous enemies in his more than fifteen years on the front lines of the war on terror, CIA operative Mitch Rapp is targeted by the influential father of a terrorist who is demanding retribution for his son's death.
Author
Series
Nick Flynn novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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
Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The Federation of American Scientists has catalogued nearly two hundred incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In these essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to be published in the United States until now), the author challenges the comforting consensus following both September 11th and Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma city:...
Author
Publisher
Paradigm Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In their new book, Chomsky and Achcar bring a keen understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle East and of the role of the United States, covering such topics as terrorism, fundamentalism, conspiracies, oil, and democracy as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours later on a nearby CIA outpost, resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya. After the fall of Qaddafi, Benghazi had been transformed into a hotbed of fundamentalist fervor and the center of gravity for...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mars' wise-cracking, hard partying local weatherman Nathan Bright has no memory of his alleged role in the terrorist attack that killed 18 billion people. But that isn't stopping him from trying to atone for the actions of his past self. Hunted by literally everyone in the galaxy, Nathan's quest takes him to the scene of the crime -- Earth -- where he continues his search for redemption and the key to saving humanity from another extinction-level...
656) Daughter of war
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 13
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called...
Author
Publisher
OR Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2014, in northern Iraq, more than one hundred thousand Yezidis were besieged on Sinjar Mountain alone, by ISIS forces. Otten, a journalist based in Iraqi Kurdistan for the past four years, covers the massacres of Yezidi men and the mass abduction of Yezidi women and children with extraordinary intensity. Today, over 3,000 Yezidi women and girls remain in the Caliphate where they are bought and sold, and passed between fighters as...
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
"In The Islamic Challenge and the United States the conflict between Islam and the West-especially the United States chronicles the clashing political legacies of Islam and the United States. The author argues that Islam has no tradition of separation of politics and religion, while that separation is at the heart of America's global promotion of democracy. Similarly, secularism is an important aspect of Western-style democracy, while the Islamists...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
©2016.
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...
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