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Author
Series
Killing volume 11
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL, recounts his life and military experiences, discusses his record for the most career sniper kills in United States military history and the bounty placed on his head by Iraqi insurgents, provides an eye-witness account of war in Iraq, shares the strains of war on his marriage and family, and honors his fellow soldiers.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.
"An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq—a humanizing, brave story that's extremely readable." — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review
"Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD
...Author
Publisher
Agate Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
An award-winning journalist portrays life and faith on the frontlines of the Iraq War through the experience of a US Army chaplain.
The US mission in Iraq ended Dec. 18, 2011, as the last American soldiers climbed into trucks and headed south through the desert towards Kuwait. Nearly 4,500 American troops died in the Iraq war. More than 30,000 others were physically wounded. Countless others live with scars that can’t...
The US mission in Iraq ended Dec. 18, 2011, as the last American soldiers climbed into trucks and headed south through the desert towards Kuwait. Nearly 4,500 American troops died in the Iraq war. More than 30,000 others were physically wounded. Countless others live with scars that can’t...
7) Cherry
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq....
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 4
Language
English
Description
Newly-widowed Marcie Sullivan tracks down Ian Buchanan, the man responsible for saving her husband's life years ago, and finds an emotionally scarred man who needs her help in healing his wounded soul during a season of miracles.
Author
Series
Danger never sleeps volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
443 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the theater of war in Iraq, trauma surgeon Heather Fontaine was used to being in control. Now back home, life spins off its axis when she becomes the target of a stalker. Can security expert Travis Walker protect her?" --!cProvided by publisher.
10) Sparta
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After four years in Iraq, Conrad returns home to Katonah, but finds that the place that he once loved, and he himself, have changed.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A former interpreter in Iraq who lost his wife and child in an assassination attempt discovers a dead body on the beach in Virginia and believes it is connected to his past.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruth and Aubrey are worried about their hero older brother, Joseph, who returned from a deployment in Iraq just three months after he left. Joseph disappears as the horrifying details of the incident he faced in Iraq emerge.
13) Leaning to stay
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21cm.
Language
English
Description
A dog named Jones helps Elise Sabato understand life's unexpected turns and to accept the changes in her marriage when her husband Brad returns home with a traumatic brain injury after serving in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A journalist and essayist traces the difficult process of picking up the pieces of her life after it was shattered by the death of her husband, a Texan solider whose Apache helicopter crashed in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two former roommates and best friends were...
17) American soldier
Author
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 590 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Mat Best uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family dealing with 9/11, continuing through the intensity of four years as an Army Ranger and five years as a private military contractor, and concluding with one of the most meaningful...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 271 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A memoir of active combat by an elite female helicopter pilot stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan describes her division's high-risk battles and how they were challenged to perform under extreme duress, and shares insights into her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated unit.
20) Memorial Day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol, and steps into a Minnesota forest. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs. Kyle proceeds to tell her what happened on Memorial Day, 1993, when, as a 13-year old boy, he discovered...