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381) Obama's wars
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 441 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan, and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The inspirational story of September 11 hero Welles Crowther traces his faith-based outlook on life, his position as a volunteer in his local fire department and desire to join the FDNY, and how he sacrificed his life to save people trapped in the South Tower.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xv, 272 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"United Airlines Flight 93, which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We know of the passenger uprising, but there's so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax. Amazingly, the definitive account of this seminal event has yet to be written. The book offers the most complete account of what actually took place aboard Flight 93 - from...
385) The ghost
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
467 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 399 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 274 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former FBI deputy director shows how the greatest threat to the United States comes from within, as President Trump and his administration ignore the law, attack democratic institutions, degrade human rights, and undermine the U.S. Constitution.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cut to eavesdropping on conversations in cafes. In This Muslim American...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 245 pages : map ; 21 cm
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...
391) Stronger
Publisher
Roadside Attractions Llc
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"A whistle-blowing manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from a new kind of military hero. First: Imagine your own death. Second: Imagine America's wars from "the other side." Third: Imagine what might have been if the war were never fought. Un-American poses these startling circumstances in a searing examination of America and Americans at war. Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban Massachusetts with an idealistic desire to make an impact,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
vii, 366 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a tribute to the fallen heroes of September 11, 2001, a former firefighter provides an eyewitness record of events at Ground Zero and the extraordinary efforts of police, fire, and emergency medical teams.
396) Firehouse
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a tribute to the firefighters who lost their lives following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the author explores the lives of members of FDNY Engine 40 Ladder 25, offering a portrait of everday life in a firehouse and their courageous efforts to preserve life. .
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
vii, 366 : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a tribute to the fallen heroes of September 11, 2001, a former firefighter provides an eyewitness record of events at Ground Zero and the extraordinary efforts of police, fire, and emergency medical teams.
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them...
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (368 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the second season after tracking a potentially suspicious shipment of illegal arms in the Venezuelan jungle, CIA Officer Jack Ryan heads down to South America to investigate. As Jack's investigation threatens to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy, the President of Venezuela launches a counter-attack that hits home for Jack, leading him and his fellow operatives on a global mission spanning the United States, UK, Russia, and Venezuela to unravel...
400) Freedom's ring
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
400 pages.
Language
English
Description
"An antique ring reunites a Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the man who saved her. Together, they unearth the two-hundred-year-old history of a woman who suffered tremendous loss in the Boston Massacre, a woman torn between the love of two men - onea Patriot, and the other a Redcoat. As both women seem to forgive the wrongs done to them, each must decide whether to face their future through dependence on God's strength, or their own" --