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81) Zero dark thirty
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (157 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But...
84) Heir of Fire
Author
Series
Throne of Glass volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister-in-arms before her time--and that of the newly crowned queen--runs out.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and which culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. In these pages,...
Author
Series
A Throne of glass novel volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Embracing her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, Celaena returns to the empire--for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past"--
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 222 pages : 23 cm illustrations ;
Language
English
Description
"Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK’s and is at the president’s limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president’s casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
Author
Series
Wings of Fire the graphic novel volume 6
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
217 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The war is finally over, and the dragonets of destiny have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, where all tribes are welcome to live and learn together.
Even at the new school, though, secrets abound. Moonwatcher is hiding her ability to read minds; confessing that she holds this long-lost NightWing power will only cause trouble. But it also gives her access to another secret: the thoughts of a different mind-reading dragon, one who might...