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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the days following September 11th, a 30-foot American flag hung torn and tattered at 90 West Street, across from Ground Zero. A few weeks later, the flag was taken down by a construction crew and tucked away in storage, where it stayed for nearly seven years.
The flag was brought out of storage in 2008 when the New York Says Thank You Foundation headed to Greensburg, Kansas, a town nearly destroyed by a tornado. NYSTY brought the flag with them,...
1723) The red bandanna
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.
1727) Hunt the Leopard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Crocker and his SEAL Team Six troop are leading training exercises with Nigerian Special Forces in the drought-ridden northeastern part of the country, where Boko Haram squads have been terrorizing the population with ever more brazen attacks. One of the most feared splinter groups is Written in Blood, led by the unstable Festus Ratty Kumar—the Leopard—who previously kidnapped more than a hundred teenage girls in a...
1728) Flash point
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Jack Ryan, Jr., is a man of action, and when he uncovers a terrorist plot to kill innocents he jumps in to thwart the evil plan. However, it turns out this attack was just a piece of a larger, more insidious plot designed to deceive the United States and paint President Jack Ryan into a political corner. Jack Jr. isn't about to let that happen, but his options are almost as narrow as his chances of getting out of this alive.
1729) Watchlist
Series
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
From International Thriller Writers, comes Watchlist: two novellas featuring the same cast of characters. 'The Chopin Manuscript' and 'The Copper Bracelet' are collaborations of Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plots in motion. The other authors each wrote a chapter and Deaver then completed what he started, bringing both novellas to their conclusions.
1730) The Belgrade conspiracy
Author
Series
Shadow strike volume 6
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"David Rivers is an expert in the art of violence. Together with his team of CIA operatives, he's executed dozens of covert assassinations--but this mission might turn out to be his deadliest yet. One man stands behind the transfer of high-level military hardware to an international terrorist syndicate. The CIA has uncovered his identity: Yuri Sidorov, a Russian arms dealer with state protection. With the arms deal only days away, David and the team...
1732) Sand and fire: a novel
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 5
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A jihadist leader has seized a supply of sarin gas and is wreaking havoc. Marine gunnery sergeant A. E. Blount, the grandson of one of the first black Marines, sets out with his strike force to kill or capture the terrorist. Several Marines are killed, some are captured, and the jihadist promises that unless forces withdraw, he will execute one prisoner a day. Immediately, Blount's friends and colleagues Sophia Gold, now with the U.N., and Lieutenant...
Author
Series
Unraveling volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Janelle Tenne, having been brought back to life by loner Ben Michaels after being hit by a pickup truck two days before the start junior year, finds a countdown clock while searching her dad's FBI files for clues about how Ben revived her and soon realizes she must figure out Ben's secret in order to save the world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Welles Crowther didn't see himself as a hero. He was just an ordinary kid who played sports, volunteered for the fire department in his town, and eventually headed off to college and then to Wall Street to start a career. Throughout it all, he always kept a red bandanna in his pocket, a gift from his father when he was little. On September 11, 2001, Welles was at his job on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when the Twin...