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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As the US capitol was attacked on January 6, 2021, the White House went dark for seven hours and thirty-seven minutes. It was my job to turn the lights on. The void happened to overlap with the hours when supporters of former President Trump brawled with police, smashed windows, and rampaged through the halls of Congress as his loss to Joe Biden was being certified. Why the White House went dark, I didn't know, and, in fact, I didn't really care....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Finally declassified and released after five years in the making, the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's torture program, which describes in excruciating detail what Obama has called "harsh methods... inconsistent with our values as a nation," is now available to the American public--citizens who have a right to know the truth.
1103) Ground Zero
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Describes the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, in which two airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center, and the rescue and recovery work that occurred afterwards
1104) Bang!
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Collects the complete Dark Horse Comics series BANG! #1-#5, along with all covers and bonus material"--
"A best-of the-best secret agent with memories he couldn't possibly possess, a mystery writer in her 80s who spends her retirement solving crimes, a man of action with mysterious drugs that keep him ahead of a constant string of targeted disasters, a seemingly omnipotent terrorist organization that might be behind it all... And they're all connected...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Offers a portrait of a group of young Yemeni-American men from an upstate New York steel town near Buffalo, who in spring 2001 attended an al-Qaeda camp and who may--or may not--have become America's first sleeper cell of Islamic terrorists.
1107) Air
Author
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009-c2011
Language
English
Description
Blythe is a flight attendant with a philosophy degree--and a fear of heights. And as odd as her career choice might be, it's nowhere near as strange as her life's about to get. She'll fall in love with a mysterious traveler who's either an ordinary frequent flier- or a terrorist. In search of him, she'll travel to a country that doesn't exist on any maps, become targeted by a violent anti-terrorist group, and inevitably find herself at the center...
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."
1109) Tom Clancy code of honor
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Father Pat West, S.J., was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam. President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can't move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who...
1110) Sheriff of Babylon
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Fog of War Baghdad, 2003. The reign of Saddam Hussein is over. The Americans are in command. And no one is in control. Former cop turned military contractor Christopher Henry knows that better than anyone. He s in country to train up a new Iraqi police force, and one of his recruits has just been murdered. With civil authority in tatters and dead bodies clogging the streets, Chris is the only person in the Green Zone with any interest in finding...
Series
Circle volume 1, 2, 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thomas Hunter is a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Leaving work, he suddenly finds himself pursued by assailants through deserted alleyways. Then a silent bullet clips his head...and his world goes black. From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world where everything is somehow more real--and dangerous--than on Earth. In one world, he's a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Delta Force: When a US passenger place is seized by vicious hijackers and taken to Beirut, the President calls in the Delta Force - a crack team of commando's - who rescue the hostages. Invasion USA: A ragtime army of terrorist mercenaries led by Soviet agent Rostov catches America unprepared and makes her a war zone from sea to shining sea. Only one man can stem the rising tide of violence and free the American people from the tyranny of the streets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Relaxing in the south of France, reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is finally able to feel like any ordinary fourteen-year-old--until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery. And this time, MI6 don't want to know. Alex is determined to track down his friends' attackers, even if he must do it alone. But it's a path that leads to a long-buried secret--and a discovery more terrible than anything he could...
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantanamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held there-and 40 inmates still remain. Eighteen years later, very few of them have been ever charged with a crime. In'Guantanamo Voices', journalist Sarah Mirk and her team of diverse, talented graphic novel artists tell the stories of ten people whose lives have been shaped...
1115) The weatherman
Author
Series
Weatherman volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Language
English
Description
"Nathan Bright had it all: an awesome girlfriend, a kick-ass dog, and a job as the #1 weatherman on terraformed Mars. But when he's accused of carrying out the worst terrorist attack in human history--an event that killed nearly everyone on Earth--Nathan becomes the target of a manhunt that spans the galaxy. Can Nathan truly be responsible for such a horrific crime? And why can't he remember?--Back cover, volume 1.
1116) 9-11 emergency relief
Publisher
Alternative Comics
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"9-11: emergency relief is a comic book project to benefit the American Red Cross featuring some of the comic world's leading talents ... this book is a collection of cartoonists' personal non-fiction accounts of their experiences related to the tragedy"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan novel volume 14
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Freedom may have finally arrived in Iran. As protests break out across the country, the media rejoices over the so-called Persian Spring. Western leaders are ecstatic. Members of Congress and the Cabinet clamor to back the rebels. Only President Jack Ryan remains wary. Meanwhile, he has plenty to handle at home. A deadly strain of flu is ravaging the United States as spring floods decimate the Southeast. An unethical senator wants to bring down the...
1118) Peacemaker tries hard!
Author
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Smith isn't very good at being a superhero, but Peacemaker tries hard! An "extremely ages 17+" book from writer Kyle Starks and artist Steve Pugh puts Peacemaker on a quest to save his beloved dog from a super-villain who has some nefarious plans for Christopher Smith's skill set. After being released from the Suicide Squad, Peacemaker wants to try and do normal superhero stuff for a change. However, when busting up a terrorist ring introduces...
1119) Suicide Squad: bad blood
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Suicide Squad are assigned to neutralize a group of international super-terrorists known as the Revolutionaries-and the survivors are forced into joining the Squad! Who can Harley Quinn and Deadshot trust when their new teammates are the very people their crew was assigned to kill? This Squad might survive their next mission, but they may not survive each other-with a "team" like this, the body count starts high, and only gets higher!"--
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A tale of two Caps! An office of dead government agents. A gifted new killer. Two ex-Captain Americas. When a dramatic attempt on the life of Bucky Barnes reunites him with Sam Wilson, the old friends are plunged headlong into a race to uncover the new leader of Hydra before a mass-casualty event announces the terror group's resurgence to the world! The clock is ticking -- but who is the Natural, and how did he beat Sam and Bucky so easily? It's a...
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