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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic to get yummies for their tummies, but stops to change their line formation, showing different divisions of one hundred, cause them to lose both time and food in the end.
2) 11 birthdays
Author
Series
Willow Falls series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Amanda and Leo, best friends with the same birthday, had a falling out on their tenth birthday and have not spoken since, but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their eleventh birthday repeats itself again and again.
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
One of the toughest law enforcement agencies in the nation, the roughly 400 state troopers of Alaska patrol the rugged terrain of America's largest state, where anyone they encounter could be armed. Responding by land, air and sea, with backup sometimes days away, they face danger to protect the people and wildlife of Alaska.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Fire and Fortitude and Island Infernos, a white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division’s harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach—acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic World War II battle.
Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation...
Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The critically acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times best-seller An Army at Dawn, returns with this awesome account of modern warfare, the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, and their actions in the Iraq war of 2003. Beginning with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the fast-paced story continues to the Army staging grounds in Kuwait, and onward into the thick of battle in Iraq.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story that follows Alaskan State Trooper Jack Halcombe, as he sets out to end the murderous rampage of Robert Hansen, a serial killer who has gone unnoticed for thirteen years. Risking his life, Halcombe goes on a personal manhunt to find the killer before the next body surfaces.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This gripping account follows the heroic and courageous actions of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division as they engaged in 16 months of continuous battle against Pakistani-based insurgents in Afghanistan, showing how close combat reshaped all of their lives--and how the faith they had in each other kept them alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"During his three combat-filled tours of duty in Afghanistan, former college sports star and skilled paratrooper U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills never once backed down from the hardest challenges that came his way. The big, likable guy literally woke up every morning proudly singing the 82nd Airborne song to encourage and motivate the men he led. But late one afternoon in April 2012 while Travis and his men were on a routine mission near a remote...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"The First Calvary Division came under surprise attack in Sadr City on Sunday, April 4, 2004. More than seven thousand miles away, their families awaited the news for forty-eight hellish hours -- expecting the worst. In this powerful, unflinching account, Martha Raddatz takes readers from the streets of Baghdad to the home front and tells the story of that horrific day through the eyes of the courageous American men and women who lived it." -- Back...
12) The odyssey of Echo Company: the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS' AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an American army platoon fighting for survival during the Vietnam War in "an important book....not just a battle story—it's also about the home front" (The...
The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an American army platoon fighting for survival during the Vietnam War in "an important book....not just a battle story—it's also about the home front" (The...
14) The alien moon
Author
Series
Mythical 9th Division volume 4
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed..
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Yetis Albrecht, Saar, and Timonen are summoned to Compound W, the top-secret base of the Mythical 7th Division, where division-leader Solomon Grundy guides them in preparing for an adventure in outer space.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The 10th Mountain Division is known as the most deployed unit in the U.S. Army. Today the War on Terror has drawn it to Afghanistan and Iraq. To Lieutenant Colonel Mike Infanti's unit fell the pacification of a hellish hotbed of terrorism south of Baghdad dubbed "The Triangle of Death." Of the more than three thousand Americans killed since the start of the war, over one thousand were in this region.
Colonel Infanti assigned Delta Company to the...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Recounts events surrounding the 1944-45 Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes, France, during World War II, and the plight of eighteen men of a single platoon who were captured and survived in German POW camps through the end of the war.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam war stories: This grand scope project covers the war years of 1954 to 1975. In addition to the outstanding color action footage, this documentary includes eyewitness interviews ranging from accounts of policy makers in Washington to remembrances of grunts who were humping the boonies trying to survive a '365 and a wake up' for a trip home on the freedom bird. Brothers in Arms: The Screaming Eagle story as told by the veterans of the 101st...
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