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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.
"An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq—a humanizing, brave story that's extremely readable." — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review
"Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Against the explosive backdrop of the Iraq War, young soldiers Brandon Bartle and Daniel Murphy forge a deep bond of friendship. When tragedy strikes the platoon, one soldier must return home to face the hard truth behind the incident, and help a grieving mother find peace.
Author
Publisher
StoneHouse Ink
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Chelsea Tennyson decides to take matters into her own hands and prove once and for all if an invisible God is really there. Chelsea's dad, Prince Tennyson—the nickname he earned for being so dashing in uniform—died last year in the Iraq war. After a mental breakdown, her mother moves the family to live with their grandmother in Phoenix. But before long, it becomes clear the entire family is suffering the loss of a man who
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Penna's boyfriend, David, goes off to Iraq, she's left facing life without him, and when he stops writing, she doubts if David will be the same boy she fell in love with when he eventually does come home.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad, contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For Maggie Rayburn, wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant, life is pleasant, predictable, and, she assumes, secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, turning her world upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good, and a newfound taste for excitement, Maggie starts to see injustice everywhere. Soon, her bottom drawer is filled with what she calls "evidence," her small town has turned...
10) War dogs
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two friends in their early twenties living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author, a Navy SEAL, returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him, and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything, including themselves, for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. In this book, we follow the author to...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In the first memoir from a young soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning indictment of what we are doing there. Key, a young husband and father from a conservative background, enlisted in 2002 to lift his family out of poverty. A year later, he found himself participating in a war that was not the campaign against evildoers he had expected. He saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation....
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen/Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after receiving the news that they will soon be reunited with their families back in the United States, a unit serving in Iraq is deployed on one last humanitarian mission. Their objective is to deliver medical supplies to a remote Iraqi village. Upon arriving in the village, the unit is viciously ambushed and many lives are lost. Now, as the four surviving members of the battalion return home and attempt to readjust to civilian life, the...
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...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When he traded a comfortable if demanding practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone, Warren was already reeling from months of personal struggle. At the 332nd Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, he realized his experience with trauma was just beginning. In his 120 days in a tent hospital, he was trained in a different specialty-- surviving over a hundred mortar attacks and trying desperately to repair...
17) America's needless wars: cautionary tales of US involvement in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Iraq
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A skeptical appraisal of U.S. military intervention in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Iraq, highlighting a common pattern of poor intelligence gathering, nationalistic hubris, and political pressures, which led to these unsuccessful foreign adventures"--
"This eye-opening book takes a unique approach to the history of U.S. foreign policy by examining three unrelated conflicts, all of which ended tragically and resulted in the deaths of millions on...
18) Puncture wounds
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After returning home from a traumatic tour of duty in Iraq, John finds himself struggling with PTSD. What little peace he had managed to build around him is shattered one fateful day when he rescues a local call girl from a group of violent Aryan Brotherhood pimps. Having killed several of the high-ranking brotherhood during the rescue, John and his family are now the prime targets of Hollis, the ruthless criminal leader of the group.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A memoir by a bomb-disposal veteran of the Iraq War traces his three tours of duty in the Middle East and his team's daily life-threatening efforts to stop roadside bombers, and shares the challenges he faced while reacclimating to civilian life.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve American women serving in the military share their gripping personal stories of combat in Iraq.
In Iraq, the front lines are everywhere—and everywhere in Iraq, no matter what their job descriptions say, women in the U.S. military are fighting. More than 155,000 of them have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003—four times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991. More than 430 have been wounded and
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