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Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A volume explaining the research of NASA scientist Kendra Short for the creation of flexible, printed electronics, including printable space probes"--
122) Die trying
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 2
Language
English
Description
In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion. The companion is Jack Reacher, a former military policeman and he turns the tables on the captors.
123) Labyrinth of lies
Author
Series
Triple threat volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the daughter of a high-profile businessman disappears from an exclusive girls' boarding school, police detective Cate Reilly is tapped for an undercover assignment. It doesn't take her long to realize that beneath the veneer of polish and wealth, things are not as they seem at Ivy Hill Academy. But the biggest surprise of all? The only man she ever loved is also working at the school. Zeke Sloan has never forgotten Cate, but now isn't the best...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 837 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
Facts and Fears Clapper considers such controversial questions as, Is intelligence ethical? Is it moral to intercept communications or to photograph closed societies from orbit? What are the limits of what we should be allowed to do? What protections should we give to the private citizens of the world, not to mention our fellow Americans? Are there times when intelligence officers can lose credibility as unbiased reporters of hard truths by inserting...
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A volume explaining engineer Masahiro Ono's plan to create a space probe that will be able to hitch itself to an asteroid as the asteroid is traveling through our galaxy"--
128) Arctic storm rising
Author
Series
A Nick Flynn novel volume 1
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity ... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
129) The island
Author
Series
Dewey Andreas novel volume 9
Language
English
Description
"CIA operative Dewey Andreas is America's last line of defense when terrorists take over Manhattan, targeting the U.N. and the President himself in The Island, the latest in this New York Times bestselling series by Ben Coes. America is about to face thedeadliest terrorist attack on it's soil since 9/11. Iran has been planning a revenge attack for years, with three goals in mind. Bring America to its knees. Assassinate the popular U.S. President J....
130) Inside the mind of BTK: the true story behind thirty years of hunting for the Wichita serial killer
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. : photos ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the boundary-breaking mathematician, Katherine Johnson, reveals how her love of mathematics started at a young age led her to a job at NASA where she calculated the course of moon landings and helped save the Apollo 13 mission.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 531 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice -- National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations -- delivers an inspiring account of a life in service to family and country"--
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
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II...
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...