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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xii, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the experiences of kidnapped documentary filmmaker Micah Garen, describing the constant threats of execution from his captors, and how his fiancee worked for his release through a network of journalists and Middle East contacts.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The award-winning journalist presents a searing account of his experiences with being captured and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years, detailing his related witness to Syrian village life.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author shares an intimate portrait of her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the effect of the surrounding political firestorm on both her family and the United States, sharing additional views about the role of the crisis in Middle East politics today.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on years of interviews and previously undisclosed CIA files to chronicle the disappearance of CIA contractor Robert Levinson on a mission in Iran and the international manhunt to find him.
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...
8) Jimmy Carter
Author
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This biography introduces readers to Jimmy Carter including his early political career and key events from Carter's administration including the Emergency Natural Gas Act, a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, and the Iran hostage crisis. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Boast ... finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: he'd had another...
10) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
286 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's five days as a hostage of Somali pirates who boarded his ship, the Maersk Alabama, in the Gulf of Aden, relating the extreme hardship and dangers he faced and his daring rescue by Navy SEALs.
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss's head, revealing the skills...
13) Bibi: my story
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel's independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools--where they learned to appreciate the United States--before returning to their cherished homeland....