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2) Home front
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All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life children, careers, bills, chores even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then a deployment sends Jolene deep into harm's way and leaves defence attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene...
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A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents -- three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew -- has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate support for the war. On this rainy Thanksgiving Day, the Bravos are guests of the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside...
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Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq--his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is bleak. Can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart? As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the town's welcoming spirit. For a favorite son returned and an outsider looking...
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This is the story of how an ordinary Iraqi became a hero to America's elite warriors. Night after night, while his homeland was being destroyed around him, he guided the U.S. Navy SEALs through Iraq's most dangerous regions. Operating under the code name "Johnny Walker," he risked his life on more than a thousand missions and became a legend in the U.S. special-ops community. But in the eyes of Iraq's terrorists and insurgents, he and his family were...
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Dogs have been part of the US military since World War II, and they are still leading patrols hunting for IEDs today. Frankel offers an exciting mix of on-the-ground reporting, her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at dogs' special abilities.--
8) Ever after
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Twenty-year-old Emily meets Justin, a young Army reservist, and their deep love built on the foundation of faith blossoms into plans for marriage, while Emily's parents must learn to set aside their opposing views on the war in Iraq.
10) The nightingale
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Set in war-torn Iraq, this first novel by Gallaway concerns a woman who must choose between adhering to strict traditions and wearing the hijab, or allowing new American friends to influence her future life.
11) The White Zone
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As American bombs fall on Baghdad during the Iraq War, ten-year-old cousins Nouri and Talib witness the growing violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
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This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's reporting on the ground in Iraq for The New Yorker. We see up close...
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From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, an account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations. The Washington Post's Shadid went to Iraq, neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. Because he is fluent in Arabic, Shadid--an Arab American born and raised in Oklahoma--was able to disappear into the divided, dangerous worlds of Iraq. Day by day, as the American dream of freedom clashed...
14) Iraq
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Iraq"--Provided by publisher.
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Tufa novels volume 1
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"No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the mountains of East Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations. ... Private Bronwyn Hyatt, a true daughter of the Tufa, has...
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"Preemptive Love founder Jeremy Courtney has seen the very worst of war. He's risked his life saving lives on the front lines. He's come face to face with ISIS, been targeted by death threats, and narrowly escaped airstrikes. Through it all, the most powerful thing he's learned is this: we're not just at war with each other; we're at war with ourselves. But the way things are is not the way they have to be. There is a more beautiful world. To find...
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"Hunting Down Saddam contains up-to-the-minute-material and provides never-before-heard accounts of the triumphs and frustrations, strategies and attacks, of those who put their lives at risk to track down Saddam Hussein." "This book tells the whole story of the pursuit of Saddam, from prewar to his capture; it gives candid accounts straight from the soldiers on the frontline, which have not been sanitized or filtered through the media, the military,...
18) Executive power
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 6
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"Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the President of the United States for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadows, Rapp was caught in the media spotlight-- and marked for death by virtually very terrorist in the world. Now a CIA advisor, Rapp is ready to battle terror far from the front lines. But when a Navy SEAL team in the Philippines is ambushed, all evidence points to a leak...
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"Serving as a chaplain to U.S. Marines, Lieutenant Carey Cash had witnessed the miracles that began months earlier with a spiritual revival in the desert of Northern Kuwait, culminating April 10, 2003, in one of the fiercest battles of Operation Iraqi Freedom. With vivid detail and gripping emotion, Lieutenant Cash gives a firsthand account of this amazing story--how the men of an entire battalion found God in the presence of their enemies"--Provided...
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"After two and a half years of ISIS occupation, and months of fighting between the militants and government forces, the Mosul Zoo was one of the few outdoor attractions still standing in Iraq's second city, its inhabitants kept alive by Abu Laith, a square-set 50-something mechanic and passionate animal lover. As the animals began to starve under the siege by advancing Iraqi army forces, Abu Laith, the "Father of Lions" and his protégées and family...