Maddox, Jake
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother, Luke, in snowboarding and everything else, so when Luke is wounded in Afghanistan Kaleb is devastated--and to honor his brother he is set on competing on the difficult slopestyle course.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Maddox 2015Wemlinger, John
Summary: Major David Keller was well on his way to becoming a general when a roadside bomb in Afghanistan took his legs. Angry, grieving, and carrying a loaded gun, David returns home to mend a few fences beforeusing that gun to end his life. But before the snow flies, his family, hiscommunity and Maggie McCall, someone he tried to forget, will prove to him that life in the small town of Onekama,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2019
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Gratz, Alan
Summary: Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2021Summary: The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONSummary: Based on journalist Kim Barker's memoir "The Taliban shuffle: strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan", which details her years as a reporter in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in 2002.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Whiskey 2016Ackerman, Elliot.
Summary: An Afghani orphan loses everything when his village is attacked by militants and must join a U.S.-funded militia to try to save his injured brother, who fell victim to a marketplace bomb.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ACKArash, Jawad
Summary: "In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARAMackin, Will
Summary: "In the tradition of Redeployment, a short story collection from a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who served several combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan--a powerful depiction of life on the front lines of today's warfare. A mesmerizing debut collection that reveals what it is like to be a member of an elite special operations team, when so many missions take place behind night vision, ancient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSchultz, Katey.
Contents: While the rest of America's at the mall -- With the burqa -- Home on leave -- My son wanted a notebook -- Poo mission -- Refugee -- Into pure bronze -- Just the dog and me -- Amputee -- Permanent wave -- That Sunday morning feeling -- Getting perspective -- WIA -- MIA KIA -- The ghost of Sanchez -- Checkpoint -- First commander -- Pressin' the flesh -- Stars over Afghanistan -- Deuce out --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apprentice House, Loyola University Maryland 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Schultz 2013Klay, Phil.
Summary: "Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAMilas, John
Summary: "A spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel. It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward-loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters-and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they're replacing delight in telling them the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILYoung, Thomas W.
Summary: When their plane is shot down in a blizzard while transporting an important Taliban detainee, navigator Michael Parson and Army interpreter Sergeant Gold fight for survival in the harsh terrain of Afghanistan, where they struggle to outmaneuver terrorists and dubiously trustworthy villagers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUSummary: Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lions 2008Tracy, P. J.
Summary: "New York Times bestseller P. J. Tracy returns with Deep into the Dark, a brand new series set in LA and featuring up-and-coming LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan and murder suspect Sam Easton. Sam Easton-a true survivor-is home from Afghanistan, trying to rebuild a life in his hometown of LA. Separated from his wife, bartending and therapy sessions are what occupy his days and nights. When friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRAGiordano, Paolo
Summary: " From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of war and the journey from youth into manhood. In Paolo Giordano's highly awaited new novel, a platoon of young men and one woman soldier leaves Italy for one of the mostdangerous places on earth. Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the Gulistan district of Afghanistan is nothing but an exposed sandpit scorched by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIOHunter, Stephen
Summary: Ray Cruz, called the Cruise Missile by the grunts because he never missed a shot, is still hunting a warlord who has since become America's proudest ally in the Afghan war and may be political savior all have been waiting for. Has Ray gone rogue, or insane, or has he turned? Bob Lee Swagger, on the task force meant to catch Ray Cruz before he takes out his prey, has to find out, even if in some...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUNSkarsgard, Alexander
Summary: Andrew Briggman, a young soldier in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, struggles with reporting his fellow recruits and their sadistic sergeant after witnessing the killing of innocent civilians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KILWaldman, Amy
Summary: Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Waldman 2019Summary: The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 12Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWEAckerman, Elliot.
Summary: An Afghani orphan loses everything when his village is attacked by militants and must join a U.S.-funded militia to try to save his injured brother, who fell victim to a marketplace bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKBaldacci, David
Summary: The teenage son of an U.S. MIA in Afghanistan hires Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators--to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BALBarker, Gary
Summary: "Tyler is in therapy. Katia and Goran are in love. On a summer trip to Zagreb, the couple discover an unusual museum that displays mementos of broken relationships. Inside, Goran stumbles upon an exhibit that seems to be addressed to him, from a girl he met in a Sarajevo refugee camp at age fourteen. What follows is a whirlwind summer of reconnecting with lost pasts: Goran confronts the youth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARYoung, Thomas W.
Summary: Afghan Air Force adviser Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson and his interpreter, Sergeant Major Sophia Gold, are reunited for a mission in Afghanistan. Following a devastating earthquake in the region, Parson and Gold find their aid and rescue efforts strained when a Taliban splinter group further destabilizes the area with deadly violence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC YOUYoung, Thomas W.
Summary: When the Afghan National Police training center in Kabul is attacked by jihadists, Major Michael Parson accompanies wounded soldiers on planes bound for Germany only to discover that several of the planes have been sabotaged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2012