Summary: 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 2016Summary: Documents the stories of American men and women who heeded the call for military service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the challenges they faced upon their return home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GROFirme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the histories of the Persian Gulf (1991), Afghanistan (2001-2014), and Iraq Wars (2003-2011) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.7 FIRSummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OILBest, Mat
Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESChivers, C. J. (Christopher John)
Summary: "Almost 2.5 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. C.J. Chivers has reported from both fronts from the beginning, walking side by side with combatants for more than a dozen years. He describes the experience of war today as it is endured by those most at risk--the camaraderie and profound sense of purpose, alongside courage, frustration, and moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 CHISummary: Afghanistan, immediately post-9/11. Small teams of Green Berets arrive on a series of secret missions to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the nature and impact of fifteen years of constant combat, with unprecedented access to U.S. Special Forces.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEGWinter, Max
Summary: Presents an overview of the Afghanistan War, including history, important people and battles, and a timeline of events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1 WINCarpenter, Kyle
Summary: November 21, 2010. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward him and fellow Marine Nick Eufrazio. Without hesitation, Carpenter jumped on the grenade, saving Eufrazio but sacrificing himself. Severely wounded, it took dozens of surgeries and almost three years to reconstruct his body--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 CARHarnden, Toby
Summary: America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and thousands are dead. The country scrambles to respond, but the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan--where Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack and is protected by the Taliban. Instead, the CIA steps forward to spearhead the war. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 HARMaddox, 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.
Format: text
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 2015Zullo, Allan.
Summary: Ten stories of American heroes who have risked their lives for their country while fighting in the Afghan War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1045 ZULWemlinger, 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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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC WEM1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEM
Buttigieg, Pete
Summary: Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTTIGIEG, PETE BUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BUTTIGIEG BUTAckerman, 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 ACKSummary: For years, Miles Lagoze served in Afghanistan as a Combat Camera, shooting footage and editing videos for Marine Corps recruiting purposes. In this devastating film, Lagoze assembles his own footage and that of his fellow combat cameramen into a never-before-seen look at the daily life of Marines from the ultimate insider's point of view.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COMFarwell, Matt
Summary: "The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERGDAHL, BOWE FARMills, Travis
Summary: "Retired U.S. Army staff sergeant Travis Mills, one of only five soldiers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to survive a quadruple amputation, shares the story of his remarkable recovery"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016