Klein, Aaron.
Summary: An investigative journalist exposes significant issues related to the Benghazi attack, including secretive activities inside the doomed facility, the withholding of critical protection, the fate of Ambassador Chris Stevens, and the role Hillary Clinton played in the scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WND Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 KLEColeman, Miriam
Summary: "Spread between two continents but sharing many of the same geographic challenges, the peoples and cultures of Southwest Asia and North Africa are both similar and different in striking ways. This region, which includes Morocco, Libya, and Egypt, is also known as the Middle East. It has given birth to ancient civilizations, unique legends, and some of the modern world's most distinct traditions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956 COLGrisham, John
Summary: Fifteen years after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke, Mitch and Abby McDeere are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications, and once again endangers his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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Summary: An oil-rich nation in North Africa, Libya has seen a great deal of turmoil in recent years, with civil war continuing to affect the country today. Readers will explore Libyas history and find out what events have led its current situation. They will also find out what it is like to live in Libya today, from which kinds of jobs are common to what people eat and where they live. Additionally, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 961.2 WILGrisham, John
Summary: What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: "The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: "The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2014
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Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATMcEwen, Scott.
Contents: The froggy origins of the Navy SEALs -- The tragedy that birthed SEAL Team 6 -- From pirates to professionals -- Drago's war -- Operation Red Wings -- Fallujah: the perfect op that led to prosecution -- Benghazi Libya: SEALs alone -- When SEALs answer the call -- The rescue that wasn't -- The teams: why the unique culture of the SEALs matters -- Appendix A: Benghazi timeline -- Appendix B:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.984 MINMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATSummary: From the souks of Tripoli to the medieval streets of Fes and the Valley of the Kings, Globe Trekker takes you on an exciting adventure through Northern Africa. Ian Wright and Megan McCormick trek deep into the desert in search of mummies, oases, Sufi mystics and Roman ruins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] DVD Masters 2009
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Summary: Combining the international intrigue of John le Carré with the courtroom drama of John Grisham, this real-life legal thriller asks how we can bring leaders of sovereign nations to account for their crimes. On September 19, 1989, 170 people were killed when UTA Flight 772 was destroyed by a suitcase bomb planted by Libyan agents. Despite being one of the deadliest terror attacks in history,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 NEWSummary: A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ThSummary: At first glance, Matthew VanDyke is the last person you'd imagine on the front lines of the Libyan revolution. But after motorcycling across North Africa for a 'crash course in manhood,' a winding path leads him just there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POIDeMille, Nelson.
Summary: A Libyan terrorist leads former New York cop John Corey on an international race to save the free world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEMGrisham, John
Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GrishamSummary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HILMatar, Hisham
Summary: "One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCoyle, Harold
Summary: U.S. and Soviet troops are drawn, despite glasnost, into a rapidly escalating North African war between Egypt and Libya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COYSchneider, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.17 SCHDyer, Geoff.
Summary: Experiences by the author in such places as Cambodia, New Orleans, Bali, Amsterdam, Leptis Magna, South Beach, Libya, Thailand, a techno music festival in Detroit, and the Burning Man Festival, and the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003