Tanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANClancy, Tom
Summary: For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clancy 2011Summary: Three men, three different paths, caught in conflict but brought together to save lives--a sniper, an intelligence officer and an Afghan warrior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2016
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Arash, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARABerenson, Alex.
Summary: Returning to Washington after a harrowing case in the Middle East, CIA agent and al-Qaeda infiltrator John Wells is selected to investigate a surge in Taliban activity with possible Asian ties.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERClancy, Tom
Summary: For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction ClancyYoung, 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