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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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff chronicles the untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.548 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 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard surrived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5429 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell
Summary: Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US ZuckoffZuckoff, Mitchell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Draws on the perspectives of family members, colleagues, and actors to assess the director's life and artistic achievements, discussing such topics as his womanizing reputation, his heart transplant, and the creation of his films.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ALTMAN, ROBERT ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell
Summary: "When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in acontentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. Homeira tried and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.3 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La . On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Zuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 ZUCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling novel Lost Horizon , this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2016