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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
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English
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From Fox & Friends Weekend cohost Pete Hegseth comes a collection of stories from fifteen of America's greatest heroes--highly decorated Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, marines, Purple Heart recipients, combat pilots, a Medal of Honor recipient, and more--based on Fox Nation's show of the same name.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Two highly decorated Navy SEALs, now successful businessmen, demonstrate how to lead and win in business and in life with principles learned on the battlefield, in a revised edition that includes a new foreword, photo insert and Q-and-A section.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Examines the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military, and describes previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11.
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English
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For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a medical lens, through diagnoses and symptoms set down in books by cisgender doctors, or through a political lens, through dangerous caricatures invented by politicians clinging to power. But those who claim non-binary gender identity deserve their own discourse, born out of the work of the transsexual movement, absorbed into the idea of transgender,...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, char
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country--revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and first developed...
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Publisher
TitleTown Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story is a never-before-told true story of survival, memory and recovery. A profoundly neglected and abused child was kidnapped and locked in an underground box for 17 days. With strength and smarts, she slipped the chains of captivity and began a new life.--Publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"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 repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed...
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Infamous for its black bloc, the tactic of dressing head-to-toe in black to commit crimes, antifa militants organize to destroy property, beat people, and intimidate their opposition into silence. This, antifa claims, is all done in the name of fighting fascism. Ngo himself was beaten by Portland antifa militants in 2019. Here he exposes their far-left extremist ideology and shows how they are set on destroying the freedoms guaranteed in a liberal...
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English
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Fatherlessness is one of our nation's most critical and long-running pandemics.
43% of U.S. children live without their father
85% of youth in prisons grew up in a fatherless home
90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless households
Homes where fathers are absent have a direct correlation to negative outcomes affecting youth in our country. According to the National Fatherhood Initiative, 63 percent of teen suicides, 70 percent...
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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
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The author, a brain scientist, describes her experience after a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain causing a massive stroke, but due to her own knowledge and previous training, with the support of her mother, was able to completely repair her mind over an eight year period.
20) Let me go
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941. This extraordinary memoir, praised across Europe, tells of a daughter's final encounter with her mother, who had left her family to become an SS guard at Auschwitz.
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