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Author
Series
Reckless hearts volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"I'm in love with a woman I can't have, and there's absolutely nothing I can do to stop myself from falling. The problem? Her brother's my best friend. I shouldn't want her this much. Not when it goes against the bro code. Not when I've never been able to commit to a woman for longer than a night. But one look into her eyes and I'm a mess for her. She's my everything. And I have to walk away with nothing."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia. Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marines are a prestigious branch of the military who dedicate themselves to honor, courage, and commitment. In times of conflict, these values turn Marines into the heroes we know them to be. But what are their everyday lives like? What does their rigorous training involve? And what makes being a member of this military branch unique? The answers may surprise you.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir by the bestselling author of The Prince of Tides about his father--the inspiration for The Great Santini--and a reaffirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
While the publication of The Great Santini brought Conroy much acclaim, the rift it caused with his father brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. But in the final days of Don Conroy's life,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side by side in the desert. It deepened after Sergeant T. J. Brennan was injured during a Taliban ambush, and both returned home. Brennan began to suffer...
6) The drifter
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his ���white static,��� the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man���s widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than...
8) Most Wanted
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Wrongly imprisoned, Marine Sgt. James Dunn is offered a chance to join an ultra-covert operations unit headed by Colonel Grant Casey. But when his first mission goes awry, Dunn is targeted as the fall guy. As the massive manhunt closes in on him, he must now employ all his lethal military skills to expose the truth and face the perpetrators.
9) U.S. Marines
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus High Interest
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to what the US Marine Corps is, what recruits do, and jobs soldiers could learn. Includes descriptions of missions to do recon in Afghanistan and to save Americans trapped in unrest in the Middle East"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"When the marines - or "jarheads," as they call themselves - were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands. It was one misery upon another. He lived in sand for six months, his girlfriend back home betrayed him for a scrawny hotel clerk, he was punished by boredom and fear, he considered suicide, he pulled a gun on one of his fellow marines, and...
11) Ambush Bay
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"A marine patrol secretly lands on the Japanese occupied island of Siarago. Their mission: to locate a Japanese-American girl with vital information concerning General MacArthur's pending Philippine invasion. What they uncover instead is a Japanese plot to detonate underwater mines as the US fleet enters the bay. Cut off from outside communication, these brave marines must find a way to prevent what could be the worst naval tragedy from every happening."--Container....
12) Homeland
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A Marine returns home on furlough from Iraq, but when no one greets him at the airport he sets out to look for his father on the Northwest coast; his journey intersects with his unmet stepmother, a bitter Gulf War One veteran, and a British stewardess, and when a body washes up on the beach, their lives become inextricably bound together.
13) Doom
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A frantic call for help from a remote research station on Mars sends a team of mercenary marines into action.
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. But in his blind spot is the former U.S. Secret Service...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The discovery of an ancient cuneiform guides an unlikely group to a secret portal buried in the desert long ago. A near-death experience in the Iraq desert transforms the lives of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, and his young disciple, and alters the fate of a Pulitzer Prize-winning female journalist, and a decorated U.S. Marine about to be executed. Guided by a visionary young girl from Peru, they become aware of an ancient past, and an energy...
17) U.S. Marines
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
c2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest book uses action photography and carefully chosen text to help newly proficient readers learn about the ways the U.S. Marine Corps protects and defends the country"--
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. Marines are a powerful force. But there is more to these elite fighters than you might imagine. These surprising facts about the U.S. Marine corps will amaze you"--
19) Iranian Hostage
Author
Publisher
Crawford Press
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
"A personal diary of 444 days in captivity.."
20) The Pacific
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to his late father's Band of Brothers, which tracked a single army unit from Georgia to the battlefields of Europe, historian Ambrose turns his attention to the Pacific theater, following four individual marines and one Naval Aviator through their time in combat.