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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A highly secure military base sits in the middle of the Nevada Desert. What happens inside is kept top secret. Many UFO sightings have been reported nearby. Some people even say alien bodies are stored there. What really goes on behind its highly guardedfences? Explore the theories and learn why Area 51 has become one of history's greatest mysteries"--
3) Nevada
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Nevada! Let Izzy show you around the state where she lives. Learn about her state's flag, animal, and flower. Find out her favorite activities too!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the Air Force base called Area 51 where the Air Force conducts secret tests that some people claim involve unidentified flying objects and aliens.
Author
Series
Lovecraft Country volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2023.
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Luke Lessing was told his career at the Pinkerton Agency was assured thanks to his skill with pistols and rifles. But after he and his partner got ambushed, Luke was widely blamed. Discouraged with Pinkerton politics, he moved on to a job as the lawman in a 'sleepy' little town in Colorado, only to barely escape with his life. So Luke happily traded wearing a badge for cooking at the Comstock Café in Virginia City, hub of the fabled Comstock Lode....
7) Nevada
Author
Series
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For many people, the state of Nevada centers on the glittering city of Las Vegas. The city is known for being a year-round vacation destination. Learn more in Nevada, one of the titles in the Our American States series.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through true stories of excess, drama, and hope. In What Really Happens in Vegas, full of surprises for both newcomers and Las Vegas regulars, James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal transport readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of A-list celebrity and entertainment." --Goodreads.
11) Con air
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Cameron Poe is a highly decorated U.S. ranger who is convicted of manslaughter after protecting his wife in a drunken brawl. Finally, after eight years, he's being paroled and is going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home, the Jailbird, is also transporting society's most vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane,...
12) Downwind (DVD)
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992." --container.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers. The women decide to dig into the mystery together at Serenity's family cabin in Lake Tahoe. With Reagan navigating...
Author
Series
Dreamland volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The high-tech tools of tomorrow's wars are being conceived and tested at a top-secret facility hidden away in the Navada desert--in a place where the impossible becomes reality, called Dreamland.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In this beautifully written and powerful memoir, author Craig K. Collins ushers readers down a remarkable path--one that wends from the American frontier to present-day suburbia. Along the way, he explores the meaning of a history--of his family's and his country's--that is infused with the culture of the gun. Stops include an Indian massacre at Bad Axe, the siege of Vicksburg, the slaughter of buffalo in Montana, and the discovery of gold in a remote...
Author
Series
Dreamland volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2004
Language
English
Description
In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed at a top-secret military facility called Dreamland Strike Zone. An Asian war that would have escalated into a nuclear nightmare has been halted, thanks to the raw courage, unparalleled skill, and total commitment of the Dreamland force. But an analysis of radar data has revealed the presence of an unknown super-weapon in the area: a robot warplane with terrifying...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"A bronze monument - the Tower of a Thousand Cranes - stands in Hiroshima's International Peace Park, mute testimony to Sadako Sasaki, a young victim of the atomic bomb whose radiation-induced leukemia led to her death after she had folded only six hundred cranes." "In Leonard Bird's haunting memoir, Sadako's monument becomes a touchstone for his own experiences with cancer and the bomb. Exposed to radiation during aboveground detonations at the Nevada...
19) The chase
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox can write. "Are you listening, Warden?" "What do you want?" "I want you to let them out." "Which inmates are we talking about?" "All of them." When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. For John Kradle, this...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1985. A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer—invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum. It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly...