Jim DeFelice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL, recounts his life and military experiences, discusses his record for the most career sniper kills in United States military history and the bounty placed on his head by Iraqi insurgents, provides an eye-witness account of war in Iraq, shares the strains of war on his marriage and family, and honors his fellow soldiers.
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Every Man a Hero is the unforgettable story not only of what happened in the incredible and desperate hours on Omaha Beach, but of the bravery and courage that preceded them, throughout the Second World War—from the sands of Africa, through the treacherous mountain passes of Sicily, and beyond to the greatest military victory the world has ever known.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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In this book, the author, deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the ten most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a Navy SEAL. He uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun. He revisits turning points in American history, including the single sniper shot...
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This is the story of how an Iraqi, code name Johnny Walker, became guided the U.S. Navy SEALs through Iraq's most dangerous regions. Over the course of eight years, Johnny Walker unmasked countless terrorists and helped foil an untold number of plots against Americans and their allies.
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Presents an inspiring collection of stories of Americans who have persevered over adversity and built extraordinary lives after loss, hardship, and setbacks, showcasing the resilience of the American spirit.
Kyle and DeFelice have collected true stories of suffering, survival, and triumph from people across America. In embodying the 'American spirit' of resilience, faith and togetherness that has built the nation, these anecdotes profile how love,...
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The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11. They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. Welcomed by a band of heavily armed militiamen, they climbed a mountain on horseback to meet the most ferocious warlord in Asia. They plotted a war of nineteenth-century maneuvers against...
9) Black Wolf
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Dale Brown's Dreamland volume 12
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"Dale Brown is a superb storyteller."
-W.E.B. Griffin, Washington Post
The incomparable Dale Brown ("The best military writer in the country" -Clive Cussler) and co-author Jim DeFelice send the Dreamland team back into action in Black Wolf, an unrelentingly exciting international thriller. A notorious group of legendary assassins, code-named "Wolves," plan to disrupt an important NATO meeting and, if they can't be stopped, deadly chaos will...
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In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed at a top-secret military facility. America's best defense, they keep the nightmare at bay with astonishing technology.
But now the terror is aimed directly at the heart of Dreamland.
The Dreamland team has used stealth, raw nerve, and technology to defuse nightmares all across the globe. But now the darkness is racing toward America at blinding speed. With more...
12) American sniper
Pub. Date
2015.
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Chris Kyle's (Bradley Cooper) mission is to protect his brothers in arms while being a prime target of insurgents. Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, personifying the spirit of the SEAL creed to "leave no one behind". But upon returning to his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller), and kids, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind. -- From container.
14) Puppet Master
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Puppet master novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Louis Massina is revolutionizing the field of robotics. His technological wonders are capable of locating disaster survivors, preventing nuclear meltdowns, and replacing missing limbs. After one of Massina's creations makes a miraculous rescue, an FBI agent recruits him to pursue criminals running a massive financial scam - and, not coincidentally, suspected of killing the agent's brother. Massina agrees to deploy a surveillance bot that uses artificial...
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Deep black volume 5
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The word's most effective anti-terrorist force has the tools to monitor every move the enemy makes. They've planted a listening device inside a terrorist's skull, and activated a video spy drone disguised as a bird. But knowing is only half the battle. Multi-lingual, nerves-of-steel agents Charlie Dean, Lia DeFrancesca, and Tommy Karr prowl the winding streets of Istanbul to the crowded airports of America to stop terrorists in their tracks. Hooked...
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Rogue Warrior series volume 18
Pub. Date
2014.
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When he and his Red Cell International group are forced to work with the CIA after their missions intersect, Rogue Warrior Richard Marcinko calls in members from the original SEAL Team Six to help him stop a luxury liner loaded with explosives and contraband heading towards the United States.
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Red dragon rising volume 3
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2012.
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Trapped behind enemy lines after fulfilling a mission to sabotage a Chinese invasion fleet, U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy and erratic fellow officer Win Christian make their way into Vietnam, where Murphy defies orders to save a woman he loves.
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First team series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
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When the CIA is tipped off that one of its most wanted men is going to be in Bologna, Italy, Ferg and Team are tasked to go in and apprehend him at any cost. There is just one problem: no one has seen the man in over ten years, and he is only known by the decades-old code name T Rex. This assassin is thought to be involvd in the murder of at least a dozen prominent Western leaders, and the grapevine rumors he's been called out of a long, silent hiding...
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[2020].
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Now at 95, one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation shares his experiences at last in one of the most remarkable World War II stories ever told. As the Allied Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, Henry Langrehr, an American paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne, was among the thousands of Allies who parachuted into occupied France. Surviving heavy anti-aircraft fire, he crashed through the glass roof of...
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Rogue Warrior series volume 11
Pub. Date
[2006]
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Visiting a NATO conference in Rome, Rogue Warrior Demo Dick gives a speech about Europe's vulnerabilities and the need to get serious about terrorism, ending with an impromptu demonstration, as he unmasks a plot to kill the conferees seconds before it begins. The former SEAL commander is then shanghaied to Sicily to help investigate the attempted theft of nukes from a U.S. base. Is the Mafia involved? Or is this the work of Saladin, a shadowy extremist...