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The first documented, systematic study of guerrilla warfare, Mao Tse-tung's 1937 text remains the definitive guide to orchestrating revolution in developing countries. Based on Mao's own experiences in fighting Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and his interpretations of the classic strategies of Sun-tzu, On Guerrilla Warfare outlines the tactics that have proven effective around the world, from Vietnamese jungles to Middle Eastern deserts. Prescient...
2) Steelheart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.
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In The Greatest Stories Never Told: Special Ops, attorney and author Larry Yadon has written some of the greatest tales about special forces and operations—not twice-or thrice-told tales, but the ones you haven't heard before. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories of legendary operations from the late 18th century, when special forces emerged, through present-day Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 11
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A handful of American commandos use an untested and unproven force of robotic warplanes to gain control of the oil-rich Republic of Turkmenistan before the country is invaded by Taliban fighters.
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Divided we fall trilogy volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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Idaho is a war zone under Federal occupation, and Danny Wright and his friends in the Idaho Militia are determined to fight back, running guerrilla missions against the army--but what at first seemed like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows murky, and Danny finds that even winning the war does not mean an end to tyranny.
6) Firefight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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"David and the Reckoners continue their fight against the Epics, humans with superhuman powers, except they may have met their match in Regalia, a High Epic who resides in Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan"--
7) Crusade
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Crusade trilogy (Nancy Holder) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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An international team of six teenaged vampire hunters, trained in Salamanca, Spain, goes to New Orleans seeking to rescue team-member Jenn's younger sister as the vampires escalate their efforts to take over the Earth.
8) Raging star
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Saba leads a group of guerrillas against DeMalo and the Tonton, all while contemplating DeMalo's invitation to join him in building a New Eden.
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Divided we fall trilogy volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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Having started the Second American Civil War, Danny Wright, along with his friends, finally seem to have gotten out of it when they find a hidden place to build a society of their own, free from U.S. federal rule. However, as the country burns down around them in war, Danny wonders if he can stay silent and safe, out of the action. He wonders if he can live with himself if he lets his countrymen die when he might be able to save them, even at great...
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The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now-at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland-than it was even a few years ago.
Richard English's brilliant book offers a detailed history of the IRA, providing invaluable historical depth to our understanding of the modern-day Provisionals, the more militant wing formed in 1969...
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The time: 1942. The place: The Japanese-occupied island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The Story: A stirring true account of a man who refused to be defeated. When the American forces in the Philippines surrendered in May, 1942, a mining engineer named Wendell Fertig chose to take his chances in the jungle. What happened to him during nearly three years far behind enemy lines is the amazing story that John Keats tells in They Fought Alone. For Fertig,...
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"Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now,...
15) Smokescreen
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In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
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Eve Duncan novels volume 25
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2019.
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In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
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2014.
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Archos R-14. Nearly three years after this sophisticated artificial intelligence took over the world's computers and machines, ordinary people have waged an extraordinary guerrilla war and saved humankind from the brink of annihilation. But just moments after their triumph on the desolate ice fields of northern Alaska, a horrific new enemy emerges . . . in an unimaginable form. Fourteen-year-old Mathilda Perez attempts to save her brother's life while...