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1) Zero day
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
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Henri Cazaus, one of the world's most feared and deadly terrorists, begins a campaign of vindication and revenge against the United States, using commercial aircraft purchased from an airline graveyard wholesaler to drop bombs on unsuspecting critical targets.
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Pike Logan volume 14
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"Pike Logan tracks highly-trained Russian assassins to Brazil in this blistering, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces Officer Brad Taylor"--
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Art restorer and former spy Gabriel Allon is called upon by the head of Israeli intelligence to stop a Palestinian plot to kill Yasir Arafat, ending peace talks in the Middle East--a plot run by the man responsible for the deaths of Gabriel's wife and child.
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Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, tries to prevent a terrorist from blowing up the US Ambassador to London and pursues his own quest to prove the innocence of his late father, the former head of M16 who was removed from his position by the CIA and suspected of treachery.
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The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93 provides a riveting narrative based on interviews, oral histories, transcripts, recordings, personal tours of the crash site, and voluminous trial evidence made public only in recent years. There also is plenty of chilling new detail for readers who think they know the story of the flight. Utilizing research...
7) Zero Days
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In the arsenal of cyber weapons out there, these zero days are the most deadly. Like nukes...
A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. But this bug is different. Smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers working for a cybercrime syndicate, it can break through an unknown flaw in the world's most secure computer chips and cripple any system within seconds - the ultimate cyber weapon.
Reluctant American cyber...
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Though it defies consensus, between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts. Attracting impressive support from citizens that helps separate regimes from their main sources of power, these campaigns have produced remarkable results, even in the contexts of Iran, the Palestinian Territories, the Philippines, and Burma. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of these...
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Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history. Yet most people in the West know very little about it, or their view is clouded by misperceptions and half-truths. This widely acclaimed book fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of al Qaeda-the origins, leadership, ideology, and strategy of the terrorist network that brought down the Twin Towers and continues to threaten us today.
Bruce Riedel draws on decades of insider experience-he...
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He just saved his son. Together, can they save their country?Lawson Holland has returned from rescuing his son Tony in Afghanistan, hoping to finally live a normal life. But when war breaks out close to home, Holland, Tony and company are caught up in it. The resulting fight will decide the future of their country, but it may cost them everything.The Tree of Liberty is the third book in the fast-paced Lawson Holland thriller series. This high-intensity,...
11) Critical Mass
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What would we do if a nuclear weapon was detonated in Washington, and the US government suddenly disappeared? What would we do if a terrorist organization announced that it had concealed nuclear weapons in every major western city and then demanded that the entire planet embrace its twisted brand of Muslin fundamentalism?
In Critcal Mass, nuclear interdiction expert James Deutsh and his tormented Muslim wife, Nabila, struggle to stop an impending...
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2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! The best-seller that has brought comfort and hope to millions in the wake of 9/11 is now available in softcover! Let's Roll!-the moving, behind-the-scenes story of United Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer and his widow, Lisa-is so much more than a tribute. A message of character, courage, and undeniable faith in the face of horrifying tragedy, it encourages anyone who reads it to live real life right now . . . and to...
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"The consequences of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, both political and personal, were vast, and continue to reverberate today. Don Brown brings his journalistic eye and attention to moving individual stories to help teens contextualize what they already know about the day, as well as broaden their understanding of the chain of events that occurred in the attacks wake. Profound, troubling, and deeply moving, In the...
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WAR. It will happen again. We must be ready.
Sober words from Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a man who has made the unvarnished truth his specialty. And there's one eternal truth that Americans are in danger of forgetting: the most important weapon in any geopolitical conflict is the will to win.
And we must win.
In this powerful manifesto, Dr. Gorka explains the basic principles that have guided strategists since Sun Tzu penned The Art of War in the sixth...
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Western tourists are not always aware that the Maldives, a tiny island nation in the Indian Ocean, is a Muslim country, or that the Republic of Maldives is the non-Arab country with the world's highest number of foreign fighters per capita. Despite being considered a luxury tourist destination, the Maldives is in fact one of the most over-populated countries, devastated by poverty, social segregation, heroin, and criminality. Tourists living in one...
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In the November of 2020, a business tycoon was reelected as president of the United States. California responded by seceding from the United States and forming the Democratic Republic of California. Now the fledgling California government is embroiled in a domestic insurgency. The new president of California must form an army to put down the freedom fighters backed by the United States. These are the stories of the patriots, opportunists, and pacifists...
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Al Queda's war on America did not start on September 11, 2001. Just ask the Diplomatic Security Service.
It was on February 6, 1993, that the United States was first attacked on its own soil by foreign terrorists. A zealous band of Middle Easterners, holy warriors determined to punish the U.S. for its supposed transgressions against Islam, packed over a ton of home made explosives into the back of a rented van. They drove their bomb across the Hudson...
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Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice?
Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, we will never end armed conflict. As violent insurgencies continue to erupt across the globe, we need people who will brave the depths of the Sri Lankan jungle and scale the heights of the Colombian mountains, painstakingly tracking down the heavily armed and dangerous leaders of these terrorist groups in order...
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Parecían fenómenos aislados y lejanos. Pero los atentados yihadistas del siglo XXI, las conquistas territoriales como las del Estado Islámico (Daesh) y el surgimiento en Europa de conversos dispuestos a perder su vida para matar, están desvelando la dimensión real del problema del fundamentalismo musulmán radical. Los medios recogen retratos de cada momento, sangre y metralla, degollamientos y vídeos ensalzando la guerra santa, pero no dan...
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Fear is born of truth! Before the sensible and reasonable rumors, perhaps the more unbelievable truth!
In front of the sensational psychic things, often hide the most beautiful side of the beast.
In the pursuit of the truth, Mu Shen Yu and other members of the spooky case team have been willing to risk their lives many times to solve one mystery after another to recover the truth of reality. But the truth may be more unbelievable and hard to believe...
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