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1) The affair
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of Jack Reacher's early life in the military before the events that rendered him a vigilante hero on the road.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mortician "Zig" Zigarowski, while working on the body of a successful military man, discovers something he was never meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to find military artist Nola Brown--a search that reveals one of the U.S. government's most intensely guarded secrets.
Author
Series
Peter Rena and Randi Brooks volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An intelligent and propulsive international political thriller--Peter Rena is hired by the president to investigate the bombing of an American military base overseas"--
8) The shimmer
Author
Language
English
Description
"When a high-speed chase goes terribly wrong, Santa Fe police officer Dan Page watches in horror as a car and gas tanker explode into flames. Torn with guilt that he may be responsible, Page returns home to discover that his wife, Tori, has disappeared. Frantic, Page follows her trail to Rostov, a remote town in Texas famous for a massive astronomical observatory, a long-abandoned military base, and unexplained nighttime phenomena that draw onlookers...
10) Operation Yes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.
11) Pan's labyrinth
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Two-disc special ed.].
Language
Español
Description
When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.
12) Military base
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Soldiers, families, teachers, and doctors: these are just a few of the people who live and work together on a military base. Young readers will get to know all about these people and their role in this special community through the engaging, simple text. Interesting facts and full-color photos provide readers with a greater understanding of all aspects of military base life, including school, shopping, and recreation. A follow-up activity helps students...
15) Durable goods
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes to her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or escapes to her best friend₂s house-until Katie's admiration for her sister leads her on an adventure that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
American military bases encircle the globe with nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, but in an eye-opening account, Base Nation shows that the worldwide network of bases brings with it a panoply of ills-and actually makes the nation less safe in the long run.As David Vine demonstrates, the overseas bases raise geopolitical tensions and provoke widespread antipathy towards the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"One of the finest novels I've read . . . .a fiercely intelligent look at childhood, marriage, families, the 1960s, the Cold War and the fear and isolation that are part of the human condition…. it is not only beautifully written…. it is equally beautiful in its conception, its compassion, its wisdom, even in its anger and pain. Don't miss it." - Patrick Anderson, Washington Post Book World
The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the...
20) Tropical heat
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell, the murder sets in motion a sequence of events that will forever change the life of Sheriff A.G. Farrell. A.G.'s investigation is hampered by a strangely hostile provost marshal from the murdered captain's base and by the captain's enigmatic widow, Theresa Fitzgerald, whose beauty, like the terrible heatwave that hangs heavily in the Southern summer air, leaves soldiers and...
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