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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 11
Language
English
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In military circles it's known as Air Battle Force an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan, capable of launching stealthy, precision-guided firepower to anywhere on the globe within hours. And now McLanahan and his warriors have their first target.
Driven from Afghanistan, the parasitic forces of the deposed Taliban regime have decided to feed on a new host an isolated, oil-rich...
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Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Pike Logan thrillers volume 17
Language
English
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When his covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, is hit with a ransomware attack linked to the Taliban, Pike must stop a plot to alter the balance of power on the global stage orchestrated by a former NSA specialist in the U.S. government.
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Breadwinner series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana doesn't know where they are. She just knows she has to find them. She sets out alone, masquerading as a boy, her journey becoming more perilous as the bombs begin to fall. Making her way across...
5) The network
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English
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In this bold novel, Jason Elliot illuminates the dark recesses of the intelligence community during a crucial moment in history: the struggle to avoid a terrorist attack.In the months before 9/11, former army officer Anthony Taverner is leading a quiet life in the English countryside. But his recruitment for a dangerous mission to Afghanistan by the British Secret Intelligence Service-better known as MI6-shatters his fragile peace and plunges him...
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Michael Parson thrillers volume 1
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English
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A transport plane carrying an important Taliban detainee for interrogation is shot down in a blizzard over the Hindu Kush. The storm makes rescue impossible, and for two people, navigator Michael Parson and a woman Army interpreter, Sergeant Gold. A battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on earth, against not only the hazards of nature, but the treacheries of man: the Taliban stalking them; the villagers, whose loyalty...
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English
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For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. But when Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn. Barely surviving, he tries to bring to safety a Pakistani colonel with information...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Two teens from different ethnic groups in present-day Afghanistan must fight their culture, tradition, families, and the Taliban to stay together as they and another village boy relate the story of their forbidden love.
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English
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"Chaos reigns in the wake of the collapse of Afghanistan's Soviet-backed government. In the rural, warlord-ruled south, a student is badly beaten at a checkpoint run by bandits. His mullah, who leads a madrassa for orphans left behind by Afghanistan's civil war, leads his students back to the checkpoint and forces the bandits out. His actions set in motion a chain of events that will change the balance of power in his country and send shock waves...
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John Wells novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
John Wells, an undercover operative for the CIA, travels to Kabul to investigate a drug trafficking operation that involves the agency, the military, and the Taliban.
13) Silent enemy
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Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at the lives, loves, horrors, and dreams of girls and women in an Afghan mountain village under Taliban rule. A heartbreaking tragedy in the vein of The Kite Runner from a major English-speaking Afghan figure famous for his books and long career in politics. Siamak Herawi brings Afghan women centerstage and takes us deep into the heart of his motherland to witness the reality of their lives under the Taliban's most extreme interpretation...