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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Blehm presents a deeply personal glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood that shows how these elite operators live out the rest of their lives, away from danger, as husbands, fathers, and friends. Adam Brown waged a war against his own worst impulses, persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military, and his final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice.
3) Army Rangers
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Army Rangers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Parragon
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Special forces deploys an impressive blend of authoritative text and dramatic photographs to reveal the qualities and skills of the special forces soldier at every stage of their selection, training, and operational life. Detailed attention is also given to weapons, combat equipment, and method of transport, while over 25 historical special forces operation features described combat missions undertaken between 1960 and the present day.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Written with the cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, here is the definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs, a chronicle that reveals the inside story behind the greatest combat operations of our nation's most celebrated warriors. The authors draw on exclusive interviews with more than 100 special operators (including multiple Medal of Honor recipients), as well as thousands of pages of declassified documents, to create a vivid portrait...
Author
Formats
Description
Explaining the unique psychology behind the SEALs' legendary training program, a high-level SEAL officer reveals the modern techniques that transform a chosen few into lethal warriors and details how the SEALs' creative operations became front-and-center in America's War on Terror.
Author
Publisher
TIME Books
Pub. Date
©2011
Description
When a commando team of U.S. Navy SEALs breached a fortified compound in Pakistan and dispatched Osama bin Laden, the world's attention focused on America's special forces. Yet it is the nature of their form of war that the names of these heroes may never be known. Look into the secret world of military special operations units, from the Green Berets of the Vietnam War to the Navy SEALs of Pakistan, and trace their history, their training and the...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Dick Couch follows SEALs on the ground and in the water as they undergo SEAL Tactical Training, where they master combat skills such as precision shooting, demolitions, secure communications, parachuting, diving, and first aid. From there, the men enter operational platoons, where they subordinate their individual abilities to the mission of the group and train for special operations in specific geographic environments.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? Author and former Navy SEAL Dick Couch takes listeners into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world and documents the process that transforms young men into warriors.
11) Navy SEALs
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents an elite group of soldiers, the Navy SEALs, discussing their missions, training, and equipment.
12) The Forsaken
Author
Series
Description
"The extraordinary new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins' acclaimed series about the real Deep South-"a joy ride into the heart of darkness" (The Washington Post). Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now...
14) The fallen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
"A classic southern tale of backroom deals, tainted honor, dysfunctional family, high-stakes greed--and everyday heroism--from the New York Times-bestselling author. Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers. A new bank was hit almost every week, and the robbers rushed in and out with such skill and precision it reminded him of raids he'd led back in Afghanistan and Iraq when he was an army ranger. In fact, it reminded...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Ace Atkins draws on his years as a crime reporter to craft contemporary tales blending the Old West with crime noir. The Broken Places finds Sheriff Quinn Colson dealing with a rash of unwelcome visitors-infamous murderer Casey Dixon, escaped convicts seeking revenge on Casey, and a tornado cutting a wide swath through town.
16) The innocents
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job after a year away, and his deputy Lillie Virgil, to investigate what happened and why. Before long, however, accusations start to fly, national media and federal authorities descend, and what...
17) Commando
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
The ex-head of a special commando strike team is forced back into action when his daughter is kidnapped. With the help of a feisty stewardess, he has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge--finding his daughter before she is killed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
With the end of all things rapidly approaching, Jack must find the Three Secret Cities, three incredible lost cities of legend. Its an impossible task by any reckoning, but Jack must do it while he is being huntedby the greatest hunters in history.
20) Navy Seals
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education, Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A countdown of five of the most fascinating Navy SEAL achievements provides thrills as readers learn about the training, skills, and gear utilized by this elite special operations force."--
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