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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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A member of Navy SEAL Team 3 describes his life as a father and husband, and as the serviceman with the most confirmed sniper kills in the U.S. military's history, in a memorial edition filled with remembrances from family and friends.
2) Home front
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All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life children, careers, bills, chores even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then a deployment sends Jolene deep into harm's way and leaves defence attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
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A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents -- three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew -- has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate support for the war. On this rainy Thanksgiving Day, the Bravos are guests of the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside...
4) Ever after
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Twenty-year-old Emily meets Justin, a young Army reservist, and their deep love built on the foundation of faith blossoms into plans for marriage, while Emily's parents must learn to set aside their opposing views on the war in Iraq.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.
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Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq--his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is bleak. Can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart? As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the town's welcoming spirit. For a favorite son returned and an outsider looking...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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Years after an ancient Phoenician statue is stolen from the Baghdad museum, a series of murders sparks interest in the statue's relevance in Austin and Zavala, who lead the NUMA team on a historical investigation into the lost treasures of King Solomon.
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This is the story of how an ordinary Iraqi became a hero to America's elite warriors. Night after night, while his homeland was being destroyed around him, he guided the U.S. Navy SEALs through Iraq's most dangerous regions. Operating under the code name "Johnny Walker," he risked his life on more than a thousand missions and became a legend in the U.S. special-ops community. But in the eyes of Iraq's terrorists and insurgents, he and his family were...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Dogs have been part of the US military since World War II, and they are still leading patrols hunting for IEDs today. Frankel offers an exciting mix of on-the-ground reporting, her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at dogs' special abilities.--
11) The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS
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"From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two year later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. This is an account of the motivations and life of a contemporary soldier.
14) The nightingale
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Set in war-torn Iraq, this first novel by Gallaway concerns a woman who must choose between adhering to strict traditions and wearing the hijab, or allowing new American friends to influence her future life.
15) Bleeding Kansas
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The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.
16) The White Zone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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As American bombs fall on Baghdad during the Iraq War, ten-year-old cousins Nouri and Talib witness the growing violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
17) Iraq
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
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Provides an overview of the geography, history, government, people, arts, foods, and other aspects of life in Iraq.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.
19) Executive power
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 6
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"Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the President of the United States for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadows, Rapp was caught in the media spotlight-- and marked for death by virtually very terrorist in the world. Now a CIA advisor, Rapp is ready to battle terror far from the front lines. But when a Navy SEAL team in the Philippines is ambushed, all evidence points to a leak...
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From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, an account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations. The Washington Post's Shadid went to Iraq, neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. Because he is fluent in Arabic, Shadid--an Arab American born and raised in Oklahoma--was able to disappear into the divided, dangerous worlds of Iraq. Day by day, as the American dream of freedom clashed...
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