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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Language
English
Formats
Description
Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events. In THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON, the future is very near at hand indeed. Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there's a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going...
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores why the Cold War ended, including such reasons as the changing relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, economic problems, and the increase in nuclear weaponry worldwide.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...