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21) The siege
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Islamic militants unleash terrorism by blowing up in a bus in Brooklyn. FBI Terrorism Task Force chief Anthony Hubbard investigates. Agents track a suspect through Brooklyn, while Hub teams with Middle East expert and NSA operative Elise Kraft. After the FBI wipes out three Arabs in a Brooklyn apartment, an explosion in a Broadway theater is followed by attacks on a school and the FBI headquarters. When the President declares martial law, neo-fascist...
22) Patriots day
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[2017]
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The story of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath.
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2022
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As private detective Peter OKeefes continues to heal from the burns he suffered from the blast of a car bomb, neither he nor the police can prove who his assailants were. The media speculates that "The Outfit," a mafia group in the city, is to blame. OKeefe isnt so sure, but he means to find out and fast. Terrified of another attack, OKeefes ex-wife, Annie, wont allow his eleven-year-old...
24) Deep cover
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Duty and honor novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
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"On a secret assignment for MI-5, British SAS soldier Trevor Carswell is deep undercover with The Philosophy of Bedlam, a home-grown anarchist group responsible for several museum bombings. He's on the brink of unearthing their motives when Scotland Yard foils their latest attack. Desperate to escape, the Bedlamites take civilian hostages--among them, a woman Trevor never expected to see again. American political analyst Shelby Gibson is stunned when...
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When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote down seven words: "Saw the guy. Looked right at me," setting off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history. Just thirty hours before, Jeff had been at the finish line of the 2013...
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2003
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IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Saudi Arabia: a land of tradition in changing times-Relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia-The Riyadh bombing-Khobar Towers-Investigation into the Khobar Towers bombing-Global terrorism: a new era in foreign relations.
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2014.
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Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, detective superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation team are called to a deadly bombing at historic St. Pancras International Station. By fortunate coincidence, detective sergeant Melody Talbot, Gemma's trusted colleague, witnesses the explosion. The victim was taking part in an organized protest, yet the other group members swear the young man...
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2020.
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"Grace from the Rubble by Jeanne Bishop tells the riveting true story of how tragedy destined two men to become enemies - the father of a daughter killed in the Oklahoma City bombing and the father of her killer - and the astonishing journey that led them to forge an extraordinary friendship"--
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2018.
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In 2013, over twenty thousand people came to participate in the Boston Marathon, held every year on Patriots' Day. Thousands gathered at the finish line to watch the runners complete the twenty-six mile run. Instead, they became victims and witnesses of a devastating attack that left 3 dead, 260 wounded, and shut down the entire city. Students will learn about the history of the marathon and the bombing, the response to the attack, the manhunt for...
32) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
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2013.
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Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination...
34) Taking my life back: my story of faith, determination, and surviving the Boston Marathon bombing
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[2017]
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On April 15, 2013, Rebekah Gregory and her five-year-old son waited at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to support a friend who was running. When the blasts of terrorists' homemade bombs packed with nails and screws went off three feet away, Rebekah's legs took the brunt of the blast, protecting her son from certain death. Eighteen surgeries and sixty-five procedures later, her left leg was amputated. Despite the extraordinary trauma she underwent...
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2010
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Whirlwind is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan--the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in 1942 to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, award-winning historian Barrett Tillman recounts the saga from the perspectives of American and British aircrews who flew unprecedented missions over thousands of miles of ocean, as well as...
36) Freedom's ring
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2017.
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Two years after nearly losing her life in the Boston Marathon bombing, Annie David is still far from "Boston Strong." Instead she remains isolated and defeated--plagued by guilt over her niece who was crippled in the blast, and haunted by an antique ring alongside a hazy hero's face. But when she learns the identity of her rescuer, will he be the hero she imagined? And can the long-past history of the woman behind the ring free Annie from the guilt...
38) Stronger
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[2017]
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Based on real life events, tells the story of a 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing survivor.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 31
Pub. Date
2016
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288 PAGES. $28.00. THE WORLD IS POISED FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE, BUT ENGLAND HOLDS TIGHT TO ITS TRADITIONS, CLASSES, AND PREJUDICES. WHEN AN EXPLOSION IN LONDON KILLS TWO POLICEMAN AND SERIOUSLY INJURES THREE MORE, MANY BELIEVE THAT ANARCHISTS ARE THE CULPRITS. DN
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