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"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
3) Bombers
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Text and photographs describe bombers, their parts, and explains what these military airplanes do.
4) After dark
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Gone, But Not Forgotten rocketed Phillip Margolin into the select company of million-selling novelists. Here he displays again the same genius for best-selling suspense in another intricate, breathtaking thriller of multiple murder in the legal community of the Pacific Northwest.
Laura Rizzati, a law clerk for Oregon Supreme Court Justice Robert Griffen, is found slain late one night in the deserted courthouse. Her office is ransacked—but...
Laura Rizzati, a law clerk for Oregon Supreme Court Justice Robert Griffen, is found slain late one night in the deserted courthouse. Her office is ransacked—but...
5) The list
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Private Matty Giaconne loves making lists, they sharpen his mind so he can focus on disarming IEDs (improvised explosive devices), and they distract him from how much he misses his family back home. But when a routine IED search nearly ends in disaster, Matty considers reordering his most important list. But choices are not easy when all the options involve leaving loved ones behind. Written in graphic-novel format.
6) The mist
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Dan West has nerves of steel, regularly risks his life to disarm IEDs, and puts up with his squad mates mean-spirited pranks without complaint. And when West finds an Afghan boy standing on a bombs pressure plate, he still manages to keep calm because if he doesn't, West will be forced to face the only thing he truly fears: the pink mist, the bloody result of a bomb taking someone's life. Written in graphic-novel...
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"With all the Officer Agents defeated, only Crocodile and his final plan to destroy the palace stands in the way of peace. While Luffy battles it out with the evil Croc in the royal tombs, Vivi and the rest of the Straw Hats have to find the bomb before it blows up the capital--with everyone in it!"--Cover.
8) Two sides
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Private Eli Recato's fellow soldiers call him Bloodhound, but Eli is not fond of the nickname and is not fond of his self-appointed best buddy, Private Badger, either. What he IS fond of is saving lives by sniffing out IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) in Afghanistan and disabling them. But when a bomb finds HIM, Eli is faced with a choice that seems to be little more than the flip of a coin: head into a crawlspace and hide with an Afghan man he...
9) Go slow
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When she was just a kid, Rose Campbell's mom constantly told her to take things slow and now, as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, Rose takes the advice to heart, one misstep, and boom somebody dies. But lately, every day feels exactly the same: IEDs are found in the same locations and Rose's team finds the bombs, disarm them, and then they move on to the next one. But Rose knows better than to get impatient--because that is exactly what...
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Obayda's family is in need of some good fortune. Her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion, forcing the family to move from their home city of Kabul to a small village, where life is very different and Obayda's father almost never leaves his room. One day, Obayda's aunt has an idea to bring the family luck -- dress Obayda, the youngest of her sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh. Now Obayda is Obayd. Life in this in-between place is confusing,...
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The war never ended for the Lebanese Cluster Bomb Removal Team, who hunt tirelessly for the hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster munitions rained down upon their country by the Israeli militia in 2006. It's estimated that nearly 30% of the poorly-made bombs failed to detonate, so each one the team discovers could mean instant death - or one more life saved. This documentary follows the team in their search for hidden cluster munitions, capturing...
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Though the last of the US troops didn't pull out until late in 2011, few areas of Iraq are free from violence, and the Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish people continue to vie for adequate representation in the new government. Readers are provided with a comprehensive look at the recent history of Iraq, beginning with the rise of Hussein.
16) Blown away
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Frank and Joe have eight hours in which to locate a bomb designed to blow up Billington Resort.
17) New Hope
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Greg has always looked up to his sister Hope, who taught him how to play baseball. When Hope enlists in the army and comes home severely injured, Greg worries about how their relationship will change.
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This book discusses the possibility of terrorist groups gathering together low-grade radioactive material to build a radiation-dispersal device, known as a dirty bomb, and explains how sensors and other security precautions have been implemented against these weapons.