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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Congressman Charlie Wilson, Houston socialite Joanne Herring, and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos conspire to bring about one of the United States' biggest covert operations in history, involving Afghanistan's fight against the invasion of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters"--Provided by OCLC.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house, and their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action: send covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom--al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.
10) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.
Author
Series
John Wells volume 6
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are dying, and at Langley the CIA's chiefs wonder if the unthinkable has happened, if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. When they ask John Wells to investigate, he reluctantly agrees to return...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Commander Donovan has a chance to prove to himself and his elite SEAL team that he has what it takes to lead when their helicopter is shot down and some of his men captured by terrorists in the mountains of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Swashbuckling British adventurers find triumph and tragedy in nineteenth-century Afghanistan in this novella J. M. Barrie called "the most audacious thing in fiction." While on tour in India, a British journalist encounters Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, two foolhardy drifters with a plan. Claiming they've exhausted all the schemes and odd jobs they could find in India, the two are in search of an even greater adventure. They tell the journalist...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Michael Parson, a navigator, and Sergeant Gold, an Army interpreter, are shot down over Afghanistan while transporting an important Taliban detainee, they are forced to survive amid the dangers of the Taliban, villagers of uncertain allegiance, and an uncooperative prisoner.
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