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1) Soft target
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Retired Marine Sergeant Ray Cruz is shopping with his family at the Mall of America when a terrorist group arrives and starts taking hostages.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Author Joseph Boyden makes his literary debut with this profound and moving Today's Book Club pick that contemplates the lasting traumas of war. Cree Indians and best-friends Xavier and Elijah enlist in the Canadian Army in 1915, eager to become heroes. Seasoned hunters, the men become expert snipers, but their horrifying experiences serving in World War I will leave devastating impressions on each man's life.
Author
Language
English
Description
While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Shooter, comes a riveting narrative of how snipers have changed the course of Americas war on al Qaida in the Middle East and Africa.Retired Marine sniper Jack Coughlin (Shooter) and John Bruning pull back the curtain of secrecy to take an insider's look at the dark and misunderstood world of America's sniper force. Long considered the redheaded stepchildren of the infantry, snipers have been...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Howard Wasdin describes his experiences as a member of the SEAL Team Six, a group of highly trained snipers in the United States Navy SEALs, discussing training, combat, and the dangers he faced.
12) Dead zero
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger is called in to investigate when Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, who was killed in action a year earlier, seems to come back from the dead, threatening to take out a high-ranking official and reveal government secrets.
13) Targeted
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 12
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After being accused of reckless endangerment and forced to answer to the U.S. Congress, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger must protect political hostages in a once-in-a-lifetime standoff"--
Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. What begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked. Swagger, the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Point of Impact," returns in this explosively gritty thrill ride as he metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.
In early 2013, Chris and Taya Kyle's decade-long marriage had survived years of war that took Chris, a U.S. Navy SEAL, away for agonizingly long stretches while he put his life on the line in many major battles of the Iraq War. After struggling to readjust to life...
17) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When four 1960s radicals are gunned down, Vietnam veteran Carl Hitchcock, an expert marksman, becomes the prime suspect, but FBI Special Agent Nick Memphis thinks the case is a little too perfect and calls on retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger for help in tracking down the real killer.
19) Cross fire
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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