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Under the persimmon tree
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Suzanne Fisher Staples |
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at… |
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Thanksgiving Daddy
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Rachel Lee |
"Honor, duty and loyalty drove Major Edith Clapton to risk her life flying Combat Search and Recovery in Afghanistan. Hunger, desire and lust drove her into the arms of Seth Hardin, a gorgeous navy S… |
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A prior engagement
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Karina Bliss |
"After two years as a POW presumed dead, SAS soldier Lee Davis is finally going home. Back to his family, friends and ... fiance e? He doesn't have a fiance e ... the night before his last deployment… |
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Pashtun
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Ron Lealos |
The Company has a special secret operation planned for one of their top agents: the leaders of the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist groups are hiding out in Pashtun country, and they must be eliminated… |
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Swimming with warlords
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Kevin Sites |
"In this electrifying first-person account, journalist and author Kevin Sites goes deep into the geopolitical morass of Afghanistan to emerge with critical insights into both a people and a war that … |
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Close pursuit
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Cindy Dees |
Providing medical relief in a war-torn region helps Alex Peters forget his past and focus on the job, delivering babies. Less easy to overlook is his blonde comrade-at-arms, who knows nothing of the … |
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Battle heroes
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Allan Zullo |
Ten stories of American heroes who have risked their lives for their country while fighting in the Afghan War. |
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Sardar
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Abdullah Sharif |
In 1976 Abdullah Sharif departed Afghanistan first for France and then the United States, leaving behind a viable nation state. Thirty-five years later he returned as a US diplomat. The country he re… |
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Wynne's war
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Aaron Gwyn |
"An elite platoon of Special Forces soldiers infiltrates a forbidding Afghan war zone on horseback in search of vast treasure in this lyrical, thrilling blend of military fiction and Western"-- |
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Brothers forever
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Tom Sileo |
"Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men… |
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Soldier girls
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Helen Thorpe |
Describes the experiences of three women soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to reveal how their military service has affected their friendship, personal lives and families, detailing the reali… |
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The age of jihad
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Patrick Cockburn,Patrick Cockburn |
"Presented in ... diary form, this substantial volume draws together a careful selection of Cockburn's writings from the frontlines of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, intersperse… |
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The burn pits
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Joseph Hickman |
Draws on government documents and hundreds of case studies to reveal the devastating impact of the use of burning pits in Afghanistan and Iraq has on the armed forces serving there. |
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Down Range
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Dick Couch |
In America's battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, the goal of the Navy SEALs is to be the best guns in the fight--stealthy, effective, professional, and lethal. Here for the first time is a SEAL… |
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Lone Survivor
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Marcus Luttrell |
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader… |
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