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2013., Adult, Mulholland Books Call No: MYS Fic Gal Edition: 1st North American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cormoran Strike Volume: 1Summary Note: "After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man."--Dust jacket.
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2013., Adult, Hachette Audio Call No: CD Fic Gal Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cormoran Strike Volume: 1Summary Note: "After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man."--Container.
![The cuckoo's calling [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT76012.JPG "The cuckoo's calling [CD]")
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c2012., Adult, Linda Leith Pub. Call No: QWF Fic Mih Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Canadian soldier serving in Kandahar falls for a woman on the cover of a magazine.
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c2013., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: 958.104 G648d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a former foreign correspondent, this is a gripping account of modern warfare that takes you into back alleys, cockpits and prisons. From the corruption of law enforcement agents and the tribal nature of the local power structure to the economics of the drug trade and the frequent blunders of foreign troops, this is the no-holds-barred story from a leading expert on the insurgency. A bold and candid look at the Taliban's continued influence--and at the mistakes, catastrophes and ultimate failure of the West's best intentions.
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-- Untold story of Omar Khadr.c2008., John Wiley & Sons Canada Call No: 341.6 K45g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2018., General, Hachette Books Call No: Bio H296n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "On the eve of his wedding comes a portrait of Prince Harry, from Katie Nicholl, author of 'William and Harry' and 'Kate: the Future Queen.' From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded toddler, Prince Harry has captured the hearts of royal enthusiasts around the world. An in-depth look at the wayward prince turned national treasure. Growing up royal, Harry's relationship with his mother, his troubled youth and early adulthood, and how military service in Afghanistan inspired him to create the Invictus Games. Features interviews with friends, those who have worked with the prince, and former Palace aides. Nicholl explores Harry's relationship with his family, in particular, the Queen, his father, stepmother, and brother, and reveals his secret "second family" in Botswana. She uncovers new information about his former girlfriends and chronicles his romance and engagement to American actress Meghan Markle. Harry is a compelling portrait of one of the most popular members of the royal family, and reveals the inside story of the most intriguing royal romance in a decade. Visit Katie Nicholl's website at KatieNicholl.com"--Provided by publisher.
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c2015., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: SC Fic Oha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Now an elderly woman, Anne Quirk was in her youth an artistic pioneer, a creator of ground-breaking documentary photographs. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain in the British army is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. When his mission goes horribly wrong, he ultimately comes face to face with questions of loyalty and moral responsibility that will continue to haunt him. Once Luke returns home to Scotland, Anne's secret story begins to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.
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c2011., Berkley Books Call No: Fic Hig Edition: Berkley premium ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor.
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2011, c2010., General, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: 958.104 W816l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2008]., Adult, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor Call No: DVD Fic Lions Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines. They become the string that binds together the two opposite sides of America. In California, the anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that just might affect Arian and Ernest's fates.
![Lions for lambs [DVD] (2008) Directed by Robert Redford](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Lions for lambs [DVD] (2008) Directed by Robert Redford")
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2012., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 958.104 C454l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this extraordinarily insightful, illuminating book, Rajiv Chandrasekaran focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of Obama's surge. Little America is a story of this long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch., and reveals the epic tug of war that occurred between the president and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way.
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2007., Little, Brown Call No: 958.1 L974l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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c2012., Dundurn Call No: 958.1 H813n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Afghanistan has long been considered the graveyard of empires. Throughout their history, Afghans have endured the ravages of foreign invaders, from marauding hordes and imperial armies to global superpowers, while demonstrating a fierce independence and strong resistance to outside occupiers. Those who have ventured into Afghanistan with notions of controlling its people have soon discovered that fighting in that rugged, hostile land is no easy task. Afghans have proven to be tenacious and unrelenting foes.No Easy Task examines this legacy of conflict, particularly from a Canadian perspective. What emerges is the difficulty faced by foreign forces attempting to impose their will over Afghans who, for their part, have consistently adapted tactics and strategies to stymie and defeat those they perceive as invaders and interlopers. It is within this complexity and challenge that the difficult counter-insurgency must be fought.
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-- Inside story of the chaotic struggle for Afghanistan.c2011., General, Oneworld Publications Call No: 958 A545n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Informed by over three hundred hours of firsthand frontline footage with the US Marines, documentary filmmaker Ben Anderson (The Battle for Marjah HBO) provides a gripping account of the Afghanistan war in Helmand province. The only journalist to have witnessed every Afghan military campaign under Obama, Anderson charts the progress of the President s counter-insurgency strategy and shows the contradiction between official rhetoric and the situation on the ground.
