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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the astounding world of Predator Cities! Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon, London will feed. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage - and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck… Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his...
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Mitchell returns in Arctic Gambit, an explosive military thriller by New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond. Jerry Mitchell, now the commodore of submarine Development Squadron Five, is dismayed when USS Toledo is reported missing in Arctic waters, close to Russian territory. The vessel is captained by his former shipmate and close friend, Lenny Berg. Eager to investigate, Jerry convinces the Navy to redirect one of his squadrons boats...
Author
Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard Rhodes draws on...
8) True wolf
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Werewolf agent Caleb Lynch takes the lead on STAT's newest case: to track down the thieves who stole nuclear weapons from the Air Force. His best connection is a brother-sister duo with a shady record, but there's no guarantee Caleb can trust them--especially because of Brielle Fontaine's supernatural abilities. Still, Brielle could be a useful ally for STAT, and Caleb sees something in her that could change his whole world."--back cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nombeko Mayeki, a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Traces the development of nuclear weapons, explains the different types, indicates the key countries in the nuclear arms race, and describes efforts taken to cease proliferation of such weapons.
11) Fatal thunder
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Publisher
Tristar
Pub. Date
2011, c1987
Language
English
Description
A twelve year old boy visits a missile silo and decides nothing means more to him than protesting these nuclear weapons. He finds an ally in Amazing Grace Smith, basketball superstar of the Boston Celtics, and together they prove that one person really can make a difference.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Mother Jones
“Easily the most unsettling work of nonfiction I've ever read... the book is beyond relevant. It's critical reading in a nation with thousands of nukes still on hair-trigger alert."
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs,...
“Easily the most unsettling work of nonfiction I've ever read... the book is beyond relevant. It's critical reading in a nation with thousands of nukes still on hair-trigger alert."
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs,...
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Language
English
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"After hunting down a rogue spy as part of an elite CIA counterespionage unit, Garrett Kohl returns home to Texas in hopes of settling down and carving out a normal life. While learning the ropes of fatherhood, falling deeper in love with his high school crush, and rebuilding his wildfire ravaged cattle ranch, he is approached in secret by an engineer working at a nearby nuclear weapons plant, who is in desperate need of his help. Utilizing a unique...
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