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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
This is the fictional, searing, gruesome account of the decade-long period when civilization stood on the brink of extinction due to a viral plague that transformed anyone it infected into a ghoulish creature with an appetite for living flesh, as told by the civilians, soldiers, and politicians who survived it. From the People's Republic of China to the United States, war raged against a relentless moaning, and slithering enemy that was invulnerable...
Author
Publisher
New Europe Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"One of Hungary's top writers takes us to the edge--where fiction meets journalism. ...Told from the perspective of Cairo-based European war correspondent Daniel Marosh, [this book] is, above all, about a journalist examining some of today's most pressing Middle East conflicts and the lives of others even while forced to question his own assumptions and haunted by his own demons. It resonates with the work of Tim O'Brien, Kevin Powers, Ernest Hemingway,...
Author
Series
Nathan Hale's hazardous tales volume 11
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a border drawn after WWII split the country into North and South. When the North Korean army crossed the border with Soviet tanks, it was war. Marguerite was there when the Communists captured Seoul. She fled with the refugees heading south, but when the bridges were blown over...
Author
Series
Christopher Marlowe Cobb volume 4
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches--though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" Cobb, a Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission....
7) The last war
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Harboring disillusionment in her marriage to a war-correspondent husband only to receive a mysterious message alleging his infidelities, photographer Flash finds herself pursued by an exotic former colleague with whom she shares a dangerous past and long-buried secrets.
8) Hard beat
Author
Series
Driven volume 7
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Foreign war correspondent Tanner Thomas is addicted to living on the edge. Needing the adrenaline rush of his job to help him cope with a personal loss, he throws himself back into the game, concentrating all his energy on getting the next big story. But when he meets his new photojournalist, Beaux Croslyn, he can't help but feel like he's losing his focus--and maybe risking more... --Publisher
Author
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted... Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her...
Author
Publisher
Herm Sittard
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Most of the men who fought beside Herm Sittard are gone now, their lives threaded into the memories of the dwindling few who survived the Battle of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands in World War II, and are here today to remember the sounds and the faces of the jungle war in the Pacific.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when a controversial report from a war-torn region is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile, haunted by bad decisions and the shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end his torment...
14) Anzio
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After landing with Allied troops at Anzio, Italy, in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead. Four months and over 30,000 casualties later, the Allied forces smash through the German lines...
Author
Series
Christopher Marlowe Cobb volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an American war correspondent reporting on World War I, has been tasked to follow a man named Brauer, a German intellectual and possible covert SS agent, into perilous waters aboard the ship Lusitania, as the man is believed to hold information vital to the war effort. Aboard the Lusitania on its fateful voyage, Cobb becomes smitten with famed actress Selene Bourgani, who for some reason appears to be working with...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. In order to do so, he must leave his own passport and identity behind to go underground...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The first biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. "I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power." From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet when Russia viciously attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Hall quickly volunteered to go....
20) The hot country
Author
Series
Christopher Marlowe Cobb volume 1
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Christopher Marlowe Cobb, an early 20th-century newspaper war correspondent, travels to Mexico during that country's civil war and the American invasion of Vera Cruz. However, covering the war in enemy territory isn't enough of a challenge for Cobb. Soon he's falling in love with a young Mexican laundress who may not be as innocent as she seems, and he's also trying to track down a sniper and figure out why important German officials are coming into...
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