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Breadwinner series volume 1
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Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Get ready to meet ex-Navy SEAL Max Moore.A terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out Max Moore's entire CIA team. As the only survivor, the former Navy SEAL plunges deeper into the treacherous tribal lands to find the terrorist cell, but what he discovers there leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globe-the US/Mexico border.Here a drug war rages between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels. The landscape is strewn with bodies,...
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[2021]
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When Malala was born in Mingora, Pakistan, her father was determined she would have every opportunity that a boy would have. Malala loved getting an education, but when a hateful regime came to power, girls were no longer allowed to go to school. Malala spoke out, which made her a target for violence. Malala resolved to become an activist for girls' education. This story of the education advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate features a fact and...
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 11
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A handful of American commandos use an untested and unproven force of robotic warplanes to gain control of the oil-rich Republic of Turkmenistan before the country is invaded by Taliban fighters.
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Breadwinner series volume 2
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A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding. Parvana doesn't know where they are. She just knows she has to find them. And so, masquerading as a boy, she sets out across the desolate countryside that Afghanistan has become, where she meets other children who are strays from the war. This...
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In this first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords. He shares...
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Pike Logan thrillers volume 17
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Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there's a man on the run. One that has done more for the United States in Afghanistan than anyone else. Pulled in to extract him, Pike collides headlong into a broader mystery: His covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, has been hit with a ransomware attack, and there's some connection between the Taliban and...
10) The ghost war
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John Wells novels volume 2
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CIA agent John Wells returns to Washington. His wounds have healed, but his mind is far from clear. He is restless, careless with his safety, uneasy in his skin. When the CIA finds evidence of a surge in Taliban activity backed by an unknown foreign power, it takes little to convince Wells to return to Afghanistan to investigate. But what he finds there is far from what he expected.
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[2015]
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Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
12) Malala Yousafzai
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2019.
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Malala Yousafzai always knew she wanted to become a doctor someday. But a new extremist group in her home country of Pakistan wanted to stop girls from going to school. Malala knew what was important, and so she spoke out. Even after she was attacked on a bus for her views, she persisted. Learn about Malala's incredible recovery and her journey to becoming a world-famous advocate of girls' rights and education -- and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize...
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c2009
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This definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan is a political history of Afghanistan in the "Age of Terror" from 2001 to 2009, exploring the fundamental tragedy of America's longest war since Vietnam. After the swift defeat of the Taliban in 2001, American optimism has steadily evaporated in the face of mounting violence; a new "war of a thousand cuts" has brought the country to its knees. After a brief survey of the great empires...
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2014.
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"Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces. Now that American troops are withdrawing, it is time to tell the full history of how we have been fighting the wrong enemy, in the...
16) Afghanistan
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2002
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This book discusses the people, land, culture, history, and future of the nation of Afghanistan.
17) Hammerhead Six
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2016
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382 PAGES ILLUS. $28.00. HOW GREEN BERETS WAGED AN UNCONVENTIONAL WAR AGAINST THE TALIBAN TO WIN IN AFGHANISTAN'S DEADLY PECH VALLEY. DN
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In late 2009, the CIA officers in Afghanistan's Kabul state fell for a Jordanian doctor who promised to lead them to the highest ranks of al-Qaeda. In truth, the doctor was a double agent, and when he blew himself up, the station's most senior officers died with him. More than two years later, the station still hasn't recovered. At Langley, the CIA's chief wonders if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. When they ask John Wells to investigate,...