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1) Acts of war
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 4
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Kurdish terrorists have attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatning the water supply of their very homeland, all to force all-out war in the Middle East.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals...
Author
Series
Saturday Night Supper Club novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Analyn Sanchez can handle the long hours and arrogant clients that come with her job as a crisis management associate at Denver's largest publicity firm. The high-powered job, expensive condo, and designer wardrobe are all part of her plan to prove to her family that her life choices haven't been in vain. But when she's asked to cover up a client's misdeeds with serious moral and legal ramifications, she can no longer sacrifice her conscience for...
Author
Language
English
Description
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely -- Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) -- to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The new president of Russia is trying to create a democracy but there are strong elements trying to stop him.
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The kidnapping of a Catholic priest by a group of African militiamen, who order all Catholic missionaries out of Botswanna, sends the Op-Center, with their own military team, Striker, out of commission, into the middle of a dangerous civil war in Africa as they discover a plot by outside forces to destabilize the local government.
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
11) Mirror Image
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When the most dangerous of intelligence operations needs to be completed the United States calls on the Op-Center, America's best defense in crisis management technology.
15) State of Siege
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 6
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Called back from a short-lived retirement, Op-Center head Paul Hood faces a group of assassins which have taken over the United Nations and demanded 100 million dollars in ransom.
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious cabal within the U.S. State Department causes tensions to erupt between Iran and Azerbaijan and plots to depose the President of the United States, Paul Hood and the Op-Center team must stop the conspiracy.
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A half-dead man is found floating in the South China Sea, with suspicious radiation coming from his body.
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A group of renegade UN peacekeepers, outfitted with stolen weapons, siezes the UN building and holds ambassadors for ransom.
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