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21) The shimmer
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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When a high-speed chase goes terribly wrong, Santa Fe police officer Dan Page watches in horror as a car and gas tanker explode into flames. Torn with guilt that he may be responsible, Page returns home to discover that his wife, Tori, has disappeared. Frantic, Page follows her trail to Rostov, a remote town in Texas famous for a massive astronomical observatory, a long-abandoned military base, and unexplained nighttime phenomena that draw onlookers...
26) Walls: a novel
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"In this edge-of-your-seat novel packed with historical photographs, two cousins divided by the Cold War must work together or risk loosing everything. Berlin, 1961. Drew is an army brat in West Berlin, where US soldiers like his dad hold a tiny outpost of democracy against Communist Russia and occupied East Germany. Drew's cousin Matthias has grown up across the city's border on streets ruled by secret police and anti-American propaganda. From enemy...
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 16
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Elite military cop Jack Reacher is ordered undercover the truth.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Jack Bruno is a Las Vegas cab driver. Scientist Dr. Alex Friedman is one of his passengers. She is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space. The next day Jack notices Sara and Seth sitting in the back seat of his cab. He takes them to a run down house in the middle of nowhere, where they must obtain an object. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke is searching for information pertaining to two aliens that landed days earlier....
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Pub. Date
c 2011
Description
Phantoms, that's what they're called, the soldiers that ski. You can't even see them when they're in the mountains. They disappear like ghosts.... In this gripping journey, a fifteen-year-old pacifist must decide what he believes as he faces the reality of World War II. The year is 1944, and fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett's parents have died from smallpox. Without any other family nearby, Noah is sent to live with his uncle, whom he has never met,...
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Series
How to ruin-- series volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
32) Out of the blue
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Pub. Date
c2009
Description
After moving to Minot, North Dakota, with his mother, the new female base commander, Air Force dependent Stu Ballentyne gradually becomes aware that something terrible is going on in his neighbor's house.
Series
Reference shelf volume 82, no. 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
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2022.
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"It's 1967 in the Chagos archipelago--a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean--and life is peaceful and easy for hardworking Marie. Her fierce independence and love for her home are quickly apparent to Gabriel, the handsome and sophisticated Mauritian secretary to the archipelago's administrator; it's love at first sight. As these two lovers from neighboring islands welcome a new son, Joséphin, a bright future seems possible. But Gabriel is hiding...
38) Shielding Sierra
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Series
Delta Team Two volume 8
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Some connections are more intense than others. How far as they willing to go to keep that bond alive? As a civilian contractor, Sierra Clarkson thought she’d found the perfect way to serve her country, short of joining the military…until she was kidnapped from a base in Afghanistan. Turns out terrorists don’t care if you’re a soldier or not; everyone bleeds the same. Even worse, no one knows she’s been taken. Her missing belongings point...
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[1996?]
Description
Filmaker and journalist Bruce Burgess goes deep into the heart of the greatest secret of the 20th century : Area 51, or "Dreamland" in this award-winning documentary. Along with his camera crew, Burgess sets out to uncover the truth of what is really going on in the most secret military base in the world. Footage of UFOs performing impossible maneuvers under cover of darkness. Multiple aircrafts flying over the base are only the beginning of this...
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Pub. Date
2000
Description
The bastian of some of the most top-secret activities in the world is literally impenetrable. It was the original testing site for the atomic bomb and then a high-security aero-engineering cluster. Here its public history ends and after 1968, it simply does not exist. Known by insiders as "Dreamland", Area 51 invokes conjectural theories like no other place. What happens in this zone of the Nevada desert? Through declassified documents and interviews...