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21) Mud city
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Shauzia hates living in a crowded refugee camp outside Peshawar and decides to try her luck living on the streets.
25) Beyond the limit
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[2006]
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English
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Marine engineer Major Pete Trayhern, on a dangerous mission in war-torn Afghanistan, meets his match in civilian Calandra Roland, who, in charge of building a power station that has generated a deadly conspiracy, ignites a dangerous passion between them.
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Jonathan Ransom novels volume 3
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[2010]
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English
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Dr. Jonathan Ransom is thrust into the deadly world of international espionage when his spy wife becomes involved with the secrets surrounding a B-52 crash 30 years prior.
29) Caravan
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[1995]
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English
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A ten-year-old boy accompanies his father for the first time on a caravan trip through the mountains of Afghanistan to the city below where they will trade their goods at market.
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2012.
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When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
33) The renegades
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2012.
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Joining troops to deliver aid to an earthquake-decimated region of Afghanistan, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson and his interpreter, Sergeant Major Sophia Gold, confront a Taliban splinter group that is shooting aid workers and everyone who accepts help.
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2010.
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A transport plane carrying a high-ranking Taliban prisoner is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan's mountainous Hindu Kush. The storm makes rescue impossible and, for the navigator and a female Army interpreter, the battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on Earth. They struggle not only against the hazards of nature, but also the Taliban stalking them, villagers with unknown loyalties, and a prisoner who very much...
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2023.
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"A former Afghan refugee who is newly arrived in Prince Edward Island, Ali spends the morning picking blackberries with his Nana and reminiscing about his home in Afghanistan and the mulberry tree there. He remembers the day the soldiers came and the family's nighttime flight. When Ali sees a bluebird, his Nana tells him to wish on it. He wishes to go home, but in the end learns that home is not a place; it is his family staying together."--
36) Long shadow
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Shadow Squadron volume 11
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[2016]
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English
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When a video surfaces of a man making terrorist demands, an ex-teammate of the Shadow Squadron recognizes the man as a former SEAL, lost in an operation nine years before--but something is strange about the video, and it is up to Lieutenant Commander Ryan Cross and his team to locate and capture the apparent traitor in Afghanistan.
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[2013]
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English
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"Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson has seen plenty of action lately, so he's happy with his new assignment as safety officer at a Kyrgyzstan air base. It's a pretty laidback way to spend the next year. Or so he thought. On his second day, a C-27 crashes on the runway with a load of electronic gear--and opium. Recruiting his battle companion Sergeant Major Sophia Gold as interpreter, he investigates not only the crash but the source of the cargo, and...
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[2017]
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English
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Nicole came to Afghanistan to make a killer war documentary, but when the helicopter she bribed to take her closer to the enemy gets shot down she finds a lot more action than she had bargained for--and it is up to an Army Special Forces team to locate and rescue her and her cameraman.
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Mu ma wen xue volume 77
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2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED by Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Hosseini's enriched third novel is a beautiful tale about the special bond between a brother and sister who had to be separated. It tells how we love, sacrifice and betray one another.
40) Never surrender
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2014.
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"Despite her sweet nature, Navy medic Bay Thorn's will is unbreakable. It has earned her not only the respect of her team, but also the love of Navy SEAL Gabe Griffin. And as soon as she wraps up the final six months of Operation Shadow Warriors in Afghanistan, she'll have her happily ever after--until her deployment goes horribly wrong. Bay's medical expertise is needed by the Taliban, and she is taken hostage. Her captor is ruthless and cruel, and...
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