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1) Ghostrider
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(Matthew Lieber)Miranda Chase NTSB volume 4
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English
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"An AC-130J "Ghostrider" -- the latest variant of America's most lethal aerial gunship -- goes down hard in the Colorado Rockies. Except the data doesn't match the airframe. Air-crash genius, and high-functioning autistic, Miranda Chase leads her NTSB team in to investigate. But what they uncover reveals a far greater threat -- sabotage. If she can't solve the crash in time, a new type of war will erupt. One far too close to home which threatens to...
2) Lash-up
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond thrills again in Lash-Up, an explosive new novel. In a bid to dominate Asia and the western Pacific, China provokes a military crisis with the United States and then starts shooting down GPS satellites. America has only a short amount of time to devise some way of protecting its remaining satellites or China will gain an enormous advantage in the coming conflict. The only way the satellites can be protected...
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English
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"When a special mission slowly unravels, it is up to Kee and Archie to get their team out of an impossible situation with international implications. With her weaponry knowledge and his strategic thinking, plus the explosive attraction that puts them into exact synchrony, together they might just have a fighting chance"--Page 4 of cover.
4) Condor
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Series
(Matthew Lieber)Miranda Chase NTSB volume 3
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English
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"The Antonov AN-124 Ruslan "Condor"--the heavyweight champ among production cargo jets. Russian tanks, American firefighting helicopters, rescue submersibles, satellites, city-sized power transformers...the Condor hauls them all over the world. But when one lifts a top-secret payload rated as too dangerous, the US government decides it must take action. Untraceable action. Call Delta Force? SEAL Team Six? No. They call Miranda Chase, lead crash investigator...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When Jessica, a young Air Force drone pilot in Nevada, is tasked with launching a missile against a suspected terrorist halfway across the world, she realizes that though women and children are in the crosshairs of her screen, she has no choice but to follow orders. Ethan, a young Wall Street quant, is involved in a more bloodless connection to war when he develops an algorithm that enables his company's clients to profit by exploiting the international...
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(Matthew Lieber)Miranda Chase NTSB volume 11
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English
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Those who work there call Antarctica "The Ice." A secret Russian cargo jet crashes into a crevasse near an Australian Station. The Aussies call in the top air-crash investigators on the planet. The best of them all, Miranda Chase, must face the Russians, Chinese, and use her own autistic abilities to keep her team alive. As the battle spreads across The Ice, are even her incredible skills enough?
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After rescuing Navy SEAL Bill Bruce from his undercover mission in Somalia, hotshot SOAR helicopter pilot Trisha O'Malley, despite their initial animosity, discovers that they must work together to confront their pasts and survive Somalia's pirate lords.
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States and bring him to Mosul for execution. When the normal levers...
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Series
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to testify before Congress. There, he must defend his controversial decision to prevent a massive retaliatory missile attack by Israel against civilian targets in the Mideast. Shaken by the near-end of his career, Lenson returns to command uncertain of his...
10) Chinook
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Series
(Matthew Lieber)Miranda Chase NTSB volume 6
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English
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"When a crashed helicopter could start a war--Miranda Chase is the woman to save the day. When the fastest and most powerful helicopters in the US Army's fleet start falling out of the sky, autistic air-crash genius Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB investigators are called in. One crash leads to another and they are fast entangled in a Chinese conspiracy to start a war over Taiwan. Only Miranda's team can stop the trade war from becoming a real...
11) Drone
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Series
(Matthew Lieber)Miranda Chase NTSB volume 1
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English
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"A US Air Force C-130 transport plane, bearing top secret cargo, lies shattered in the Nevada desert at Groom Lake. China's prototype fifth-generation jet fighter goes missing. Far above, a US supersonic, stealth drone flies a very lethal Black Op. The CIA, the US military command, and the secretive National Reconnaissance Office are all locked in a battle for control of the nation's future. Miranda Chase, the National Transportation Safety Board's...
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Op-Center volume 17
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English
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"In this chilling new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series, simmering tensions threaten to ignite when a silo of Cold War missiles surfaces in the Middle East. In 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent a convoy of nuclear missiles to Cuba. The crisis that followed almost triggered World War III. However, while all eyes were on the Caribbean, not all of the missiles were sent to Cuba. Several ships slipped from the...
14) Thunderbolt
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Series
(Matthew Lieber)Miranda Chase NTSB volume 2
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English
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The best ground-attack support fighter jets ever built--the A-10 Thunderbolt "Warthogs"--are falling out of the sky. The Air Force brass repeatedly schemes to decommission this low-tech jet. They've been blocked by soldiers, pilots, and Congress...so far. The "Hog" lies at the crux of a high-tech struggle for power. An interagency skirmish that now rapidly descends into a battle fought on a global scale. Miranda Chase, air-crash savant for the National...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The United States stands nearly alone in its determination to fight, rather than give into the expansionist demands of the aggressive new "People's Empire." The naval and air forces of the Associated Powers - China, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea - have used advanced technology and tactical nuclear weapons to devastate America's fleet in the Pacific, while its massive army forced humiliating surrenders on Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and other...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When a team of assassins murder a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of world powers. Meanwhile, a U.S. naval combat ship, the USS Milwaukee, is attacked by North Korean forces in the middle of a training exercise off the shore of South Korea, and Commander Kate Bigelow is forced to ground the ship to avoid being captured. The crew takes...
17) Gryphon
Author
Series
(Matthew Lieber)Miranda Chase NTSB volume 14
Language
English
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"With the rising threat of Russia, Sweden joins NATO for its own protection. But someone wants to make them pay-in blood. Sweden's home-built, world-class jet fighters, the Saab JAS 39E Gripen - named for the mythological Gryphon - are falling out of the skies. The stability, the very existence of NATO could be torn apart, as if trapped in the Gryphon's mighty eagle claws. Can Miranda's team of air-crash investigators solve the crisis before the powerful...
18) Lightning
Author
Series
(Matthew Lieber)Miranda Chase NTSB volume 10
Publisher
Buchman Bookworks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Revenge? A terrorist attack? Or a declaration of war? The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee lies dead. The murder weapon? An Air Force Learjet deliberately crashed into his DC hotel room. Half a world away in the South China Sea, an F-35C Lighting II crashes during landing. It cripples the aircraft supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. An accident? Or China's next move toward world domination? Miranda Chase and her NTSB air-crash investigation...
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Publisher
Buchman Bookworks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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First there was the 160th Night Stalkers 5th Battalion D Company. They they formed the 5E. The few who knew about them called them "E for Extreme." After four novels followed their adventures and romance came ... all five of the short stories of the 5E, their adventures and their love stories. Includes exclusive author intros for each story.
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