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Operation Medusa : the furious battle that saved Afghanistan from the Taliban / by Fraser, David(Major-General),author.; Hanington, Brian,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."David Fraser, the Canadian in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, tells the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa." In 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Like the troops under his command, he was in no way ready for what happened on Friday, September 1st of that year. He had been woken the night before by his intelligence officers who informed him that the Taliban were amassing on all fronts for an all-out battle. The NATO Alliance was about to engage the enemy in the greatest and bloodiest battle of their 70-year history. And they were grossly outnumbered. The facts of Operation Medusa have themselves been the casualties of war. At first deliberately withheld as classified, then muddied by imprecise and isolated personal accounts, exaggerated by rumour, misstated by ambition, or just rejected outright as irrelevant, the details of these events are still unknown by citizens of Canada and her allies. And yet the truth about those 15 agonizing days between September 2 and 17 is astounding. The secret agreements made in those two weeks, the expected death toll of Canadian soldiers, the wholesale changes to tactics made after the first engagement, the strafing of Charles Company by an American A-10, the contribution of the Afghan police, the genius of the Dutch artillery, the discovery of drugs, the extent of unreported civilian casualties, and even Canadian and Allied reliance on the insights of village elders were classified and kept from public knowledge. And yet in international military circles, the Battle of Panjwayi was quickly hailed as the defining moment of Operation Medusa. Canadians were credited with nothing less than saving Afghanistan from falling under Taliban rule. Our military's strategy and tactics were soon studied in warfare colleges in the U.S., and practiced by NATO troops in exercises around the world. Canada's reputation as a contributor to allied defence was once again revered. There is no one architect of Operation Medusa, a theme deeply embedded in David Fraser's first-hand account, but if anyone really had to point to the one person who could tell this incredible story, it is the Canadian General in charge of the joint military command"--

Subjects: International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan); North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Operation Medusa, 2006.; Afghan War, 2001-;

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Resident evil. [videorecording] / by Amell, Robbie,1988-actor.; Hopper, Tom,1985-actor.; Jogia, Avan,1992-actor.; John-Kamen, Hannah,1989-actor.; Logue, Donal,1966-actor.; Mazepa, Marina,actor.; McDonough, Neal,actor.; Scodelario, Kaya,1992-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;

Kaya Scodelario, Robbie Amell, Hannah John-Kamen, Neal Mcdonough, Tom Hopper, Donal Logue, Avan Jogia, Marina Mazepa.Witness the beginning of Evil. Raccoon City, which was once a booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, is now a dying Midwestern town. The company's exodus left the city a wasteland ... with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Zombie films.; Biological warfare; Mutagens; T cells; Umbrella Corporation (Imaginary organization); Virus-vector relationships; Zombies;

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Cancans, croissants, and caskets / by McHugh, Mary.;

Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Happy Hoofers (Imaginary organization); Murder; Bastille Day; Americans; Dancers;

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Hell or high water / by Walker, Julie Ann.;

Leo abandons the hunt for the galleon to find and destroy a weapon of mass destruction in answer to a plea from the woman he can't forget.

Subjects: Romantic suspense fiction.; Love stories.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Deep Six Salvage (Imaginary organization); Weapons of mass destruction; Divers;

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The rise and fall of Osama bin Laden / by Bergen, Peter L.,1962-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century, and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today. In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America's long wars with al-Qaeda and its descendants, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: as a family man, as a zealot, as a battlefield commander, as a terrorist leader, and as a fugitive. The book sheds light on his many contradictions: he was the son of a billionaire, yet insisted his family live like paupers. He adored his wives and children, depending on two of his wives, both of whom had PhDs, to make important strategic decisions. Yet he also brought ruin to his family. He was fanatically religious, yet willing to kill thousands of civilians in the name of Islam. He inspired deep loyalty yet, in the end, his bodyguards turned against him. And while he inflicted the most lethal act of mass murder in United States history, he failed to achieve any of his strategic goals. The lasting image we have of bin Laden in his final years is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself, just another dad flipping through the channels with his remote. In the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound, far from the front lines of his holy war. And yet despite that unheroic denouement, his ideology lives on. Thanks to exclusive interviews with family members and associates, and documents unearthed only recently, Bergen's portrait of Osama will reveal for the first time who he really was and why he continues to inspire a new generation of jihadists.

Subjects: Biographies.; Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.; Qaida (Organization); Terrorists; Terrorists; Fugitives from justice; Terrorism;

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Baseball cop : the dark side of America's national pastime / by Dominguez, Eddie,1957-author.; Red, Christian,author.; Thompson, Teri,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Dominguez, Eddie, 1957-; Major League Baseball (Organization); Baseball; Police; Sports facilities; Sports;

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Claudia and the new girl / by Epstein, Gabriela,author,artist.; Martin, Ann M.,1955-creator.; Graphic novelization of (work):Martin, Ann M.,1955-Claudia and the new girl.;

Claudia has always been the most creative kid in her class... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different: She wears hippie clothes and has multiple earrings, and she's the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia is a great artist, too, but thinks she's wasting her artistic talent with The Baby-sitters Club. When Claudia starts spending more time with Ashley and missing BSC meetings, it becomes clear that Claudia has to make a decision -- one of them has to go!20210331 md

Subjects: Comics adaptations.; Graphic novels.; Babysitters Club (Imaginary organization); Babysitters; Clubs; Female friendship; Artists;

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The eyes of Tammy Faye [videorecording] / by Chastain, Jessica,1977-actor.; D'Onofrio, Vincent,actor.; Garfield, Andrew,1983-actor.; Jaeger, Sam,actor.; Showalter, Michael,1970-film director.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Searchlight Pictures,production company.;

Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Vincent D'onofrio, Sam Jaeger, Cherry Jones.An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and '80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance, and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, it wasn't long before financial improprieties, scheming rivals, and scandal toppled their carefully constructed empire.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for sexual content and drug abuse.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.

Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bakker, Jim, 1940-; Messner, Tammy Faye, 1942-2007; PTL (Organization); Evangelists; Man-woman relationships; Married people;

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BrainBots: the human body [yoto card] : Yoto card pack. by Yoto.;

Read by Arina Ii; Davis Brooks; Vincent Lai; Sharon D. Clarke.For use with a Yoto Player, the Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.Meet the BrainBots: Nellie, Buzz and Gibbs! When school closes, these high-tech knowledge gathering robots come to life to find out as much information as they can for kids before the next school day starts. They can do some amazing stuff, too - think travelling back in time, shrinking all the way down to explore tiny spaces and getting where humans can’t… Their goal this series? To find out as much as they can about the Human Body and all the cool stuff it can do, and upload their findings to the BrainBank - a big cloud where all that information is stored and shared to kids. Watch out for nostril hair, pizza and poop!Ages 6 to 10.System requirements: 1 Yoto Player smart speaker or Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.

Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Human body; Human anatomy; Human physiology; Preloaded audiobook.; Yoto audio card.;

© 2021., Yoto Inc.

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Aum [videorecording] : the cult at the end of the world / by Asahara, Shōkō,on-screen participant.; Braun, Ben,1979-film director.; based on (work):Kaplan, David E.,1955-Cult at the end of the world.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;

Shoko Asahara.The shocking story of Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that unleashed a deadly nerve gas in Tokyo's subway system in 1995. Founded by disillusioned yoga teacher Shoko Asahara, Aum transformed into a terrorist organization while Japan's police and media turned a blind eye. Featuring rare archival footage and an interview with one of Asahara's former high-ranking disciples.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Historical films.; Asahara, Shōkō.; Oumu Shinrikyō (Religious organization); Cults; Terrorism; Terrorists;

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