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The weight of sand : my 450 days held hostage in the Sahara / by Blais, Edith,1984-author.; Grubisic, Katia,translator.; translation of:Blais, Edith,1984-Sablier.English.;
"An evocative, earth-shattering memoir about one woman's kidnapping and 450 days of captivity at the hands of terrorists-and her stunning escape to freedom. In January 2019, news outlets reported that a young Canadian woman and her Italian companion were presumed kidnapped while traveling in Africa's Sahel region, a haven for Islamic terrorists. Little was known about the pair's fate until they reappeared in Mali more than one year later, having apparently escaped their captors. Now, in The Weight of Sand, Edith Blais describes her harrowing hostage experience for the first time-and reveals that writing poetry in secret helped save her life. Edith recounts the prolonged terror of her months as a hostage, enduring violent sandstorms, constant relocations, grueling hunger strikes, extreme isolation, and the unpredictability of her captors. She also shares the luminous poems she wrote in secret with a borrowed pen, which became a lifeline of creativity and one of the few possessions she smuggled out in her escape, strapped to her leg under her clothes. A compelling descent into a strange, brutal universe, The Weight of Sand is ultimately a life-affirming book-a celebration of resilience by a woman who refused to have her humanity stripped away from her."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Blais, Edith, 1984-; Blais, Edith, 1984-; Hostages; Hostages; Kidnapping victims; Kidnapping victims; Terrorism;
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Leave no trace / by Landau, A. J.,author.;
"In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is awakened by his boss with that news and sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things -- one, that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and two, that threats of a second terrorism attack are already being called into the media. While barred from the meetings of the Joint Task Force for his lack of security clearance, Walker finds a young boy among the survivors with a critical piece of information -- a video linking the attackers to the assault. As a radical domestic terrorist group, led by a shadowy figure known only as Jeremiah, threatens further attacks against America's cultural symbols, powerful forces within the government are misleading the investigation to further their own radical agenda"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; United States. National Park Service; Terrorism; Conspiracy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Clive Cussler Condor's fury : a novel from the NUMA files / by Brown, Graham,1969-author.; Cussler, Clive,creator.;
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken-the men say-by baffling lights that circled the ship. Kurt and Joe deduce that the men are suffering from Havana Syndrome, which deepens the mystery and raises the stakes. Soon, they're confronting Cuban mercenaries who plan to use magnificent modern airships to hijack a nuclear submarine-culminating in a life-or-death showdown in the skies"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character); National Underwater and Marine Agency; Brainwashing; Hijacking of ships; Marine scientists; Terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Clive Cussler Condor's fury [sound recording] : a novel from the NUMA files / by Brown, Graham,1969-author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Cussler, Clive,creator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Scott Brick."On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken-the men say-by baffling lights that circled the ship. Kurt and Joe deduce that the men are suffering from Havana Syndrome, which deepens the mystery and raises the stakes. Soon, they're confronting Cuban mercenaries who plan to use magnificent modern airships to hijack a nuclear submarine-culminating in a life-or-death showdown in the skies"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character); National Underwater and Marine Agency; Brainwashing; Hijacking of ships; Marine scientists; Terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Clive Cussler Condor's fury [text (large print)] : a novel from the NUMA files / by Brown, Graham,1969-author.; Cussler, Clive,creator.;
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken-the men say-by baffling lights that circled the ship. Kurt and Joe deduce that the men are suffering from Havana Syndrome, which deepens the mystery and raises the stakes. Soon, they're confronting Cuban mercenaries who plan to use magnificent modern airships to hijack a nuclear submarine-culminating in a life-or-death showdown in the skies"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character); National Underwater and Marine Agency; Brainwashing; Hijacking of ships; Marine scientists; Terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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24. [videorecording] / by Sutherland, Kiefer,1966-; Wynter, Sarah.; Cuthbert, Elisha.; Haysbert, Dennis.; Surnow, Joel.; Cochran, Robert.; Real Time Productions (Firm); 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Kiefer Sutherland, Sarah Wynter, Elisha Cuthbert, Xander Berkeley, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert.It's been over a year since his wife's death, but Jack Bauer and his daughter are still reeling from the tragedy. The two are estranged and Jack no longer works for CTU. But an urgent phone call from the President plunges Jack back into another 24-hour nightmare as he races against time to prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Terrorism; National security; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure television programs.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Vector / by Abel, James,author.;
"Joe Rush is at an Amazon gold rush to study new forms of malaria when his best friend and partner, Eddie Nakamura, disappears. When learning that many of the sick miners have also vanished, Rush begins a search for Eddie that takes him into the heart of darkness. Where he must battle for his life, and where he discovers a secret that may change the world ... For thousands of miles away, floods of sick people are starting to appear in U.S. hospitals. When the White House admits that it has received terrorist threats, cities across the Northeast begin to shut down. Rush and his team must journey from one of the most remote spots on Earth to one of the busiest, as the clock ticks toward a kind of annihilation not thought possible. They have even less time than they think to solve the mystery, for the danger--as bad as it is--is about to get even worse ... "--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Rush, Joe (Fictitious character); Malaria; Gold mines and mining; Missing persons; Bioterrorism; Terrorism;
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Jack Ryan [videorecording] : shadow recruit / by Anderson, Peter,actor.; Barron, David,producer.; Bonaventura, Lorenzo, di,producer.; Branagh, Kenneth,film director,actor.; Costner, Kevin,actor.; Cozad, Adam,screenwriter.; Knightley, Keira,1985-actor.; Koepp, David,screenwriter.; Kudrjawizki, Lenn,1975-actor.; Neufeld, Mace,producer.; Pine, Chris,1980-actor.; Utgoff, Alec,actor.; Vahradian, Mark,producer.; Velikanova, Elena,actor.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Skydance Productions.;
Director or photography, Haris Zambardi Oukos ; editor, Martin Walsh ; music, Patrick Doyle.Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh, Peter Anderson, Lenn Kudrjawizki, Alec Utgoff, Elena Velikanova.A global action thriller set in the present day. Follows a young Jack Ryan as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancee, Cathy.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; 5.1 Dolby Digital ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Ryan, Jack, Jr (Fictitious character); Spies; Terrorism; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© 2014., Paramount,
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Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment / by Padnos, Theo,1968-author.;
The award-winning journalist presents a searing account of his experiences with being captured and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years, detailing his related witness to Syrian village life.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Padnos, Theo, 1968-; Qaida (Organization); Journalists; Hostages; Hostages; Terrorism;
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Ice ghosts : the epic hunt for the lost Franklin Expedition / by Watson, Paul,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The true story of the greatest mystery of Arctic exploration and the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge that led to the shipwreck's recent discovery. Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Franklin Expedition--whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice--with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered and the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumours of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847.; Erebus (Ship); Terror (Ship); Inuit;
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