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2021., Adolescent, Scribner Call No: SUPERNATURAL F KIN Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect new identity lined up and a scrupulously orchestrated, flawless escape plan. And then something happens that changes everything for Billy. A stranger needs rescuing, and Billy sacrifices the safety of his own perfectly devised new life to offer her protection. And then the two of them-the most compelling and surprising duo in King fiction-set out on one last mission, to rectify the injustices of one extraordinarily evil man"--Provided by publisher.
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2010., St. Martin's Paperbacks Call No: Adventure Fic Coughlin Edition: 1st St. Martin's Paperbacks ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: A sniper novelSummary Note: When two world leaders about to sign a peace treaty are targets of a missile strike, one is killed and the other is wounded. Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is called in when there is another attempt. Meanwhile, one of the most dangerous terrorists appears with revenge on Swanson for nearly killing him years ago and now Swanson must guard himself as well.
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2009., St. Martin's Press Call No: Suspense Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Marine Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Swanson, listed as killed in action, comes out from hiding to hunt down British-trained al-qaida sniper, Juba, after he tests a new weapon at a British royal wedding in London, killing hundreds.
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2009., St. Martin's Paperbacks Call No: Mystery Fic Coughlin Edition: St. Martin's Paperbacks ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Former marine sniper Kyle Swanson confronts a defected enemy sniper, Juba, who is working with a fringe terrorist organization that has created a weapon of mass destruction recently used to kill hundreds at a British royal wedding.
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-- Ennemi aux portes.[2010]., Paramount Pictures Call No: DVD FIC ENE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The true-life story of a Russian sniper in Stalingrad during WWII when the Germans attempted to invade the city. The heroic sniper kills many German officers until they send in their best sniper to track and kill the Russian marksman.
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2009, c2008., Pre-adolescent, Frances Lincoln Children's Books Call No: Historical Fiction Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tania, recruited as a teen in 1942 by Vasily Zaitsev to seek out and shoot German officers, finds it difficult to kill until she learns the Nazis murdered her beloved grandparents, and her skill as a sniper leads to her being put in charge of a handpicked unit whose mission is to seize Field Marshall Paulus, commander-in-chief of the German army.
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2006., Penguin Books Call No: NL HISTORICAL F BOY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "...It is 1919 and Niska, an Oji-Cree medicine woman, has left her home in the bush of northern Ontario to receive Xavier Bird, her only relation who has returned from the trenches of Europe. Gravely wounded and addicted to morphine, Xavier recounts how he and his best friend, Elijah Whiskeyjack, prowled the battlefields as snipers of enormous skill and how the circumstances of their deadly craft led them to very different fates.Told with unblinking focus, this is a stunning tale of brutality, survival, and rebirth that marks the arrival of a prodigious new talent." From the bookjacket.
