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1) Defiant
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
Language
English
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Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
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English
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Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.
"Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She’s also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent...
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English
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"After her adult son survives a plane crash, Nicole St. John believes the one person who can help him heal is his pilot father--who doesn't know the twenty-four-year-old exists. Now Adam Hawk will do anything to support his son, even spend time with the woman who kept him a secret. But as old feelings resurface, can Adam convince Nicole she's the final piece in their new family?" -- Page [4] cover.
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Missing in Alaska volume 2
Language
English
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"Montana Detective Trevor West is desperate to learn what happened to his sister, who went missing in Alaska over a year ago, leaving nothing but a few photographs as clues to her whereabouts. At the advice of Police Chief Autumn Long, Trevor enlists the help of an experienced bush pilot. If Carrie James can't help him find the places in the photographs, no one can. But Carrie has her own agenda. Grieving the death of her closest friend and the only...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down in history with other legendary flying aces, like the...
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English
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"1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race -- a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawaii -- she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for...
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"A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory,...
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Blinding snow threatens to send a jetliner hurtling toward doom. But Captain Pete Douglass has more than a snowstorm to battle when an armed madman turns the fuselage into a shooting gallery and his fellow passengers into clay pigeons.
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Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"More than just a story of one woman's love affair with the skies, Life Takes Wings combines lessons in tenacity, humility, humor, perseverance, and partnership with the exhilaration of defying social norms, and the rewards of being true to oneself. Inspired to become a commercial airline pilot in an age when it was not an option for girls, serendipitous relationships lead Lynn to her first flying lessons in a seaplane, then to becoming flight instructor...
11) Moonhaven
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Bella Sway is a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and as punishment marooned on Moonhaven: a utopian community set on a 500-square-mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles...
13) The 17th day
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2012
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen days ... the average life expectancy of a British aviator during World War I. Last three weeks and you were practically a veteran. Paul Hyde dropped out of college to join the Royal Flying Corps, looking for a grand adventure. And grand it was, or so he assured himself when planes were crashing all around him. Today is his seventeenth day. Will he be able to beat the odds?"--Container
14) U.S. Air Force
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Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Engage young readers with information about the U.S. Air Force. From the group's fleet of aircraft to the people who fly and care for it, readers will learn all about how the U.S. Air Force protects the United States." --
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Publisher
Fullerton Metz & Maxfield
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A series of short stories that chronicles the life of Iva Metz and her husband Homer. For years, friends and family have told Iva, “You should write a book!” At the age of 97 (although she still claims to be 39) she finally decided to write her book. This memoir starts out with Iva’s earliest memories at age 4 growing up in rural Kansas. She fell in love with the idea of flying at a young age. Later, she was the first female pilot to solo from...
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Village at war volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Sally has always been happiest flying her stunt plane, thrilling audiences across the world, with her oldest friend and dearest love Freddy. Until the war tears everything apart. When she is approached by the Ministry of Defence, Sally jumps at the chance to be part of a classified project. Seeing the new, improved Spitfire plane, her jaw drops. She's been chosen to run test flights and get it battle ready. This could turn the tide of war. But she...
19) Fly with me
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot announces an in-flight medical emergency. Olive leaps into action and saves a life, but ends up getting stuck in the airport hours away from the marathon she's running in honor of her brother. Luckily for her, Stella Soriano, the stunning type A copilot, offers to give her a ride. After the two spend a magical day together, Stella makes a...