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Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
102 p. : ill. ; 20 x 27 cm.
Description
Presents the life of the Texas cowboy who, after a varied career performing in and running his own Wild West show, became interested in aviation and eventually built and flew England's first airplane in 1908.
62) The sky above us
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Sunrise at Normandy volume 2
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Numbed by grief and harboring shameful secrets, Lt. Adler Paxton ships to England with the US 357th Fighter Group in 1943. Determined to become an ace pilot, Adler battles the German Luftwaffe in treacherous dogfights in the skies over France as the Allies struggle for control of the air before the D-day invasion. Violet Lindstrom wanted to be a missionary, but for now she serves in the American Red Cross, where she arranges entertainment for the...
63) Wings of fire
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
446 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Assisting the widow of the assassinated Egyptian president, who goes too far by killing her husband's murderer and then trying to take over Arab North Africa, Air Force general Patrick McClanahan must prevent her from launching her deadliest plan.
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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?"--
65) Proud to be
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
xv, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xviii, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
Reclaiming one of the most important moments in American aviation history, this incredible, untold story recounts the transcontinental air race of October 1919, which riveted a nation as the aviators pioneered the first coast-to-coast air route, despite much drama and tragedy.
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September 1940, as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Since losing her parents as a child, Susan Shepherd has raised homing pigeons with her grandfather, Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan, but none more so than Duchess, with whom she shares a special bond. When a young pilot named Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force, his quest brings him to the National Pigeon Service, where Susan...
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"Camille Bellamy's six-year-old daughter hasn't spoken since her father died in a plane crash. To provide for Evie, Camille has to convince Ty Spencer to sell the ranch they both inherited, but she fears spending time with the pilot could be a painful reminder. Yet surprisingly, her little girl forms a bond with Ty, forcing Camille to face her own fear: risking her heart again."--Page 4 of cover.
69) Stateless
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
384 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.
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Wings of glory volume 2
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Landing in the army hospital after a plane crash, Major Jack Novak tries to win the heart of army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty, but Jack soon realizes that he has his work cut out for him as he tries to break down her defenses.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
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During World War II, farmer's daughter Rosalie Wright becomes a pilot assisting the RAF. But will a romantic rivalry send her aerial dreams plummeting to earth?
Ever since she was 10 years old, Rosalie Wright's eyes have been on the skies. But at the age of 18, on the verge of earning her pilot's license, the English farmer's daughter watches her dreams of becoming an aviatrix fly away without her. Britain's entry into World War II brings civilian...
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Homebuilder Jesse Amorado and former Air Force Captain Tori Carr come from the same Texas town but very different worlds. When Tori returns to Coyote Springs to help her father, a real-estate developer, turn the seediest neighborhood in an exclusive resort, she and Jesse immediately clash. As personal tensions rise and local trouble begins to brew, Jesse and Tori fall in love -- only to find they have to fight for their very lives.
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Presidential Agent novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
528 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When a leased Boeing 727 vanishes after two passengers murder the pilot, Army intelligence officer Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, a veteran of the Special Forces, is called in by the president of the United States to uncover the truth.
78) Surrender
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Series
Bitter Creek series volume 16
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Description
A pilot and a smoke jumper find old grudges turning into renewed attraction when they're forced to rely on each other after a plane crash.
79) The flight girls
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"1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It's why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it's why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as treasured as the women she flies with. Then one fateful...
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