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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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For much of her life, Anne Morrow has stood in the shadows of those around her. Then Anne, a college senior, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted...
22) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true--he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen...
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When the country explodes in violence after the president institutes an unprecedented austerity program, retired Air Force general and aviator Patrick McLanahan trains a new generation of dedicated patriots to hunt down those who threaten America.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.
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English
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"The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II-only to be forgotten by the country they served When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Fort had escaped Nashville's debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment--nicknamed the "night witches"--faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to...
29) The tin man
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 7
Language
English
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Description
The master of military adventure creates the ultimate one-man army....
New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown pits men and technology against impossible odds, in vividly realized stories. Now, in his eleventh novel, he brings aerial combat hero Patrick McLanahan out of retirement and plunges him into the most personal war he's ever fought.
His old enemy Gregory Townsend has come to America to ignite a reign of terror that will sweep...
New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown pits men and technology against impossible odds, in vividly realized stories. Now, in his eleventh novel, he brings aerial combat hero Patrick McLanahan out of retirement and plunges him into the most personal war he's ever fought.
His old enemy Gregory Townsend has come to America to ignite a reign of terror that will sweep...
Author
Series
Wind River Valley romances volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Two veterans who once escaped the Taliban together reunite as helicopter pilots for a county sheriff's department and quickly find their professional boundaries tested by their attraction.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of the first women naval aviators and their struggles and triumphs as they earned their Wings of Gold, learned to fly increasingly sophisticated jet fighters and helicopters, mastered aircraft carrier landings, served at sea, and reached heights of command that would have been unthinkable less than a generation before. It is also the story of the legacy they left behind"--
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Language
English
Description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
Author
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The true stories of Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron), Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager, and Steve Fossett, who all broke records in flight"--Provided by publisher.
35) Porco Rosso
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Slouching towards middle age, Porco Rosso makes his living by flying about in his red bi-plane and fighting sky bandits who prey on cruise ships sailing the Adriatic. When he's not engaging in dog fights, this pilot lives on a deserted island retreat. Porco was once a strappling young man, but after his entire squardron was wiped out, he is mysteriously transformed into a pig. Then he is defeated in a dogfight against a dashing American rival, who...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This narrative follows David Harris's turbulent path to become the first African-American commercial airline pilot in the U.S., presented against the backdrop of racial tensions, protests, and the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s"--
37) Sunrise
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Pilot Dodge Kingston has always been the heir to Sky King Ranch. But after a terrible family fight, he left to become a pararescue jumper. A decade later, he's headed home to the destiny that awaits him. That's not all that's waiting for Dodge. His childhood best friend and former flame, Echo Yazzie, is a true Alaskan -- a homesteader, dogsledder, and research guide for the DNR. Most of all, she's living a life Dodge knows could get her killed. One...
38) Air Battle Force
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In military circles it's known as Air Battle Force an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan, capable of launching stealthy, precision-guided firepower to anywhere on the globe within hours. And now McLanahan and his warriors have their first target.
Driven from Afghanistan, the parasitic forces of the deposed Taliban regime have decided to feed on a new host an isolated, oil-rich...
39) The last 8
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After an alien attack devastates the Earth, pilot and future astronaut Clover Martinez bands with seven other teens in a struggle to survive.
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