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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless,...
2) Defiant
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Series
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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's willing to go for victory.
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Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Nate Burke, a Baltimore police detective, blamed himself for the death of his partner in a shootout, and the resulting anger and grief sent him into a depression so dark and deep he thought he would never climb back out. Then Nate decides to accept the position of police chief in the small town of Lunacy, Alaska, and it seems as if life is giving him one more chance. Things are certainly different in Lunacy, and Nate begins to enjoy his encounters...
4) Night flight
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English
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In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation.
5) Lone eagle
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Language
English
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It was just days before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Beryl Markham's classic, engrossing memoir — a triumph of the pioneer spirit and an adventure-charged chronicle of a life lived to the fullest Beryl Markham's life was a true epic, complete with shattered societal expectations, torrid love affairs, and desperate crash landings. A rebel from a young age, the British-born Markham was raised in Kenya's unforgiving farmlands. She learned to be a bush pilot at a time when most Africans had never seen...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain due to double engine failure. The body count? Thirty-nine -- a coincidence...
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English
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"Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise--a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons. Now...
11) Code Name Verity
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Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Language
English
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Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless
The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson)
October 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied...
The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson)
October 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied...
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : illiustrated (mostly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Presents the life of the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, who mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.
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Language
English
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"The brainchild of ... pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) gave women ... a chance to serve their country--and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--
16) Manhunt
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Language
English
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Determined to find herself a husband, a young woman trades in her glamorous Wall Street career and upscale condo for a rustic log cabin and a ramshackle hardware store in Alaska, where she meets confirmed bachelor and pilot Michael Casey.
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Series
Virgin River volume 20
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English
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Patrick Riordan's plans for a relaxing Christmas -- a much-needed break from his work as a Navy pilot -- are complicated when he falls for Angie LeCroix, who is visiting Virgin River in order to escape her hovering mother.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
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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Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The ... true story of Tammie Jo Shults's remarkable life--from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navy's first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the severely crippled Southwest Airlines Flight 1380"--
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