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Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Texas Star herself — Miss Lily Dare, the “fastest woman in the world” — is bringing her Dare Devils Flying Circus to Darling. Unfortunately, she’s also bringing a whole lot of trouble. As the Dahlias prepare for the annual Watermelon Festival — where they will present the famous female aviatrix with her own Texas Star hibiscus — rumors are flying. Dahlias president Liz Lacy learns from newspaperman Charlie Dickens that Miss Dare...
Author
Language
English
Description
Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string...
Author
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
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
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"--
11) Great circle
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
593 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
Author
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"--
Author
Series
Skyward volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire's war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Elizabeth Coleman, who battled segregation, poverty, and gender discrimination in order to become the first licensed African-American female pilot.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Mary Wilkins Ellis, a woman pilot who flew planes for Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II and ran an airport on the Isle of Wight"--
16) A sunlit weapon
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
October 1942. Attacks on British planes that cause a pilot's death lead female pilot Jo Hardy to seek help from investigator Maisie Dobbs, who suspects a connection to the arrival of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of Beverley Bass, one of the first female pilots in commercial aviation, and the first women flying for American Airlines to achieve the rank of Captain.
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