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1) Lone eagle
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English
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When Kate Jamison and Joe Allbright meet for the first time shortly before Christmas in 1940 they recognize each other as soulmates, but the next three decades are filled with pain as well as happiness as they try to stay together.
4) Amelia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
5) Manhunt
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English
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A woman with a talent for numbers, Alexandra Scott wanted to escape the rat race and go someplace where the men outnumber the women. Trading in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods. She's now Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It isn't long before she finds exactly what she's looking for: one sexy pilot named Michael Casey. But this confirmed bachelor has no intentions of getting caught in any woman's crosshairs -- especially...
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English
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Emma Collins has always believed that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who love fruitcake and those who don't. She's firmly in the second category, so it's ironic that her first major assignment for the Puyallup, Washington, Examiner is a series of articles about
fruitcake. At least it's a step up from writing obituaries.Her task is to interview the finalists in a fruitcake recipe contest, and that means traveling around the state....
7) Tailspin
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rye Mallett is a 'freight dog', a pilot who'll fly anywhere in the world, at any time, at a moment's notice, through the worst weather. As a fighter pilot in Afghanistan, he escaped death once. Figuring that it's only a matter of time before it catches up with him, he tempts it by taking risks. But one night he takes to the air, when no other pilot would, to deliver a black padlocked box. What awaits him at his destination is a near crash and a run-in...
8) Tiger's claw
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Series
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English
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After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Air Force pilot Colonel John Quinn, deprived of his flying privileges after being injured in a missile attack, has resigned himself to a desk job at the Pentagon, but he discovers there is still excitement to be found when he is called upon to investigate the crash of a military Learjet that was carrying one passenger--the president's brother.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
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,...
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English
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In small towns between the North Carolina Piedmont and the coast the best scenery is often in the sky. On flat sweeps of red clay and scrub pine the days move monotonously, safely, but above, in the blink of an eye, dangerous clouds can boil out of all four corners of the sky...The flat slow land starts to shiver and anything can happen. In such a storm, on Annie Peregrine's seventh birthday, her father gave her the airplane and minutes later drove...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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...
16) Air Battle Force
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Series
Patrick McLanahan volume 11
Language
English
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"In military circles it's known as Air Battle Force -- an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerialwarfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan,capable of launching stealthy, precision-guidedfirepower 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...
17) Fly
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Get ready to take off in an airplane! Ground crew, flight attendants, pilots, and tower control are all here to help you journey across the sky. For first-time flyers eager to earn their wings or experienced flyers curious about who controls the plane, Fly shows readers the entire process that helps a plane climb high into the air and then land safely at its destination."--Page [2] of cover.
19) American made
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s.
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