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1) Born to fly
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In 1942, an eleven-year-old girl who longs to be a pilot and her family try to manage their lives in Rhode Island when the father goes to fight in World War II.
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Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination: "The following instructions will save your daughter's life..." Someone needs Mina's assistance and knows exactly how to make her comply....
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An airliner whose passengers have been infected with a deadly virus is ordered to land in the Sahara to be quarantined. As everyone on board will die anyway, the CIA decides to exploit the situation by shooting it down and blaming Arabs. In the air battle that follows Capt. James Holland, the pilot of the Boeing 747, shows what he is made of.
4) Planes!
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Illustrations and simple text shows how an airplane performs at an air show. On board pages.
5) Lockout
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A passenger plane is electronically hijacked—and may be aimed at a target that could kill millions: “A wild ride through the night sky.” —Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course...
Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course...
6) Stealing air
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Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
7) Nighthawk
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When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly race to recover the fallen technology, which carries a secret payload of exotic matter capable of triggering an Armageddon-level catastrophe.
8) Falling
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Thirty minutes before a flight to New York, the family of the pilot is kidnapped and in order for them to live, all 143 passengers onboard must die.
10) Airborne
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"Heather Lawrence's long-awaited vacation to Salzburg wasn't supposed to go like this. Mere hours into the transatlantic flight, the Houston FBI agent is awakened when passengers begin exhibiting horrific symptoms of an unknown infection. As the virus quickly spreads and dozens of passengers fall ill, Heather fears she's witnessing an epidemic similar to ones her estranged husband studies for a living-but this airborne contagion may have been deliberately...
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"When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don't--that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature...
12) Nothing but sky
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"Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo"--
1922. Wing walker Grace Lafferty is determined to get to the World Aviation Expo, proving her team's worth against flashier competitors-- and earning a coveted Hollywood contract. Henry Patton, a mechanic with plenty of scars from the battlefield, joins her barnstorming team....
14) Just for show
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When Luke Murphy, star of the home renovation TV show, tweets about his missed connection with a woman he sat next to on a plane, he only hopes to find her, not set off a social media storm. His producer sees the frenzy as an opportunity to gain viewers for the show and convinces him to continue posting. When Audrey Whitaker learns of her newfound internet fame, she's shocked; but, desperate to launch her photography business, she realizes the advantages...
15) Sparrow Hawk Red
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Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers.
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Sun coast chronicles volume 1
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Young lawyer, Lynda Barrett decides she cannot afford to keep her beloved plane and, in the process of selling it to wealthy Jake Stevens, becomes the target for murder.
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When their parents are killed in a train accident, cousins Meline and Jocelyn, who have little in common, are sent to live with their wealthy, eccentric, and isolated Uncle Marten on his island off the coast of British Columbia, where they are soon joined by other oddly disconnected and troubled people.
18) Man of war
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Eric Steele is the best of the best - an Alpha - an operative in a unit known simply as "the Program". A highly trained U.S. Special Forces soldier who spent his career fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele uses a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his targets. Steele is in Beirut when a CIA convoy is attacked and a nuclear weapon stolen. When he and his colleagues investigate, it becomes clear that...
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After a CIA mission goes awry, U.S. Air Force intellignece officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier, a dead-end assignment. Russian aircraft begin penetrating friendly airspace along the border, and when an American F-22 collides with one of the interlopers, things go south fast. Flynn and his security team are ordered to parachute into the crash site. Soon they're facing off with Spetsnaz commandos...