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English
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"A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory,...
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English
Description
"1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race -- a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawaii -- she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 527 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A filmmaker working on a project about a little-known aviation legend unexpectedly stumbles upon a complex web of double identities and female spies that eventually leads to the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas.
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Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
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 is willing to go for victory.
Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about her own strange Cytonic gifts. The Superiority didn't stop in...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"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
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--
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Publisher
El Gato de Hojalata / Editorial Guadal, S.A
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
Español
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"Viví así, solo, sin nadie con quien hablar verdaderamente, hasta que tuve una avería en el desierto del Sahara, hace seis años. Algo se había roto en mi motor. Y como no tenía conmigo ni mecánico ni pasajeros, me dispuse a realizar, solo, una reparación difícil. Era, para mí, cuestión de vida o muerte. Tenía agua apenas para ocho días. La primera noche dormí sobre la arena a mil millas de toda tierra habitada. Estaba más aislado que...
Publisher
Scorpion Masqué
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 game (1 landing procedure booklet, 1 triple-layer control panel, 1 airplane axis disc, 4 pilot dice (blue), 4 co-pilot dice (orange), 2 screens/player aids, 1 altitude track, 1 approach track (Montreal - YUL), 12 airplane tokens, 2 aerodynamics markers (blue and orange), 1 brakes marker (red), 3 coffee tokens, 2 reroll tokens, 10 switches, 1 flight log booklet, 10 approach tracks (front/back), 1 kerosene module, 1 kerosene marker, 1 intern module, 6 intern tokens, 1 reroll token, 1 ice breaks module, 6 special ability cards, 1 traffic die (black)): cardboard, plastic, color ; in box 26 x 19 x 5 cm
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English
Description
Sky Team is a co-operative game, exclusively for two players, in which you play a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world. To land your plane, you need to silently assign your dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact the control tower...
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1927--the late days of the barnstorming era, when pilots competed with each other by performing deadlier and more wondrous feats. Injured pilot Hawk E. Baron is back from the frontlines of the war. Still a young man, he's an adventurer who lives his life traveling from town to town in his plane entertaining folks--most of whom have never seen a car, let alone a plane. His world changes when he meets Tillie, a young woman who shares his passion...
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