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1) Tailspin
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Montana Rescue volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When search-and-rescue pilot Kacey Fairing returns home to Montana, she is partnered with old flame Ben King as an emergency strikes the town.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
544 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II, farmer's daughter Rosalie Wright becomes a pilot assisting the RAF, but as the war progresses, her battles against skeptical male pilots and a romantic rivalry threaten to bring her dreams crashing down.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador's daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Signing up to train military pilots in Hawaii when World War II breaks out in Europe, Audrey Coltrain joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots program after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and bonds with her fellow pilots to find hope and strength in the face of war.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the icy edge of Soviet Russia, bold and reckless Nina Markova joins the infamous Night Witches - an all-female bomber regiment - wreaking havoc on Hitler's eastern front. But when she is downed behind enemy lines and thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive. British war correspondent Ian Graham has witnessed the horrors of war from Omaha Beach to the Nuremburg Trials. He abandons...
9) Lone eagle
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Having met her soulmate in Joe Allbright, New York City debutante Kate Jamison reencounters him multiple times in the years that follow and suffers heartbreak when he remains unwilling to compromise on his dreams.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
83 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.
12) Falling
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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 in the first novel by a former flight attendant.
13) Skyward
Author
Series
Skyward volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
14) Violet the pilot
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Orville, until one of her homemade flying machines takes her to the rescue of a Boy Scout troop in trouble.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,...
16) Stateless
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.
Author
Series
Alaskan skies volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she discovers she is pregnant, Kate struggles with the uncharacteristic roles of wife and mother and considers giving up her dangerous Alaskan bush pilot job before a devastating tragedy challenges her life in unprecedented ways.
18) True valor
Author
Series
Uncommon heroes volume 2
Language
English
Description
Exchanging love letters with Navy pilot Grace Yates before her plane goes missing, Air Force pararescueman Bruce Stanton finds his efforts in a NATO conflict particularly challenging when he is assigned to the rescue mission.
19) Flygirl
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
20) Glad tidings
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
While flying around the state of Washington covering a fruitcake contest, newspaper reporter Emma Collins discovers that her pilot, Oliver Hamilton, could be the love of her life; and, on Christmas Eve, Maryanne and Nolan Adams tell their children how they met and fell in love.