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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,...
3) 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...
4) Great circle
Author
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
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Seeking to rebuild his life, ex-Baltimore cop Nate Burke takes a job as Chief of Police in the tiny, remote Alaskan town of Lunacy, where he comes face to face with the independent Meg Galloway and an unsolved fifteen-year-old-crime.
6) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase novel volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance in this new thriller from international bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister&;as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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, who as Isak Dinesen wrote the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from...
8) 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.
Author
Series
Presidential Agent volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
528 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a leased Boeing 727 vanishes after two passengers murder the pilot, Army intelligence officer Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, a veteran of the Special Forces, is called in by the president of the United States to uncover the truth.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Cecil Lawton to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during World War I, a mission that brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.
11) Tiger's claw
Author
Series
Brad McLanahan volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
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.
12) 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.
13) 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.
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.
15) The flight girls
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
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’s world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie’s beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Awed...
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
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster,...
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
Series
Wings of glory volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Landing in the army hospital after a plane crash, Major Jack Novak tries to win the heart of army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty, but Jack soon realizes that he has his work cut out for him as he tries to break down her defenses.