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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States--Anne Morrow Lindbergh is viewed merely as Charles Lindbergh's wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life's infinite possibilities for change and happiness.
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
343 pages 22 cm.
Language
English
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Book Discussion Sets - Fiction
Historical Fiction
Strong Female Characters
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Historical Fiction
Strong Female Characters
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Description
October 11th, 1943--A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Chip and Emily Linton have just purchased a rambling Victorian home in New Hampshire and hope to make a happy home there for themselves and their twin daughters. But, in a dusty corner of the basement is a door sealed with 39 six-inch long carriage bolts. Then the haunting begins.
4) Tailspin
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is often rough-spoken and all business, but soft on regulations when they get in the way of meeting a deadline. But he does have a rock-solid reputation: he will fly in the foulest weather, day or night, and deliver the goods safely to their destination. So when Rye is asked to fly into a completely fogbound northern Georgia town and deliver a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
13 sound discs (16 hr.) digital, 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street--and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town. Aside from sorting out a run-in between a couple of motor vehicles and a moose, he finds his first weeks on the job are relatively quiet. But just as he wonders whether this has been all a big mistake, an unexpected kiss...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
325 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise -- a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons....
Author
Language
English
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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,...
8) Manhunt
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman is on a quest to find a husband and trades her glamorous life and her condo for a rustic life in the Alaskan wilderness. Hopefully she can find what she's looking for in her hunky new neighbor!
10) Skyward
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's -- a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa's chances of attending flight school at slim to none. No one will...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rediscover Orchard Valley, where three sisters will each find love in this favorite series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Norah Bloomfield is feeling a bit unneeded these days, a bit lonely. Her father is quickly recovering his health, and her sisters, Valerie and Stephanie, are busy planning their weddings.
Then, from out of the blue, a cantankerous Texan named...
Norah Bloomfield is feeling a bit unneeded these days, a bit lonely. Her father is quickly recovering his health, and her sisters, Valerie and Stephanie, are busy planning their weddings.
Then, from out of the blue, a cantankerous Texan named...
12) The hero
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Patrick Riordan's plans for a relaxing Christmas--a much-needed break from his work as a Navy pilot--are complicated when he falls for Angie LeCroix, who is visiting Virgin River in order to escape her hovering mother.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted... Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her...
14) Defiant
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Great circle
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
593 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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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 barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons,...
16) Red birds
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart: His older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned; his parents...
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.
"Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She's also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and La's Orchestra Saves the World, a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set during World War II, in which a British farm girl, an American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together by an unlikely hero: a (very cute) border collie. Val Eliot, a land girl working on an English farm during the war, finds herself in charge of protecting a rescued border...
19) Stateless
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 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.
20) Wingwalkers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The novel braids the adventures of Della and Zeno Marigold, a vagabond couple that funds their journey to the west coast in the middle of the Great Depression by performing death-defying aerial stunts from town to town, together with the life of the author (and thwarted fighter pilot) William Faulkner, whom the couple ultimately inspires during a dramatic air show--with unexpected consequences for all."--
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