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Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
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
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can't get distracted. Not...
7) The defector
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1973 Israel, as the Yom Kippur War erupts and a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter makes an unexpected landing, NASA Flight Controller and former U.S. test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is drawn into a high-stakes game of spies, lies and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy.
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 5
Publisher
Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--
10) First flight
Author
Series
Timekeepers volume 1
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this adventure, the Timekeepers travel back to 1903 to prevent DeLay from interfering with the Wright brothers' first flight! Will they get the job done in time?--