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Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Lunacy is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he watched his partner die- and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as chief of police in this tiny, remote town, where darkness falls by midafternoon and temperatures plunge to zero and below, will bring some kind of solace. It isn't as if he had anywhere else to go.
3) Skyward
Author
Series
Skyward volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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.
Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race. She dreams of becoming a pilot, but...
5) Airplane!
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan volume 5
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
When Iran begins stirring up trouble in the Persian Gulf, the newly-elected president of the United States calls on a top-secret cell of the CIA's Intelligence Support Agency, code named Future Flight, to find Iran's key command centers and destroy them.
THE NEW GULF WAR IS ERUPTING... And this one will be far bloodier than the first. A newly powerful Iran is flexing its military muscle in the Middle East. The Iranians have declared the Persian...
Author
Series
a Maisie Dobbs novel volume 17
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"A series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt"--
October 1942. Ferry pilot Jo Hardy is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged, and turns him over to the...
9) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
10) Fire flight
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When wildfires threaten two national parks and countless homes, retired fire bomber Clark Maxwell joins his former teammates despite the fact that their air tankers are breaking apart with fatal consequences.
Author
Series
Skyward volume 1-3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Return to the planet Detritus with FM, Alanik, and Jorgen in this must-have three-novella collection featuring exclusive character art and deleted scenes from Skyward with commentary from Brandon Sanderson"--