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1) Ugly love
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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,...
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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After being stranded in a desert after a crash, a pilot comes in contact with a captivating little prince who recounts his journey from planet to planet and his search for what is most important in life. For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic, The Little Prince, has captured readers' hearts. The whimsical story with a fairy tale feel has sold over 3 million copies in all formats. This exciting pop-up edition includes the complete...
3) Tailspin
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Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is often rough-spoken, usually unshaven, and he never gets the regulation eight hours of shut-eye before a flight; 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...
4) Oceans apart
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Connor Evans, an airline pilot, tries to decide whether or not to accept into his family his young son from a previous affair with a stewardess.
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Patrick's easygoing manner is being tested by his high-octane career as a navy pilot. Angie LeCroiz comes to Virgin River to spend Christmas relaxing, away from her well-intentioned but hovering mother. Patrick and Angie thought they wanted to be left alone this Christmas, until they meet each other.
6) True valor
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Lieutenant Grace Yates and Major Bruce Stanton struggle to accept their separation and bridge the miles between them through passionate love letters, and when they both find themselves fighting in a dangerous war, they realize their faith in God is the most useful tool they have.
7) The wanderer
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Unabashed nomad Hank Cooper is surprised to learn he's inherited a tract of beachfront property in Thunder Point, Oregon. He's even more surprised to find that he's enjoying the company of the town's residents--including the beautiful Sarah Dupre--and considers making his new home a bit more permanent.
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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
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"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, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
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Christmas volume 04
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Reporter Emma Collins is given an assignment to interview the finalists in a fruitcake recipe contest and enlists the help of local pilot Oliver Hamilton; but in the weeks before Christmas, Emma finds herself falling for Oliver and meets three women who know a lot about life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
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910L
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From NPR correspondent Keith O' Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition of the untold story about pioneering women, including Amelia Earhart, who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s--and won. In the years between World War I and World War II, airplane racing was one of the most popular sports in America. Thousands of fans flocked to multiday events, and the pilots who competed in these...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the life of pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart, who mysteriously disappeared during an around-the-world flight in 1937.
Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while attempting a flight around the world, readers will find Amelia Earhart's...
15) Falling
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You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.
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"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,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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For much of her life, Anne Morrow has stood in the shadows of those around her. Then Anne, a college senior, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted...
19) The huntress
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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...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
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In Flyboys,Bradley returns to the Pacific and World War II. Over the island of Chichi Jima nine American flyboys-Navy and MArine airmen sent to bomb the Japenses were shot down.One would be miraculously rescued, but the others would end up imprisoned and subjected to a fate so terrible that it has been kept top secret until now.
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