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"On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast navigator determined to win her heart; a naïve cabin boy eager to earn a permanent spot on the world's largest airship; an impetuous journalist who has been blacklisted in her native Germany; and an enigmatic American businessman with a score...
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I survived volume 13
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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700L
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English
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"For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
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Passenger novels volume 1
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English
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"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that...
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980L
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"On the eve of the Second World War outside a village in England, four people rush to an airplane crash and change their lives forever. In the tumultuous year before war breaks out, a plane crashes on a country lane and four people are brought together in the aftermath. Miriam is recovering from another miscarriage and learns to fly as an escape from the disappointments in her life. Audrey is a middle-aged, upper-class activist who has shunned her...
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2020.
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English
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"When NYPD detectives Paul Rossi and Hamilton P. Turner begin investigating the Sutton Place murder of an Italian air force pilot, the last thing they expect is that they will find themselves sucked into the potential cover-up of the Ustica massacre, the most horrific aviation crime in Italian history, in which all 81 souls on board perished, where Italian President Francesco Cossiga blamed a missile deployed by the French Navy for the disaster. But...
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"Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is settling into a peaceful rest at the country estate of Sir Richard Seaton, the father of Billy's British lover, Diana. Seaton Manor is a comfortable haven, and Billy is eager to spend a few precious days in Diana's company pretending the war is far away. Unfortunately, Billy's leave is cut short when...
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Captives of the Reich volume 02
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
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English
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"During his final World War II reconnaissance mission before he is scheduled to return home, US pilot Ed Cuttling abandons his plane following a malfunction and hurtles down into Nazi-occupied Poland, landing among Polish resistance fighters and not far from a suspected death camp"--Title verso page.
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[2017]
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In May of 1937, the Hindenburg, a massive German airship, caught fire while attempting to land in New Jersey, killing thirty-five people. Lauren Tarshis's latest thrilling addition to the New York Times bestselling I Survived series will feature an eleven-year-old boy in the middle of this historic disaster.
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