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"Inspired by true events, a breathtaking WWII historical novel about the brave American women who trained the British Royal Air Force, by New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath. 1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in her small Texas town begins to clandestinely train British pilots for the RAF, she fights to become an instructor. But the task isn't without its perils of...
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Peggy Witherspoon, a mother of two daughters, has been widowed due to the war in Europe. She comes from a long line of US war heroes and, considering it her duty, joins the female pilots flying for the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) in 1944. Most of Peggy's duties are safe and predictable as she ferries airplanes between factories and military bases, and she can be home nearly every night with her daughters. After being injured in combat, Army...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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710L
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"16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble. When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister, a member of the famous and feared Night Witches-a brigade of young female pilots....
64) Spin
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Captain Chase novels volume 2
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In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...
66) Pilot mom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Jenny and her best friend K.C. accompany Jenny's mother, a tanker pilot in the Air Force, to the air base, where they explore her plane, a KC-135, prior to her departure on a training mission to Europe.
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"Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband, a sensitive artist who fears for her safety, can dissuade her from doing her part as a proud daughter...
70) Dead alert
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2011.
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When pilot Emily Parkington begins to suspect that something sinister is going on at Praxis Air, the charter airline she works for, she wonders if her new colleague, Sam Archer, is involved.
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1997.
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Special Agent Bud Wilson of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service teams up with senior flight surgeon Dr. Carol Benning and tough guy Airman Fernandez, to find out who murdered Gina Worthington, a female pilot found stabbed to death on a U.S. supercarrier.
72) Ordeal
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1976
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When her two-seater airplane crashed in an unexpected storm in the Navajo desert and the mysterious--and dead--passenger's luggage spewed a half-million dollars and a fortune in Indian jewelry, Sandra knew she was in trouble. She just didn't expect the vicious two-legged predators already on their way to collect the money.
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2015.
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"Daredevil Mittie Humphreys developed her taste for adventure on horseback, on her family's prosperous Kentucky horse farm. But her love of horses is surpassed by her passion for the thrill of the skies, especially since the dashing pilot Ames first took her up in his plane. When handsome British aviator Bobby York offers her flying lessons, he is equally surprised--and beguiled--by Mittie's grit, determination, and talent. Soon, Mittie is competing...
74) Joy in his heart
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Love inspired volume 325
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2005.
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"Headstrong Juoy Fuller knew she could never marry Brian Peterson. A brilliant doctor, Brian always wanted a society wife, not a tomboyish pilot. That's what Joy told herself twelve years ago when their breakup left her brokenhearted. After years of avoiding him, the two are thrown together on a seemingly routine rescue mission. But when her aircraft goes down on the Adirondacks, their very survival depends on whether they both can get over past hurts...
76) Dragon ship
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Liaden universe novels volume 15
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[2013]
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English
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Inheriting the captaincy of a self-aware ship, maverick pilot Theo Waitley runs a trade route for Clan Korval while struggling with her lover's life-threatening illness and a hostile uprising that threatens hundreds of stranded crewmen.
77) Kissing bridges
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2012.
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Aviation professor and pilot Kendra Atkinson has had some difficult passengers in her time. Garrett Beal is difficult to a T. But while Kendra can handle Garrett's fear when it comes to small planes, it's his attempt to recruit her younger brother to a Washington, D.C., firm that makes her cringe. This cosmopolitan engineer is tearing down her rural paradise. Garrett has reasons for being in Indiana. Teaching an engineering seminar...retracing the...
78) Starhawk
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2013.
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"Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences. This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure. Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream. She's completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot's license. Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality, and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To...
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[2019]
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Three skilled aviators determined to help win the war. Three brave women who know their place is not at home. At the height of World War II, the British Air Transport Auxiliary need help. A group of young women volunteer for action, but the perils of their new job don't end on the tarmac. Things are tough in the air, but on the ground their abilities as pilots are constantly questioned. There is friction from the start between the new recruits. Spirited...
80) Hijacked
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Hijacked volume 01
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[2014]
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English
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Pilot Lannis Parker's carefully constructed, sterile life is upended when her small plane is hijacked before dawn on a wintry Louisville morning. Her captor does more than force her to fly him to the Appalachian wilderness, though. He resurrects memories she's tried to bury, memories of a brutal attack she'd survived four years earlier, an attack she didn't report and tries to pretend didn't happen. Wounded, and losing strength by the minute, Ben...
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