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A plane carrying a supervirus searches for a place to land in this “combination of The Hot Zone and Speed” by a New York Times–bestselling author (USA Today).
On a snowy road in a German forest, Ernest Helms sees a man trying to break into his car. After a scuffle, Helms escapes with only a cut on his hand. Hours later, he collapses aboard a flight from Frankfurt...
On a snowy road in a German forest, Ernest Helms sees a man trying to break into his car. After a scuffle, Helms escapes with only a cut on his hand. Hours later, he collapses aboard a flight from Frankfurt...
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A Vireo Book/Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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ADVENTURE. Weather to Fly is a collection of adventure stories, tall tales in the great American tradition. Inspired equally by Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, and P. T. Barnum, they are war stories, ghost stories, and love stories. There's a World War II warbird that may or may not have a soul or a conscience; in an Alaska saloon a bush pilot who thinks he's dying reveals a long-hidden secret; and the unlikeliest of pairs fall in love...
3) Falling
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English
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Thirty minutes before a flight to New York, the family of the pilot is kidnapped and in order for them to live, all 143 passengers onboard must die, in the first novel by a former flight attendant.
5) Moon plane
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon.
7) The anomaly
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English
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"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna,...
8) First flight
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Emma and her family are going to visit Aunt Betty who has a farm, but Emma has never flown before and she is a little nervous.
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Nick Flynn novels volume 1
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English
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After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
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[2018]
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English
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Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including...
12) Air miles
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Miles the dog is growing older, but adventure still awaits when he takes to the skies.
13) Born to fly
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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In 1942, an eleven-year-old girl who longs to be a pilot and her family try to manage their lives in Rhode Island when the father goes to fight in World War II.
16) Fast!
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Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Planes follows Dusty Crophopper, a big-hearted, speed-loving crop duster who dreams of competing in the toughest and most exhilarating around-the-world air race in history. With the support of friends old and new, Dusty reaches heights he never dreamed possible--and in the process, gives a world the inspiration to soar"--Information from Amazon.com, viewed Oct. 1, 2013.
19) Amazing airplane
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Little Hippo Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Follow the day in the life of an amazing, high-flying airplane. Children can meet and greet the passengers and crew as they travel from one destination to the next. Children will enjoy learning about planes while exploring various sensory touch-and-feel elements."--Amazon.com.
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