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In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she...
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Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary:...
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary:...
4) Airframe
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this extraordinary thriller about airline safety, business intrigue, and a deadly cover-up.
“The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop.”—People
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin is virtually destroyed....
“The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop.”—People
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin is virtually destroyed....
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Classic adventure from the undisputed master of action and adrenalin-pumping suspense. When a plane crashes in the icy Greenland desert with no passengers on board, and no means of identification, Joe Martin is hired to fly to the scene of the crash by the insurance company involved and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot. But the routine mission spirals into hair-raising suspense when a priceless batch of emeralds are added to the mystery, and...
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When the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes knows something strange is happening at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina. But nothing can prepare him for what he finds: a large airplane has crash-landed and is now sitting sideways on the runway, and there are no signs of a pilot or cargo. When the body of a local man is discovered--shot dead and lying on the grass near the crash...
7) Broken wings
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Second chances (Terri Blackstock) volume 4
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Zondervan
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English
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As pilot Erin Russell fights to save the good name of her friend and fellow pilot Mick Hammon, she finds herself drawn to Addison Lowe, the investigator intent on proving that Mick was responsible for an airplane crash which killed Mick and 151 people.
8) Freefall
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Harlequin
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Park ranger Hope Banning's plans for a little R & R are put on hold when a plane crashes at the top of a remote mountain. Hope will have to climb the summit and assess the situation. And the only climbing partner available is Sam Rutherford--the enigmatic man she spent a night with six months ago.
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A Donovan Nash novel volume 6
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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325 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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While on a routine Eco-Watch flight above northern Canada to study one of the most powerful solar flares in history, Donovan Nash and Michael Ross narrowly miss colliding with another aircraft--a Boeing 737 that's not supposed to be there.
11) Air crashes
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Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
1999.
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63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Explores such aircraft tragedies as the Hindenberg, TWA flight 800, and United flight 232, and looks at how we can improve airline safety.
12) Air disasters
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Thomson Learning
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1993.
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm
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English
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Highlights some of history's most notable air disasters including the explosion of the Hindenburg and the Challenger space shuttle.
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Jason Bourne series volume 8
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English
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The Central Intelligence training program Treadstone produced two graduates of equal skill and determination--Jason Bourne and a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin. As Bourne's destiny circles closer to Arkadin's, it becomes clear that the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know, "Who is the more deadly agent?"
14) Scatterpath
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Lyford
Pub. Date
[1993]
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263 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Harper
Pub. Date
[1998]
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First edition.
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xiv, 190 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Contains the final moments of twenty-eight in-flight accidents as they were recorded by the aircrafts' black boxes, including the 1996 ValuJet crash, the Challenger space shuttle, commuter aircrafts, and jumbo jets.
17) Necessary evil
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Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2001.
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379 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Argeneau series volume 33
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot ... He's living the good life, until his plane goes down in the mountains and four of his passengers are gravely injured. They need blood to heal ... and Jet is the only source ... Quinn Peters never wanted to be immortal ... Before she can ask how her life can get any worse, she's in a plane crash. One of the few survivors, Quinn is desperate to get the mortal pilot to safety before her fellow immortals succumb to...
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