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Curious George original adventures volume 4
Language
English
Description
Following a day of misadventures Curious George becomes the first space monkey.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane...
3) The layover
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Language
English
Description
After ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene has one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. Then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone, whom she's held a secret grudge against for years, is on her flight. When their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop at the Belize airport suddenly becomes a weekend layover. It will take all the rum punch in the country...
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English
Description
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat...
Author
Publisher
JOHN WILEY
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Performance calculations can be classified into three main types: lift, thrust and slope. Firstly, since the lift profile is known and unmodifiable from the time an aircraft is designed, the mass at a given speed or the speed at a given mass must be determined. Then, once the thrust of the engines and the mass are known, the slope must be calculated. Finally, once the slope is known (for example, level flight) as well as the mass, it is necessary...
7) Delta-V
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Series
Delta-V volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation -- a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime...
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Series
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English
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Psychologist Dr. Grace Park is on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. She is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. Frictions develop as Park befriends the androids of the ship, preferring their company over the baffling complexity of humans, while the rest of the crew treats them with suspicion and even outright hostility. Shortly...
9) Super-dragon
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Language
English
Description
Drago the little dragon surprises his family when he enters a stunts flying competition with them, after taking flying lessons from a bird.
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Language
English
Description
Shares the inside story of the dangerous Apollo 8 mission, focusing on the lives of astronaut heroes Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, while illuminating the political factors that prompted the decision to risk lives to save the Apollo program and define the space race.
11) Kill shot
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Working his way through a list of hit targets who were responsible for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, assassin Mitch Rapp shoots a drunken Libyan diplomat in Paris only to discover that he has been set up and that his handlers want him permanently silenced.
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Series
Take them to the stars volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race....
13) Dead silence
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-- made obsolete-- when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire...
14) Code to zero
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Language
English
Description
In this classic Cold War thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett puts his own electrifying twist on the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As the clock counts down to a shocking climax, "Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that . . . [Follett is] still a hell of a storyteller" (Entertainment Weekly).
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the Cold War and...
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the Cold War and...
15) Winds of marque
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In a dense star sluster, the solar winds blow fiercely. The star-sailing ship HMSS Daring runs at full sheet on a secret mission from the Emperor himself: to hunt down and destroy a festering pirate threat. Armed with a letter of marque allowing them to collect the bounty of enemy vessels, the crew has been told to find the pirates' base by any means necessary."--Publisher description.
16) Revenger
Author
Series
Revenger novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
A science fiction adventure story set in the rubble of our solar system in the dark, distant future - a tale of space pirates, buried treasure and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism . . . and of vengeance.
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English
Description
Blackout drunk Cassie Bowden is used to waking up in strangers? beds, but what she discovers one morning in a sumptuous Dubai hotel suite is instantly sobering?blood-soaked sheets and the dead body of the handsome American hedge fund manager she met on her flight over. Even worse for Cassie, the assassin who executed him already regrets sparing the passed-out flight attendant. It?s a killer set-up. Cassie, flying on primal survival instinct, tries...
18) Horizon
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Series
Bone universe novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After losing everything, Kirit Densira reluctantly allies with Nat Brokenwings to ensure the survival of their community.
19) Stars and bones
Author
Series
Continuance novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks--each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly....
Author
Series
January dancer volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
One-time Confederal agent Donovan Buigh is recalled to take part in a secret civil war of sabotage and assassination being waged within the Lion's Mouth, the bureau that oversees the Shadows.
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