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Moonhaven focuses on Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500-square-mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles...
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"Against a backdrop of Harlem Renaissance and Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, a young man tails Hubert Julian - a pilot, inventor, adventurer, charlatan, and possible threat to America. Facing an attempted murder charge, seventeen-year-old Arthur Tormes is in no position to refuse when a federal agent named Riley Triggs offers him a deal: All charges get dropped and Arthur goes free if he agrees to help the bureau with a problem. The problem is Hubert...
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Harlequin special edition volume 3036
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"Everywhere she turns, nurse Sophie Lane seems to bump into pilot Meyer Cartell. And now he's moving in next door! Handsome and always charming, Meyer is hard to resist. That's probably how her sister felt when he cruelly betrayed her years ago. Sophie's heart may have wings for Meyer, but her head stubbornly refuses to clear it for takeoff. After his best friend's plane crashed, Meyer gave up his flying career to ensure the welfare of his widowed...
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"I Want to Be a Pilot gives young children a realistic insight into the working day of pilots. Easy-to-read captions and color photographs of women and men from different cultures help children understand what's involved in being a pilot. Young readers learn to respect the importance of doing a job well and appreciate the contributions these workers make to our life and the world around us."--
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Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.
7) Scarlet
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Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphael returns home from the frontlines to find himself a widower, and father to an infant daughter. Raised by her father in rural Normandy, the child Juliette grows into a lonely young woman who dreams of greater possibilities. She seeks refuge in the nearby woods, where she meets a witch who promises scarlet sails will one day take her away from her village. Reckoning with her future and swept away by a rakish...
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Apollo murders volume 2
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"Israel, October 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below ... and promptly disappears. NASA Flight Controller and former top US test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the ground--and is quickly pulled into a dizzying, high-stakes game of spies, lies and a possible high-level defection that plays out across three continents. The prize is beyond...
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1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race--a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawai'i--she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for one...
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"October 1941: As war rages in the Soviet Union, Nina is devastated as she watches her younger brother being sent off to the front. She has witnessed so many soldiers go to war and never return, and with her father already on the battlefield, her brother is her only family left. Sick of feeling helpless and determined to fight for her motherland, Nina and her best friend Katya decide to volunteer for the first female-only aviation regiment, led by...
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"Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime--a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of extraordinary women who in 1960 passed the same tests as the legendary male astronauts of the Mercury 7 but never went to space. Just as casting was set to begin, Haverstick received a mysterious warning from a government agent; soon she began to suspect that there was more to Jerrie's...
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"A story of the Cold War in Canada remembered by RCAF jet interceptor flier Scott Maclagan. In the 1950s, thanks to geography Canada played a major role in the Cold War. Long-range US bombers armed with nuclear bombs regularly flew north over Canada, ready to continue on-wards to Moscow and other Soviet targets. Meanwhile Soviet bombers regularly headed towards North America."--
15) Lightyear
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This junior novelization retells the exciting story of Disney and Pixars animated feature film Lightyear Lightyear is a sci-fi action-adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear--the hero who inspired the toy. The film reveals how a young test pilot became the Space Ranger that we all know him to be today. The thrilling film is all retold in this junior novelization that's perfect for girls and boys ages 6 to 9.
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"Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun is a captivating World War II historical love story set against the raw beauty of Australia. Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a life change when she reads the want ad in the newspaper for a companion needed to escort a young orphaned child to Australia. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement-the war, those treacherous winter seas, her family, her fiance ... but she can't help herself....
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"An account of the life of Fred Carmichael, the first Northern Indigenous commercial pilot. When Fred Carmichael was twelve years old, he saw a plane up close for the first time when it dropped off supplies in his remote community. With that one look, he was hooked. Fred spent 60 years as a pilot, doing everything from supply runs to search and rescue to transporting dog teams to far-flung areas"--
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