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Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the Second World War in England, Nina Woodrow joins the Royal Air Force and rebels against her careful upbringing by embarking on an illicit affair with an officer. She risks losing everything for Guy Nicholson: her comfortable home, her childhood friends, and, especially, the love of her father, an enigmatic widower. Meanwhile, in the sleepy village where Nina grew up, where the upheavals of war seem far away and divorce remains...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.
A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely.
3) The ascent
Series
Criterion collection volume 1063
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Description
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This real-life high-flying adventure story, taking place in 1921, follows a daring pilot who flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over unfamiliar land to save the US Air Mail Service.
''High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''An exciting page-turner about a fearless female aviator competing in a death-defying race across the Pacific. Brilliantly told… My favorite read this year!"—Andie Newton, USA TODAY bestselling author of A Child for the Reich This extraordinary novel, inspired by real events, tells the story of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific. 1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love...
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