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5) Airframe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
#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....
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. Look for Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, on sale December 6th, 2022 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three...
7) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger--carrying a fortune in diamonds--on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.
8) Drones
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about unmanned aircraft, or drones, including how they were invented and improved over time, what they are used for today, and why they have sometimes caused controversy"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given...
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects what happened and why, she explores their common themes and, most important, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Indeed, as Negroni...
13) Drones
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses drone technology, including its history, use in the military, and possible future uses.
Author
Series
Alaska wild novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Megan Metzler assists pilot Bryce Saylor in the wake of a bush plane crash similar to the one that killed her husband, before an unknown adversary begins sabotaging Bryce's investigation in the Alaskan wilderness.
16) The devil's sea
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 26
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A survivor of the infamous 1972 plane crash in the Andes that inspired the filmAlive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists. On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the (3z(BOld Christians(3y(B rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed into the Andes...
20) Drones
Author
Publisher
Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to different types of drones and describes their features.
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