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Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A personal story of survival, hope, and spiritual awakening in the face of unspeakable tragedy. Its the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional...
82) The explorer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The gripping new Kate Shugak novel by New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. What seems a tragic accident soon becomes a murder investigation as Kate is drawn into a case of political intrigue. A mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness between two small aircraft leaves ten people dead. Was it a bird strike, pilot error... or premeditated murder? Then an eleventh body is found in the wreckage: a man shot gangland style, twice in the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jolene spends every day she can at the library watching her favorite livestream: The Desert Aviator, where twelve-year-old “Addie Earhart” shares her adventures flying an ultralight plane over the desert. While watching this daring girl fly through the sky, Jolene can dream of what it would be like to fly with her, far away from her own troubled home life where her mother struggles with a narcotic addiction. And Addie, who is grieving...
Author
Series
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When a plane bound for Costa Rica crashes in deep jungle, the tail section breaks free and nineteen teenagers miraculously survive. Joel Aspinall, son of a local politician and student rep on the school's council, is quick to take on the mantle of leadership, to organize everyone until a rescue party arrives. But the plane was crashed on purpose, no one knows where they are and no rescuers are coming. To make things worse, Joel's decisions lead to...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shultss remarkable lifefrom growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navys first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the severely crippled Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 and helping save the lives of 148 people. Tammie Jo Shults has spent her entire life loving the skies. Though the odds were against her, she became one of the...
87) Permanent rage
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In Tokyo, Logan gets pulled into a terrorist's plot--or was he the target all along? In the aftermath of a plane crash that wiped his memory, the man known as Wolverine investigates his own past...and uncovers things he didn't want to know!"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 33
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot for Argeneau Inc. Perks included travelling to exotic locations and meeting interesting people, even if they are the blood-sucking kind. 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. Once a renowned heart surgeon, she was turned against her will...
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...
90) Unremembered
Author
Series
Unremembered trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A girl, estimated to be sixteen, awakens with amnesia in the wreckage of a plane crash she should not have survived and taken into foster care, and the only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she was part of a top-secret science experiment.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
As world-famous aviator Amelia Earhart closed in on her record-setting attempt to fly around the world in July 1937, she disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean - vanishing without a trace. Did she run out of fuel and crash into the sea? Or could she have survived?
Author
Series
Tom Wilde novels volume 5
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two old friends meeting in a remote castle in Sweden. They are cousins. One is Prince George, brother of the king of England, and the other Prince Philipp von Hesse, a close friend of Adolf Hitler and a committed Nazi. Days later Prince George is killed in a plane crash and the country weeps, but not everyone believes that it was an accident. When FDR, who happens to be a good friend of the prince, hears the tragic news, he wants to find out exactly...
94) Midnight eagle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
日本語
Description
A gifted photographer witnesses the crash of a U.S. bomber in Japan's snowy Northern alps, he becomes a reluctant hero who must defy the odds to protect the plane's lethal contents from getting into the wrong hands.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the crash of the Hindenburg airship in 1937, relaying the history of international airship flight and the events leading to the disaster, and explains what measures have been taken to make airship travel safer.
97) The grey
Publisher
[Distributed by] Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness, a roughneck group of oil drillers is forced to find a way back to civilization. As Ottway leads the injured survivors through the brutal snow and ice, they are relentlessly tracked by a vicious pack of rogue wolves that will do anything to defend their territory. Adrenaline-fueled, action-packed and loaded with some of the most intense and brutally realistic attack scenes ever filmed.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A plane crash survivor recounts how his single-engine plane crashed in the Sierra Nevadas in 1994 and how he hiked for two weeks through the wilderness with sixteen broken bones and no emergency supplies before he was able to find help.
100) Hunter
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A Maori boy in 1803 and a plane crash survivor marooned on a deserted island in 2003 experience interconnecting visions.
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