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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
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...
1547) A Christmas story
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Elf: "Once upon a Christmas Eve, an orphan baby crawled into Santa's bag of gifts and was taken to the North Pole. Raised by Papa Elf, Buddy comes to realize he doesn't fit in with the other elves. Determined to find a place where he belongs, Buddy searches for his real dad -- in New York City! In the Big Apple, Buddy finds out why his dad is on the naughty list! But most importantly, he sees that the world is seriously lacking in Christmas spirit,...
Author
Series
World War II liberators series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
I'll wait for you. That's what Libby Conners promised Dan Lukens as World War II tore the two pilots away from each other and the Hawaiian island where they'd fallen in love. Now, bound by duty to their country and buoyed by the hope that they will be together again, Dan and Libby face grueling tests on opposite sides of the world, Libby is pressed into service as one of the first female pilots to serve in time of war, while Dan endures what would...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"It's 1927--the late days of the barnstorming era, when pilots competed with each other by performing deadlier and more wondrous feats. Injured pilot Hawk E. Baron is back from the frontlines of the war. Still a young man, he's an adventurer who lives his life traveling from town to town in his plane entertaining folks--most of whom have never seen a car, let alone a plane. His world changes when he meets Tillie, a young woman who shares his passion...
1551) Sonic Wind: the story of John Paul Stapp and how a renegade doctor became the fastest man on Earth
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The stories and lessons in this raw, revealing, unflinching memoir offer the reader a blueprint they can use to climb from the bottom of the barrel into a whole new stratosphere that once seemed unattainable. Whether you feel off-course in life, are looking to maximize your potential or drain your soul to break through your so-called glass ceiling, this is the only book you will ever need."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
This gripping chronicle of an aerial rescue during the Vietnam War offers a vivid example of the heroism of US Air Force pararescue jumpers. In June of 1972, Capt. Lynn Aikman was returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom was shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton ejected from their aircraft, but Hanton landed near a village and was quickly captured. Badly injured during the ejection, Aikman landed some distance...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Cuando el Apolo 11 aterrizó en la Luna en 1969, el primer hombre en dejar su huella en la superficie se convirtió en leyenda. Basado en material exclusivo compuesto por más de cincuenta horas de grabaciones privadas con Neil Armstrong, documentos personales y entrevistas con familiares cercanos, James Hansen logra una magnífica panorámica de la segunda mitad del siglo XX además de elaborar una biografía inigualable sobre uno de los protagonistas...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It's why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it's why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as treasured as the women she flies with. Then one fateful...
1556) Last To Die: A Defeated Empire, A Forgotten Mission, and the Last American killed in World War II
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
From a New York Times bestselling author, the story of how a young American airman became the last to die in World War II
1557) Wings over Sakishima
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
This book is a true story about the military action taken by the US and their allies against the Japanese Army and Navy who were defending two small islands in a region of the Ryukyu Islands called Sakishima Gunto in late 1944 and 1945.
1558) Hart's war
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
When a law student and lieutenant during WWII is captured and asked to defend an African American soldier who is falsly accused of a crime he finds that the trial is a front for secret plans brewing in the prison camp.
1559) The purple plain
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, incommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert,...