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1581) Black dove, white raven
Author
Pub. Date
℗♭2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
"Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband, a sensitive artist who fears for her safety, can dissuade her from doing her part as a proud daughter...
1583) The belly gunner
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Presents the experiences and memories of Dale Aldrich, an American ball turret gunner in World War II, from the day he was drafted through his release from a German POW camp to the end of the war.
1584) The pastor : a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
If anyone knows how to be a pastor in the contemporary context that person is Eugene Peterson. Eugene possesses the rare combination of a pastors heart and a pastors art. More than a gifted writer, Eugene Peterson is a voice calling upon the churches to recover the vocation of the pastor in order to experience the renewing of their faith in the midst of an increasingly commercialized, depersonalized, and spiritually barren land.
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Description
Honest illusions: As the daughter of a world-renown magician who is equally accomplished as a jewel thief, Roxy Nouvelle inherits her father's genius. Dashing escape artist Luke Callahan also possesses a gift for relieving the wealthy of their valuables. Brought up together, Roxy and Luke are partners first in illusion, then in crime.
Montana sky: When Jack Mercy died, he left behind a lot of enemies and a ranch worth nearly twenty million dollars....
1586) Air: Pureland
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Unholy war. Air gypsies. Double agents. Heavy metal jihadists. They're the fellow travellers on the latest stage of Blythe's incredible journey. When Blythe is confronted with the sinister truth-- or is it? -- about Zayn, the man she loves, she falls into the arms of a handsome scoundrel and embarks on a dangerous mission to Pakistan. There she forges an uneasy alliance with a band of metalheads with machine guns, waging a jihad against the jihadists...
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The Freeman Field Mutiny, as it became known, would eventually...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Britain's Special Air Service, or SAS, was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a battlefield map of World War II's African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind enemy lines and sabotage...
1592) Lightyear (Playaway)
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
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.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The world hangs in the balance as Asuka fights to survive an onslaught of Evas determined to destory her. Shinji rushes to help, but he may be too late. Deep inside the NERV command center, Dr. Ikari is about to set in motion the last act of the Instrumentality Project. Everything has gone according to Ikari's plans so far, but even he cannot foresee the role Shinji will play in determining the future!
1595) The Night Witches
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"As the German Army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they will risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against the invader--but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies above the Eastern front, they will become a legend--known to friend and foe alike as the Night Witches. With...
