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61) Night flights
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorized cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang -- pilot, adventurer, spy -- isn't afraid. These three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control, and her free life as an intelligence agent for...
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
"In July 1900, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin conducted the maiden flight of the world's first zeppelin. The trip lasted eighteen minutes and the airship reached a cruising speed of eight miles an hour. Among those watching the historic event was a young reporter named Hugo Eckener, who would go on to play a crucial role in the zeppelin's development, becoming first the count's aide and later his successor. In 1929, Eckener earned a lasting place in...
67) Star Climber
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries journey into outer space on the starclimber and face a series of castastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 20
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken-the men say-by baffling lights that circled the ship....
70) Eversion
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a zeppelin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again"--Amazon....
Author
Series
Map of unknown things volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"The year is 2012 but it might as well be the Victorian age. The nations of the world are overseen by the International Patent Office, and its ruthless stranglehold on technology. When airships start disappearing in the middle of the Atlantic, the Patent Office is desperate to discover what has happened. Forbidden to operate beyond the territorial waters of member nations, they send spies to investigate in secret. One of those spies is Elizabeth...
72) Skybreaker
Pub. Date
c2006, c2008
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
Tells the stories of the airship Quin Zaza and its colorful crew of misfits who hunt the fantastical giants that rule the skies of their world: dragons.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility, recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century, he creates something much bigger: a system of flight that embodies the cutting edge of multiple sciences and...
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
After departing Quon to continue her journey through the skies to the next port, the airship Quin Zaza encounters a herd of small dragons -- an aerial treasure trove for a ship low on food stores! The crew scrambles to the hunt, but amidst the chaos, Takita falls overboard. Barely surviving the dizzying fall, Takita opens her eyes to see a baby dragon...and a huge, hungry cat...
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 10
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Caught in the crossfire. With the Quin Zaza destroyed, Mika and the other drakers thought their adventures might be at an end. Fortunately, they strike a deal with Liriope, the president of the famous Lalage shipyard, to fix up their vessel better than new! Since the crew's got some downtime, they attend a party hosted by their extravagant friend Brno. However, the festivities come to a quick end when Vannie disappears! The crew rallies to find her,...
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The daily routine aboard an airborne draking vessel springs to vivid life in this exquisitely crafted tale in the tradition of the lush, transporting fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki. Part travelogue, part imaginary cookbook, and part otherworldly slice of life, Drifting Dragons tells the stories of the Quin Zaza and the colorful band of misfits that makes up her crew.
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
"The Quin Zaza collides with a luxury airliner, leaving her grounded. The crew can barely afford to keep her aloft in the best of times, so, needless to say, they have no way to pay for repairs. Just when it looks like their draking days may be over, the crew hears of a 'ship eater' dragon that's been biting back at the humans who dare to sail the skies. The eye-popping bounty on its head makes this monstrosity perhaps the crew's last hope to get...
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
Tells the stories of the airship Quin Zaza and its colorful crew of misfits who hunt the fantastical giants that rule the skies of their world: dragons.
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 8
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The Quin Zaza learns of a legendary dragon while staying in Majuro, and also that the city contracted the slayer vessel's Captain Kurga to kill it. The following dogfight between the two crews is so intense it shakes the heavens!"--Provided by publisher.