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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Keith...
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Virgin River volume 20
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"While the Riordan brothers have a reputation for being rough-and-tumble, Patrick has always been the gentle, sweet-natured one. But his easy going manner is tested by his high-octane career as a navy pilot, and for the Riordan men, when the going gets tough, the tough find the love of a good woman. Angie LeCroix wants to spend Christmas in Virgin River relaxing, away from her well-intentioned but hovering mother. Yet instead of freedom, she gets...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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"A flier has [a] forced landing in the Sahara. He is met by the little Prince of Asteroid B612. The Prince tells the flier of his experiences on many planets with men, flowers, and animals--all very quaint and strange--and the conclusion of it all is: 'What is essential is invisible to the eye.'" Library Journal.
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Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string...
7) Tailspin
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"Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is often rough-spoken and all business, but soft on regulations when they get in the way of meeting a deadline. But he does have a rock-solid reputation: he will fly in the foulest weather, day or night, and deliver the goods safely to their destination. So when Rye is asked to fly into a completely fogbound northern Georgia town and deliver a mysterious...
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Code name Verity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
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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.
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"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --
11) The airport book
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2016.
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"An exploratory journey through the airport."--
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Woods's dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington undertakes a rapid realignment of Calder's holdings while forming alliances and buying shares to thwart the efforts of Prince Investment's Terry Prince, who wants the prime Bel-Air acreage the studio occupies....
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After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, confirmed bachelor Stone Barrington is looking to stay in New York and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. Not only is he a rainmaker at one of the richest white-shoe law firms in town, he's back in his element. Manhattan, after all, is his home, and no one is better than Stone at navigating its shadowy underworlds and...
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2015
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Database of air quality information from around the state. Database information is gathered on the following: Live image of Denver, Air quality summary, Air quality by monitoring site (all parameters), Air quality by parameter (all sites), Visibility standard index (VSI), Air quality index (AQI) detail, Calendar display, Max AQI concentrations, and Air quality forecast archive. The archive contains information back to 2008.
19) Skyward
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 1
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[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 21
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When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
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2021.
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"75 recipes dedicated to making air fryer dinners easier and healthier, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Skinnytaste Air Fryer Cookbook In Skinnytaste Air Fryer Dinners, Gina Homolka delivers 75 air fryer meals that are the perfect quick solution to weeknight meals, hearty dinners that are satisfying served as is or with just a simple salad or side. True to Gina's signature "light on calories, big on flavor" promise, her new recipes...
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