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Miss Wyoming Miss Wyoming Douglas Coupland Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action… OL14854123W
On the island On the island Tracey Garvis-Graves When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropic… OL16688657W
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne objective Robert Ludlum's The Bourne objective Eric Van Lustbader The Central Intelligence training program Treadstone produced two graduates of equal skill and determination --Jason Bourne and a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin. As Bourne's destiny circle… OL17754495W
Air disasters Air disasters Woods, Michael,Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods Air disasters don’t happen often, but when they do, they take a terrible toll. Airplane crashes usually lead to death and destruction. But quick thinking on the part of pilots, passengers, airport wo… OL1927161W
Vanished Vanished Wil S. Hylton " From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanish… OL19972148W
Stranded Stranded Alice Sharpe When Detective Alex Foster's plane goes down in the remote BItterroot Mountains, everyone thinks he's dead, including his wife, Jessica. But against all odds, Alex survives, returning months later to… OL19983376W
Zhenshchina s glazami koshki Zhenshchina s glazami koshki Alla Poli︠a︡nskai︠a︡ On her way from Miami to La Paz, Victoria's small plane crashes in a jungle. The passengers survived, but the crew was killed. OL19997726W
Ufo! Ufo! Jenny Randles The focus of this book is the problem of "UFO"s as a hazard to aviation. The author describes herself as an open minded skeptic. She believes "UFO"s absolutely exist, but regards them as literally un… OL2001510W
Midair Midair Craig K. Collins "Midair is a true account of one of the most remarkable tales of survival in the history of aviation -- a midair collision at 30,000 feet by two bomb-laden B-52s over a category 5 super typhoon above… OL20037719W
Night Fall Night Fall Nelson De Mille On a beach at dusk, while Bud Mitchell and Jill Winslow conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera set to record each steamy moment, a terrible explosion suddenly lights up the sky.… OL22914W
Sobrevivo Sobrevivo Alex Morel "Jane despierta en medio de una tormenta de nieve en las montañas de Montana y pronto descubre que el único superviviente aparte de ella es Paul, su compañero de asiento. Juntos forman un lazo emocio… OL24214297W
O caso das mangas explosivas O caso das mangas explosivas Mohammed Hanif Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father's suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide. Ali's target is no… OL24419579W
Plane crashes Plane crashes Beryl Frank Describes and pictures forty disastrous airplane crashes which made headlines between 1930 and 1980. OL2759213W
The day we lost the H-bomb The day we lost the H-bomb Barbara Moran In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War's biggest nuclear we… OL2776385W
Fragile delivery Fragile delivery Phillip R. Wise "Fragile Delivery: The Operation Babylift Crash is about the horrible C-5A Galaxy Crash as it was attempting to airlift orphans out of Vietnam on April 4,1975. It is the story of the life of survivin… OL28597900W
Crash Landing Crash Landing Kate William Teen romance. George Warren has been looking forward to taking his girlfriend, Enid Rollins, as a passenger on his first licensed flight. Afterward he's going to tell her something he's known for … OL3551840W
Air disasters Air disasters Roger Coote Highlights some of history's most notable air disasters including the explosion of the Hindenburg and the Challenger space shuttle. OL3908483W
The human factor in aircraft accidents The human factor in aircraft accidents David Beaty A scholarly exposition by a very experienced airline captain of the psychological factors and pressures which can mislead pilots and lead to air accidents. Although it dates from the start of th… OL5414756W
The mystery of Flight 427 The mystery of Flight 427 Bill Adair "The immediate human toll of this 1994 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrou… OL8965040W