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Miss Wyoming
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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… |
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On the island
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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… |
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne objective
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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… |
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Air disasters
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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… |
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Vanished
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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… |
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Stranded
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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… |
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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. |
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Ufo!
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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… |
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Midair
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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… |
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Night Fall
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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.… |
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Sobrevivo
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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… |
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O caso das mangas explosivas
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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… |
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Plane crashes
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Beryl Frank |
Describes and pictures forty disastrous airplane crashes which made headlines between 1930 and 1980. |
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The day we lost the H-bomb
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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… |
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Fragile delivery
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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… |
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Crash Landing
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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 … |
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Air disasters
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Roger Coote |
Highlights some of history's most notable air disasters including the explosion of the Hindenburg and the Challenger space shuttle. |
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The human factor in aircraft accidents
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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… |
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The mystery of Flight 427
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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… |
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