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21) The passenger
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the body of a man shot gangland style is found in the wreckage of a mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness, Kate Shugak, as the investigation reaches to the highest levels of the government, is determined to find the truth, risking her life and the lives of those she loves most."--
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 8
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1998, 1997
Edition
1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
What's it like to lose someone in a plane crash? The novel answers the question by zeroing on a group of people waiting to meet friends and relatives at an airport in Montana. As they listen for the announcement of the arrival of Flight 114, the airport announces the plane has crashed.
27) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Tony Hillerman is an Edgar, Silver Spur and Nero Wolfe Award winner. Skeleton Man received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to investigate a simple robbery. But soon the trail leads back 50 years, to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon that killed a man protecting a fortune in diamonds. ". considerable suspense in the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Young readers edition.
Language
English
Description
"The amazing story of pilot Tammie Jo Shults, adapted for young readers! Tammie Jo worked hard, had faith, stayed true to herself, and overcame every obstacle on her journey to becoming a navy pilot. Years later, those lessons served her well as she was put in the right place at the right time to safely land a crippled plane and save 148 lives"--
Author
Series
I survived volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1937, eleven-year-old Hugo Ballard and his family are making a transatlantic journey on the Hindenburg zeppelin, but as the airship gets ready to land, a blast rocks it, sparking a fire that puts Hugo in a desperate race to escape the flames.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes learns that a plane has crashed at a coastal airfield, with neither pilot nor cargo in evidence and a local man found shot dead, but as Winston investigates, a devious challenger threatens his reelectionas sheriff, his daughter returns home with heartbreak of her own, and long-submerged racial bitterness comes to the fore.
Author
Series
Carmer and Grit volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When magician's apprentice Felix Carmer III and his faerie companion Grit come across a magical flying circus, it becomes clear that there is something not normal about it or its inventor, and that it may be related to regional airship disasters.
33) Eagle and crane
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch. Louis Thorn and Haruto 'Harry' Yamada- Eagle and Crane- are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks...
34) The grey
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After their plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A commercial jetliner crashes into the Pacific Ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent--Shannon's mother and Will's soon-to-be ex-wife--who must work together with...
36) The snow walker
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a plane carrying Charlie Halliday and a sick, Inuit woman, Kanaalay, crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature's worst. While search parties try to locate the place, Charlie decides to trek overland promising the woman he will return with help. Despite her sickness, she follows Charlie. Kanaalay teaches him the skills he will need in order to survive and he comes to respect her wisdom and her spirit.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who is stalking them--and each other.
38) Contraband
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 50
Thorndike Press large print basic
A Stone Barrington novel volume 50
Thorndike Press large print basic
A Stone Barrington novel volume 50
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington is getting some much-needed rest and relaxation in the Florida sun when trouble falls from the sky -- literally. Intrigued by the suspicious circumstances surrounding this event, Stone joins forces with a sharp-witted and alluring local detective to investigate. But they run into a problem: the evidence keeps disappearing. From the laid-back Key West shores to the bustling Manhattan streets, Stone sets out to connect the dots between...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the efforts of the military, scientists, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to locate an American bomber which vanished in the fall on 1944 near the Pacific islands of Palau carrying eleven men; and discusses how the men's missing-in-action status affected their families.
40) No fixed line
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board-responsible for investigating aviation incidents) unable to reach the crash site, ex-trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement to try to identify the aircraft, collect the corpses,...
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