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2020.
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"The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II--only to be forgotten by the country they served. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Fort had escaped Nashville's debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they...
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Pub. Date
2014
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Ordered by the President to stop the Iranians from testing nuclear weapons, Air Force ace Turk Mako and his Delta Force team, deep within Iranian territory, must race against time to find and destroy several secret nuclear sites as the fate of the Middle East hangs in the balance. Original. 200,000 first printing.
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 11
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On America's newest combat base, U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan and his crew of daring engineers are devising the air combat unit of the future. Known as Air Battle Force, it can launch concentrated, stealthy, precision-guided firepower to any spot on the globe within hours. And soon McLanahan and his warriors will have their first target. Chased out of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters are planning to invade the...
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Twenty years is a long time to be without a father, and, for Navy pilot Annie Peregrine-Goode, the sky has become a home the earth has never been. So when her father calls out of the blue to ask for a dying wish, one both absurd and mysterious, no is the easiest of answers. Until she hears that the reward is the one thing she always wanted.
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 3
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In 1930 London a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as...
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2011
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When the nation's economy collapses and thousands of Americans turn against their own government, Patrick McLanahan must enlist the aid of his son and fellow citizens to hunt down terrorists any way they can.
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Pub. Date
c1997
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xiii, 448 p. ; 24 cm.
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With the U.S. paralyzed as China prepares to attack Taiwan, a group of gung-ho American civilians go to the island's help in a Megafortress bomber equipped with nuclear missiles. The novel follows their adventures as the two Chinas fight it out. By the author of Shadows of Steel.
11) Strike force
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 13
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The battle for control of Iran ... begins in space. When a disgraced former Iranian military chief of staff engineers an insurgency that threatens to destroy the theocratic regime in Iran, a new era appears to be dawning in the Middle East. But one must be wary of old enemies ... On the run from the Pasdaran, the theocrat's terror army, and unable to count on support from his friends in the regular army, Iranian rebel leader General Hesarak al-Kan...
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Uncommon heroes volume 2
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Air Force pararescueman Bruce "Striker" Stanton spends his life rescuing pilots downed behind enemy lines, and Grace Yates flies an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy. On their dangerous jobs away from home, they exchanged love letters. Now a fight between Syria and Turkey over water rights on the Euphrates has spiraled into a confrontation NATO finds itself struggling to prevent. For the military deployed in the region, it's not just the occasional news...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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vi, 349 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
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Michael Lee Lanning tells the story of the courageous airmen who evaded capture and escaped to safety after being shot from the skies during World War II. Lanning covers the hows and whys of escape-and-evasion and aerial combat in the European theater, but also vividly captures the stories of the airmen who did the escaping and evading.
18) Wings of fire
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 10
Pub. Date
c2002
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446 p. ; 24 cm.
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Presidential Agent novels volume 1
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When a leased Boeing 727 mysteriously vanishes after two passengers murder the pilot, Army intelligence officer Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, a veteran of the Special Forces, is called in by the president of the United States to uncover the truth and embarks on an undercover investigation into a case with frightening implications.
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