Stacy Innerst
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Biplanes have been flying the mail in short hops all over the country-during daylight hours, when pilots can see where they're going. But crashes are still too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the U.S. Air Mail Service.
Outraged officials and pilots concoct a daring plan to save the service-a nonstop, coast-to-coast race-to prove that keeping mail in the air is the fastest way to move it across America.
But when a crash, exhaustion,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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"High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack...
4) The book rescuer: how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written in Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur...
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Pub. Date
2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Explores what made Abraham Lincoln's sense of humor so distinctive and how his ability to find humor in even the most dire circumstances helped him survive his difficult life and helped the country cope with the Civil War. A biography of one of America's greatest presidents, focusing on his use of wit and humor, and his love of language.
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Pub. Date
2017
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To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination
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