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42) Starhawk
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Series
Priscilla Hutchins series volume 7
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Priscilla Hutchins takes a job on an interstellar starship, working for a corporation who is colonizing two planets and killing off native life forms, sparking outrage from Earthlings who fill her work day with bomb threats and sabotage.
"Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences. This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure; Priscilla 'Hutch' Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She's completed a nerve-bending qualification...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Description
"Dorothy Lucas yearned to discover all that she was capable of. After the devastating news of Pearl Harbor, her brothers joined the World War II war effort, but Dorothy wanted to do her part, too. So, she enlisted to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). After hours of flight school and roaring engines, Dorothy and her fellow WASPs risked their lives towing targets in the air for the male fighter pilots in training. Through many mechanical...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"The groundbreaking female pilot featured in the hit Broadway musical Come from Away tells her story in this high-flying and inspiring picture-book autobiography! When Beverley Bass was a young girl in the late 1950s, she told her parents she wanted to fly planes--and they told her that girls couldn't be pilots. Still, they encouraged her, and brought her to a nearby airport to watch the planes take off and land. After decades of refusing to take...
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"Poppy Redfern is back on the case when two female fighter pilots take a fatal dive in an all-new Woman of World War II Mystery by Tessa Arlen. It is the late autumn of 1942. Our indomitable heroine Poppy Redfern is thoroughly immersed in her new job as a scriptwriter at the London Crown Film Unit, which produces short films featuring British civilians who perform acts of valor and heroism in wartime. After weeks of typing copy and sharpening pencils,...
47) Great circle
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
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In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment -- nicknamed the "night witches" -- faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went...
50) Fly girls
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran and the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) is told by some of the participants and illustrated with archival film and home movies.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
286 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"To prove that she is worthy of becoming a pilot, Amelia Erroway sets off alone on her father's prized craft until a fierce storm crashes her ship and she must use her wits to survive--and find a way home"--BTCat.
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"Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
An inspiring picture book biography about Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese American woman to fly for the US military.
Even when other people scoffed at her dreams of becoming a pilot, Hazel Ying Lee wouldn't take no for an answer. She became the first Chinese American woman to fly for the US military, joining the Women's Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. -- adapted from jacket
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Description
The Soviet Night Witches flew over 30,000 missions in planes made of almost nothing more than plywood and canvas. Learn more about the origin of the Night Witches and the amazing women who flew these missions and were indispensable to the war effort in WWII.
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Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.
Description
On November 19, 1916, at 8:25 a.m., Ruth Law took off on a flight that aviation experts thought was doomed. She set off to fly nonstop from Chicago to New York City. Sitting at the controls of her small bi-plane, exposed to the elements, Law battled fierce winds and numbing cold. When her engine ran out of fuel, she glided for two miles and landed at Hornell, New York. Even though she fell short of her goal, she had broken the existing cross-country...
59) Spin
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Series
Captain Chase novels volume 2
Description
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...
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