Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743436369
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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They lived on the wild side. Now these bad girls are paying the price. At Dr. Foreman's School for Girls, the "students" sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It's an institution run by the dreadful Dr. Foreman, a woman who delights in administering the worst form of punishment—the mysterious Ice Room where the girls face their darkest fears. Now Phoebe, Teal, and Robin—three girls from very different worlds—are the newcomers in this desert hell. During their stay, each girl will be tempted to commit the ultimate crime of betrayal as Dr. Foreman cleverly tries to turn them against each other—until they learn that the only way to survive is to stick together...and fight back.
Author: John T. Halliday
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312942038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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In this compelling account, Halliday takes readers inside a top-secret air base and into the cockpit of an antiquated plane that was a lifeline for special forces on the ground in 1970 Laos during the Vietnam War.
Author: Ariele Sieling
Publisher: Ariele Sieling
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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El is about to graduate from fighter pilot training, and it is the greatest achievement of her life. Three days before it's official, Queen Amina offers El a special task: join her crew of elite pilots, assassins, and trackers for a secret mission on a nearby planet. Thrilled at the opportunity, El agrees. When they arrive on the planet, El keeps her eyes and ears open for any information that might be relevant to the queen--about the mission, the other members of the Queen's Guard, and about the local inhabitants. But on the team's return trip, when one of the assassins cracks open El's skull and leaves her for dead, El has to wonder--was this truly the queen's plan all along? This exciting adventure is the next installment in the Rove City series of science fiction fairy tale retellings, and the direct sequel to Midnight Wings.
Author: Marcus Nannini
Publisher: Air World
ISBN: 1526792745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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The autobiography of C-47 pilot and instructor, First Lieutenant Harry E. Watson, Jr, USAAF. 2022 IAN Book of the Year Awards, Third Place: Non-Fiction 2022 PenCraft Book Awards, Nonfiction - Biography 1st Place Winner 2021-2022 Overall Grand Prize Winner, Nonfiction, Readers Views Silver Medalist, 2022 IPPY Book Awards Finalist, 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist, American BookFest Awards This is the story of an American C-47 ‘Dakota’ pilot who earned three Air Medals, seven Battle Stars and flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Second World War. As a young U.S. pilot, Harry Watson, arrived in Britain as the Battle of Normandy was reaching its crescendo. Thrown immediately into the fray, Harry, along with more than 200 aircraft, set off to carry supplies to the troops fighting in France. But with visibility reduced to zero, the aircraft were ordered to turn back – all did except Harry, who successfully delivered his life-saving cargo of blood and US Army nurses. Harry continued to take risks, which resulted in many hair-raising episodes. This included almost being caught on the ground, while on an urgent fuel resupply mission for a platoon of General Patton’s tanks, by a German Mk.IV panzer and a battalion of supporting infantry. He flew throughout Operation Market Garden, losing a close friend to German anti-aircraft fire while taking some hits to his own plane. Thereafter he led a flight of five transports on a desperate mission to evacuate a mobile field hospital that was about to be over-run by the SS. Only four of the planes made it back as they came under direct fire just before they could take-off with scores of casualties and medical personnel crammed aboard each Dakota. Around midnight, in early April 1945, he was sent on a secret mission to fly to a point near Nuremberg, which was behind enemy lines at the time. It was necessary for him to locate an empty meadow in the dark, land, load a party of US soldiers and their captives, and then take-off again. He pulled it off. Among those prisoners was Franz von Pappen, the man who had persuaded President Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Von Papen had been seized at his own home by First Lieutenant Thomas McKinley and his men from the US 194th Glider Infantry Regiment. Based on his own recollections, as told to the author Marcus Nanni, this is Harry Watson’s exciting account of the air war told, unusually, through the words of a transport pilot.
Author: Ray Hanania
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329450116
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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PoweR PR is a simple to follow blueprint for Ethnic and Minority Activists to help them develop strategic communications plans to overcome the bias in the mainstream news media to advance their narrative. The mainstream news media is biased, especially ag
Author: Gaby Waters
Publisher: Edc Pub
ISBN: 9780860209522
Category : Adventure games
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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In order to discover who murdered the man in seat number thirteen, the reader must solve a series of puzzles.
Author: Ginny Gore
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669845303
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Imagine being able to fly through the air using your arms as wings like a bird? You find yourself soaring through the night sky with twinkling stars all around you. Kirsten looks below as she flies noticing all kinds of different shaped houses. Before she knows it, she finds herself somewhere very different than what she is used to. Lots of adventure awaits in this story of whimsical fantasy!
Author: Robert Sabbag
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670021024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The author of Snowblind shares his true story of surviving a 1979 plane crash in the woods on Cape Cod, and reconnects with other survivors in an attempt to come to terms with the emotional ramifications of the incident.
Author: Virginia Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471104109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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They lived on the wild side - now these bad girls are paying the price. At Dr Foreman's School for Girls, the 'students' sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It's an institution run by the dreadful Dr Foreman, a woman who delights in administering the worst form of punishment - the mysterious Ice Room where the girls face their darkest fears. Now, Phoebe, Teal and Robin - three girls from very different worlds - are the newcomers in this desert hell. During their stay, each girl will be tempted to commit the ultimate crime of betrayal as Dr Foreman cleverly tries to turn them against each other - until they learn that the only way to survive is to stick together . . . and fight back.
Author: Jill Esbaum
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635925673
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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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 has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?
