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"The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club profiles one of the most colorful and accomplished female pilots of the early 20th century. Florence "Pancho" Barnes became the first female stunt pilot in Hollywood in 1929 and shattered Amelia Earhart's air speed record in 1930. In the 1940's and 50's, Pancho entertained the best test pilots in the world -- men with the right stuff -- at her "Happy Bottom Riding Club" guest ranch near...
323) Beyond the horizon
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At the height of World War II, Eva Scott's dream comes true. Accepted into the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), she leaves balmy California and the man she loves for grueling training in Texas, ultimately landing at formidable Camp Davis in North Carolina. Vastly outnumbered by men and amidst contempt, discrimination and sabotage, Eva and her closest friends, the unconventional Nina and straight-laced Helena, remain loyal to their mission and...
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"Award-winning author Carla Stewart returns to the 1920s in this vivid historical novel about a female pilot navigating love and life. Daredevil Mittie Humphreys developed her taste for adventure on horseback, on her family's prosperous Kentucky horse farm. But her love of horses is surpassed by her passion for the thrill of the skies, especially since the dashing pilot Ames first took her up in his plane. When handsome British aviator Bobby York...
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Wandering island volume 2
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"Mikura Amelia, following her clues and research, sets her floatplane down in the Pacific, waiting for the drifting passage of Electric Island. No sooner does it appear than her GPS goes out...so where is she, and the island, headed? The sun-baked maze of streets and buildings that make up Electric Island is curious and charming...which is more than can be said for its sullen inhabitants who will barely communicate with Mikura. Did they fall prey...
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In 1941, as Nazi hordes swept east into the Soviet Union, a desperate call went out for women to join the Russian air force. The result - three entire regiments of women pilots and bombers - was a phenomenon unmatched in World II. Through interviews with these courageous pilots, the author uncovers their story.
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In Clipped Wings, Molly Merryman draws upon military documents, many of which were declassified only in the 1980s, congressional records, and numerous interviews with former WASPs to trace the history of the hundreds of pilots who served their country as the first women to fly military planes. Importantly, Merryman examines the social pressures that culminated in their disbandment in 1944, even though a wartime need for their services still existed,...
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Arriving in Chicago in 1915 from Waxahachie, Texas, Coleman is among the first wave of African Americans to take part in the Great Migration, the largest movement of Black people fleeing the oppression of the agricultural South for greater freedom and the promise of jobs in the industrialized North. Because no one in the United States will teach an African American woman to fly, Coleman learns to speak French and travels to France where she learns...
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The memoir of a woman test pilot in World War II. The author belonged to a corps of women pilots on the home front who for the most part delivered planes and tested repaired ones. In her case, however, she experimentally tested the B-29 Superfortress and the Bell YP-59A jet fighter. After the war she became a journalist and sailor, sailing all the way to Turkey.
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"As the German Blitzkrieg brings the Soviet Union to its knees in 1942, a regiment of women aviators flies out at night in flimsy aircraft without parachutes or radios to harass the Wehrmacht troops. The Germans call them "Night Witches" and the best of them is Lilya Drachenko. From the other end of the world, photojournalist Alex Preston arrives to "get the story" for the American press and witnesses sacrifice, hardship, and desperate courage among...
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Harlequin Bianca volume 701
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Sienna Wainwright paso una noche apasionada con el magnate Rafe Lombardi y al dia siguiente el la echo sin ceremonias de la habitacion. Sienna esperaba no ver nunca mas a ese arrogante donjuan. Pero seis semanas despues el mundo cambia irreversiblemente para ella. Descubria que Rafe no era s?lo un multimillonario, sino el principe de Montvelatte. Y lo que era peor, la habaa dejado embarazada. ¡de mellizos! ¿Que alternativas tenia Sienna ahora? Rafe...
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In the 1930s, most girls were happy playing with dolls. But Betty Skelton liked playing with airplanes. When Betty was young there weren₂t many women flying airplanes or racing cars, but she wouldn₂t let that stop her. She was always ready to take on a challenge. Betty rode motorcycles, raced cars, jumped out of planes, and flew jets, helicopters, gliders, and blimps. And by the time she was an adult, Betty was known in the press as the ₁First...
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"In this final AIR volume collecting issues #18-24, Blythe uncovers the most advanced airship ever built. Then, she must untangle a mystery surrounding the disappearance of legendary aviator/author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and discover the hidden meaning of a lost manuscript by Jules Verne" -- publisher's web site.
338) The good lion
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An account of the time in the pilot Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya when she was attacked by a lion that her neighbors kept as a pet.
340) Air: Pureland
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Air volume 3
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"Unholy war. Air gypsies. Double agents. Heavy metal jihadists. They're the fellow travellers on the latest stage of Blythe's incredible journey. When Blythe is confronted with the sinister truth-- or is it? -- about Zayn, the man she loves, she falls into the arms of a handsome scoundrel and embarks on a dangerous mission to Pakistan. There she forges an uneasy alliance with a band of metalheads with machine guns, waging a jihad against the jihadists...
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