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2) Hatchet
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English
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Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
4) The three
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the three child survivors of unrelated plane crashes on different continents begin to exhibit increasingly disturbing behavior, a religious cult leader claims that they are harbingers of the apocalypse.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A vintage B-29 bomber strays from its course over the Pacific and its crew, a high-living pilot, a prim missionary and two stowaway orphans, is forced to land on an unmapped tropical island. They plot their way back to civilization.
Author
Language
English
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people -- ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter -- depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs -- the painter -- and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath...
8) The edge
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A plane crash in the freezing Alaskan wilderness pits intellectual billionaire Charles Morse against self-satisfied fashion photographer Robert Green in a brutal struggle for survival.
10) Cast away
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer, finds his ruled-by-the-clock existence ended when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun.
Author
Publisher
Beyond Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For one week, Jim Bruton hovered in the place that is not life and not death, a place he came to know as the In Between. He came back and this is his report of what he has seen. Bruton takes us along for a by turns hair-raising and ultimately triumphant story of his coming to grips with what has happened to him. As he heals, his experiences in the In Between become more and more pressing; they download into his mind like rushing movie stills. His...
12) Deadzone
Author
Series
Horizon volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
13) Island of grace
Publisher
WisenQuest
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Stranded with two co-workers after a near-fatal plane crash on an island in a far corner of the world, Megan is forced to re-examine her life, beginning a journey not just of survival, but also of remembering what it means to be saved.
15) Girl underwater
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Language
English
Description
A "debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer's harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her--only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
19) Solo
Publisher
Platinum
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story about the rescue efforts to find Liz Brantley who has crashed her small plane in mountainous terrain.
Author
Language
English
Description
Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her...
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