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21) The rock rats
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Visionary Dan Randolph is dead, but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, sits on the board of his conglomerate. Randolph's rival Martin Humphries wants to control Astro and drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho, and flame Amanda, now wife to Lars. Many will die. Many will thrive.
22) Rose under fire
Author
Series
[Code name Verity series] volume 2
Language
English
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
23) On wings of love
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th century, the field of aviation was dominated by men. Few women flew, the most notable of whom were Amelia Earhart and "Petite Laura" Ingalls. In 1936 the Bendix Cup Transcontinental Air Race was finally opened to women participants. On Wings of Love is the story of Maggie Rockwell, a beautiful and ambitious aeronautics student who dreams of competing in the famous Bendix Cup Air Race. A novel of early aviation, estrangement, conversion,...
Author
Series
[Memory war] volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure. When her crew salvages a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into a living weapon."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1927, and in America, England and Russia, three young girls share a dream: to fly. But in an age when men still rule the skies, the odds are stacked against them ... As the grim shadow of war falls once again upon the west, Hazel, Lilya and Marlene leap at the chance to fly for their countries. In the face of doubt, racism and constant peril, they fearlessly pursue their passions for aviation like no woman before."--Page 4 of cover.
26) The invitation
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In the three novellas collected here, bestselling romancer Deveraux explores some of the limits of the genre she knows so well, indicating she may be as spunky as her heroines. The first story, The Invitation, is set in 1934. Jackie O'Neill returns to her hometown of Chandler, Colo., an accomplished pilot and a lonely widow. Developing her air transport business can keep her happy as a pilot, and her new partner, William Montgomery, promises to make...
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins novels volume 8
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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, Poppy is thrilled to receive her first solo script project- a ten-minute film about the Attagirls, and Poppy is enthralled to meet these glamorous...
29) Great circle
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"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...
30) Boots
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the infinity trinity hears of a Nazi spy plot that could bring danget to Chicago, Mae knows they must go to check on her beloved aunts, the daring World War II pilots Willa Brown and Janet Harmon. Mae's Granny Crumpler isn't exactly thrilled about Mae and her friend trying to get involved with something so dangerous--especially when she's already worried about not hearing from Mae's dad, who is serving in Europe and fighting for freedoms on ad...
31) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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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