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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 11
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English
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In military circles it's known as Air Battle Force an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan, capable of launching stealthy, precision-guided firepower to anywhere on the globe within hours. And now McLanahan and his warriors have their first target.
Driven from Afghanistan, the parasitic forces of the deposed Taliban regime have decided to feed on a new host an isolated, oil-rich...
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English
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In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.
Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from the...
Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from the...
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Wings of the nightingale volume 3
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English
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Bold, sophisticated, and coy, flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts wherever she flies. So how can handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be immune to her charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the wounded and delivering paratroopers and supplies, every beat of their hearts draws them closer. Can they overcome the fears and misunderstandings of...
4) True valor
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Uncommon heroes volume 2
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English
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Heroes get a new meaning when you see inside their lives. Gracie is a Navy Pilot; Bruce works Air Force Pararescue. With dangerous jobs—often away from home—they write love letters. When Gracie is shot down behind enemy lines, Bruce has one mission: get her out alive.
Uncommon Heroes: Welcome to a world where friendships go deep, loyalties stand strong, and uncommon heroes perform the toughest jobs in the world. Dee Henderson's military romance...
Uncommon Heroes: Welcome to a world where friendships go deep, loyalties stand strong, and uncommon heroes perform the toughest jobs in the world. Dee Henderson's military romance...
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Lt. Raymond Novak prefers the pulpit to the cockpit, but at least his stateside job training B-17 pilots allows him the luxury of a personal life. As he courts Helen Carlisle, a young war widow and mother who conceals her pain under a frenzy of volunteer work, the sparks of their romance set a fire that flings them both into peril. At the peak of the air war over Europe, Ray leaves to fly a combat mission. Can their young love survive until blue skies...
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 17
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English
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When the nation's economy collapses and thousands of Americans turn against their own government, Patrick McLanahan must enlist the aid of his son and fellow citizens to hunt down terrorists any way they can.
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English
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Major Jack Novak has never failed to meet a challenge - until he meets army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty. In the army hospital after a plane crash, Jack makes winning Ruth's heart a top priority mission. But he has his work cut out for him. Not only is Ruth focused on her work in order to support her orphaned siblings back home, she also is determined not to give her heart to any man. Can Jack break down her defenses? Or will they go their separate...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In Pardonable Lies, the third novel of this bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.
A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator
10) Pilot mom
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Publisher
Talewinds
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
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English
Description
Jenny and her best friend K.C. accompany Jenny's mother, a tanker pilot in the Air Force, to the air base, where they explore her plane, a KC-135, prior to her departure on a training mission to Europe.
11) Wings of fire
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
446 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) Pilots
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Series
Publisher
Garrett Eductional Corp
Pub. Date
c1992.
Physical Desc
31 pages cm.
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English
Description
Briefly points out some of the risks faced by different kinds of pilots.
13) Tiger's claw
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English
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After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.
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Inecom Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany's final surrender, this program reveals the role gliders played in World War II offensives.
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Presidential Agent novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
528 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
18) Top gun
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground.
19) Shadow Command
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 14
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English
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Based on the Armstrong Space Station orbiting the earth, the Black Stallion spaceplanes of General Patrick McLanahan's Aerospace Battle Force can attack any target on the planet within hours-and its powerful network of satellites can invade any computer network as easily as making a phone call. Western-educated Russian president Leonid Zevitin, one of the ABF's most dangerous adversaries, is determined to destroy all support for the space program...
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English
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"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...
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