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1) True valor
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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.--Amazon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"From NPR correspondent Keith O' Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition of the untold story about pioneering women, including Amelia Earhart, who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s--and won"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Let #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts fly you into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who are searching for love and redemption...
As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite...
As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from...
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English
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"During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle of attrition to neutralize the Luftwaffe as a fighting force prior to the cross-channel invasion, planned for a few months later. Officially called...
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English
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"Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. They were pilots, codebreakers, chemists, translators, truck drivers, and more. Their work was at the heart of the Allied strategy that won World War II. Yet, until now, their stories have been relegated to the dusty shelves of military archives or a passing mention in the local paper. Now, military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (532 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join WKRP's hilarious staff--program director Andy Travis, deejays Dr. Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap, neurotic newsman Les Nessman, sultry receptionist Jennifer Marlowe and the rest--both on and off the air as they take their floundering station from hard times to hard rock.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fly girl: Fifties music backs the effors of Pilot Uniqua while she delivers singing telegrams to a grumpy pirate, a quiet-loving queen, and even the Abominable Snowman. Who goes there?: It's a madcap museum adventure set to Flamenco as rookie security guard Tyrone tries to chase down some runaway works of art before Curator Tasha returns. What's bugging you?: Rumba plays as pest controllers Tyrone and Uniqua try to rid Lady Tasha's mansion of wormans...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
Publisher
FUNimation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (625 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
It's the dawn of the golden age of aviation on planet Prester, and retro-futuristic sky vehicles known as vanships dominate the horizon. Claus Valca - a flyboy born with the right stuff - and his fiery navigator Lavie are fearless racers obsessed with becoming the first sky couriers to cross the Grand Stream in a vanship. But when the high-flying duo encounters a mysterious girl named Alvis, they are thrust into the middle of an endless battle between...
11) One more sunrise
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
12) Red tails
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jeffrey Stepakoff's The Melody of Secrets is an epic love story set against the 1960s U.S. space program, where deeply-buried secrets could threaten not just a marriage, but a country. Maria was barely eighteen when WWII was coming to its explosive end. A brilliant violinist, she tries to comfort herself with the Sibelius Concerto as American bombs rain down. James Cooper wasn't much older. A roguish fighter pilot stationed in London, he was shot...
Author
Publisher
NAL
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vii, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan's expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Shima--Hell's Island. Amid a seeming...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 544 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cory is your average guy. He has a best friend from the other side of the tracks, a teacher that constantly keeps him on his toes, and a friend named Topanga whom he has trouble understanding. With the support of his parents and his brother Eric, Cory learns to cope with the roller coaster called growing up. Includes 22 episodes.
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