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"On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous--perhaps ominous--message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, still grappling with...
22) The airport book
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"An exploratory journey through the airport."--
23) Piper on a plane
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"Read about Emma and Piper, her big, white, fluffy dog. Piper travels with Emma's family on a plane and learns how to behave"--
26) Fly high, Katie!
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Katie is flying to Florida to visit her grandmother, but she has never been on an airplane before.
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Dexter T. Rexter volume 3
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When Dexter learns that vacation plans include an airplane flight, he must overcome his fears to help comfort his best friend Jack.
29) Interlude
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Flying to New York to talk her estranged birth mother into donating a kidney to her younger sister, eighteen-year-old Mia Cox forms an unexpected connection with her seatmate, a famous rock band's runaway lead singer.
30) Fly
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Get ready to take off in an airplane! Ground crew, flight attendants, pilots, and tower control are all here to help you journey across the sky --
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This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britains national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. The airliner offered luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey being an adventure shared by passengers and crew.
Short Brothers built 42 Empires at their factory in Rochester during...
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An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
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Using a fictionalized approach, this bilingual book allows beginning readers to follow along as one relatable family discovers the fun of flight. Through accessible text presented in both English and standard Latin American Spanish, readers are presented with a variety of fun facts about this common experience. A helpful picture glossary aids in vocabulary development, and colorful illustrations capture the excitement of a first airplane ride.
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"Air travel is safest, the FAA says. But the FAA never figured the risk with Charles Rane on board. "The Rane of terror" has masterminded four terrorist attacks. Soon there will be a fifth, and that's bad news for passengers on flight 163. But there's good news too: the man in seat 57! John Cutter, an undercover security operative who enters the lavatory and exits to find Rane and his gang have taken over. Cutter's next move is clear. Do or be done...
38) Airports
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As the world becomes more of a global community, air travel between states and countries is commonplace. Airports are playing an increasingly integral part of infrastructure in the United States and around the world. Through accessible text, readers travel to a time when airplanes landed on grassy fields, then move through the years to futuristic terminals featuring innovative technology. This captivating book takes a closer look at the airport industry...
39) Travel science
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How do ships float? How do airplanes fly? What is jet lag? And why is it a different time in Tokyo than it is here? The answers to all those questions and more are in science ... and in this book. Travel is the way that we discover our world, but we would not get very far without science helping us along. And it s not just travel science is all around us, every hour of every day. Discover more ways that science is a part of our lives in SCIENCE 24...
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Unaccompanied minor volume 1
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On her fifteenth birthday, April Manning, whose family members all work for an airline and who has been hiding by taking one flight after another, relates the events leading up to her making a bomb threat on a jet.
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