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"In the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigibles - some as large as one thousand feet long - was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel in the pre-apocalyptic Southwest, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty. ELADATL...
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"The groundbreaking female pilot featured in the hit Broadway musical Come from Away tells her story in this high-flying and inspiring picture-book autobiography! When Beverley Bass was a young girl in the late 1950s, she told her parents she wanted to fly planes--and they told her that girls couldn't be pilots. Still, they encouraged her, and brought her to a nearby airport to watch the planes take off and land. After decades of refusing to take...
48) Lola flies alone
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"...A delightful story about a young airline passenger who has even more imagination than she has style--and she has plenty of that. Lola's first unaccompanied flight is beset by problems, but whether it be mermaids in a wading pool blocking the runway or a ballerina doing arabesques in the aisle, Lola has the solution. A delightful tale about being "good and kind and generous and brave", it's a reminder that brave and stylish girls can always save...
49) Up in the air
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Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.
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When their car breaks down, Peppa, George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig set out in an airplane to visit Peppa's friends who are vacationing across the globe.
Los amigos de Peppa viajan por el mundo, ¡y Peppa va a visitarlos! ¡Únete a Peppa, George, Mamá Cerdita y Papá Cerdito en su viaje en avión por la jungla, las montañas, el desierto y hasta el polo Sur para ver a Suzy Oveja y los pingüinos!
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"The tragic story of the British airship R101--which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later--has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half...
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"When Kevin Tuerff and his partner flew from France to New York City on September 11th in 2001, they had no idea that the world - and their lives - would change forever. When US airspace closed after the terrorist attacks, Kevin, who was experiencing doubts about organized religion, found himself in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland in Canada with thousands of other refugees or "come from aways." Yet, when all seemed dark, the people of Gander...
54) Thin air
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A flight to Paris filled with teens competing for a cash prize turns deadly.
57) I'm so excited!
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A mechanical failure on a plane flying to Mexico City is endangering the lives of the passengers aboard. As the pilots attempt to fix the error, the attendants attempt to assist the passengers, and the passengers have a catharsis of emotion that helps them escape the idea of death.
58) Up in the air
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Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of resignation sitting on his boss’s desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious...
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A commercial plane inexplicably disappears on a transoceanic flight and, more mysteriously, returns five years after being presumed lost at sea. While only hours have passed for those on the flight, years have gone by for their loved ones at home who have learned to live with their losses. As the fractured Stone family and other passengers and flight crew wrestle with their interrupted lives and relationships, the government continues to investigate...
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