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21) Wild Blue Yonder
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Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Doris Winter is accused of stealing a valuable item from a famous Hollywood movie star, now a captain in the US Army Air Corps, after a dance at the air base in England, where he's stationed. Gathering her close friends together, she's determined to clear her name. Ruth's POW son suffers a life-changing injury just as her own cottage takes damage in an air raid and Penny's estranged little sister unexpectedly turns up,...
22) My Blue Yonder
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Carl Gamble, a premier airline pilot, has penned a remarkable memoir, a powerful story about his journey from the cotton fields of Madison County, Alabama, to the captain's seat flying jumbo jets between North America and Europe. While in grade school, Gamble was inspired by jet fighters flying over Madison from a near-by Air Force Base and his dream to become a pilot was born. Gamble's hard and focused work overcame an inauspicious start studying...
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Alafair Tucker mysteries volume 3
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"The perfect piece of noir fiction." -New York Times Book Review
"Terse, brutal, poetic, perfectly wrought." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
At the end of Drive, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, "the only one he ever mourned," ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, becomes the one who goes down "at 3 a.m. on a clear, cool morning in a Tijuana bar."
Seven years have passed. Driver...
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Back Yonder is not fancy. It is like a hand-sewn quilt. It has taken much time and effort. What you see is what you get. The tales are original and have some truth, even though I have added some exaggeration and fiction. Ben Franklin said no one would ever read history unless fiction was added.
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Chief Terry Myell died and became a god. Now he's back to life, careening around space and time at the behest of a voice that told him to save all of mankind. Helping and hindering this quest are his elderly wife, his young wife, grandchildren who haven't been born yet, romantic rivals he hasn't even met, a descendant from two thousand years in the future, and an alien nemesis who calls itself the Flying Doctor. Life in the military has never been...
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The Drop Edge of Yonder is an adventurous book that explores the truth and temptations of the American myth.
Beginning in the savage wilds of Colorado in the waning days of the fur trade, the story follows Zebulon Shook, a mountain man who has had a curse placed on him by a mysterious Native American woman whose lover he murdered. The book follows Zebulon as he encounters people obsessed with greed and the politics of expansion. The trail takes him...
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Way down yonder, at the mouth of the Mississippi River sits a land like no other on this continent. A land occupied by man but belonging to a force greater than he. A force who fights daily to prove that no man's barriers or diversions will stop it from plowing its own path. Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish (County) is the Mississippi River. It was the great 'father of waters' who built it and it is the 'Ominous Lady' who over the years has fought to...
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Every state, town, and holler has its stereotypes: New Yorkers are rude. Minnesotans are polite to a fault. Southerners are sweet as tea to your face but will murder you with a "Bless your heart" behind your back. And the residents of tiny Bugtussle, Kentucky . . . tussle bugs or something. We don't know.
But what if there's more to these places--many of which most of us have only heard of and never actually visited--than meets the eye? And what...
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This book shares the adventures and experiences of a middle-aged private pilot and his friends. These collections of autobiographical memoirs are an open door into a somewhat exclusive but less than perfect fraternity, with thousands of funny and not so funny stories to tell. An uncomplicated first-hand insight for those with only a passing interest in aviation or those who are unable to or are not bold enough to physically enter into the real world...
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Titled after the US Air Force song, this engaging debut explores the legacy of the Greatest Generation from the perspective of Generation Y, the fallout of war through the eyes of a pacifist, and the enduring human desire for love, adventure, truth, and understanding. Pensive in the wake of 9/11, a young man-our "correspondent between the past and the present"-launches a mission to reunite his beloved grandfather, an American bombardier, with Luddie,...
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A collection of horror short stories based on legends and tall-tales from throughout the World.
From India and the coasts of Albania to the wilds of North America, these original stories bring to life old tales of darkness and horror. Featuring the works of: L.F. Falconer, Linda Kay Hardie, K.N. Johnson, Shashi Kadapa, C.R. Langille, Mike Marcus, Sergio Palumbo, Joshua P. Sorensen, and R. B. Swallow.
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Welcome to the year 2185 where aging has been conquered and people can live forever thanks to the miracle of Gerasone! Take a dose every day and never age again. This story showcases Gramps Ford, At 182 the head of the large Ford family who are all crammed into one apartment and subject to the constant badgering and irrational demands of the oldest Ford. He controls what will happen when he dies and so controls them. Every one of the many members...
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