Reducere. Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging from the er...
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Reducere. BOOK ONE OF THE AWARD-WINNING ARI ARA SERIES In an exciting blend of action, adventure, and fantasy author Rivera Sun boldly takes the reader in a ...
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Reducere. July 16, 1969. Nearly one million spectators flock to Cape Canaveral to witness the largest rocket ever built send three Americans to the Moon. Fou...
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Reducere. When thousands of naval aviators and flight officers gathered in Las Vegas in September 1991 to celebrate their victory in the First Gulf War, none...
Reducere. In this powerful memoir by the fourth child and eldest surviving daughter of the family, Kathy Foley tells a heartfelt story of love and faith, tra...
Reducere. DescriptionHe walked on the Moon. He flew six space missions in three different programs--more than any other human. He served with NASA for more t...
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Reducere. When the truth is far stranger than fiction. Award-winning author masterfully unmasks the myth of Frank "Catch Me If You Can" Abagnale with meticul...
Reducere. Through image and word, author and photographer Jill Geoffrion unfolds the the story of Mary at Chartres on the pages of this book. Geoffrion offer...
Reducere. TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from JFK airport on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 passengers on board. Although ini...
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Reducere. On December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped in...
Reducere. A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner ...
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Reducere. Both history and memoir, The Flight tells the story of Richard W. "Dick" Bridges's heroic service in World War II. Bridges survived a German attack...
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Reducere. Candor, North Carolina. The town barber brandishes a copy of the May 1927 Charlotte Observer-on the front page, Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. L...
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Reducere. THE BEACH...A breathtakingly beautiful supermodel disappears from a swimsuit photo shoot at the most glamorous hotel in Hawaii. Only hours after sh...
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Reducere. #1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous ...
Reducere. No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the sto...
Reducere. "Relentlessly exciting ... My top recommendation for this summer." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A TODAY SHOW #Re...
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Reducere. With safety protocols in their infancy and the jet engine still in development, early commercial flight above American cities was too often deadly....
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Reducere. Pan American World Airways could be considered a corporate Cinderella--a rags-to-riches-and-back-again phenomenon. From its founding in 1927 and it...
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Reducere. DescriptionOn the cusp of the Great Depression, Denver mayor Benjamin Stapleton pushed for the development of the first city-operated airport. Denv...
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Reducere. DescriptionMass murder and military aviation disaster. One community's experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly... but not withou...
Reducere. In the early hours of November 16, 1959, a commercial airliner mysteriously plunges into the Gulf of Mexico and quickly becomes one of the most baf...
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Reducere. In September 2017, North Korea shocked the world by exploding the most powerful nuclear device tested anywhere in 25 years. Months earlier, it had ...
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Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devoti...
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Reducere. Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and want...
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Reducere. A stunning story about the Women Airforce Service Pilots, whose courage during World War II turned ordinary women into extraordinary heroes1941. Au...
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Reducere. There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I won't be able to fix on my own.But in them all, I know God will be there, calling me to l...
Reducere. Jennifer Dupee's debut novel is a delight...a story about discovering your authentic self when things get hard, and the joys you can find when you ...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry Simmons JrIllustrator: Sehreen ShahzadJoin Melanin Origins as we tell of the Tuskegee Airmen and a few of their accom...
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Reducere. Crash Site, the debut graphic novel from British cartoonist Nathan Cowdry, is the story of Rosie, a young drug trafficker who uses her lovelorn tal...
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Reducere. This book identifies the key psychological elements of flight instruction and the importance of their use in practice. It is written with all aviat...
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Reducere. A memoir of a hummingbird's chickhood and his mother's love. With a comfortable balance of humor and suspense, Brother describes the challenges and...
Reducere. Elizabeth Bessie Coleman was always being told what she could and couldn't do. In an era when Jim Crow laws and segregation were a way of life, it ...
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Reducere. It all started with a bet thrown down by my husband, Jimmy. If I ran thirteen miles, I could bring home our first family dog-any kind of dog I want...
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Reducere. A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane h...
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Reducere. If you found the best book in the world, would you stop reading? Could you stop reading? If you had homework to do, or dinner to get through, could...
Reducere. It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is lea...
Reducere. Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal Holy unanticipated occurrencesA cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storytel...
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Reducere. DescriptionA little bird, a big sky, and the first time out of the nest A robin's first flight is a gentle reminder about what we can accomplish if...
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Reducere. From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum--as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac--comes the thrilling story...
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Reducere. In early April, as Owen and his sister search the hickories, oaks, and dogwoods for returning birds, a huge group of birds leaves the misty mountai...
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Reducere. This Caldecott Medal-winning picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build hous...
Reducere. The Egg is an imaginative and unusual story about a bird and a child, and how they become a family. The wordless story opens with a crane caring lo...
Reducere. Now beginning readers can learn all about Charles M. Schulz's iconic comic strips, beloved characters, and the cartoons and movies in this nonficti...