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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The sky is a challenging place to live, but extraordinary animals do something we only dream of 6 take to the air. Some spend their lives airborne, others only visit, but they all have one thing in common: they only survive by taking to the skies. This three-part series reveals the incredible adaptations that explain how these animals have mastered the sky and why they all need it to survive.
2) Up and down
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even though the penguin and the boy are close friends and do many things together, the penguin decides that he wants to fly and he wants to do it on his own.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first journey to the Moon on Christmas in 1968. With a focus on astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their wives and children, this is a vivid, gripping, you-are-there narrative that shows anew the epic danger involved, and the singular bravery it took, for man to leave Earth for the first time - and to arrive at a new world. Print run 50,000....
8) Flying
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
An airplane takes off, flies, and lands after having passed over cities, country areas, lakes, and more.
9) Space
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie present information about the universe, including our solar system, and briefly describe the history of space travel and of the science of astronomy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In a mission to the Delta Quadrant, Voyager Captain Chakotay and Fleet Commander Afsarah Eden must determine why three Federation starships have been targeted by a powerful, non-corporeal species, placing thousands of Starfleet lives at stake from an enemy that the Federation can only begin to comprehend.
Series
The flight attendant volume season 1
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A New York-based, globe-trotting flight attendant with a devil-may-care attitude and a history of binge drinking relishes flying off at a moment's notice to her next great adventure. But Cassie's glamorous world is thrown into a tailspin when she wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Haunted by the bleak future she faces if she doesn't clear her name, Cassie scrambles to put together the pieces...
14) Making starships and stargates: the science of interstellar transport and absurdly benign wormholes
Author
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
15) Flight school
Author
Series
Flight school volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Penguin, who has the "soul of an eagle," enrolls in flight school.
16) Fly with me
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. Becoming a "stewardess," as they were called, offered unheard-of opportunities for travel, glamour, adventure and independence. Although often maligned as feminist sellouts, these women were on the frontlines of the battle...
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Language
English
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Description
"SOS. Lopside the rescue mutt and his canine crew are working alongside their humans onboard the spaceship Laika. We are the dogs. Then the dogs are abandoned, millions of miles from civilization, and survival seems impossible. We are alone. But these are all good dogs--and good dogs always complete their mission." -back.
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