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"An entertaining and fascinating memoir of "gifted storyteller" (People) Ann Hood's adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the Golden Age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world, Ann Hood joined their ranks. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin, found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more...
2) United 93
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Universal Pictures
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[2006]
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English
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Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once hijacked, the passengers and crew are able...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
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2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! The best-seller that has brought comfort and hope to millions in the wake of 9/11 is now available in softcover! Let's Roll!-the moving, behind-the-scenes story of United Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer and his widow, Lisa-is so much more than a tribute. A message of character, courage, and undeniable faith in the face of horrifying tragedy, it encourages anyone who reads it to live real life right now . . . and to...
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"For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the popular website www.askthepilot.com, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know: How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly them -- Straight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safety -- The real story on delays, congestion, and the dysfunction of the...
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"The founder of Scott's Cheap Flights explains why we're searching for airfare all wrong, shares the strategies that have saved his two million newsletter subscribers a collective $500 million on airfare, and presents a bold new approach for how to see the world while never overpaying for flights again." --
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Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic resistance.
At a time when the United States appeared defenseless against an unfamiliar foe, the gallant passengers and crew of Flight 93 provided for many Americans a measure of victory in the midst of unthinkable defeat. Together, they seemingly accomplished what all the security guards and soldiers, military pilots and government officials, could not -- they thwarted...
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Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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Français
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Rose is a pampered and prissy makeup artist who is hoping to get out of a bad relationship with her boyfriend, Sergio, by leaving him in Paris and heading off to Mexico for a holiday. After losing her cell phone, Rose borrows one from Felix, a somewhat stiff salesman with an interest in gourmet cooking, who is en route to Munich to attend a funeral. When both Rose and Felix find themselves stranded at the airport due to a transportation strike, they...
10) Airline
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A&E Home Video
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[2004]
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English
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Captures the unforgettable and oh-so-familiar realities of flying. At the same time, the behind-the-scenes views of America's fourth largest carrier, Southwest Airlines, brings a new appreciation for ever landing at your correct destination.
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Free Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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In this gripping moment-to-moment narrative, based on groundbreaking reporting, Lynn Spencer brings the inspiring true drama of the heroic response of American pilots and controllers on the morning of 9/11 vividly to life for the first time, taking us right inside the airliner cockpits and control towers, the fighter jets and the military battle cabs. She makes vital corrections to the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, and reveals many startling,...
12) Phoenix rising
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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A female investment banker starts up a visionary airline, taking on Wall Street, the airline industry, and an international terrorist syndicate in this electrifying thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance The bed is so comfortable that Elizabeth Sterling sleeps through her alarm, high above the Pacific, reveling in the comforts of the most luxurious airliner ever built. It's the flagship of the newly revived Pan Am, the most...
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Sterling Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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The heartbreaking true story of the heroic passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Trapped onboard a hijacked flight, these ordinary citizens disregarded their own personal safety to bond together and overthrow their terrorist captors.
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Hachette Books
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2016.
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English
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"This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and children, placing them in an internment camp where they...
18) Soul plane
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"After an encounter with a faulty airline toilet, Dakwon sues the offending airline, and wins 100 million dollars for his pain and suffering. Flushed with cash, Dakwon decides to start his own airline called NWA. With a purple exterior, an interior to die for, the first flight of the new airline is about to take off. But with a pilot who can't fly, white passengers who are clearly out of their element, crazy security officers, and a crew too wrapped...
