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Author
Series
The McCord brothers volume 1
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Riley McCord comes home to Spring Hill, Texas, he is desired by every woman in town, but Riley still has feelings for his childhood friend Claire Davidson who is also crazy about Riley but needs more stability than he can offer.
Author
Series
Wild Aces romances volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A year after losing her husband, Joker, the squadron commander of the Wild Aces, Dani Peterson gets an offer from his best friend, Alex "Easy" Rogers, to help fix up her house. Dani accepts, and their friendship grows - along with an undeniable attraction. Racked by guilt for loving his best friend's widow, Easy's caught between what he wants and can't have. Until one night everything changes, and the woman who's always had his heart ends up in his...
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Love blooms in the darkest days... It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold onto remnants of normalcy--her job assisting the mayor and nights spent at the local pub with...
Author
Series
Nick Flynn novels volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Former US Air Force officer Nick Flynn joined the clandestine Quartet Directorate to continue its long-standing mission: to act decisively against serious threats to the free world. And with the backing of Russia's authoritarian president, no threat is more deadly than that of Pavel Voronin and his mercenary Raven Syndicate. Twice they have almost succeeded in bringing the United States to its knees, only to be stopped at the last moment by Flynn...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves facing a Japanese fleet--and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bronx-born top turret-gunner Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second mission when he was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the B-24 Liberator known as "Harmful Lil Armful" who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground. After fleeing the wreck, Arthur knocked on the door of an isolated farmhouse, whose owners hastily took him in. Fortunately, his hosts not only despised the Nazis but had a tight connection to the French resistance...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography on Alton Yates, a Black man who served in the Air Force in the 1950s and contributed to key research on flight safety for pilots and passengers. After returning home, Alton dedicated his life to standing against Jim Crow and fighting for racial equality"--
Author
Publisher
National Writers Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The true story of Roland and Rodney Paulson, identical twins, for whom the Skunk River Valley near, Ames, Iowa, served as a basic haven of security. Not close with their siblings, their school years were spent as "two against the world." As the Great Depression gave way to World War II, the Skunk Valley philosophy went with them into the Air Force. As members of the same crew on the B-17 FUBAR, they became possibly the only twins to get away with...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The USS Cowpens and her crew weren't your typical heroes. She was a flattop that the US Navy initially didn't want, with a captain nearly scapegoated for the loss of his last command, pilots who self-trained on the planes they would fly into combat, and sailors that had been in uniform barely longer than the ship had been afloat. Despite their humble origins, Cowpens and her band of second-string reservists and citizen sailors served with distinction,...
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