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"A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety....
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French Cajun Nora Broussard Greenwood was born with the wanderlust. However, her adventurous spirit doesn't fit the sedate expectations of 1960s catholic New Orleans suburbia. On a whim, she takes flying lessons to become a pilot. Nora discovers the liberating freedom of flight, but an illicit affair with her pilot instructor complicates all. Confronting her ruthless husband for a divorce, Nora is temporarily grounded. Cast out of her home sans her...
3) Flying Solo
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"What happens when a sixth-grade class is left unsupervised for a whole day?...A story that is by turns sad, poignant, and funny . . . absorbing." —Booklist (starred review)
Mr. Fabiano—aka "Mr. Fab"—is popular with his sixth-grade students, but today a substitute is covering his class. Except the substitute never shows up. Instead of reporting the situation, they decide to prove they can run the class by themselves. With...
Mr. Fabiano—aka "Mr. Fab"—is popular with his sixth-grade students, but today a substitute is covering his class. Except the substitute never shows up. Instead of reporting the situation, they decide to prove they can run the class by themselves. With...
4) Flying Solo
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From the twisted mind of bestselling author Wade J. McMahan ("Bite This! A Richard Dick Mystery") comes another hilarious short story. Larry the hairy-legged Fairy gets called up on the carpet by the Queen's representative, Rupert the Low. A meeting of the two minds at a local Bug Bar, however, is about to change the situation. You'll never look at stories about Fairies the same way again!
5) Flying Solo
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Scheduled to receive his aeronautical engineering degree in a few months, Chris is determined to gain a career in aviation as an airline pilot. Then tragedy strikes and every part of his life is changed, including his relationship with the woman he loves. Chris desperately needs explanations. Somehow he finds some answers in the midst of chaos. He learns that difficulty can be a good teacher, but that suffering is often the best teacher. You'll smile,...
6) Solo Vietnam
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French Cajun Aviatrix. A-4 Skyhawk pilot. Vietnam. Nora Broussard dares to earn her wings gaining liberty. Despite the heroics, her heart remains unrequited and broken. When she finds out her star-crossed lover is now free, yet thousands of miles away from New Orleans flying bombing missions in Vietnam, nothing will keep her away. The U.S. government won't let her fly combat in a war zone, so she uses her next best assets – her vamp and her voice....
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Honor, courage, commitment. …a naval aviator's ideals. As an adopted child, Jana Sears grew up believing them. Searching her face in the mirror, she wondered. Where did she come from? What was her true heritage? Was she truly part of the Deep South and her mother's roots? She was born in Texas? Did her birthmother live here? They were questions that had haunted her for thirty years. Terrified to open Pandora's box, but determined to find closure,...
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In 1927, airplanes were a thrilling but dangerous novelty. Most people, men and women, believed that a woman belonged in the kitchen and not in a cockpit. One woman, Ruth Elder, set out to prove them wrong by flying across the Atlantic Ocean. Ruth didn't make it, crashing spectacularly, but she flew right into the spotlight and America's heart. This is the story of a remarkable woman who chased her dreams with grit and determination, and whose appetite...
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Flying Solo and Soaring shares lessons and strategies that have helped Naomi become a lone successful parent. The book focuses on helping you who are walking this journey of single parenting.
Naomi, through the book focuses her skills on helping single parents build an environment that will help them find joy and contentment in parenting alone.
In this book, she also gives you a peek into the depth of her love for the written word in a poem she...
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Chief Inspector Jonathan Solo of the United States Marshals Service has earned quite a reputation for recovering valuable artifacts. So, when a classic Monet painting goes missing from the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department enlists the aid of the famous Jack Solo. But the Chief Inspector finds out that fame comes with a heavy price. It would seem the Aliyev crime syndicate in Russia would like to see him dead.
While...
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A single woman's journey with her twenty-four points of life, this is the tale of the youngest of four raised by quasi-empty nester parents in the fast-growing suburbs of Chicago. Through several political assassinations, a deadly tornado, and absent siblings by the tender age of ten, Anna quickly grew accustomed to a life of solitude and a developing self-competence.
Leading the way as mentors, Anna's three older siblings acted as superb role models...
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Flying Solo Again, is an inspiring and uplifting step-by-step guide, packed with practical tools to support you to move on positively after divorce, separation or a break up. In this book, you are supported to move on happily, healthily and healed from any hurt and pain of your past relationship. You are guided along your journey and shown how to look forward and have faith in your dreams. You will be inspired to believe in yourself and your heart's...
15) Flying solo
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Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.
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A lyrical, poignant middle grade novel about embracing change, accepting help from others, and finding a place to call home. Perfect for fans of Raymie Nightingale. Lizzie St. Claire wants to be invisible. Forced to move out of her home, she and her mom now live in a transitional housing shelter, Good Hope, until they can get back on their feet. Lizzie just wants to keep her head down at Good Hope and her new school, so she doesn't have to admit the...
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Lizzie St. Claire wants to be invisible. Forced to move out of her home, she and her mom now live in a transitional housing shelter, Good Hope, until they can get back on their feet. She just wants to keep her head down at Good Hope and her new school so that she doesn't have to admit the real reason she and her mom lost everything. But when Lizzie finds herself at the nearby Birchwood Stables, some new friends-along with the arrival of a frightened...
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One of the most famous aviators of all time, Amelia Earhart took the golden age of flying by storm! Taking her first flight lesson in 1920, Earhart would go on to set the world altitude record, be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone, and many more feats. Who knows what she could have accomplished if not for her mysterious disappearance while attempting to fly around the entire world in 1937. This incredible history of Amelia Earhart...
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What happens when, long-partnered and no longer youthful, we are suddenly left alone and uncoupled?
Here is a book that embraces the will, the spirit of such a challenge.
Here are stories of how an older man or woman may avoid a barren middle age. Of how to imbue our later years with heft, meaning and delight, self-renewal thick with surprise and discovery.
Here are concerns that grievously affect our burgeoning aging community as most of...
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Arctic Air volume 7
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Bobby and Loreen race to save Caitlin when her first solo flight goes dangerously wrong.
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