Books with title Last Flight

A tragic explosion results in the death of over 200 airplane passengers. Was the explosion caused by pilot error, or was it a conspiracy? Pilot Cathalene (Lena) Penn, accused by the airline of being a smuggler, died in the tragedy, and her wife, Jessica is desperate to clear Lena’s good name. When Jessica travels to Belgium, her wife’s home away from home, she discovers diamonds, a second family, and a mystery…Sometimes, choosing between what is safe and what is right isn’t easy, and running away is always an option…Flight!

"Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." These courageous words, written by Amelia Earhart in a letter to her husband, comclude her own dramatic and personal story of the historic flight in 1937 that ended with her tragic disappearance somewhere in the Pacific. As though by presentiment, as she completed each stage of the flight she sent back not only dispatches and personal letters, but her diaries, charts, and the running log that she lept in the4 cockpit. This material, later arranged by her husband, George Palmer Putnam, forms a continuous narrative of the flight, from the unpublicized take-off at Oakland, California, to the final preparations at Lae, New Guinea. Earlier, autobiographical chapters recount how Amelia Earhart came to be a pilot and describe her other history-making flights. Together, these writings reveal the essence of the sunny, candid, adventurous young woman whose name still holds a magic appeal.

From the beaches at Kitty Hawk, Keegan Crawford tinkers inside his rundown scooter shop. A teenager who barely finished high school, Keegan runs the business and looks after his ailing father.While Keegan laments his all-around bad luck, he resents his sister Katharine, who left the family during its hardest time to attend college in Ohio. Keegan's only hobby, and only friend, is his invention—an incredible flying scooter. As business slows and the Crawfords struggle to make ends meet, Keegan labors frantically in the back of the shop, desperate to finish his creation and make the amazing scooter fly. But his limited aeronautical knowledge, mounting financial pressures and continued family turmoil threaten his success. Like everything else in Keegan's life, it seems like his invention is destined to fail.Until the Brothers arrive.Wilbur and Orville Wright, the great inventors of the airplane, fly into Kitty Hawk to lend the Crawfords a hand. With their exhaustive attention to detail, unmatched technical expertise, good humor and impeccable style, the famous Wright Brothers have the best chance of anyone in history to set Keegan on the right course and help the Crawford siblings reconcile.If they don't drive him crazy first, the Wright Brothers might just be able to help Keegan Crawford take flight…

This pop-up book of aircraft will take readers up, up and away, with fascinating facts and interactive fun on every page. Lift the flaps and pull the tabs to trace the history of flight. Open the gatefold pages to reveal a 65-cm-long pop-up airport. Packed with maps, diagrams and ingenious mechanisms, this is the ultimate book for aspiring aviators!

Wings, witches, wayward friends, and weird parents – Emma Briar has been put through the wringer. Bombarded with fresh heartache over her boyfriend Conley’s unusual dilemma, she spends every waking moment seeking answers from a confusing and elusive supernatural underground. Snags in Emma’s quest chip away at her armor as weeks become months and months become a battle to simply stay afloat. Creatures in the murky depths are counting on this … creatures that have planned something more atrocious than Emma could ever imagine.How much can be taken from someone before they break? In the anticipated sequel to Fight, Emma’s worst nightmares beat her down relentlessly in a brutal test of strength and spirit. When every path reaches a dead end and the only way out will require a level of sacrifice far beyond the scope of a teenage girl, there might not be a way out after all. There might never have been a way out of this.

This title contains 100 years of airborne innovation and adventure for aviation fans - in a new compact edition. From the Wright brothers' first powered flight, to Concorde's final voyage and the tragic crash of the Columbia, take a sky-high journey through the history of aviation. Charting the trailblazers, jet test pilots and constant progress at the cutting-edge of technology, every aspect of flight is explored. Recalling memorable events - record-breaking flights, aerial warfare and terrorist hijackings - this is the story of how man's dream to fly became a reality and central to modern history. It is endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

**#1 KINDLE (US) BESTSELLER IN ADVENTURE LITERARY FICTION (NOV. 2013)** One day she is Linda Farley, a senior in a San Diego high school, with a talent for art, an annoying younger brother, two loving parents, and a prospective boyfriend. Three days later, she is Lainie Foster, hiding with her mother and brother in Olympia, Washington. That's how fast things change after Linda's mother tells her that her father has been caught by the feds in a Mafia money laundering scheme and that the rest of the family has been placed in the Witness Protection Program. By the rules she's given, she must stay out of school, cut off contact with anyone back home, and never tell anyone what has happened. Linda -- now Lainie -- does her best, but in navigating her new life, she faces a number of questions. How could her father do something so contrary to her image of him? Why is her mother so familiar with their new city? How can she pursue a career in art without going to school? What must she do to save her brother from the worst effects of the upheaval? And who is that dark-haired woman she keeps spotting in front of the house? Then there's the biggest question of all: Is she Linda or is she Lainie? Because, in the end, is the choice really anyone's but hers? ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Anne L. Watson, a retired historic preservation architecture consultant, is the author of numerous novels, plus books on such diverse subjects as soapmaking and baking with cookie molds. A former resident of Olympia, Washington -- the main setting of "Flight" -- she currently lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband and fellow author, Aaron Shepard. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE "Lainie," Mom said, her voice a little gentler, "we have to follow the rules, whether we like them or not." "The rules are nuts, Mom," I protested. "Like making us keep our old initials. So the Mafia is too stupid to check the passenger lists for trains and planes leaving Southern California? You think they won't look for two A.F.'s and an L.F. with one-way tickets to the same place?" Mom moved to the right to let a tailgating Jeep speed ahead. "That's one reason we're splitting up," she said. "WITSEC has never lost anyone who followed the rules," she said. "WITSEC?" I yelped. "Who the hell is that?" "The Witness Security Program. That's its other name." Sheesh. WITSEC. Like the FBI was such a buddy, we needed to give them a nickname. My face itched, and I rubbed it hard. "Don't do that," Mom said. "You'll rub off your makeup." "It feels like dirt. I don't know how you put up with it." "You get used to it. Especially when you have more important things to worry about." Well, we had that, in spades. I'd just dumped someone I really wanted to go out with. I wouldn't be going to art school next year, because that's what Linda Farley would have done. I had to be someone else, probably forever. Compared to that, grease all over my face really was a detail. I gave up and quit talking about it. Whining wasn't going to do any good. Mom kept quiet too, watching the traffic. In the front seat, Alan sang some dumb song from a TV kids' show, over and over. But, as Mom had said, I had more important things to worry about. We took the Alameda Street exit and pulled into the train station. "What are you going to do with the car when you get to the airport?" I asked. "Leave it in a parking lot with the window down and the keys in the ignition." Even the Mafia wouldn't have a chance if she did that. The locals would have that car in a chop shop faster than the Godfather could blink.