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  • The Little Black Book of SINS

    by T.M. Jacobs ...
    Clifford Swanson was not much of a reader but when a strange leather-bound book caught his attention he couldn't resist. It turned out to be about a dark sin he committed. Realizing the book was a curse, he quickly passed it off to Mary Kate Bowman, a complete stranger.She in turn passed the book off to Steven Striker. From there it went to Benjamin Howe, Susan Crass, and Daniel Moss. What sins ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Highest Flyer on Earth - The Life of J.J. Fanning

    by T. M. Jacobs ...
    Series series Our Legacy
    Long before adrenaline junkies and daredevils captivated the world, there were aeronauts—pioneers of the skies who thrilled audiences with their hot air balloon and parachute stunts. History has largely forgotten these fearless performers, who traveled with state fairs and vaudeville shows. However, thanks to the meticulous research of T. M. Jacobs, the daring exploits of aeronaut J. J. Fanning ... Read more

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  • Fly Girls

    How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

    by Keith O'Brien ...
    A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * A Time Best Book for SummerBetween the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Atlantic Fever

    Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

    by Joe Jackson ...
    "A soaring account of the first flight across the Atlantic . . . Lindbergh's flight still astonishes . . . Suspenseful." — The Cleveland Plain DealerFor five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.Joe Jackson's ... Read more

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  • Birdmen

    The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

    by Lawrence Goldstone ...
    From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation.The feud between this nation’s great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Conquering the Sky

    The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

    by Larry E. Tise ...
    The nail-biting account of the Wright brothers' secret flights at Kitty Hawk and their unexpected rise to fameDespite their great achievements following their first powered flights in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright still enjoyed virtual anonymity until 1908. In seven crucial days in May of that year, however, the eyes of the world were suddenly cast upon them as they sought lucrative government ... Read more

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  • The Fun of It

    by Amelia Earhart ...
    Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East to the Dawn

    The Life of Amelia Earhart

    by Susan Butler ...
    Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928. And her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery.Based on ten years of research, East to the Dawn provides a richly textured portrait of Earhart in all her complexity. It's the perfect complement to the October 2009 movie Amelia, starring Hilary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Bishop's Boys

    A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

    by Tom D. Crouch ...
    The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Wright Brothers

    A Biography Authorized by Orville Wright

    by Fred C. Kelly ...
    On December 17, 1903, in a fragile little plane which they had built at home for less than $1,000, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first powered flights in the history of mankind—and opened the Air Age.Why did these two brothers, mechanics by trade, succeed where trained scientists—working with unlimited funds and the backing of great institutions—had repeatedly failed?In this biography, ... Read more

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  • We: The Famous Flier's Own Story of His Life and His Trans-Atlantic Flight Together With His Views on the Future of Aviation

    by Charles Augustus Lindbergh ...
    I was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902. My father was practicing law in Little Falls, Minnesota, at the time. When I was less than two months old my parents took me to their farm, on the western banks of the Mississippi River two miles south of Little Falls. My father, Charles A. Lindbergh, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, January 20, 1860, the son of Ola and Louisa Manson. His father ... Read more

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  • To Conquer the Air

    The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight

    by James Tobin ...
    James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD