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Sometimes the planes don't fly on time.
Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O'Hare airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: he starts to write a letter. But what begins as...
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"Love takes flight in three connected novellas set at an airport, from the acclaimed author of The Fastest Way to Fall. An airport pet groomer meets her frequent-flier crush and ends up in a fake-dating situation with a professional risk assessor who moonlights as a romance author. Two strangers share a romantic night together only to discover months later that they're professional rivals about to embark on an extended business trip together in this...
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Smith, an airline pilot, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know about air travel. From how planes fly, to the real story on congestion and delays, to a provocative look at terrorism and security, it's a personal look into the strange and misunderstand world of commercial flying.
12) Turbulence
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145 pages ; 23 cm
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"A stunning, virtuosic novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world.' --amazon.com.
Twelve flights, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha. Passengers and crew, en route to see lovers or estranged siblings, aging parents, baby grandchildren, or nobody at all. Along the way, they experience...
13) Fly high, Katie!
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Katie is flying to Florida to visit her grandmother, but she has never been on an airplane before.
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xii, 354 pages ; 24 cm
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Journalist and consumer advocate William J. McGee offers an exposé on the "friendly skies." From outsourced call centers in India to the Alabama location where all lost baggage ends up, McGee traveled around the globe immersing himself deep into the world of commercial airlines. He interviewed countless industry insiders--pilots, TSA security screeners, FAA inspectors, legislators, the CEOs of the major carriers, Ralph Nader, and even the disgruntled...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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In this bilingual story, a boy and his family fly from the city to the country to visit his grandmother.
En este cuento bilingüe, un niño y su familia vuelan de la ciudad al campo para visitar a su abuela.
16) Fly
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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"Get ready to take off in an airplane! Ground crew, flight attendants, pilots, and tower control are all here to help you journey across the sky. For first-time flyers eager to earn their wings or experienced flyers curious about who controls the plane, Fly shows readers the entire process that helps a plane climb high into the air and then land safely at its destination."--Page [2] of cover.
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216 pages ; 22 cm
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Eighteen-year-old "music god wannabe" Sari Silver gets stranded in an airport with her cheating ex-boyfriend on the way to Spring Break in Florida.
After Sari caught her boyfriend Zev cheating on her, their romantic Florida vacation was ruined. She can't get back to NYC soon enough. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has different plans. Sari's stuck at the airport for hours. With Zev! Another stranded passenger suggests a connecting flight to Boston....
18) Interlude
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Flying to New York to talk her estranged birth mother into donating a kidney to her younger sister, eighteen-year-old Mia Cox forms an unexpected connection with her seatmate, a famous rock band's runaway lead singer.
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Anita watches the dragons high above her as she hops from one cement roof to another in her village in the Dominican Republic. But being the valiant princesa she is, she never lets them scare her. Then one day, Anita must face her fears to begin a new life in a new country. Will she be brave enough to enter the belly of the beast and take flight to new adventures?
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"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engage sordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another...
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