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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With everyone onboard harboring dark secrets and at least one person determined to make sure the airship doesn't make the return trip, Flight of Dreams gives an utterly suspenseful, heart-wrenching explanation for one of the most enduring mysteries of the twentieth century. On the evening of May 3, 1937, Emilie Imhof boards the Hindenburg. As the only female crew member, Emilie has access to the entire airship, from the lavish dining rooms and passenger...
2) Airborn
Author
Series
Matt Cruse volume 1
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
355p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
3) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Matt Cruse volume 2
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
4) Starclimber
Author
Series
Matt Cruse volume 3
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
Author
Series
Carmer and Grit volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after saving the faeries of Skemantis, magician's apprentice Felix Carmer III and his faerie companion, Grit, head out to see the world. They soon come across a mysteriously magical flying circus. As they get to know the outlandish world of Rinka Tinka's Roving Wonder Show, it becomes clear there's something not quite normal about this circus or its inventor-and that recent airship disasters plaguing nearby Driftside City may have a sinister...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pixel+Ink, an imprint of TGM Development Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (8 hrs) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thievery at twelve thousand feet.
Hoping to intercept the Mauve Moth before they execute their next great heist, Inspector Toadius McGee and his protege John Boarhog book passage on the H.M.R.A.S. Bouteille--a luxury cruise liner airship. But alas, there will be no clear skies ahead. A committee from the Society of Sleuths is also aboard, ready to put John through his first trial to gain full membership, despite Toadius's objections.
Furious with...
Author
Series
I survived volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants. Each...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The tragic story of the British airship R101-which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later-has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half...