National Aviation Week

Updated July 1, 2025
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Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
O'Brien, Keith
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Exhilarating." --New York Times Book Review "Riveting." --People "Keith O'Brien has brought these women--mostly long-hidden and forgotten--back into the light where they belong. And he's...
Area 51 black jets : a history of the aircraft developed at Groom Lake, America's secret aviation base
Yenne, Bill
Paper Book
Area 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension of Edwards...
Falling
Newman, T. J. (Novelist)
Paper Book
''Amazing . . . Intense suspense, shocks and scares plus chilling insider authenticity make this one very special'' LEE CHILD ''FALLING is the best kind of thriller (for me as a reader anyway). Characters you care deeply about. Nonstop, totally authentic suspense'' JAMES PATTERSON<...
Falling
Newman, T. J. (Novelist)
Paper Book
''Amazing . . . Intense suspense, shocks and scares plus chilling insider authenticity make this one very special'' LEE CHILD ''FALLING is the best kind of thriller (for me as a reader anyway). Characters you care deeply about. Nonstop, totally authentic suspense'' JAMES PATTERSON<...
Flight of dreams : a novel
Lawhon, Ariel
Paper Book
"At every page a guilty secret bobs up; at every page Lawhon keeps us guessing. Who will bring down the Hindenburg? And how?" -- New York Times Book Review On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed...
Flying angels : a novel
Steel, Danielle
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * World War II brings together six remarkable young flight nurses, who face the challenges of war and its many heartbreaks and victories as unsung heroes, in this inspiring novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. ...
Flying angels : a novel
Steel, Danielle
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * World War II brings together six remarkable young flight nurses, who face the challenges of war and its many heartbreaks and victories as unsung heroes, in this inspiring novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. ...
The passenger
McCarthy, Cormac
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road * The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding,...
The passenger
McCarthy, Cormac
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road * The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding,...
His Majesty's airship : the life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine
Gwynne, S. C.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a stunning historical tale of the rise and fall of the world's largest airship--and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian Princess at its heart. ...
Fly by wire : the geese, the glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
Langewiesche, William.
Paper Book
In Fly By Wire, one of America's greatest journalists takes us on a strange and unexpected journey into the fascinating world of advanced aviation. From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks, through the creation of the...
The summer skies : a novel
Colgan, Jenny
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan takes us to the gloriously windswept islands of northern Scotland, where we meet young Morag McGinty, who runs the puddle-jumper flights that serve the islands' tiny but proudly feisty population. Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from...
The Wright brothers
McCullough, David G
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks...
The Wright brothers
McCullough, David G
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks...
The Wright brothers
McCullough, David G.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks...
The girl explorers : the untold story of the globetrotting women who trekked, flew, and fought their way around the world
Zanglein, Jayne
Paper Book
Never tell a woman where she doesn't belong. In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that "women are not adapted to exploration," and that women and exploration do not mix. He obviously didn...
The aviator's wife : a novel
Benjamin, Melanie.
Paper Book
"For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of those around her, including her millionaire father and vibrant older sister, who often steals the spotlight. Then Anne, a college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to...
The aviator's wife : a novel
Benjamin, Melanie
Paper Book
"For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of those around her, including her millionaire father and vibrant older sister, who often steals the spotlight. Then Anne, a college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to...

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