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1) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Airborn adventures volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Cinder spires volume 1
Language
English
Description
An airship's crew become humanity's lone defenders when an ancient enemy reawakens and threatens the world with monstrous creatures and perpetual darkness.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Among the ten films in this section are a transatlantic crossing in a Zeppelin dirigible, a 1925 stencil-colored trek through the Belgian Congo, World War I-era Parisian street kids in Montmartre, a 1916 visit to Los Angeles, a 1927 sound film of pilot Charles Lindbergh embarking on his New York-Paris flight, an early 1930s portrait of New York City's Coney Island, and a promotional film made for Josephine Baker's revue at the Folies-Bergère, Paris....
4) Prudence
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 1
Language
English
Description
After christening her recently bequeathed dirigible, Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama finds herself in the middle of a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and familiar werewolves.
5) Reticence
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
"Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's Custard Protocol series"-- Publisher.
6) Dominion
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Molly grew up hearing the tales of Haviland Stout, her ancestor who discovered the dangerous magical spirits that inhabit the far corners of the world. Now, on the edge of the New World, in the British Dominion of Terra Nova, Molly and her family collect spirits aboard their airship, the Legerdemain. But when Molly captures a spirit that can speak and claims to have been Haviland's friend, her entire life is upended. What if everything she knows...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
Struggling to maintain her professionalism and hide her own agenda on board the Hindenburg, where everyone seems to be keeping secrets, Emilie, a sole female crewmember, interacts with passengers and fellow workers throughout the doomed airship's three-day flight.
Author
Series
Cinder spires volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense...
11) Starclimber
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
Investigates how the Germans used zeppelins as deadly weapons during World War I and experts reconstruct and detonate incendiary bombs and test fire antique flaming bullets to discover how British forces were able to successfully defeat these weapons.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility, recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century, he creates something much bigger: a system of flight that embodies the cutting edge of multiple sciences and...
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