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I came to the Tombs to tend to the dead. I left the Awakening Ceremony with four dragons that were never supposed to wake. Seven years I’ve worked the deep levels of Dragonfall Academy — feeding dragons, cleaning roosts, tending the memorial fires where no one else will go. Ground crew. Invisible. The daughter of a dead war hero with calloused hands and nothing to her name but a uniform that smells like dragon musk. The whispers started when I was a child. Voices in the Tombs, pressing against my mind like grief that isn’t mine. I learned to ignore them. I learned to keep my head down...

Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series. Meet Orville and Wilbur Wright: two ordinary brothers with an extraordinary dream. In a world of horse-drawn carriages, the Wrights want to take to the skies. This is the true story of how their creativity...

Saylor's goals have always involved the literal kind constructed from posts and netting. Her single-minded focus has cost her a lot, but it's also earned her recognition as the top female college player in the US. She doesn't get attached. Meeting Adler Beck, the notorious player celebrated worldwide and coveted by women everywhere, challenges her indifference. But Saylor perfected the art of appearing unbothered a long time ago, and her scoring percentage is even higher off the pitch. Might as well add a gorgeous German to the tally.

Rejoin Boyd where you left him as he walks the road of building the strongest Hero team humanity has ever known. Boyd celebrates his recent victory with Silver and Kitsune as Glorith City celebrates him as the Hero he'd given up on being seen as. After several years of either being stuck in a lab or remanded to domestic responsibilities, he is more than ready to see some more action. It's what he was raised for, after all.

A prosecutor about to try the trial of his career and a hard-luck hairstylist meet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on a Friday night, on their way to visit significant others in Florida. Michael and Juliana have a lot riding on this weekend as they try to repair relationships strained by distance. When they discover they’re on the same flight home, they agree to meet up again to compare notes about how their weekends unfolded.

I've always wanted to be a chef. But the same day two pink lines showed up on the test, was the day I gave up chasing my own dreams to put my daughter first. I didn't expect that to lead to a life of being scrutinized by my parents for every single move I made. After years of it, I was done. I caught the first flight to New York. I was already filled with nerves before we even took off until a stranger with an infectious smile, heartbreaker blue eyes, and a personality that can light up anyone's life, took the seat next to me.

Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series. Meet Orville and Wilbur Wright: two ordinary brothers with an extraordinary dream. In a world of horse-drawn carriages, the Wrights want to take to the skies. This is the true story of how their creativity...

He worked to bring to the world the freedom of flight, freedom from the limitation of Bondage. Her work and her assistance was monumental and her love made all the difference—for 37 years. He made the first flight and both brothers were in love with her. The definitive story of how they fought the government for decades—and won. A brief history of aviation for the first part of the 19th century.

In 1924, three years before Lindbergh flew to Paris, four young army airmen answered the call of General Billy Mitchell to save US aviation from destruction by the politicians by winning the race with a dozen other nations to make the first flight around the world. In primitive open-cockpit biplanes powered by unreliable engines and few airfields, they were given little chance of success or even survival.

When itinerant lawman Ray Tatum's quick visit to the North Carolina Outer Banks is complicated by a homicide, Ray gets hired to help track down the killer and finds himself locked into a winter at the shore. Fortunately for Ray, the seaside desolation suits him right down to the ground. First In Flight is one of six Ray Tatum novels. They were written to be read in no particular order.

“David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes who had the right stuff before anyone knew what that was.” — Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13...

What if you met the love of your life and he wasn't your husband? An AusRom Today People's Choice Award winner that will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty, viewers of Offspring, The Good Wife and movies like Up in the Air. Mel is living the dream. She's a successful GP, married to a charming...

One clear Tuesday morning the skyline changed and a nation’s sense of safety snapped. Planes became instruments of murder, radio chatter turned into a new kind of command, and ordinary routines dissolved into smoke, ash, and improvisation. This is an account of that morning told close to the ground—sights, sounds, stairways, and the human choices that turned victims into actors. The Day of 9/11 moves hour by hour from the first strike to the long policy aftershocks: the firefighters who climbed toward heat, passengers who chose to fight, the Pentagon hit, the laws and wars that followed...

In the next nature-filled romance by Birding with Benefits author Sarah T. Dubb, a journalist shadows a prickly wildlife rehabilitator as they gain the trust of a wary hawk, all while trying—and failing—to keep things professional. Wildlife rehabilitator Katrina Harrison prefers animals to...

When siblings Finn and Tula discover they have dragon magic flowing through their veins, they are both frightened and librated. But with the powers of dragonkind comes a desperate quest: they must travel to a hidden island fortress to help save their father and the world they know. It is only during this quest do they discover the truth about their incredible fireblood heritage.

Pippa’s mischievous little brother gets them both into hot water when his imagination gets away with him and they end up aboard a flying machine high above London. When the invention falters, she must use her problem-solving skills and think quickly to get them both safely home! What would you do if you were in her shoes?

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—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 of North Carolina, two...

I need a vacation. Yes, me, Bryn O'Riley, assistant to the assistant architect who had to sell a kidney (just kidding, Mom) in order to make this solo trip to Florida happen. Nothing will derail my plans—the ones I’ve carefully typed out and laminated.

Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R...

"Discover the gripping tale of Project Mercury, America's inaugural manned spaceflight initiative that launched humanity into the cosmos. Fueled by Cold War competition and national pride, Project Mercury symbolizes a remarkable collaboration among NASA, government agencies, and American industry. This program pushed the boundaries of human achievement, from the bustling launchpads of Cape Canaveral to the vastness of space. Beginning with the urgent race to put a man into orbit and safely return him to Earth, Project Mercury unfolded with unprecedented speed. NASA achieved what typically ...