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Air pilots Air pilots United States Biography Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937 Indians Transatlantic influences Ireland Fiction Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1902-1974 Suspense fiction Transatlantic flights Transatlantic flights Fiction Transatlantic flights Juvenile literatureMcCann, Colum.
Summary: In the National Book Award--winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called "an emotional tour de force." Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013
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McCann, Colum
Summary: Newfoundland, 1919: Aviators Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Dublin, 1845 and '46: On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause. New York, 1998: Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCSummary: By the middle of the 19th-century, a network of telegraph poles strung across America had changed the way the country did business. But communicating with Europe was another matter. Messages to London were sent aboard sailing ships, taking up to several weeks to reach their destination. Though the need for a transatlantic cable was obvious, the physical challenges to laying one were enormous....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the Victorian Age, women could not access higher education. Instead, Fuller schools in the hothouse of her father's devotion. She absorbs the classics and learns Latin, Greek, French, Italian and German. Already accomplished authors, Fuller and Emerson shape the transcendentalist musings of Thoreau, Ripley, and Bronson Alcott. As she enters elite salon life, Fuller delivers sheer genius and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARMcCann, Colum
Summary: A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCBrinnin, John Malcolm
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.8243 BENHayes-McCoy, Felicity
Summary: To cheer up her recently widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald, visiting from Canada, persuades Lissbeg Library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the US town of Resolve. But when the club chooses a detective novel, old conflicts on both sides of the ocean are exposed and hidden affairs come to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction HAYHayes-McCoy, Felicity
Summary: Distance makes no difference to love ... Eager to cheer up her recently-widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald persuades Lissbeg library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the little US town of Resolve, where generations of Finfarran's emigrants have settled. But when the club decides to read a detective novel, old conflicts on both sides of the ocean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYJacobovici, Simcha
Summary: "From the writers behind the acclaimed documentary series Enslaved (starring Samuel L. Jackson), comes a rich and timely narrative of the true global and human scope of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade existed for four-hundred years, during which twelve million people were trafficked, and almost two million died at sea. Throughout this journey we meet the remarkable group, Diving With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 JACSummary: Aviators Alcock and Brown, who made first transatlantic flight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1919
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Dell'Olio, Mario.
Summary: "Letters from Italy is a story of true love that spans an ocean. Against all odds, an orphaned girl and a young dreamer find solace in a romance sparked by a single photo and years of transatlantic letters. From a tiny Italian town in pre-WWII to New York City in her golden age, hopeful immigrants take a chance at living the American dream. Set on the Puglian coast, a world comes alive with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2022
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Contents: Galaliyam / El Guaranguito (5:04) -- Leyla (4:56) -- Endim Bulag Bashina / Son de Mayari (5:19) -- Wind from inside (6:23) -- Sari Gelin / Evocacion ancestral (6:51) -- Dilin jan ichindedir (3:50) -- Mahur tesnifi (8:29) -- From the music of Uzeir Hacibekov / Tristeza (6:01) -- Ay beri bakh / Paloma, quiero contar te (7:04) -- Cerca o lejos de tu piel / Gozelim Sensen (7:45) -- Mehobetin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kirkelig Kulturverksted 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN KERBurleigh, Robert.
Summary: An account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J629.1309 BURBurleigh, Robert.
Summary: Describes how Charles Lindbergh achieved the remarkable feat of flying nonstop and solo from New York to Paris in 1927.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.1309 BURDodds Pennock, Caroline
Summary: "A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 PENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 PENFeldman, Victor
Contents: Four -- The gypsy (alt. take) -- Get up -- Stomp -- Wail -- Ballad medley: Together ; Darn that dream ; I surrender, dear ; I've lost your love -- Wailing wall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jasmine 1958
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ FELFollett, Ken.
Summary: On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain declares war on Germany, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southhampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built - the Pan American Clipper - bound for New York. The passengers include a fascist English aristocrat fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels; a German scientist escaping from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLGraham, Ian
Summary: A skilled mechanic in 1930s Germany is offered a job on the most magnificent airship ever built, the Hindenberg. But dangers from flammable gas, storms and lightning are there. Follows the airship as it bursts into flame and investigates the cause of the disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 LINLindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
Summary: Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic solo flight in 1927.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 LINWoods, Stuart
Summary: Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in NYC, but he is asked to transport top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off, unaware of what he is bringing with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOBak, Richard
Summary: "The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero. The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 BAKBurrows, Russell (Russell E.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Superior Heartland 1992