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The story of the jet age of aviation revolves around remarkable geniuses-including Sir Frank Whittle, the British inventor of the jet engine; Hans von Ohain, a German jet engine designer who comes to work for the U.S.; famed aeronautical engineer Kelly Johnson; the daring test pilot Tex Johnston, and many more-brilliant men who conceived these early extraordinary airplanes and had the courage to fly them to new horizons.
Roaring Thunder blends real...
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The jet age began in 1939 with the brief hop of a secret German airplane. Seventy years later, the entire world depends upon the jet engine in every sphere - political, military, economic, and social. In Hypersonic Thunder, Walter Boyne weaves an intricate story of how the jet engine changed aeronautics and astronautics, pushing the frontiers of flight forward and permitting humankind to enter the space age.
Drawing on his knowledge of the period,...
3) Justice
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Russell Blake
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2013
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English
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JET VI - Justice continues the saga of the former Mossad operative as she battles to survive in a world intent on destroying her. From the streets of Argentina to the corridors of power in Moscow, her past continues to haunt her even as she flees it.
4) Ops Files
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Russell Blake
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2014
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An international terrorist out for blood.
A remote island where a warlord is the law.
In a world of ruthless killers, death is the ultimate penalty for failure.
JET - Ops Files chronicles the early years of a damaged young woman named Maya, who must make an impossible choice: life in prison, or become the Mossad's deadliest operative - the assassin known as JET.
From the West Bank to Jordan to Singapore to Indonesia,
...5) Sanctuary
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Russell Blake
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2014
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JET - Sanctuary picks up where JET Justice left off, with Jet, Matt and Hannah on the run in South America, trying to evade enemies from their past who are determined to exterminate them. From Chile to Rio to Argentina to Moscow, the action never lets up as Jet battles to save her loved ones.This is the seventh novel in the JET series. The suggested reading order is:JET - Ops Files (prequel)JETJET - BetrayalJET - VengeanceJET - ReckoningJET - LegacyJET...
6) Escape
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Russell Blake
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2015
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After a harrowing escape from a gun battle at a hilltop Colombian monastery, Jet must risk it all in order to evade pursuers as they hunt her and her loved ones across South America.
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Russell Blake
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2015
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Jet's peaceful existence in Kosovo is shattered when unexpected enemies surface to settle old scores and make her pay in blood. Spanning the globe from Russia to Syria to Romania to Washington, nothing is as it seems, and her adversaries will stop at nothing to destroy her and the new life she, Matt, and Hannah, have built.
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Russell Blake
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2015
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JET - Ops Files, Terror Alert picks up the story of Maya, the operative who would become Jet, on her first mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she must race the clock to stop a terror attack that would change the world order.From a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author.
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Ready Jet Go! volume 108
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Beep Has the Blues - Beep is sad because her sister rover on Mars, Boop, is sick and can't move. Celery flies the kids out to Mars to try to help and discover the problem - that Boop's solar panels have been covered in dust. Chore Day - Jet learns what ch
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Ready Jet Go! volume 105
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How Come the Moon Has Craters? - The kids take a trip to the Moon and learn that falling asteroids probably created all the craters on the Moon's surface! Backyard Moon Base - Led by Sydney, the kids build a moon base in Jet's backyard and use their imagi
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Ready Jet Go! volume 110
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More than One Moon - Mindy is shocked to learn that there is more than one moon in the solar system. Celery flies the kids out to Mars so they can see what its two moons look like compared to ours. Visit to Mom's Office - Sean and Sydney take Jet to meet Sean's mom, a scientist, at the Deep Space Array. She explains that they're looking for stars with their own systems of exoplanets to detect if there might be any that contain life. But will taking...
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Ready Jet Go! volume 109
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A Kid's Guide to Mars - Celery and Carrot need to update their guidebook about Mars, and the kids join them on a trip to see how much things have changed on Mars in the last four billion years. Jet 2 - Jet builds a robot version of himself, so that he can
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Ready Jet Go! volume 107
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Mission to the Moon - Sean tells Jet, Sydney, and Mindy about the Apollo 11 mission, and the kids decide to do a real-life reenactment of man's first mission landing on the Moon! Mindy's Moon Bounce House - Jet gives a special birthday gift to Mindy that
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Ready Jet Go! volume 104
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Just the Right Distance From the Sun - Sean explains to the others that Earth is a "Goldilocks" planet because it's not too hot and not too cold. When Celery takes the kids to space, they observe how the other planets don't have the right attributes to su
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Ready Jet Go! volume 106
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How Come the Moon Changes Shape? - When Jet, Sydney, and Sean have a hard time trying to explain the phases of the Moon to Mindy, Jet's parents, Celery and Carrot, offer to fly them out to space so they can see how the Moon changes shape depending on pers
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Ready Jet Go! volume 103
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Round and Round - The kids learn how all the planets both orbit around the Sun and rotate on their own axes at the same time. The Plant From Bortron 7 - Jet attempts to grow a seed from his home planet, but the light from our Sun is stronger than the ligh
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Ready Jet Go! volume 101
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Tour of the Solar System - Jet attempts to play the "Solar System" game with Sean, Sydney, and Mindy, but the kids don't quite understand which planets go where. Celery, Jet's mom, takes them on a tour of the solar system and introduces each of the eight
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Ready Jet Go! volume 102
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How We Found Your Sun - Jet explains how his family, the Propulsions, found Earth by way of the Sun, a star in the Milky Way galaxy. Celery takes the kids out into space and shows them how the Sun looks huge, or small like other stars, depending on your p
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