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Vendor: Susan Hood
Lifeboat 12
In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella by Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy's harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II. With...- $12.99
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Vendor: Eric Martin
Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass
During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about...- $41.99
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Vendor: Veronica O. Davis
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the United States face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change....- $35.99
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Vendor: Shannon Hale
Things That Go
From bestselling and award-winning Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn creators, author Shannon Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham, Things That Go is an original concept board book showing young Kitty-Corns things that race, fly, pedal, paddle, and go.Teeny-tiny mini-moo Kitty-corns will read with you. Pitter-patter fast and slow...- $25.99
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Vendor: Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Mystery on the Train: Volume 51
The Boxcar Children love exploring the train, watching the beautiful scenery from the observation car, and eating in the dining car. But the train ride gets really interesting when they meet a young woman who has had something very valuable stolen from her. Can...- $9.99
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Vendor: David K. Randall
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
Equal parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their better-funded European...- $49.99
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Vendor: David K. Randall
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
Equal parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their better-funded European...- $45.95
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Vendor: Tyler A. Pitrof
Too Far on a Whim: The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy
In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy's commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof's research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the Imperial Japanese Navy, the...- $45.95
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Vendor: Tyler A. Pitrof
Too Far on a Whim: The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy
In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy's commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof's research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the Imperial Japanese Navy, the...- $39.99
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Vendor: Peter S. Goodman
How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
One of Foreign Policy's ""Most Anticipated Books of 2024""Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain--exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to...- $41.99
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Vendor: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Houseboat Mystery (Library Edition): Volume 12
The Aldens are spending the summer traveling on a houseboat Throughout their journey, the children have the feeling that they're being watched. Someone is watching them -- and the thing that he wants is somewhere on their boat He'll stop at nothing to get...- $16.99
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Vendor: Peter S. Goodman
How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
One of Foreign Policy's ""Most Anticipated Books of 2024""Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain--exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to...- $51.99
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Vendor: David Gibbins
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships...- $45.95
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Vendor: David Gibbins
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships...- $55.99
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Vendor: Marcus Rediker
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Author: Marcus RedikerISBN-10: 8200141748ISBN-13: 9798200141746Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2007Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.35w x 0.55d- $41.99
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Vendor: Ian Fleming
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car
"Crackpot" is what everybody calls the Pott family. So when they go to buy a new car and come back with a wreck, nobody is surprised--except for the Potts themselves. First, the car has a name, and she tells them what it is Then...- $19.95
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Vendor: Amanda M. Fairbanks
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as "an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story."In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat...- $39.99
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Vendor: David Marantz
The Killing Zone, 2nd Edition Lib/E: How and Why Pilots Die
This survival guide for new pilots identifies the pitfalls waiting inside the killing zone, the period from 50 to 350 flight hours when they leave their instructors behind and fly as pilot in command for the first time. Although they're privately certified, many of...- $71.99
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Vendor: Robert Penn
It's All about the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Author: Robert PennISBN-10: 8200082857ISBN-13: 9798200082858Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2012Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Houseboat Mystery: Volume 12
The Aldens are spending the summer traveling on a houseboat Throughout their journey, the children have the feeling that they're being watched. Someone is watching them -- and the thing that he wants is somewhere on their boat He'll stop at nothing to get...- $9.99
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Vendor: John Lancaster
The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
The incredible, untold story of the men who risked their lives in the first transcontinental air contest--and put American aviation on the map. The Great Air Race reclaims one of the most important moments in the history of American aviation: the transcontinental air race...- $46.99
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Vendor: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Caboose Mystery: Volume 11
When the Aldens spend the summer riding on a train, they get to live in a train car once again - this time, they're staying in Caboose No. 777. The number is hard to forget, and indeed, the children meet people at each stop...- $9.99
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Vendor: Lev Grossman
The Silver Arrow
"I loved every page. This is middle grade fiction at its best."-- Ann PatchettFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians comes a must-read, wholly original middle-grade debut perfect for fans of The Chronicles of Narnia and Roald Dahl. Dear Uncle...- $35.00
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Vendor: Michael J. Tougias
A Storm Too Soon (Young Readers Edition): A Remarkable True Survival Story in 80-Foot Seas
When a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream in the throes of a disastrous storm, it leaves behind three weary passengers struggling to stay alive. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the four intrepid Coast Guardsmen who...- $31.95
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Vendor: Alvin Hall
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked...- $46.99
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Vendor: Louise Hawes
Big Rig
Hitch a ride with eleven-year-old Hazmat and her dad in their eighteen-wheeler, Leonardo, for a feel-good road trip across America that keeps on trucking!Life on the road with Daddy is as good as gets for Hazmat. Together, they've been taking jobs and crisscrossing the...- $36.95
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Vendor: David Hanna
Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism
The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. In the same year...- $41.99
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Vendor: Wendy Tremont King
Auto Repair for Dummies: 2nd Edition
Get the skills to maintain your car like a pro! Want to handle basic auto repairs yourself? This easy-to-follow guide gives you the nuts and bolts of diagnosing trouble and performing maintenance and repairs on your vehicle. You'll explore each system and keep everything...- $57.99
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Vendor: Edward T. O'Donnell
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
Author: Edward T. O'DonnellISBN-10: 1665241802ISBN-13: 9781665241809Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: Tom Magliozzi
Car Talk: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Father When It Comes to Cars
Author: Tom Magliozzi, Ray MagliozziISBN-10: 1665171308ISBN-13: 9781665171304Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2001Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs- $41.99
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The Best and the Second Best of Car Talk
Author: Tom MagliozziISBN-10: 1665170913ISBN-13: 9781665170918Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2002Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: Tom Magliozzi
Car Talk Classics: Four Perfectly Good Hours
Author: Tom Magliozzi, Ray MagliozziISBN-10: 1665167319ISBN-13: 9781665167314Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2007Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.40lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: Oscar Munoz
Turnaround Time: Uniting an Airline and Its Employees in the Friendly Skies
Go behind the scenes with the CEO who led United Airlines' remarkable turnaround. Around the world and around the clock, the people of United Airlines are locked in a struggle against time to ensure your aircraft lands and takes off for another flight safely...- $41.99
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Vendor: Oscar Munoz
Turnaround Time: Uniting an Airline and Its Employees in the Friendly Skies
Go behind the scenes with the CEO who led United Airlines' remarkable turnaround. Around the world and around the clock, the people of United Airlines are locked in a struggle against time to ensure your aircraft lands and takes off for another flight safely...- $46.99
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Vendor: Alvin Hall
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked...- $41.99
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Vendor: Christina Delaine
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, twenty-first-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and...- $41.99
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Vendor: S. C. Gwynne
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a "captivating, thoroughly researched" (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world's largest airship--and the doomed love story between an ambitious...- $34.99
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Vendor: Dean King
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--brilliantly retold for a new generation Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads,...- $40.00
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Vendor: Fitzroy MacLean
A Person from England
The legendary cities of Turkestan--Merv, Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand--have long exerted a romantic fascination upon Western travellers. During the last century, men of many nationalities have played what they and their contemporaries have called "The Great Game"--travelling throughout Central Asia. The author revives memories...- $9.99
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Vendor: David McCullough
The Wright Brothers
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,...- $24.99
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Vendor: Michael Fabey
Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers
An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy.Tip the Empire State Building onto its side and you'll have a sense of the length of the United States...- $46.99
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Vendor: Joan Druett
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Author: Joan DruettISBN-10: 1799992519ISBN-13: 9781799992516Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2016Format: CD- $13.99
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Vendor: Judi Barrett
Pickles to Pittsburgh: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2/ Book and CD [With Book(s)]
The delicious sequel to the bestselling Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is brought to life in this interactive book and CD package. In Pickles to Pittsburgh, the sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Kate drifts off to sleep and, with her...- $10.99
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Vendor: Alfred Lansing
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away...- $19.95
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Vendor: Michael Smith
The Voyage of the Southern Sun
Michael Smith spent 20 years restoring Melbourne's beloved Sun Theatre and becoming one of Australia's last independent cinema operators. He then set off on a rather different journey: to become the first person to fly solo around the world in an amphibious plane. With...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jeff Speck
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
"Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work." (David Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker)Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable - for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment -...- $14.99
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Vendor: David Marantz
The Killing Zone, 2nd Edition: How and Why Pilots Die
This survival guide for new pilots identifies the pitfalls waiting inside the killing zone, the period from 50 to 350 flight hours when they leave their instructors behind and fly as pilot in command for the first time. Although they're privately certified, many of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Lev Grossman
The Golden Swift
The thrilling sequel to #1 NYT bestselling author Lev Grossman's The Silver Arrow, in which Kate and Tom confront the limits of what even magic can do. A lot has changed for Kate in a year. She and Tom are now full-fledged conductors of...- $35.00
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Vendor: Walter Lord
A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
Over one hundred years ago, the mightiest "unsinkable" ship began her maiden voyage to cross the Atlantic. An engineering feat eleven stories high, the Titanic contained a list of passengers collectively worth $250 million when she left port on April 10, 1912, but she...- $19.95
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Vendor: Ian Fleming
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
"Crackpot" is what everybody calls the Pott family. So when they go to buy a new car and come back with a wreck, nobody is surprised--except for the Potts themselves. First, the car has a name, and she tells them what it is Then...- $19.95
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