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Author
Series
Publisher
Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Earning a flight instructor certificate (CFI) is extremely challenging and involves an immense amount of training, studying, preparation, and dedication. With the national pass rate for first-time flight instructor applicants hovering around 20%, the Practical Guide to the CFI Checkride provides thorough preparation to flight instructor applicants, and significantly increases their chances of success on the CFI checkride. Written in "plain language,"...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Rio Nuevo Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It was billed as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road. It was a highway of commerce, both legal and illicit. It was traveled by vacationing families and serial killers, truck drivers and celebrities, vagabonds and gangsters, the weary and the wicked. It was the hunting grounds of criminals and the battlegrounds of racial violence and gangland strife. This was Bloody 66.
Author
Publisher
Mach 1
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
"This is not a story of the making of the SR-71, nor is it a technical digest of the many intriguing facts and figures about the plane. Instead, this book is one man's view of what it was like to fly the world's fastest jet. .... This is a love story too, because I could not fly this plane and not love it. I have purposely avoided certain specifics throughout the text, because they are not the focus of this story. The reader won't find secrets revealed...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.