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Escape at 10,000 feet

D.B. Cooper and the missing money
2021
A minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the United States uses reproductions of FBI files and investigation photographs to chronicle the events surrounding an unidentified extortionist's 1971 hijacking and disappearance.

September 11th Attacks

2021
Readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the September 11th Attacks.

Escape at 10,000 feet

D.B. Cooper and the missing money
Presents the unsolved case of a man, known as D.B. Cooper, who hijacked Northwest Airlines flight 305 on November 24, 1971, and extorted the airline out of $200,000.

Skyjacked

Five teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy are on their way back to New York from an end-of-summer camping trip in Idaho when they realize that something has gone wrong; one of them has become violently ill, and their private plane has apparently been hijacked and is headed in the wrong direction--and even if they can somehow break into the cockpit and manage to overpower the hijacker, they have no idea how to fly the plane, much less land it.
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Survivor

a novel
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a death cult, recounts his life story as he flies all alone in an airplane that is set to crash.
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Pitch dark

2019
Tuck Durante, a shipraider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream.
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Pitch dark

Tuck Durante, a shipraider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream.
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Surviving 9

Focuses on terror attacks that struck America on September 11, 2001, and describes U.S. anti-terrorism efforts and stories of survival and recovery.
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Girl on a plane

This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970.

The D. B. Cooper hijacking

Learn about the only unsolved case of air piracy in the United States.

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