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1) Flight plan
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When all technology breaks down and he's far from home, thirteen-year-old Jamie learns he's stronger (and braver) than he thought he was in this dystopian adventure. Thirteen-year-old Jamie's plane is just taking off when something goes terribly wrong. The lights go out, communications halts and the engine stops. After a bumpy landing, Jamie realizes it's not just his flight. All the other planes have been grounded too. And every car on the road has...
6) The great American transit disaster: a century of austerity, auto-centric planning, and white flight
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"One of the most enduring American urban myths concerns the death of the Red Car Trolley, an extensive and equitable system in Los Angeles County that some say was weakened and then eradicated by US car manufacturers. Yet as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows, an array of larger yet less tangible forces together interacted to practically murder public transportation of all kinds in cities nationwide. Most centrally, public transit collapsed because essentially...
Pub. Date
2019
Description
In The Hurricane within we travel with United States Coast Air Medal recipient Ashlee Leppert through sudden reassignments that take her into the heart of Hurricane Harvey with all of its disaster and triumphs. Along the way, scars from the past resurface as Ashlee battles with mysterious physical symptoms that appear with more frequency. Ashlee Leppert's love of the water drove her to join the coast guard and serve her country. As a "non-rate"...