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Tracing the hundred-year history of aviation in Texas, aviator and historian Barbara Ganson brings to life the colorful personalities that shaped the phenomenal
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Gus never imagined himself a parent at thirteen. But in the war-fraught summer of 1942, while living on his grandparents' Vermont farm, he adopts a clutch of or
Taking Wing
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Pages: 344
Authors: Pat Shipman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-15 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hid
God Save Texas
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The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the m