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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--a struggling painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the tragedy and the...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
291 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"Nando Parrado regained consciousness to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as family members and supporters, had crashed deep in the Andes. Many were dead or dying, among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a glacier at nearly 12,000 feet, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search...
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
It is the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home. Four decades after the tragedy, a climber...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world?s leading pediatric cardiologists."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
11 CDs (12.2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hailed as a, "novel so extraordinary that it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the very first time" (Sunday Times), a near-million copy bestseller in Europe-centered on a tragic plane crash in the Alps and the mystery surrounding its only survivor, an infant girl.A night flight from Istanbul bound for Paris, filled with 169 holiday travelers, plummets into the Swiss Alps. The sole survivor is a three-month-old girl-thrown from the plane onto...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The only thing worse than finding out that your husband is dead is discovering the secrets he left behind. Annabel's seemingly perfect ex-patriate life in Geneva is shattered when her banker husband Matthew's plane crashes in the Alps. When Annabel finds clues that his death may not be all it seems, she puts herself in the crosshairs of powerful enemies and questions whether she really knew husband at all. Meanwhile, journalist Marina is investigating...
10) Nowhere on Earth
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emily and her little brother Aidan are onboard a plane bound for Anchorage. When the plane crashes, both kids and the pilot barely escape with their lives and are left to fight for survival in the Alaskan wilderness. But there is worse to come - Emily and Aidan are being chased, and their shady, unknown pursuers are closing in. As the kids go on the run, Emily finds herself in greater danger than she could have imagined. Because nothing...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
272 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and his struggles with constant fear in the face of his father's thrill-seeking personality, his forced participation in dangerous ski and surf sports, and his efforts to survive a plane crash that killed his father and stranded him in the Gabriel Mountains.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 242 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Random hearts: An internal affairs sergeant and a Congresswoman become entangled in a shocking mystery and an unexpected romance after their spouses are killed in a plane crash together.
Hanover Street: An American bomber pilot falls in love with a British nurse, and then must escort her husband on a mission behind enemy lines.
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