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Amelia Earhart: Never in Man's Shadow    by Daniel Alef
Price: $1.49 USD. 1480 words. Published on October 19, 2009. .

Biographical profile of Amelia Earhart. Earhart’s disappearance has mesmerized the American public ever since her fateful around-the-world flight in 1937. However, the public’s fascination with Lady Lindy began long before her disappearance as she ventured into what was an almost exclusively male domain: airplanes and flight, flaunting convention with panache. This is her story.
Riders of the Wind    by Robert DeBurgh
Price: $2.99 USD. 219020 words. Published on May 24, 2011. .

Riders of the Wind is a fascinating tale of romance and adventure in the pioneering world of aviation. The story follows the lives of Charlie and Doretta Cross through the exciting skies of 1930s America, through the prohibition era, the formation of the infant airlines, and ultimately to the mystery of the Amazon jungles. This is the first novel of the epic “Riders of the Wind” series.
AN AMERICAN SAGA - Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire    by Robert  Daley
Price: $5.99 USD. 232210 words. Published on June 30, 2011. .

Juan Trippe, first and last aviation tycoon in history—Roosevelt called him a “Yale educated gangster”--learned to fly in World War I. In 1927 Pan Am had one 90 miles route. By 1935 at great risk Trippe’s flying boats regularly crossed the Pacific. Buying up or driving out of business anyone who got in his way, he built Pan Am into a colossus that dominated the world.
Tabloid America: Crimes of the Press: An EJE Original    by Edward  Jay Epstein
Price: $2.99 USD. 3750 words. Published on August 7, 2011. .

Edward Jay Epstein, who has established new standards of investigative press criticism in his books News From Nowhere, Between Fact and Fiction and Myths of the Media, now turns to the tabloidization of the mainstream media in America. In Tabloid America: The Crimes of the Press he describes the tacit partnership between media and perpetrators in four media-proclaimed “crimes of the century."
Beneath His Wings: The Plot To Murder Lindbergh    by Mark Granato
Price: $7.99 USD. 71910 words. Published on October 7, 2011. .

When Charles Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis” lifted off from Long Island on May 20, 1927, the world held its breath. His goal: be first to fly from New York to Paris. But the drums of war are beating again in Europe. His success will embarrass Germany and they are determined to sabotage him. Can the Allies protect him – and crush a German plot to seek revenge against America?
Sleeping Dogs: A true story of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping    by Michael Foldes
Price: $4.99 USD. 37780 words. Published on February 21, 2012. .

A deathbed confession. A gun encased in concrete. And the possibility both could have kept Bruno Richard Hauptmann from going to the electric chair for the kidnap and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. When journalist Michael Foldes hears the story of an upstate NY family who could have known the killers, he teases out details in the 80-year-old case that plausibly point to Hauptmann's innocence.