Amelia Earhart Books.

Underwood. This pictorial volume presents the rich history of Grand Central Air Terminal from 1923, when it was known as the Glendale Airport, onward. You'll see the first paved runway west of the Rockies; the first scheduled transcontinental passenger service, which was flown out of Grand Central by Charles Lindbergh, with Amelia Earhart among the passengers; the Army Air Corps training center created at Grand Central after the Pearl Harbor attack; and more. 128 pages, approximately 195 B&W photographs, 6"x 9", soft cover.
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Schipske. By 1920, when Amelia Earhart attended Earl Daugherty's air circus and then took her first airplane ride with Long Beach Poly High graduate Frank Hawks, Long Beach, California, was already a key part of the Golden Age of aviation.
This photo-history examines that early aviation in Long Beach, showing you balloonists and stunt pilots in the 1900s, the first non-beach airfield operated by Daugherty, Earhart flight instructor John Montijo, and more. 128 pages, approximately 200 B&W photographs, 6"x 9", soft cover.
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Dunmore. "A gifted storyteller." - Toronto Star. This book tells the thrilling story of the daring aviators whose exploits caught the public's imagination during the Golden Age of aviation, from early flyers such as Louis Bleriot, Maurice Farman, A.V. Roe and Harriet Quimby to glamorous and visionary aviators such as Charles Lindbergh, Alcock and Brown, Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Howard Hughes and a host of others. 328 pages, B&W photographs, 6"x 9", hardcover.
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Larkins & Reuther. This amazing compendium of flight explores float planes, military aircraft, balloons, blimps, gliders, races, air shows and the unique aspects of the Bay Area that have made it critical to the growth of aviation, from the Dole Race and Amelia Earhart's circumnavigation attempts to the NACA/NASA Research Center and the Boeing School of Aeronautics. 128 pages, 150+ B&W photographs, 6"x 9", softcover.
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Jones. Courageous aviators challenged and conquered the great ocean. The Dole Race, flight of the Southern Cross, Sir Kingsford-Smith, Pan Ams flying  boats, and Amelia Earhart. If the Atlantic was tough, the Pacific was tougher  yet. A comprehensive volume. 245 photos. 256 pgs., 8½"x 11", hardbound.
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Haynsworth & Toomey. In 1942, with war raging on two fronts and military pilots  in short supply, the U.S. Army Air Force enlisted over 1,000 women to fly  non-combat missions totaling more than six million miles. Yet when WWII ended,  their heroism was left unheralded. In 1961, thirteen women from the "Women in  Space" program passed the same rigorous tests as the Mercury astronauts -  only to have their hopes dashed. Here is a well-deserved salute to the intrepid  young women who answered the call of their country to risky duty in perilous  times. 322 pgs., 5¼"x 8", Hardbound. 
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Ryan & Selznick. "This outsize black-and-white picture book boldly introduces  listeners and readers to two larger-than-life American heroines, Amelia Earhart  and Eleanor Roosevelt, and dramatically recreates an impromptu flight that they  made together over Washington, D.C. in April of 1933. A Parents' Choice  Recommendation." - Parents' Choice. Ages 4-8. 40 pgs., 10¼"x 12¼", hard bound
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Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism. Susan Ware. A fascinating  biography of one of the most intriguing women of modern history. In it, Ware  recovers the parts of Earhart's life that have been obscured by the emphasis on  her disappearance. Setting her in her place and times, Ware speaks of the  woman who set aviation records, who endlessly promoted the ability of women  to enter any and all professions, who served as a dynamic role model because of  her charm and spirit. Ware's portrait of Earhart is of a woman we all need to rediscover. 292 pgs., 5½"x 8¼", soft bound.  #0003696
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Is the Mystery Solved? King, ed. Can science tell us what really happened to  Amelia Earhart? Researchers have spent fifteen years searching using archival  research, archaeological survey, side-scan sonar and more. Book offers  evidence that Earhart and her navigator landed on an uninhabited island but died before they could be rescued. Do they have Amelia's shoe? Come join their  fascinating expedition and examine the evidence for yourself! 256 pgs., 6¼"x  9¼", Hardbound.
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While considerable controversy still surrounds the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937, there is no question that Amelia Mary Earhart was one of the great pioneers of American aviation.

Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897

Amelia Earhart was the daughter of a railroad attorney.

Amelia exhibited an adventurous spirit at a young age, and was able to travel extensively with her parents.

In 1918 at the age of twenty-one, Amelia Earhart witnessed a flight demonstration in Toronto, and this inspired her to take a course in engine mechanics. Three years later she was in New York City studying medicine at Columbia University when she had the opportunity to take her first airplane ride to California.

Immediately she decided to learn to fly, and she remained in California where she obtained a pilot's license in 1921.

During the next few years Earhart worked at many jobs in many locales, but her true love was flying. 

Amelia was the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic in 1928, and the fame this generated allowed her to direct her attention at attempting other record-breaking fetes.

Amelia met George Putnam during this time, and he supported her flying efforts. They married in 1931.

In 1932 Amelia became the first woman to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic flying a Lockheed Vega.

Months later she became the first woman to completed a solo flight from Los Angeles to New York.

In January, 1935 Her next major record came when she completed a solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in a little over 18 hours.

Next in 1936 Amelia Earhart was appointed to the faculty of Purdue University which provided her a Lockheed Electra as a flying laboratory. Having access to the Electra allowed Amelia to begin planning her dream flight, an around the world crossing as close to the equator as possible.

In March of 1937 Amelia embarked on an around the world trip in a westerly direction, but her aircraft was damaged on take off from Hawaii. In June a new route going in an easterly direction, starting from Miami, was mapped out by her navigator, Fred Noonan. Departing on June 1, 1937 Earhart arrived in Lae, New Guinea some 22,000 miles and 146 flying-hours later. The next leg of this record setting trip would cover 2,500 miles over the Pacific with the intended destination being the tiny Howland Island.

When Amelia Earhart and Noonan failed to arrive, a massive search commenced, which was abandoned in mid-July. Presumably lost at sea, the nation mourned the loss of one of its heroes.

The last flight in detail of Amelia presents the various theories about her fate. Among them are that she was on a spy  mission for FDR, that she was captured by the Japanese, that she is alive and well on a South Seas island, and that she crashed in Saipan where she and navigator Fred Noonan were beheaded!

In a Stan Stokes painting entitled Lady Pioneer, Amelia's beloved Model 10E Electra is depicted next to the aviator's Cord automobile. This aircraft was delivered to Earhart in 1936. It was powered by twin 550 HP Wasp S3 H 1 engines, and was equipped with extended range fuel tanks, giving the craft a maximum range of 4,000 miles. The Electra was returned to Lockheed's plant in Burbank in 1937 for repairs following the accident in Hawaii. A new right wing was fitted, and repairs were made to the center fuselage and landing gear. The Civilian Aviation Administration officially canceled the registration of Earhart's NR16020 in July of 1938, approximately one year after her disappearance.

In 1942, with war raging on two fronts and military pilots  in short supply, the U.S. Army Air Force enlisted over 1,000 women to fly  non-combat missions totaling more than six million miles. Yet when WWII ended,  their heroism was left unheralded. In 1961, thirteen women from the "Women in  Space" program passed the same rigorous tests as the Mercury astronauts -  only to have their hopes dashed.

1997 will mark the 100th anniversary of Earhart's birth and the 60th anniversary of her disappearance.

Florence "Pancho" Barnes, who became the first female stunt pilot in Hollywood in 1929, shattered Amelia Earhart's air speed record in 1930, and, in the 1940s and '50s, entertained the best test pilots in the world at her "Happy Bottom Riding Club" ranch (which was immortalized in the Tom Wolfe book The Right Stuff) near Edwards Air Force Base.