Where the Sky Begins

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

In 1929, twenty daredevil women take to the skies in the most dangerous race of their lives. Florence “Pancho” Barnes—heiress, rebel, and the most colorful pilot in America—can outfly, outswear, and outdrive any man. When Hollywood tries to turn the first-ever cross-country National Women’s Air Race into a publicity stunt with movie starlets and their male “mechanics” doing the real flying, Pancho rallies the greatest female aviators of the era to fight back. Alongside aviation legends Amelia Ea