Flying On Borrowed Wings

Author : Chandra Prasad
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743297830
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Borrowed Wings written by Chandra Prasad and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adele Pietra has heard her mother say that her destiny is carved in the same brilliantly hued granite her father and brother cleave from the Stony Creek mine: she is to marry a quarryman. But when Adele's brother, Charles, dies in a mining accident, Adele sees the chance to change her life. Enrolling at Yale as Charles, Adele assumes his identity -- and gender -- as a way to leave behind her mother's expectations and the limitations of her provincial Connecticut town. To her own surprise, hair chopped and chest bound, Adele falls in naturally with a lively crew of undergraduates: the Jewish Harry Persky with his slick Manhattan know-how, the quiet and mysterious legacy student Phineas, and the lanky, charismatic Wick. And in many ways, Adele faces her freshman year at Yale as would any undergraduate boy: she dreads invasive PE examinations and looks forward to dances, experiments with cigarettes and reads the classics. Through her work with a questionable eugenics professor and her friendship with a local Italian family, Adele confronts her class and ethnicity as never before, all the while fearing that both her crush on Wick and her mother's well-meaning interventions will put an end to her delicate masquerade. One part social history, one part comingof-age tale, On Borrowed Wings is an impeccably researched first novel that transports us to 1930s Yale, showing us around through the eyes of an unlikely, appealing female narrator.

Author : Dan R. Arman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951178017
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying On Borrowed Wings written by Dan R. Arman and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warriors don't always win, and good does not always prevail in a world of war and bloodshed.

Author : Regina Puckett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781479206247
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Wings written by Regina Puckett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby Dragon wants to fly more than anything else in the world, but his head is too big, his stomach is too round and his wings are too small. Mother Dragon is more than happy to let him borrow hers. Borrowed Wings is a story about the circle of life, and how eventually, we all need help from someone else.

Author : Cynthia Dougherty
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059519592X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Wings written by Cynthia Dougherty and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The back of the same woman looking up at the sky You can't believe what you're seeing. This woman has a pair of wings attached to her back Above her is the saying I wrote that is on the last page of my manuscript.

Author : Michelle Rebidoux
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666734853
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Thing Is Longing written by Michelle Rebidoux and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over a period of approximately twenty years, the poems in this collection are unified in a single theme—the experience of longing. The poems explore multiple expressions of longing—longing for love, for personal relationship, for youth, for beauty, for creativity, for the divine, for transcendence, for immortality—which are explored through the generous use of symbolic (sometimes theological) language, and often through images of nature. The ultimate “thesis” of the book is that while longing serves as the potency to carry one along the road of one’s spiritual journey, it is also the last thing that must be let go of in order to reach one’s destination—the last thing to be sacrificed before the heart is able to trust and to open to transcendent joy.

Author : Rinsai Rossetti
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101575441
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl With Borrowed Wings written by Rinsai Rossetti and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly written tale of an isolated girl and the shape-shifting boy who shows her what freedom could be--if only she has the courage to take it Controlled by her father and bound by desert, Frenenqer Paje’s life is tediously the same, until a small act of rebellion explodes her world and she meets a boy, but not just a boy--a Free person, a winged person, a shape-shifter. He has everything Frenenqer doesn’t. No family, no attachments, no rules. At night, he flies them to the far-flung places of their childhoods to retrace their pasts. But when the delicate balance of their friendship threatens to rupture into something more, Frenenqer must confront her isolation, her father, and her very sense of identity, breaking all the rules of her life to become free.

Author : Erica Jong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143107356
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear of Flying written by Erica Jong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking deluxe edition commemorating the 40th anniversary of Erica Jong’s groundbreaking classic Before Hannah from Girls, Anastasia Steele from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, there was Isadora Wing, the uninhibited, outspoken protagonist of Erica Jong’s revolutionary novel. First published in 1973, Fear of Flying caused a national sensation, fueling fantasies, igniting debates about women and sex, and introducing a notorious phrase to the English language. Forty years later, Isadora’s honest and exuberant retelling of her sexual adventures—and misadventures—continues to provoke and inspire, and stands as an iconic tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood. With provocative cover art by illustrator Noma Bar, this special fortieth-anniversary edition will introduce a new generation of women to Jong’s pioneering novel. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Richard Douthwaite
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550924761
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleeing Vesuvius written by Richard Douthwaite and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 was a turning point in human history because it ushered in an era in which economies will tend to shrink rather than grow. Incomes will decline becausethe natural resources required for growth — particularly oil, the lifeblood of the world economy — can no longer be extracted in growingquantities. Indeed, as this book shows, the financial crash itself was due to an irresistible force — the rising global demand for cheap fossil fuels — meeting an immoveable object — a static supply. Fleeing Vesuvius is a collection of 27 essays by well-known international authors, all leading thinkers in their fields. Luminaries such asDavid Korowicz, Richard Douthwaite, Nate Hagen, Dmitry Orlov and Dan Sullivan weave together the threads of peak oil, resource depletion, economicinstability, and climate change and offer far-reaching solutions including: Concrete strategies for personal adaptation Workable models of self-reliant local communities Frameworks to support international action on financial and economic reform Timely, practical and fundamentally optimistic, Fleeing Vesuvius is a must read for anyone concerned with reducing our risk of environmental and societal collapse.

Author : Jane Elson
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444916785
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Fly with Broken Wings written by Jane Elson and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If Finn Maison shouts jump you jump or you are dead.' Twelve-year-old Willem has two main aims in life: to fly and to make at least two friends of his own age. But all the other boys from the Beckham Estate do is make him jump off things. First his desk - and now the wall. As his toes teeter on the edge, Sasha Bradley gives him a tiny little wink. Might she become his friend? Bullied by Finn and his gang the Beckham Estate Boyz, Willem has no choice but to jump. As he flies through the air he flaps his arms, wishing he could fly and escape into the clouds. Instead he comes crashing down and breaks his ankle. Sasha, angry with herself for not stopping Finn and his Boyz, is determined to put things right. And soon, while the gangs riot on their estate, Willem and Sasha form an unlikely friendship. Because they share a secret. Sasha longs to fly too. And when Magic Man Archie arrives with stories of war-flying spitfires, he will change the lives of the kids on the Beckham Estate for ever. And perhaps find a way for Willem and Sasha to fly ... Touching on themes such as friendship and bullying, this is a charming tale about overcoming obstacles and finding friendship in unlikely places. 'heart-rending, heartbreaking and heartening' The Best New Children's Books Guardian Supplement

Author : William D. Miller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252018237
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretty Bubbles in the Air written by William D. Miller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: