Lady Icarus

Author : Deborah Noyes
Publisher : Random House Studio
ISBN 13 : 0593122038
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Icarus written by Deborah Noyes and published by Random House Studio. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting middle-grade biography about Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to work as a professional aeronaut in France in the late 1700s, set against the thrilling backdrop of early flight. Before Amelia Earhart, there was Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to earn her living in the air. While no one knows the fate of Earhart, a terrified crowd of thousands looked on as French aeronaut Sophie Blanchard met her end in a tragic blaze of glory over the streets of Paris in 1819. But first, Blanchard made nearly 70 spectacular flights, survived a revolution, and become a court favorite of the emperor Napoleon (who gave her the title, "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals") and later of the King of France. Set against the backdrop of the history of flight, watch as Balloonmania-- a phenomenon that riveted all of Europe-- took hold and inspired a great many artists authors, and dreamers. This lively scrapbook-style biography with more than fifty black-and-white photos throughout, introduces a frightened, nervous girl who became a fearless legend in the skies.

Author : Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408846381
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Icarus Girl written by Helen Oyeyemi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and other kids are wary of her terrified fits of screaming. When she is taken to her mother's family compound in Nigeria, she encounters Titiola, a ragged little girl her own age. It seems that at last Jess has found someone who will understand her. TillyTilly knows secrets both big and small. But as she shows Jess just how easy it is to hurt those around her, Jess begins to realise that she doesn't know who TillyTilly is at all.

Author : N. W. Moors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537169392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icarus Rising written by N. W. Moors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his fall to Earth, Icarus has been in Hell, punished for his hubris. When he wins a chance at parole, he's thrilled - except for the set of wings attached to his body. Eve Gregory runs a small bookstore in northern Connecticut. When she hires the handsome stranger to work for her, she doesn't know the secrets he's hiding. Or that becoming involved with him will embroil her with the Greek gods and goddesses. Icarus and Eve must perform a quest set down for them by Zeus. If they are successful, will that be end of their relationship? Or will love teach them a new way to soar?

Author : Jackie Kessler
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553906666
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black and White written by Jackie Kessler and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city’s underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But now playtime’s over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter—a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees—she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that’s been a decade in the making…a plot in which Jet is key. They’re both right. And they’re both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.

Author : Robert Ludlum
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0345539214
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Icarus Agenda written by Robert Ludlum and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado Congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term quietly when a political mole reveals his deepest secret: Kendrick was the anonymous hero who freed the hostages held by Arab terrorists in the American embassy in Masqat, and then silently disappeared. Now, brought into the light, Kendrick is a target, pursued by the terrorists he once outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come, and where the fate of the free world may ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious figure known only as the Mahdi. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Icarus Agenda “[Robert] Ludlum is light-years beyond his literary competition in piling plot twist upon plot twist, until the mesmerized reader is held captive. . . . Ludlum pulls out all the stops.”—Chicago Tribune “[An] intricate story of conspiracies within conspiracies . . . Once you start reading you just can’t stop.”—Library Journal “Readers will be hooked.”—The New York Times

Author : Hiromi Yoshida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646622603
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icarus Burning written by Hiromi Yoshida and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icarus Burning offers a tantalizing glimpse into the post-9/11 world of fallen icons. Out of this ash heap, Icarus is resurrected as the signifier of fluctuating desire-"waxing toward the boiling point on the Hudson horizon."

Author : Margaret de Rohan
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800469683
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Icarus Affair written by Margaret de Rohan and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isn’t it time that young Icarus was rehabilitated? He wasn’t some spoilt attention-seeker; he was just an imaginative kid who wanted to fly. So where’s the harm in that? No harm – just too much hubris.

Author : Deborah Noyes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0763648256
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghosts of Kerfol written by Deborah Noyes and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, an Edith Wharton story inspires five connected tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries. In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs — no live dogs — at Kerfol that day. In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl. Four more tales slip forward in time, peering in on a young artist, a hard-drinking party girl, a young American couple, and a deaf gardener who now tends the Kerfol estate. All these souls are haunted by the ghosts of Kerfol — the dead dogs, the sensual yet uneasy relationships, and the bitter taste of revenge.

Author : Lindie Naughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901658385
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Icarus written by Lindie Naughton and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427595
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Pepys written by Claire Tomalin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language. Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepys’s early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys’s singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death.