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Author : Stephen Coonts
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312877242
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Glorious Wings written by Stephen Coonts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories and excerpts from world-renowned authors celebrating the airplane and aviation.
Author : Stephen Coonts
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9780765348050
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Glorious Wings written by Stephen Coonts and published by Forge Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Coonts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785558899931
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Glorious Wings written by Stephen Coonts and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Coonts has collected some of the finest fiction about flying in one volume. "On Glorious Wings" contains stories and excerpts from world-renowned authors.
Author : Gregory Crouch
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 034553235X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book China's Wings written by Gregory Crouch and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe. With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas—the infamous “Hump”—pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history. A hero’s-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London, China’s Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world.
Author : Karen Feldman
Publisher : America Star Books
ISBN 13 : 9781456083526
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glorious Wings written by Karen Feldman and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Simonetti
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647420474
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sound of Wings written by Suzanne Simonetti and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a USA TODAY BEST-SELLER, The Sound of Wings is a masterfully crafted tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and the risks we take in the pursuit of justice. Seventy-year-old Goldie Sparrows faces declining finances, questionable health, and a late husband who torments her from the beyond. She seeks refuge in her butterfly garden, which is filled with voices and memories from long ago. Jocelyn Anderson is a struggling writer who finds escape from her custody battle in the journal of her late mother-in-law. As she gets pulled through the pages of time, Jocelyn discovers her own husband has a hidden history she knows nothing about. Is this secret now Jocelyn’s to keep? Krystal Axelrod is living a life she never dreamed she could have. And yet the demons of a dysfunctional childhood and mean girl culture from her cheerleading days cast their shadow over her ability to feel whole, capable, and worthy. Does Goldie hold the key to Krystal’s path to freedom?
Author : Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698175247
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Invention of Wings written by Sue Monk Kidd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved. Please note there is another digital edition available without Oprah’s notes. Go to Oprah.com/bookclub for more OBC 2.0 content
Author : Rosalinda Serna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977914798
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glorious Wings written by Rosalinda Serna and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily the Caterpillar, is anxiously awaiting her wings. Soon, she is one of the only caterpillars left in 1st grade. Waiting is difficult, but it's our attitude while waiting that makes all the difference.
Author : Gloria Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473548087
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Angels' Wings: My Flight from Trauma to Grace written by Gloria Masters and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary powerful story of Gloria's journey from darkness into light is one of hope, resilience and the unrelenting power of the human spirit to survive .It's June 1960 and in middle class suburban NZ, a child was born into sex slavery. For the first sixteen years of her life Gloria suffered horrendous sexual, physical, and psychological abuse at the hands of her father, with no one to protect her. From the underworld of her father's paedophile ring to the groups he trafficked her to, she found an inner strength and a light that shone so brightly, her mind was the one thing that could not be destroyed. Experienced through the eyes of a child, on Angels' Wings will forever highlight the way we deal with child abuse, shining a light on this darkness, and challenging us not to assume that every child is safe. One voice speaking out is all it takes to save a life.
Author : David Elliott
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763693022
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Wing written by David Elliott and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a variety of birds in this illustrated educational introduction to birds.
