Sundowner Of The Skies

Author : Mary Garden
Publisher : New Holland Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781760793838
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sundowner of the Skies written by Mary Garden and published by New Holland Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oscar Garden was a pioneering pilot who embodied the daredevil spirit of the golden age of aviation when he successfully flew from London to Sydney in 1930 with only 39 hours of previous flying experience. This largely forgotten feat forms the centrepiece of Mary Garden's powerful biography, which situates Oscar's public exploits in his unhappy private life, and her own troubled memories of a distant father."--backcover.

Author : Maurice Gee
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459623789
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plumb written by Maurice Gee and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destructive in his utter self-absorption. What personal...

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States... written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Garden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646896984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Serpent Rising written by Mary Garden and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Mary Garden abandoned a promising academic career to spend seven years in India at the feet of such gurus as Rajneesh, Sathya Sai Baba and an enigmatic yogi in the Himalayan jungle - Swami Balyogi Premvarni. The Serpent Rising is her own story of the heaven and hell she experienced as she fell under the spell of self-appointed 'god-men'. What was thought to be a passing fad of the 1960s and 1970s has not disappeared. People still search for something better, and still surrender their minds and bodies to gurus and yoga teachers. The #MeToo movement has exposed countless men guilty of sexual harassment and assault. Now #MeToo is shaking the yoga world and gurus who claim to be enlightened, but who are in fact sexual predators. Most of their groups are sex cults. Recent documentaries such as Wild Wild Country (Rajneesh/Osho), Yogi, Guru, Predator (on Bikram Choudhury) and The Vow (Keith Ranierre, Nxivm) shine a light on how easy it is to fall under the spell of these charlatans.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2152 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rick Phelps
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469188473
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book While I Still Can... written by Rick Phelps and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely does one get an opportunity to experience the nightmare that is Alzheimer's Disease from the perspective of the person who has been stricken with it. In his book, "While I Still Can," Rick Phelps, the founder of "Memory People," an online Alzheimer's and dementia support group, changes all of that. Diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease in his 50's, Rick decided it was time the veil was lifted. Throughout this book the reader is given a firsthand account of: the early signs that Rick experienced, the loneliness he felt during the denial period of family and friends, the terror that gripped his heart upon receiving the undeniable diagnosis and, after the diagnosis, how he and his loved ones have learned to cope with this mind robbing and fatal disease. A real page turner, "While I Still Can," affords an uncommon glimpse into the world of memory loss, while at the same time it tells the story of love, commitment, faith and courage in the face of a catastrophic disease.

Author : Mark William Sheehan
Publisher : New Holland Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781760793807
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathing Through a Straw: The Remarkable Story of a Father Who Would Stop at Nothing to Keep His Son Alive....and His Son Who Refused Against Al written by Mark William Sheehan and published by New Holland Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathing through a Straw is a memoir of a father's fight to do absolutely everything to save his son's life. On the day of our son's birth, my wife and I had unknowingly granted Cody a death sentence. He has the worst genetic combination of Cystic Fibrosis genes, delivered to him by his genetic family tree. A many-generational Molotov cocktail that would kill him. We wouldn't learn this until our son was 6 months old. When Cody Sheehan was 6 months old his parents Mark and Bridget received the devastating news that they had given their smiling baby boy a genetic death sentence in the form of cystic fibrosis. They were terrified to learn that, at the time, a child with cystic fibrosis would be lucky to survive to their teenage years. The family's world was turned upside down and they were set on a path to find new treatments and support the efforts to find a cure, all while trying to give Cody as normal a childhood as possible. With good humour and emotion Mark Sheehan tells a story familiar to anyone with a loved one battling a chronic and life-threatening illness: its impact on all family members and the constant cycle of medications, therapies, treatments, and hospitalisations. For sufferers like Cody, every breath required to stay alive was like breathing through a straw. Following successful transplant surgery Cody is something of a miracle--living a full life in his thirties. Cody and his story provide living, breathing hope for others with cystic fibrosis. For Cody and for his fellow 'cystas' and 'fibros, ' the next best thing to a cure is hope.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Burge
Publisher : Dyslexic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780369379641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tank Water written by Michael Burge and published by Dyslexic Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Brandt didn't look back when he got away from his rural hometown as a teenager. Now he has returned to Kippen for the first time in twenty years because his cousin Tony has been found dead under the local bridge. The news that Tony has left him the entire family farm triggers James's journalistic curiosity - and his anxiety - both of which cropped up during his turbulent journey to adulthood. But it is the unexpected homophobic attack he survives that draws James into a hunt for the reasons one lonely Kippen farm boy in every generation kills himself. Standing in the way is James's father, the town's recently retired top cop, who is not prepared to investigate crimes no-one reckons have taken place. James must use every newshound's trick he ever learned in order to uncover the brutal truth.

Author : Maurice Gee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plumb Trilogy written by Maurice Gee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Megand Sole Survivorto set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zealand Fiction Award and the Wattie Book of the Year Award. Megcontinues the family story with George Plumb's daughter, articulating her personal battles against a backdrop of family traumas and world wars. Sole Survivorfocuses on the career of Duggie Plum, Plumb's grandson, as seen through the eyes of his cousin Raymond Sole, who sharpens the story of his own doomed marriage against that of his relationship to Duggie.