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Island Of Wings
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Author : Karin Altenberg
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-12-27
Island Of Wings written by Karin Altenberg and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-27 with Fiction categories.
A dazzling debut novel of love and loss, faith and atonement, on an untamed nineteenth-century Scottish island. Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of extreme hardship and unearthly beauty. Everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie when they arrive at the St. Kilda islands in July of 1830. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie-bright, beautiful, and devoted-is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life at the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and babies perish mysteriously, their marriage-and their sanity-are soon threatened.
Island Of Wings
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Author : Karin Altenberg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-03-31
Island Of Wings written by Karin Altenberg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-31 with Fiction categories.
Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. 1830. Neil and Lizzie MacKenzie, a newly married young couple, arrive at the remotest part of the British Isles: St Kilda. He is a minister determined to save the souls of the pagan inhabitants; his pregnant wife speaks no Gaelic and, when her husband is away, has only the waves and the cry of gulls for company. As both find themselves tested to the limit in this harsh new environment, Lizzie soon discovers that marriage is as treacherous a country as the land that surrounds her.
The Wings Of The Morning
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Author : Louis Tracy
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2014-07-01
The Wings Of The Morning written by Louis Tracy and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Fiction categories.
Heading into a typhoon in the South China Sea, the Sirdar is on a course that will forever change the life of one of its most spirited and attractive passengers, Iris Deane. When the ship breaks in two on a barrier reef, the young woman is pulled to safety by Robert Jenks, a sailor who is more than he seems. The shipwreck’s only survivors, the two find themselves washed ashore on a desert island, where they encounter untold adventures and a blossoming romance. First published in 1903, The Wings of the Morning is an exciting tale of perils from storms, sharks, and head-hunting island natives. It is also a tale of attraction, as a modest young woman and her mysterious rescuer are drawn together by adventure and circumstance. More than 50 years before action-adventure films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Louis Tracy wrote novels teeming with the kind of thrills that make the heart race. The Wings of the Morning is a prime example. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Island Queen
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Author : Vanessa Riley
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Island Queen written by Vanessa Riley and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Fiction categories.
“Riveting and transformative, evocative and immersive...by turns vibrant and bold and wise, discovering Dorothy’s story is a singular pleasure.”--The New York Times A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free Black woman who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent. Vanessa Riley’s novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England. From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of London’s elite, Island Queen is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenth-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history.
A Pair Of Silver Wings
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Author : James Holland
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-04-04
A Pair Of Silver Wings written by James Holland and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with Fiction categories.
______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward Enderby has never spoken about being an RAF fighter pilot. But fifty years after the greatest conflict the world has ever seen, he must finally confront the memories he has tried so hard to forget. From the bright skies over England in 1941, through the dark days of the Siege of Malta, to a bitter partisan struggle in Italy, his takes a momentous journey that will change him forever. And despite the damage the war has wrought, Edward has one last chance to save himself from his past...
The Island Of Missing Trees
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Author : Elif Shafak
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-28
The Island Of Missing Trees written by Elif Shafak and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Fiction categories.
A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
Island Wings
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Author : Cecil Foster
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-08-20
Island Wings written by Cecil Foster and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-20 with Fiction categories.
As a baby, Cecil Foster was left sobbing in the arms of his aunt as his mother departed Barbados to follow his father to a new and supposedly better life in England. What was supposed to be a short separation for Cecil and his two brothers ¬ their parents promised to send for the boys once they were settled ¬ turned into a 23-year absence that profoundly affected Cecil's outlook, and his life. In our hearts, we would never really forgive our mother for abandoning us. And I would never outgrow the urge to take wings and fly away from what was supposed to be a tropical paradise but what was really an emotional prison for me, a symbol of my biggest separation and rejection. I always wanted to live like my parents: in a foreign country, struggling to be a success, to send back home word that I had completed all the dreams that for generations forced young men and women out of the Caribbean. Island Wings is Cecil Foster's deeply affecting story of growing up in a country that was, at the same time, also struggling to find its own independence and place in the world. It is a story guided by the universal truths of heart, mind, and money: where a young boy is raised by an impoverished and physically abusive grandmother, a woman stretched to the limit by trying to raise her own children and grandchildren; where parents routinely leave their children behind for the dream of a better life off the island; where an education provides the slender thread of hope for a job in the civil service or hospital. Despite its setting of poverty and struggle, Island Wings is a story bursting with life and the rhythms of the island, of a young boy's memories of nights spent under a star-filled sky, of cricket games and of a teacher who dared children to dream and think. Cecil Foster's story is also the story of Barbados, politically and economically volatile as it reached for independence from British rule. As a young news reporter, Cecil Foster witnessed the awakening political climate within the Caribbean nations, and his eventual departure from Barbados is inexorably intertwined with the island's turmoil. A story that will ring true for many new Canadians, as well as for anyone who has ever searched for themselves and their rightful place in their family and their world, Island Wings is an evocative and rewarding story. Praise for Cecil Foster “He shows the brave characters of West Indian women as no one else has.” — E. ANNIE PROULX on No Man in the House
Island Wings
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Author : Cecil Foster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Island Wings written by Cecil Foster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Authors, Canadian categories.
Wings
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Author : Danielle Steel
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 1995-09-01
Wings written by Danielle Steel and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-01 with Fiction categories.
From a house on the edge of her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, the child Cassie O'Malley would sneak into the night to look at the planes sitting shimmering in the moonlight. Her World War I veteran father, Pat, wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless, red-haired daughter. But it was Cassie who had the gift. Ever since she could remember, Cassie felt the pull of getting in a cockpit and taking to the skies. Observing all the while was her father's junior partner, Nick "Stick " Galvin, a fellow war ace and airborne daredevil. Nick would become her confidant and best friend, willing to break all the rules to teach her to fly, knowing that the greatest gift he could give her was the freedom of flying. When California entrepreneur Desmon Williams sees Cassie in a local airshow, he invites her to California where she breaks new ground as a test pilot. Soon Cassie's record-breaking flights make her a media darling. Drawn by Desmond's plans for her to break Amelia Earhardt's records, but determined to avoid her mistakes, Cassie trains for the remarkable journey around the world. From public appearances to press conferences, easily used by both her husband and the press, Cassie realizes that there is more to life than making headlines. Risking her life, pushing herself to her limits, she decides to chart her own course and pursue her own destiny, whatever it costs her. Wings is set in a time of constant change, when the world was on the brink of war and the skies were filled with adventurers, a time when courage and daring forever changed modern-day aviation.
House Documents
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
House Documents written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.