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The Long Flight Home
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Author : Alan Hlad
language : en
Publisher: A John Scognamiglio Book
Release Date : 2019-06-25
The Long Flight Home written by Alan Hlad and has been published by A John Scognamiglio Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with Fiction categories.
A USA Today Bestseller Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan—loyal, intelligent, beautiful—but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather’s desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, young crop-duster pilot Ollie Evans decides to join Britain’s Royal Air Force. His quest brings him to Epping and the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert mission to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Many will not survive. Those that do will bring home crucial information. Soon a friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when his plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. Yet Duchess will become an unexpected lifeline, relaying messages between Susan and Ollie as war rages on—and proving, at last, that hope is never truly lost. “Hlad adeptly drives home the devastating civilian cost of the war.” —Booklist
Long Flight Home
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Author : Lainie Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Long Flight Home written by Lainie Anderson and has been published by Wakefield Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Fiction categories.
The First World War is over and air mechanic Wally Shiers has promised to return home to his fiancee, Helena Alford. But Wally never reckoned on charismatic fighter pilot Ross Smith, and an invitation to compete in the world's most audacious air race. A £10,000 prize has been offered for the first airmen to fly from England to Australia. Smith is banking on an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy, a biplane with a fuselage that looks ominously like a coffin. And who can resist a hero? Wally writes to Helena to say he won't be home for another year - and the love of his life is left holding her hand-stitched wedding dress ... Using war diaries, letters and Churchill Fellowship research from along the race route, Long Flight Home recreates one of the most important - and largely forgotten - chapters in world aviation history. Lainie Anderson's ambitious and moving novel is told through her narrator, Wally Shiers. The tale spans the decades and crosses the globe, and at his journey's end we're left peering down from an open cockpit on two beacons of truth. There is no heroism without honour. There is no legacy without love.
Long Flight Home
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Author : Stephen E Nethery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-01-15
Long Flight Home written by Stephen E Nethery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-15 with Fiction categories.
Frank Casey has travelled a bumpy road. He survives the downing of his Lancaster bomber in World War Two, the barbarity of Buchenwald concentration camp and a crisis of faith. After the war, he falls in love with a beautiful woman who gives him a new sense of purpose. But just weeks before their wedding, Frank is involved in a serious car crash. As he clings to life in a hospital bed, he has a powerful epiphany. After much soul-searching, he reconciles himself with his maker. Franks decides to study for the Catholic priesthood, devastating his fiancee and shocking his family and friends. Frank is no ordinary priest! His laconic and straightforward manner earn him the ire of the church hierarchy, but he is a priest with common touch who dedicates his life to the under-privileged and dispossessed. He earns the respect of many people through his acts of kindness and influences others who are touched by his compassion and generosity. Nazis still haunt his dreams so he confronts Otto Kestelman, the SS officer who caused him so much suffering in Buchenwald. How will Kestelman respond to Father Frank? The story of Frank Casey is one of determination, resilience and faith, and shows us we can overcome our to live a life of value.
Long Flight Home
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Author : LAINIE. ANDERSON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Long Flight Home written by LAINIE. ANDERSON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
The Long Flight Home
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Author : Erik Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
The Long Flight Home written by Erik Hutchinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Birds categories.
Red Island House
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Author : Andrea Lee
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-03-23
Red Island House written by Andrea Lee and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-23 with Fiction categories.
The Packet War -- The Children -- Blondes -- Sirens -- Voice -- Noble Rot -- The Rivals -- Guess Who's Coming To Dinner -- Sister Shadow -- Elephants' Graveyard.
Churchill S Secret Messenger
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Author : Alan Hlad
language : en
Publisher: A John Scognamiglio Book
Release Date : 2021-04-27
Churchill S Secret Messenger written by Alan Hlad and has been published by A John Scognamiglio Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with Fiction categories.
A riveting story of World War II and the courage of one young woman as she is drafted into Churchill’s overseas spy network, aiding the French Resistance behind enemy lines and working to liberate Nazi-occupied Paris… London, 1941: In a cramped bunker in Winston Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms, underneath Westminster’s Treasury building, civilian women huddle at desks, typing up confidential documents and reports. Since her parents were killed in a bombing raid, Rose Teasdale has spent more hours than usual in Room 60, working double shifts, growing accustomed to the burnt scent of the Prime Minister’s cigars permeating the stale air. Winning the war is the only thing that matters, and she will gladly do her part. And when Rose’s fluency in French comes to the attention of Churchill himself, it brings a rare yet dangerous opportunity. Rose is recruited for the Special Operations Executive, a secret British organization that conducts espionage in Nazi-occupied Europe. After weeks of grueling training, Rose parachutes into France with a new codename: Dragonfly. Posing as a cosmetics saleswoman in Paris, she ferries messages to and from the Resistance, knowing that the slightest misstep means capture or death. Soon Rose is assigned to a new mission with Lazare Aron, a French Resistance fighter who has watched his beloved Paris become a shell of itself, with desolate streets and buildings draped in Swastikas. Since his parents were sent to a German work camp, Lazare has dedicated himself to the cause with the same fervor as Rose. Yet Rose’s very loyalty brings risks as she undertakes a high-stakes prison raid, and discovers how much she may have to sacrifice to justify Churchill’s faith in her . . .
Long Flight Home 16pt Large Print Edition
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Author : Lainie Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-16
Long Flight Home 16pt Large Print Edition written by Lainie Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-16 with categories.
The First World War is over and air mechanic Wally Shiers has promised to return home to his fiancee, Helena Alford. But Wally never reckoned on charismatic fighter pilot Ross Smith, and an invitation to compete in the world's most audacious air race. A £10,000 prize has been offered for the first airmen to fly from England to Australia. Smith is banking on an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy, a biplane with a fuselage that looks ominously like a coffin. And who can resist a hero? Wally writes to Helena to say he won't be home for another year - and the love of his life is left holding her hand-stitched wedding dress â ] Using war diaries, letters and Churchill Fellowship research from along the race route, Long Flight Home recreates one of the most important - and largely forgotten - chapters in world aviation history. Lainie Anderson's ambitious and moving novel is told through her narrator, Wally Shiers. The tale spans the decades and crosses the globe, and at his journey's end we're left peering down from an open cockpit on two beacons of truth. There is no heroism without honour. There is no legacy without love.
Skyfaring
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Author : Mark Vanhoenacker
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-06-02
Skyfaring written by Mark Vanhoenacker and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Transportation categories.
A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we—both as pilots and as passengers—are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.
Flights
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Author : Olga Tokarczuk
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-08-14
Flights written by Olga Tokarczuk and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.