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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.
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 . . .
The Long Way Home Revised Edition
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Author : MR Ed Dover
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-11
The Long Way Home Revised Edition written by MR Ed Dover and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Transportation categories.
"...the story of the Pacific Clipper, a B-314 caught between Noumea, New Caledonia and Auckland, New Zealand at the outbreak of World War II and ordered to return home by flying west around the world in radio silence to avoid capture or destruction by enemy forces."--P. [4] of cover.
The Long Home
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Author : William Gay
language : en
Publisher: MP Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-01
The Long Home written by William Gay and has been published by MP Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Fiction categories.
In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, 'The Long Home', is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at escape. And it is the story of William Tell Oliver, a solitary old man who watches the growing evil from the dark woods and adds to his own weathered guilt by failing to do anything about it. Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, 'The Long Home' will bring to mind once again the greatest Southern novelists and will haunt the reader with its sense of solitude , longing, and the deliverance that is always just out of reach.
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.
Time In Its Flight
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Author : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1978
Time In Its Flight written by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Fiction categories.
When Edna marries Dr. John Steele, she embarks on a lifetime adventure of anguish, loss, courage, and love.
The Winter House
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Author : Joan MacCracken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-06-20
The Winter House written by Joan MacCracken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with Aging categories.
A story of four women in a small town in Maine who decide to live together for the winter. They watch out for each other, laugh and cry and realize it beats living alone.
The Longest Flight Home
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Author : Steve Scott Sr.
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2013-07-23
The Longest Flight Home written by Steve Scott Sr. and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The miraculous recovery of a missing favorite son, Marlon Scott, lost in a plane crash with 51 crew members and passengers in the Alaskan Wilderness for more than 60 years...and the resultant closure it brought to one grieving family.
The Long Flight Home
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Long Flight Home written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Bald eagle categories.