Book Description
"The revelatory account of a woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a heroic career that hid a dark wartime past"--
Author : John Hylan Heminway
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524732974
"The revelatory account of a woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a heroic career that hid a dark wartime past"--
Author : John Heminway
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524732982
As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa was a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nickname—this one sinister—while working as a “doctor” in a Nazi concentration camp. In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one’s past by doing good in the present, and takes readers on an extraordinary journey into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone.
Author : Ashley Schumacher
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250779790
Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas, calls fall football season, but for the forty-three members of the Fighting Enfield Marching Band, it’s contest season. And for new saxophonist Anna James, it’s her first chance to prove herself as the great musician she’s trying hard to be. When she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player Weston Ryan, the boy her small-minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. But as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with something too. When her strict parents find out she’s been secretly seeing him and keep them apart, Anna and Weston learn what it truly means to fight for something they love. With the marching contest nearing and the two falling hard for one another, the unthinkable happens, and Anna is left grappling for a way forward without Weston. Ashley Schumacher’s Full Flight is about how first love shapes us—even after it’s gone.
Author : Alan Ruddock
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0141902493
Michael O'Leary is a business giant. He transformed Ryanair from a loss-making joke of an Irish carrier into one of the most valuable airlines in the world, and in the process he has revolutionized the very nature of commercial aviation. In this, the first biography of O'Leary, Alan Ruddock portrays the man in three dimensions and examines the business miracle - often talked about but poorly understood - that O'Leary has wrought. 'Ruddock's fast-paced retelling of Ryanair's rise and rise confirms O'Leary's insistence that his success has little to do with the management maxims of business gurus and everything to do with graft and ruthless attention to detail' Observer 'Probably the definitive Ryanair story ... a good read' Sunday Independent 'The fullest and most accurate picture of O'Leary to date' Irish Daily Mail 'Unlike previous books which simply chart the growth of the airline, this one is bound to get under O'Leary's skin because it reveals a great deal about his hugely driven character' Irish Independent 'Ruddock is good on the flavour of the man, a bundle of energy whose two favourite words start with an F and an S (they aren't flower and sugar)' Irish Examiner
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1401305776
Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.
Author : Rowland White
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category :
ISBN : 145214348X
All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this stunning compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, fascinating profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets—all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams—Cleared for Takeoff promises to astonish, entertain, and fire the imaginations of everyone with their head in the clouds.
Author : Rebecca Yarros
Publisher : Entangled: Amara
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1622664345
She knew. That's why Mom hadn't opened the door. She knew he was dead. Twenty years as an army brat and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn't know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart. Then Josh Walker enters her life. Hockey star, her new next-door neighbor, and not to mention the most delicious hands that insist on saving her over and over again. He has a way of erasing the pain with a single look, a single touch. As much as she wants to turn off her feelings and endure the heartache on her own, she can't deny their intense attraction. Until Josh's secret shatters their world. And Ember must decide if he's worth the risk that comes with loving a man who could strip her bare. The Flight & Glory series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Full Measures Book #2 Eyes Turned Skyward Book #3 Beyond What is Given Book #4 Hallowed Ground Book #5 The Reality of Everything
Author : Christopher C. Kraft
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN :
This book is the account of Chri Kraft and the U.S. space program from its infancy to its greatest triumphs.
Author : Andreas Fecker
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 9781445404424
Author : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385133357
When Edna marries Dr. John Steele, she embarks on a lifetime adventure of anguish, loss, courage, and love.