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If I Had Two Wings: Stories

Author : Randall Kenan

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 145 pages

File Size : 24,8 MB

Release : 2020-08-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1324005475

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Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan’s prose is nothing short of wondrous.



On Two Wings

Author : Michael Novak

Publisher : Encounter Books

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 15,99 MB

Release : 2010-01-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1594034117

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The leaders of the American Revolution, unlike the leaders of the French revolution, did not set out to erase religion. Indeed, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pray to Divine Providence in the face of the British bombardment of Boston. In establishing a new model of self-government, the Founders believed that they were not only acting according to reason and common sense, but also obeying a religious duty. Benjamin Franklin proposed as their motto: “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” In telling the story of the forgotten—if not deliberately ignored—role of faith in America’s beginnings, Michael Novak probes the innermost religious conviction of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other of our Founders. He shows that while the American eagle could not have taken flight without the empirical turn of mind embodied in John Locke’s teaching on the ends of government and the consent of the governed, the men who made America also believed that liberty depends as much on faith as on reason. In the course of his illustrious career, Michael Novak has written several prize-winning books on theology and philosophy. In On Two Wings he has created a profound mediation on American history, and on human nature and destiny as well.



Two Wings to Fly Away

Author : Penny Mickelbury

Publisher : Bywater Books

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 49,72 MB

Release : 2019-05-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1612941508

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In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but because she has no intention of ever marrying a man. When the daughter of Abby's free black servant is grabbed by rogue slave catchers, an unlikely group of people come together, first out of necessity, and then, gradually, in friendship. And in the case of Abby and Genie, something much more.



On Two Feet and Wings

Author : Abbas Kazerooni

Publisher : Allen & Unwin

Page : 267 pages

File Size : 24,40 MB

Release : 2012-08-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1743430000

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This amazing true story of a boy fleeing Tehran on his own during the Iran-Iraq War provides a powerful child's-eye view of political tumult, separation, survival, dreams and triumphs in a moving memoir that chronicles extraordinary times in an ordinary boy's life.



If I Just Had Two Wings

Author : Virginia Frances Schwartz

Publisher :

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 22,67 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780773733022

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If I Just Had Two Wings is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.



Enchanted Air

Author : Margarita Engle

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 38,50 MB

Release : 2015-08-04

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1481435221

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Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not.



All of Us with Wings

Author : Michelle Ruiz Keil

Publisher : Soho Press

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 14,94 MB

Release : 2019-06-18

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1641290358

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This young adult fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is “a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era,” told through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl (Entertainment Weekly). “Complex and beautiful, blending folklore, San Franciscan history, the music scene, vampires, magic . . . hard to put down.” —School Library Journal Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame. But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.



Two Wings to Veil My Face

Author : Leon Forrest

Publisher : Moyer Bell

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 28,9 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781559211925

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A Rush of Wings

Author : Adrian Phoenix

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 419 pages

File Size : 10,40 MB

Release : 2008-01-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1416584765

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HIS NAME IS DANTE. Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination. HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY. F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be "nightkind": in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own. HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS. What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer -- and she's pretty sure that link makes him the CCK's next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man -- who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire -- in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante's past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny....



Infatuate

Author : Aimee Agresti

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 417 pages

File Size : 34,96 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0547626150

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In the thrilling sequel to "Illuminate, " angel-in-training Haven Terra heads to New Orleans, where she faces off with a formidable group of demons known as The Krewe.