Author : Chet Baker
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312167974
The late jazz legend offers his memories of the jazz scene of the 1950s and his decline from drug use in the early 1960s
Author : Randall Kenan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1324005475
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.
Author : Connie May Fowler
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804118903
A nine-year-old girl's harrowing account of abuse at the hands of her parents. Her name is Avocet Jackson, but her mother called her Bird, naming both her children after birds, "her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit in our lives."
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Crown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Throughout history, aviation has been a field filled with adventure and romance, daredevils and heroes, great challenges and big dreams. "If We Had Wings" captures the essence of man's ongoing fascination with flight, from early Renaissance scientists who imagined fanciful flying machines through the technological breakthroughs that launched humans into space. The passion to fly and the corresponding advances in aviation have always changed our world irrevocably, and "If We Had Wings" offers both the tragedies and the triumphs of the continued attempts to reach even higher. These compelling stories are enhanced by removable documents -- ranging from diary pages of a World War I airman to letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her parents in the event of her death. These will all make the material come to life like never before.
Author : Paul D. Jackson
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2013-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1622951549
"July 24, 2008, my wife and I sat in Dr. Doug Flora's office. The doctor entered the room, turned, and looked at us and said, 'I know folks, this really sucks! You have esophageal cancer. It is what is called a clinical T3N1 tumor. It's extremely serious.' He then went into a detailed explanation of Dr. Saeed's findings. He sketched a picture of my esophagus and stomach on a white sheet of paper that covered the examining table and pointed at the base of my stomach and esophagus and drew a circle where the tumor had been detected. He said that the tumor's size was 2.0 mm. I told him that I had been taking long walks to get a suntan and to lose weight and had been proud to lose seventeen pounds. He said, 'The cancer took your seventeen pounds-it wasn't the walking.' Join author Paul D. Jackson, Jr. in If A Frog Had Wings as he reflects on how his life experiences from childhood to adulthood had prepared him for the fight of his life. Share in the humor, heartbreak and steadfast stubbornness in Paul's love of life that have helped him to overcome great adversity and come out standing.
Author : Terryl Givens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195313909
The notion that we spring into existence ex nihilo at birth strikes many people as counter-intuitive. By contrast, the idea that we have an eternal identity appeals to some deep intuition about the self. And indeed, belief in the soul's pre-mortal existence has a long history in Western thought. Terryl Givens offers the first systematic exploration of this fascinating if generally unfamiliar feature of Western cultural history.
Author : Claire Corbett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459624777
In a world divided into fliers and non - fliers, how far would you go to be able to fly? How much would you sacrifice - your own child?
Author : Chet Baker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312200831
Told by the legendary trumpeter and singer himself, these memoirs launch wholeheartedly into the full-bodied and lush jazz-driven life that he led for more than 30 years.
Author : Notker Wolf
Publisher : Paraclete Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1612614965
“Why do you look so happy?” people have been asking Notker Wolf for years, now. So he set out to answer them in this lively book. A relationship with God, he explains, can feel like falling in love, when it seems that butterflies are fluttering around in your stomach. Then, beauty, joy, belief, trust, and forgiveness are his subjects, all in an effort to show his readers how it is possible to have wings of faith – and fly! “Notker Wolf is a gift to the monastic community, the Church and the world in Christ. This book brings out the best of his multifaceted spiritual and natural gifts. I recommend it highly.” —John Michael Talbot “This insightful book can speak to the emptiness we all experience at times and perk us up so that we take notice of what really matters. By reading and reflecting on these ideas, you might just discover the beauty and fullness a faith perspective has to offer. You may even learn to soar!” —Sister Judith Ann Heble, OSB, Moderator, Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum, Sacred Heart Monastery, Lisle, Illinois
Author : Virginia Frances Schwartz
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780773733022
If I Just Had Two Wings is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
