Author : John Hylan Heminway
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 28,24 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 : Ashley Schumacher
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,95 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 : 42,15 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 : Andreas Fecker
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 9781445404424
Author : Rowland White
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,22 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 : Christopher C. Kraft
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,7 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 : Clair F. Runyan
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1992-02
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780553296105
In 1994, the most popular president since FDR has only weeks to live, but his deteriorating condition must be kept secret to bolster the precarious new East-West negotiations. Only one man could save him--a man who died in a 1942 Japanese POW camp in the Philippines. The thrills come off right on time.--Publishers Weekly.
Author : Susan O'Dwyer Brinchman
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Aeronautical engineers
ISBN : 9780692439302
Presents evidence for Gustave Whitehead's claim to have preceded the Wright Brothers in powered flight by two years with a flight in Fairfield, Connecticut on August 14, 1901. The book also provides other details on Whitehead's life and accomplishments. Numerous quotes from primary sources are included.
Author : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 16,59 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.
Author : Roger Camp
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780500510902
Here is an exquisitely beautiful homage to the colourful celebrity of the insect world, the butterfly. With more than 300 photographs of real butterflies, depicted in all their lightness and brilliance, and presented in a unique accordion-fold format, Butterflies in Flight is a strikingly attractive gift book that will appeal to anyone who appreciates art and nature. Hundreds of butterflies soar and drift across the page. Each panel of this traditional Japanese format stands on its own visually, yet is also designed to lead to the next panel so that the flight itself appears to glide, panel after panel, before the viewer. The accordion format, which unfolds to more than 23 metres, allows the book to be set upright and displayed as a delightful art object. Roger Camp has brilliantly used modern techniques of photography and digital imaging to create an irresistible flight of real butterflies. He was first inspired by Kanzaka Sekka's 1904 woodblock-printed book, One Thousand Kinds of Butterflies, to find a contemporary way of marrying beauty with technology, thus creating a magical presentation of these infinitely graceful creatures.
