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Author : Chet Baker
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 19,78 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 : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Crown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 33,22 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 : Randall Kenan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 35,64 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 : Chet Baker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,60 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 : Terryl Givens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 33,93 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 : Sarah Pawley
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448629114
For as long as he can remember, Jack Langdon has always felt the call of destiny. Whether by listening to his Grandmother's fortunes, or from hearing the distant call of a train whistle, he has always known that fate has more in store for him...more than being just a poor man's son. In the summer of 1917 the Great War calls him away, setting him on a path of tragedy and romance that will lead him to discover his true place in the world.
Author : Connie May Fowler
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 25,69 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 : Nadine Taylor
Publisher : Taylor-Fox, Incorporated
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780692057803
A young girl discovers her mother's secret marriage to a pilot killed during World War II, and over the course of decades, unfolds a captivating love story that lives on long after her mother's passing.
Author : Adrian Phoenix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416584765
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....
Author : Claire Corbett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 12,44 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?