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The Flying Man

Author : Mike Downs
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1635925517

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Here is the little-known history of Otto Lilienthal, a daring man whose more than 2,000 successful flights inspired the Wright Brothers and other aviation pioneers. In 1862, balloons were the only way to reach the sky. But 14-year-old Otto Lilienthal didn’t want to fly in balloons. He wanted to soar like a bird. Scientists, teachers, and news reporters everywhere said flying was impossible. Otto and his brother Gustav desperately wanted to prove them wrong, so they made their own wings and tried to take flight. The brothers quickly crashed, but this was just the beginning for Otto, who would spend the next 30 years of his life sketching, re-sketching, and building gliders. Over time, Otto’s flights got longer. His control got better. He learned the tricks and twists of the wind. His flights even began to draw crowds. By the time of his death at age 48, Otto had made more than 2,000 successful glider flights. He was the first person in history to spend this much time in the air, earning the title of the world’s first pilot and paving the way for future aviation pioneers.

Bitter Sweets

Author : Roopa Farooki
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429928158

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With this spellbinding first novel about the destructive lies three immigrant generations of a Pakistani/Bangladeshi family tell each other, Roopa Farooki adds a fresh new voice to the company of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri and Arudhati Roy. Henna Rub is a precocious teenager whose wheeler-dealer father never misses a business opportunity and whose sumptuous Calcutta marriage to wealthy romantic Ricky-Rashid Karim is achieved by an audacious network of lies. Ricky will learn the truth about his seductive bride, but the way is already paved for a future of double lives and deception--family traits that will filter naturally through the generations, forming an instinctive and unspoken tradition. Even as a child, their daughter Shona, herself conceived on a lie and born in a liar's house, finds telling fibs as easy as ABC. But years later, living above a sweatshop in South London's Tooting Bec, it is Shona who is forced to discover unspeakable truths about her loved ones and come to terms with what superficially holds her family together--and also keeps them apart--across geographical, emotional and cultural distance. Roopa Farooki has crafted an intelligent, engrossing and emotionally powerful Indian family saga that will stay with you long after you've read the last page.

Dan, the Flying Man

Author : Joy Cowley
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
ISBN : 9781877454592

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Dan is flying everywhere! Who will catch him?

The Flying Man

Author : Roopa Farooki
Publisher : Tinder Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755383419

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THE FLYING MAN is the story of the ultimate immigrant from the twice Orange Prize long-listed author Roopa Farooki. Meet Maqil - also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail and Miguel - a chancer and charlatan. A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and good looks, reinventing himself with a new identity and nationality in each successive country he makes his home, abandoning wives and children and careers in the process. He's a compulsive gambler - driven to lose at least as much as he gains, in games of chance, and in life. A damaged man in search of himself.

The Flying Boy

Author : John Lee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0757324053

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A record of one man's journey to find his "true masculinity" and his way out of co-dependent and addictive relationships. It's a book for all men and women who grew up in dysfunctional families and are now ready for some fresh insights into their past and their pain. It's a story about feelings - losing them, finding them and finally expressing them. Here you will find people you know; will discover a way out of the pain and see that it really is OK to express yourself without fear. The book is about grieving, a very misunderstood process often confused with self-pity. Open the doors to understanding - men will understand themselves and each other, and women will more deeply understand men, learn how to be with wounded men and still take care of themselves.

The Flying Machine

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1953
Category :
ISBN : 9781583424520

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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (New Directions Classic)

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1997-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081122533X

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Saroyan’s debut collection of stories. A timeless selection of brilliant short stories that won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it first appeared in 1934.With the greatest of ease William Saroyan flew across the literary skies in 1934 with the publication of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories. One of the first American writers to describe the immigrant experience in the U.S., Saroyan created characters who were Armenians, Jews, Chinese, Poles, Africans, and the Irish. The title story touchingly portrays the thoughts of a very young writer, dying of starvation. All of the tales were written during the great depression and reflect, through pathos and humor, the mood of the nation in one of its greatest times of want.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Author : William Joyce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442464895

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The book that inspired the Academy Award–winning short film, from New York Times bestselling author and beloved visionary William Joyce. Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets. Everything in Morris Lessmore’s life, including his own story, is scattered to the winds. But the power of story will save the day. Stunningly brought to life by William Joyce, one of the preeminent creators in children’s literature, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a modern masterpiece, showing that in today’s world of traditional books, eBooks, and apps, it’s story that we truly celebrate—and this story, no matter how you tell it, begs to be read again and again.

The First Flying Man

Author : Elspeth Rawstron
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2012
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780194249423

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"The time is the 1630s. Sultan Murat IV rules the Ottoman Empire. Two Istanbul brothers--Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi and Lagari Hasan--dream of flying. Which of them can be the first flying man? And what does the Sultan give to the winner of the race?"--P. [4] of cover.