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Author: Tom D. Crouch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002-02-17
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780393322279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For decades before the Wright brothers took off, a community of engineers, scientists and dreamers had tried to fly. A Dream of Wings brings to life these characters and their contraptions.
Author: Tom D. Crouch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002-02-17
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0393347451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the talented American engineers and adventurers who labored to conquer gravity in a flying machine. When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. For decades prior, a small community of engineers, scientists, and dreamers—men named Chanute and Langley and Herring—had tried to make the ascent in every conceivable craft, from kites and gliders to an assortment of powered flying models. These imaginative people and their wonderful contraptions are brought to life in Tom Crouch's classic A Dream of Wings. In the quest for flight, aeronautical societies were formed and broke apart, successes were celebrated, hopes rose and fell, and lessons were learned and built upon. The dreamers who blazed the path to a flying machine are bravely realized in these delightful pages.
Author: Edward Dwight
Publisher:
Published: 2009-09-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780883783122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This riveting memoir chronicles Dwight's early life in an impoverished family scratching out an existence in Depression-era Kansas City, Kansas, to his reach for the stars as a contender for NASA's fledgling space program.
Author: Cecilia Galante
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0375869476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Willa Bean, who wants to master flying before starting school at Cupid Academy, celebrates her unconventional looks and unique personality, but struggles to accept that cupids learn how to fly at different times.
Author: Roseanna M. White
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1493422782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All of England thinks Phillip Camden a monster--a man who deliberately caused the deaths of his squadron. But as nurse Arabelle Denler watches the so-dubbed "Black Heart" every day, she sees something far different: a hurting man desperate for mercy. And when their paths twist together and he declares himself her new protector, she realizes she has her own role to play in his healing. Phillip Camden would have preferred to die that day with his squadron rather than be recruited to the Admiralty's codebreaking division. The threats he receives daily are no great surprise and, in his opinion, well deserved. What comes as a shock is the reborn desire to truly live that Arabelle inspires in him. But when an old acquaintance shows up and seems set on using him in a plot that has the codebreakers of Room 40 in a frenzy, new affections are put to the test.
Author: Suzanne Simonetti
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2021-05-03
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1647420474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now a USA TODAY BEST-SELLER, The Sound of Wings is a masterfully crafted tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and the risks we take in the pursuit of justice. Seventy-year-old Goldie Sparrows faces declining finances, questionable health, and a late husband who torments her from the beyond. She seeks refuge in her butterfly garden, which is filled with voices and memories from long ago. Jocelyn Anderson is a struggling writer who finds escape from her custody battle in the journal of her late mother-in-law. As she gets pulled through the pages of time, Jocelyn discovers her own husband has a hidden history she knows nothing about. Is this secret now Jocelyn’s to keep? Krystal Axelrod is living a life she never dreamed she could have. And yet the demons of a dysfunctional childhood and mean girl culture from her cheerleading days cast their shadow over her ability to feel whole, capable, and worthy. Does Goldie hold the key to Krystal’s path to freedom?
Author: Jef Aerts
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1646140591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →People fear death. We don't know how to talk about it, especially to children, and we're afraid to bring it up for fear of making people sadder. Yet children, especially, have questions, and this incredibly gentle and surprisingly light story is full of both comfort and vividly imagined "answers." The first one gives the book its title: A boy hears the voice of his sister calling him one day, a sister he's never met because she died before he was born. The sister in the faded photograph on the wall. So that night he asks his mother what death is like and she tells him, "It's like dreaming, only bigger." That's lovely, but he still has questions, which it turns out his sister can answer! On a dreamy, carefree adventure they ride their bikes together, (not always on the ground), visiting places that were special to her when she was alive. And she talks to him in the older sister, teasing, straightforward, loving way that is exactly what he needs. (It turns out that death is not the only thing that can be Bigger Than a Dream.) Much, much more than bibliotherapy, this is a work of art that speaks with honesty and tenderness about one of life's great mysteries.
Author: Lauren E. Sullivan
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780977853816
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lauren Sullivan shares her own story and the wisdom of Seven Stepping Stones to guide you on a soul-satisfying journey to new beginnings and a rich and robust quality of life.
Author: E.D. Baker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-04-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1599908069
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tamisin has always been a little weird. Her freckles actually look more like sparkles and occasionally, she likes to dance under the full moon. Then one day, wings sprout from her back, and Tamisin learns that her parents adopted her from fairyland. Inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, this fairy tale will delight fans of The Tales of the Frog Princess and new readers alike.
Author: Anne Mateer
Publisher: Bethany House
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0764209035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A young woman dreams of adventure and romance away from her family's farm during the Great War, but discovers new dreams while helping others in crisis.
