Download or read book The Longest Flight Home written by Steve Scott Sr. and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miraculous recovery of a missing favorite son, Marlon Scott, lost in a plane crash with 51 crew members and passengers in the Alaskan Wilderness for more than 60 years...and the resultant closure it brought to one grieving family.

Download or read book The Long Flight Home written by Alan Hlad and published by A John Scognamiglio Book. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September, 1940. German bombs fall on Britain, and enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. The two raise homing pigeons, and Susan's favorite is Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan. A Maine crop-duster pilot, Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. In the National Pigeon Service, Susan is involved in an assignment code-named Source Columba, to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France, hopefully to convey crucial information on German troop movements. Friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines both know the chance of reunion is remote.

Download or read book The Long Flight Home written by Alan Hlad and published by A John Scognamiglio Book. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA Today Bestseller Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan—loyal, intelligent, beautiful—but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather’s desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, young crop-duster pilot Ollie Evans decides to join Britain’s Royal Air Force. His quest brings him to Epping and the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert mission to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Many will not survive. Those that do will bring home crucial information. Soon a friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when his plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. Yet Duchess will become an unexpected lifeline, relaying messages between Susan and Ollie as war rages on—and proving, at last, that hope is never truly lost. “Hlad adeptly drives home the devastating civilian cost of the war.” —Booklist

Download or read book The Longest Flight written by Shirley Woodhouse Murdock and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started as an innocent challenge and through sheer determination and pure tenacity, it developed into one of the greatest and most successful promotions ever conducted in the state of Arizona.

Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Helen Notzl and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A four-year-old girl survives a harrowing escape across the heavily armed border of Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother after the Communist takeover in 1948. The family leaves everything behind to flee to freedom in Canada. Years later, as a young woman living in Toronto, she finds herself drawn to the country of her birth and returns to Prague, along the way finding love, danger, heartbreak, and her family's legacy. Helen Notzl's poignant memoir takes readers on a voyage between two starkly different and conflicting worlds - from affluence and fulfillment in Canada to passion and revolution in Prague. Must she choose between the two? With intense drama, vivid narration, and brilliant detail, Long Journey Home tells the story of a woman's quest for those things that truly matter to all of us: love, family, identity and homeland.

Download or read book Dealer Wins written by Jon Konrath and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the high-roller suites in the Stardust Casino to the beat-up $39 rooms of the Circus Circus, this book unveils the trip reports of Konrath's stays in Sin City, written from an outsider's view with cynical wit and amazing detail. Articles also cover the movies shot in Las Vegas, the sins of passion enjoyed in the city, and the things you should and should not do if you plan a visit to the City of Lights. Includes over 120 photos.

Download or read book Journey from Madness to Serenity written by Vanessa Sawyer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Journey From Madness To Serenity" is a testament to having faith in God. This true story tells how the author's faith and love for her son compelled her to fight manic-depression.

Download or read book The Longest Shot written by Neil Sagebiel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Longest Shot tells the inspirational story of the unknown golfer from Iowa who beat his idol in the 1955 U.S. Open. With the overlooked Jack Fleck still playing the course, NBC-TV proclaimed that the legendary Ben Hogan had won his record fifth U.S. Open and signed off from San Francisco. Undaunted, the forgotten Iowan rallied to overcome a nine-shot deficit over the last three rounds—still a U.S. Open record—and made a pressure-packed putt to tie Hogan on the final hole of regulation play. The two men then squared off in a tense, 18-hole playoff from which Fleck emerged victorious in one of the most startling upsets in sports history. On par with the classic golf narratives of Mark Frost and John Feinstein, The Longest Shot will surprise and delight fans as they trace the improbable journey of an unheralded former caddie who played his way into the record books by out-dueling the sport's greatest champion of his time.

Download or read book The Longest Journey written by Amy Hevron and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the epic annual migration of an Arctic Tern on its sixty-thousand-mile journey to the South Pole and back again, the longest such migration in the animal kingdom. In their thirty-year lifetimes, Arctic Terns travel nearly 1.5 million miles, that’s enough to fly to the Moon and back three times! Each year they brave blistering winds, storms, rough seas, and airborne predators as they travel between the Earth’s poles, chasing the summer. In The Longest Journey: An Arctic Tern’s Migration, we follow one such bird as it spreads its wings and sets out to make its first globe-spanning trip with its flock. Amy Hevron's brilliant, naturalistic artwork mimicking maps and nautical charts is supported by extensive research and paired with material at the back of the book explaining the science behind the life cycle of Arctic Terns. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Named to the Delaware Diamonds Book List

Download or read book The Historical Adventures of Thomas Balfour written by Ty Rosenow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Balfour is a University of St. Andrews student in Scotland who is a history major. All he needs to do is to go to a library, open up a book based off of a historical event and goes back in time. Unfortunately, there is something strange about this time travel. Will Thomas Balfour and his friends be able to defeat the strange people and fix the events? The Historical Adventures of Thomas Balfour will take you on a journey through time in this page turning book with the combination of history, fantasy, romance, science fiction, and action!

Download or read book The Long Way Home Revised Edition written by MR Ed Dover and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...the story of the Pacific Clipper, a B-314 caught between Noumea, New Caledonia and Auckland, New Zealand at the outbreak of World War II and ordered to return home by flying west around the world in radio silence to avoid capture or destruction by enemy forces."--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book The Longest Walk written by Kevin J. Ward and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean Cleary has decided that on New Year's Eve, the night of his thirtieth anniversary, he no longer can go on with a marriage that seems to have lost any sense of love. At a large holiday gala, he begins walking to the woman he once adored, now waiting for him at the far end of a crowded corridor. Along this short journey, he encounters people and events that cause him to reflect on what happened to his relationship with Stephanie, the woman who had been the love of his life. He remembers vividly the joys and the heartbreaks that they had gone through, and he confronts, as best as he can, the reasons why something so good could have ended up like this. Anger, guilt, frustration, sadness; joy, love contentment, happiness; all meld together in his mind as he tries to sort through the last thirty years. He didn't blame himself, but could he actually blame Stephanie? Didn't someone have to be at fault? The flashbacks and the memories make this short journey the longest walk of Sean's life.

Download or read book Warped Stories written by Arthur Wiederhold and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARped Stories is another collection of short tales written by Art Wiederhold and Charles Sutphen that run the gamut from science fiction to the supernatural to the Vietnam War. SOLOMON'S WAR is the story of a top notch combat soldier who goes rogue to keep an Earth cartel from destroying a distant planet. TRIPLE THREAT centers around a disgraced Star Force engineer who gets a chance to redeem his honor when invaders threaten the home world. These are followed up by short, eerie supernatural tales and a chilling memoir of Vietnam by Charles Sutphen. WARped Stories is a must-read for fans of Art Wiederhold's other anthologies, BEYOND THE RIM and JOE HARKER: MARSCOP as well as his popular Thulian Chronicles and Hunter series.

Download or read book ARMAGEDDON s SONG 4 THE LONGEST NIGHT CROSSING THE RUBICON written by Andy Farman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4: Two distinct parts of the story. Book 1 - 'The Longest Night' is set between 8pm and 8am, the critical night battle in Germany between NATO and the New Red Army. The war in Europe has reached critical mass and it is a race between the Red Army and the newly arrived US and Canadian 4 Corps. The winner owns Europe. Just one last push by the New Warsaw Pact will clear away SACEUR's gambit and the last division standing between the Red Army and the Channel Ports. It is the Longest Night for everyone, and the last night for many. Book 2 - 'Crossing the Rubicon' The war in Europe has reached its bloody end and the troops came home to less than gratitude from the politicians. In the Pacific all eyes are on the Spratly Islands as the Allies combat the Chinese 3rd and 6th Armies, but the aftermath in Europe may have left the US and the ANZACs standing alone, or has it? Soldiers have more honour than politicians at the end of the day.

Download or read book Distant Saga Trilogy A Short Story Collection written by Jeff Walker and published by Jeff Walker. This book was released on with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short story collection of three science fiction/thriller stories. A man accidentally travels back in time, but can he return? An investigation of a deadly bio-hazardous moon - And a boy that discovers he has the blood cure for all humanity. PLUS - A bonus sneak chapter of the next book - Outer Red.

Download or read book Give a Little Bit written by Pam Croft and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring story how life can change with a gentle touch. Family is so important with changes in life.

Download or read book Divine Intervention written by Russell Keeler and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been delayed--maybe a red light, traffic jam, or you just couldn't find your keys or phone--and it upset you? How about awakened after a dream that seemed so real that it took you a few minutes to realize it was just a dream? Divine Intervention: One Man's Story is a journey of amazing real-life situations that not only saved the life of the author but also possibly saved the lives of others. Each chapter details encounters that can only be explained as God's divine grace, as well as divine connections that pushed the author to levels in life not ever imagined. Each story will draw you into his childhood and adult life and open your eyes to your own memories of when God stepped in for you. Is it possible that delay kept you from harm? Is that dream that seems so real a dream to help comfort you in a given situation? This biblical perspective of God's grace shares verses to tell you of his greatness and his timing in our lives. It's not about our timing; it's God's timing that will get us through life and to the destination he has planned for you. Are you ready for this great journey--life?