Download or read book Blue Skies and Gunfire written by K. M. Peyton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Josie is evacuated to her aunt and uncle's farm in Essex, she meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Jumbo, a happy-go-lucky, optimistic young man who doesn't let his disability interrupt his life. But when Josie meets Chris, Jumbo's heroic fighter pilot brother, she experiences feelings that are out of control and dangerous. Is this what real love feels like?
Download or read book Blue Skies and Gunfire written by Kathleen Wendy Peyton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josie is in her final term of school when news comes of the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk. Until then the war has seemed so very distant, not something that can directly affect her life. When Josie moves to the countryside she meets the Patterson brothers, Jumbo and Chris. One warm hearted but crippled by a motorcycle accident, the other a dashing fighter pilot in the RAF. Josie is drawn helplessly into a tangled web of romance. And as the battle for Britain begins, the fights in the blue Essex skies echo the conflict in her love torn heart. Suggested level: secondary.
Download or read book Blue Skies and Blood written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1984-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nothin but Blue Skies written by Edward McClelland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the “arsenal of democracy”-the greatest manufacturing center in the world-in the years during and after World War II thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming culture. Decades of unprecedented prosperity followed, memorably punctuated by riots, strikes, burning rivers, and oil embargoes. A vibrant, quintessentially American character bloomed in the region's cities, suburbs, and backwaters. But the innovation and industry that defined the Rust Belt also helped to hasten its demise. An air conditioner invented in Upstate New York transformed the South from a sweaty backwoods to a nonunionized industrial competitor. Japan and Germany recovered from their defeat to build fuel-efficient cars in the stagnant 1970s. The tentpole factories that paid workers so well also filled the air with soot, and poisoned waters and soil. The jobs drifted elsewhere, and many of the people soon followed suit. Nothin' but Blue Skies tells the story of how the country's industrial heartland grew, boomed, bottomed, and hopes to be reborn. Through a propulsive blend of storytelling and reportage, celebrated writer Edward McClelland delivers the rise, fall, and revival of the Rust Belt and its people.
Download or read book Blue Skies Red Soil written by David T. Mudra and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Skies Red Soil is a novel told through the eyes of a villain named Qin Shi Chong, a Chinese man whose father's wealth helps him come to America to gain a Western education. While in the United States, he is faced with extreme racial prejudice during the Korean War. Several transgressions happen to him, changing his life forever. The book covers many historical events that have never been explained over the years which are masterminded by Qin Shi Chong. While the story unfolds, the reader considers many potential futures for the United States, some of which are rather grim, to say the least. As Qin Shi Chong returns to China, he is determined to create havoc in a lifelong quest to destroy the United States. His revenge takes many avenues and clandestine plots. From creating a network to sell drugs to soldiers during the Vietnam War, to secretly training North Vietnamese soldiers in ways of killing American soldiers, Qin Shi Chong succeeds. Blue Skies Red Soil covers an 80-year span in Qin Shi Chong's life, including the explosion of the computer revolution, where he inadvertently stumbles on a weapon capable of immobilizing civilian and military technology in America.
Download or read book Blue Skies written by Bill Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a Canadian Spitfire pilot in World War II.
Download or read book Clear Blue Sky written by F. P. Lione and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gritty, true-to-life story a cop does his best to keep New York City safe amid end-of-summer street parties and festivals. It'll be a busy weekend, but Tuesday is coming and he hasn't seen anything yet.
Download or read book A Clear Blue Sky written by N.R. Narayana Murthy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 26/11, 9/11, 7/7—dates that have changed the way we see ourselves and those around us. Dates that have changed the world, and not for the better. Why is the world getting increasingly fragmented? Is there a way for us to understand different viewpoints better? In this collection, writers from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan—Gulzar, Elmo Jayawardena, Manjula Padmanabhan, Poile Sengupta, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Subhadra Sen Gupta and others—write about various kinds of conflict in our society and history. Some stories are dark, others full of light and hope, and some outright funny as they portray mindless bigots for what they are. When a church burns in Bangalore, the altar cloth ends up in the hands of Mubina, whose grandmother can clean and repair it like no one else; years after the Partition tore a friendship apart, two people try to find the happiness that was once within their reach; and while chasing away courting couples from the Delhi Ridge, a young thug learns a lesson about what really makes Indian ‘culture’. Interspersed with poems that articulate pleas for peace and understanding, this collection is sure to start a conversation on religion, race, caste, and mindsets that divide us.
Download or read book Infusion written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cassell s Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Download or read book Blue Skies Falling written by Arthur Winfield Knight and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Bonner is a household name. He spent his life within the best-known circles of Hollywood. His name on a film guaranteed a gross of millions. Every actor and actress wanted to star in a Bonner film, and Bonner's casting choices made or broke careers; after all, he controlled the game. Success was so easy for him but in the bicentennial summer of 1976, a nation turned two hundred, and Sam's game has plateaued. On the road with his third wife, Sara, Sam crosses the American West, seeing the places where some of his greatest works were made. Traveling between Fresno, California, where Sam shows Sara the place of his birth, Lake Tahoe where they pick pine cones for Christmas tree ornaments, Sam and Sara keep on moving, knowing the ornaments are for a tree that Sara may never live to see. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book From a Clear Blue Sky written by Timothy Knatchbull and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning, “exceptionally moving” memoir of a family boat trip, an IRA bombing, and a teenager’s loss of his twin brother (The Telegraph). Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award Winner and PEN/JR Ackerley Prize Nominee On an August weekend in 1979, fourteen-year-old Timothy Knatchbull joined his family on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. By noon, an Irish Republican Army bomb had destroyed the boat, leaving four dead. The author survived, but his grandparents, family friend, and twin brother did not. Lord Mountbatten, his grandfather, was the target, and became one of the IRA’s most high-profile assassinations. Knatchbull and his parents were too badly injured to attend the funerals of those killed, which only intensified their profound sense of loss. Telling this story decades later, Knatchbull not only revisits these terrible events but also writes an intensely personal account of human triumph over tragedy—a story of recovery not just from physical wounds but deep emotional trauma. From a Clear Blue Sky takes place in Ireland at the height of the Troubles and gives compelling insight into that period of Irish history. But more importantly, it brings home that while calamity can strike at any moment, the human spirit is able to forgive, to heal, and to move on. “A minute by minute story of what happened that day, and what happened afterwards.” —Daily Mail “This is an extremely moving book. Beyond providing a phenomenally detailed evocation of his own family’s trauma, Knatchbull has lots of wise things to say about how we survive horrors—of all kinds—in our lives.” — Zoë Heller, author of the Booker Prize finalist Notes on a Scandal “A very poignant, clearsighted, heartbreaking but ultimately positive account.” —Hugh Bonneville, The New York Times
Download or read book Ghost of the Snowlands written by G. C. Gregory and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1918 Blue Skies Aloft written by Ron Eisele and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-29 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent novel of the air is set in the skies over northern France during the last year of the Great War. It is Spring 1918. Germany initiates a series of assaults along the Western Front in an all-out struggle against the allies. To the men of 303 Squadron, bled by years of conflict, victory seems an impossible dream. Amid sudden death and injury the young pilots pay a bitter price for experience during swift, deadly encounters with the enemy. Their Commanding Officer, Major Scott Cameron, must confront the future, changing times and the fulfilment of his destiny in the unforgiving skies where no quarter is asked or given. His struggle against an ever-present enemy has ill-prepared him for life at home, where more than his own future is at stake amid the hazards of influenza, conspiracy and profiteers. Scott must put all private hopes and fears behind him as betrayal threatens the very heart of all he loves. Finally, lost in grief and loneliness, Scott is uncertain of everything but his identity as a warrior.With attention to contemporary detail and vivacity of plot, Ron Eisele's outstanding ability as a storyteller is equalled by his skilful depiction and remarkable feeling for aerial warfare. 1918 Blue Skies Aloft immerses the reader in the brutal demands of a relentless and savage conflict.
Download or read book Blue Skies and Blood written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And Blue Skies From Pain written by Stina Leicht and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Ireland, 1977. Liam Kelly is many things: a former wheelman for the IRA, a one-time political prisoner, the half-breed son of a mystic Fey warrior and a mortal woman, and a troubled young man literally haunted by the ghosts of his past. Liam has turned his back on his land’s bloody sectarian Troubles, but the war isn’t done with him yet, and neither is an older, more mythic battle–between the Church and its demonic enemies, the Fallen. After centuries of misunderstanding and conflict, the Church is on the verge of accepting that the Fey and the Fallen are not the same. But to achieve this historic truce, Liam must prove to the Church’s Inquisitors that he is not a demon, even as he wrestles with his own guilt and confusion, while being hunted by enemies both earthly and unworldly. A shape-shifter by nature, Liam has a foot in two worlds–and it’s driving him mad.
Download or read book 22 Murders written by Paul Palango and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors. As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of denturist Gabriel Wortman after an officer shot and killed him at a gas station during a chance encounter. Though retired as an investigative journalist and author, Paul Palango spent much of his career reporting on Canada’s troubled national police force. Watching the RCMP stumble through the Portapique massacre, only a few hours from his Nova Scotia home, Palango knew the story behind the headlines was more complicated and damning than anyone was willing to admit. With the COVID-19 lockdown sealing off the Maritimes, no journalist in the province knew the RCMP better than Palango did. Within a month, he was back in print and on the radio, peeling away the layers of this murderous episode as only he could, and unearthing the collision of failure and malfeasance that cost a quiet community 22 innocent lives.
