Download or read book A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.After days of rain, a couple find an old man with huge wings in their courtyard in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' - but is he an angel? Accompanying 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is the short story 'The Sea of Lost Time', in which a seaside town is brought back to life by a curious smell of roses.
Download or read book That Bird Has My Wings written by Jarvis Jay Masters and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022 "When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to feel human, still connected to this world, as if I have a purpose." The moving memoir of a Death Row inmate who discovers Buddhism and becomes an inspirational role model for fellow inmates, guards, and a growing public In 1990, while serving a sentence in San Quentin for armed robbery, Jarvis Jay Masters was implicated as an accessory in the murder of a prison guard. A 23-year-old Black man, Jarvis was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. While in the maximum security section of Death Row, using the only instrument available to him—a ball-point pen filler—Masters's astounding memoir is a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and the talent of a fine writer. Offering us scenes from his life that are at times poignant, revelatory, frightening, soul-stirring, painful, funny and uplifting, That Bird Has My Wings tells the story of the author’s childhood with parents addicted to heroin, an abusive foster family, a life of crime and imprisonment, and the eventual embracing of Buddhism. Masters’s story drew the attention of luminaries in the world of American Buddhism, including Pema Chodron, who wrote a story about him for O Magazine and offers a foreword to the book. Thirty-two years after his conviction, Masters is still on Death Row. A growing movement of people believe Masters is innocent, and are actively working within the legal system to free him.
Download or read book All of Us with Wings written by Michelle Ruiz Keil and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This young adult fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is “a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era,” told through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl (Entertainment Weekly). “Complex and beautiful, blending folklore, San Franciscan history, the music scene, vampires, magic . . . hard to put down.” —School Library Journal Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame. But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.
Download or read book Warrior Men With Angel Wings written by Sundi Sturgeon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a spiritual journey through this breath-taking book. Compiled by Sundi and Joseph Sturgeon, Warrior Men with Angel Wings is the first book in the Warrior with Angel Wings anthology series. Each co-author has shared their own personal story of overcoming through Love, Hope, Faith, Courage and Angels.
Download or read book The Wings of Man written by Vito Borrelli and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wings of Man - The Story of Eastern Air Lines as Told by Its People is a collection of over seventy stories written by pilots, flight attendants, management and ground staff of the iconic Eastern Air Lines, an airline that was an industry pioneer for decades. The book recalls Eastern's proud history of aviation firsts, features stories about important events and recollections about the people who built Eastern, including Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Floyd Hall, Capt. Dick Merrill, CFO Charlie Simons, VP Russ Ray, and President Sam Higginbottom. Besides the stories, the book is chock full of beautiful color and vintage photographs of aircraft and people, as well as images of rare and nostalgic collector's memorabilia. This book has something for everyone.
Download or read book Locklear the Man who Walked on Wings written by Art Ronnie and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaf Storm written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1979 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968.
Download or read book Wings written by E.D. Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book If I Had Two Wings Stories written by Randall Kenan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Wings written by Tracey Turner and published by Wheels/Wings. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visually stunning book about all kinds of wings - not just those on aeroplanes!
Download or read book Wings written by Shinsuke Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative story of a farmer finding a dog that has 'wings', and the adventures and havoc that follow the dog with wings.
Download or read book A Pair of Silver Wings written by James Holland and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward Enderby has never spoken about being an RAF fighter pilot. But fifty years after the greatest conflict the world has ever seen, he must finally confront the memories he has tried so hard to forget. From the bright skies over England in 1941, through the dark days of the Siege of Malta, to a bitter partisan struggle in Italy, his takes a momentous journey that will change him forever. And despite the damage the war has wrought, Edward has one last chance to save himself from his past...
Download or read book The Thing in the Forest Storycuts written by A S Byatt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of stories themselves. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.
Download or read book Pigs Have Wings written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blandings is now a major BBC One television series starring Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall. Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe Bart. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate? In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle.
Download or read book Man with Wings written by Joseph Cottler and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Dulcie Duke, former history lecturer at this college.
Download or read book THE SEVEN WINGS OF WITCHCRAFT VOLUME ONE written by UDUAK IKONO and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Wings of Witchcraft is a spiritual classic anchored on divine inspiration. It demystifies mysterious witchcraft operations that have placed many a Christian and a vast majority of people under the binding siege of the adversary, and cogently proffers potent deliverance only in the able hands of the Almighty God. In it are stark revelations that the devil is the ruler of this world (John 12: 31), that the world lies in his power (1 John 5:19), and that he is - in consort with his human agents - the inventor and custodian of malevolent entities and activities that have twisted the divine plan for humanity. The book is a fountain of spiritual truth, bringing an enthusiastic and didactic discovery that will improve the reader's walk with God. In a true blend of spiritual depth, insight and simplicity, the book gives accurate information about the weapons of the enemy on the saved ones, and recommends practical spiritual guides on how to conquer them.
Download or read book The Man and His Wings written by William Wellman Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging epic battles of his own with studio executives, Wild Bill managed to finish the big-budget war saga by inventing many of the techniques still used to film aerial battle scenes. The film, starring Clara Bow, broke box office records and earned its studio the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Considered by many to be the last great film of the silent era, Wings has been cited as a major influence on such directors as Martin Scorsese and Robert Redford. Its director, who went on to direct the likes of John Wayne, James Cagney, and Gary Cooper, later earned an Oscar for writing one of Hollywood's most loved (and often remade) films, A Star is Born. In this biography, the director's son, William Wellman Jr., reveals the war hero, family man, occasional prankster, and underestimated visionary who changed Hollywood forever. Augmented with personal correspondence from Wellman's own World War I tour of duty as a fighter pilot, on-set photographs from Wings and other classic Hollywood films, and anecdotes from the back lots of the early studio system, this unique work traces the way in which the first Best Picture's director used his own war experience to bring a war epic to the screen. The versatile director also excelled at comedies such as Nothing Sacred (1937), and had a lasting influence on the gangster genre with The Public Enemy (1931), starring James Cagney. With the recent release of Wellman's later aviation classics, Island in the Sky (1953) and The High and the Mighty (1954), both starring John Wayne, Wellman is gaining renewed attention and appreciation from a new generation of film enthusiasts. The book ends with a detailed Filmography of more than 75 classic films directed by Wellman.
