Download or read book Wings of the Falcon written by Barbara Michaels and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of her English father left Francesca alone and unprotected, with nowhere to turn but to the noble Italian family of her late mother. Adrift in a strange land, surrounded by cold and suspicious relatives who had disowned her mother on her wedding day, Francesca is determined to make the best of a bad situation. But nothing could have prepared her for the nest of dark secrets and oppressive cruelty she has been cast into. And her fate now rests in the hands of a mysterious horseman known as the Falcon, whose appearance will speed her salvation ... or hasten her doom.
Download or read book On Falcon Wings written by Orion Publishing Group, Limited and published by Orion. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wings of a Falcon written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1993 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was something different about him. He had no name. He showed no emotion, never yielded. And Griff had always stood by him. Even in this place where cruelty and betrayals were the way of life. So when he decides to escape, he takes Griff with him. Their journey has no known destination, and no purpose except to make their way through life's chances.
Download or read book On Falcon s Wings written by Deborah J Dybowski and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Falcon - young, impulsive, perched hungrily on a chimney top. Where will his breakfast come from? Meet Rabbit - old, lonely, and sad, having broken his teeth on a juicy turnip. What is he to do without his sharp front teeth? And what will happen when this unlikely pair meet, and set out on a journey together? On Falcon’s Wings is a gentle story for children ages 4-7, dealing with themes of friendship, kindness, support, and encouragement. It shows how help and adventure can sometimes come from the most unexpected of places.
Download or read book On Falcon s Wings written by Richard Willis and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Falcon s Wings written by Lisa J. Yarde and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love united them. Destiny drove them apart. When Avicia, a Norman noblewoman, makes a careless but costly mistake with a prized falcon, the brutal punishment nearly claims her life. Her Saxon lover, Edric of Newington, witnesses her ordeal but cannot share her fate. Another destiny awaits him in England, and the prospect of a loveless marriage. Swept away in the arms of another, Avicia enters the treacherous court of Duke William of Normandy. Through the years, Edric and Avicia reunite in a timeless, forbidden love, but a bitter rivalry for the English throne divides them. In a world forever altered in the aftermath of Hastings, hope rises and the chance to love again.
Download or read book Wings for My Flight written by Marcy Cottrell Houle and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring book, young wildlife biologist Marcy Cottrell Houle spends a summer perched on a high rock in Colorado's southwest desert. With no phone or running water, she and her research parmer immerse themselves in the study of a pair of endangered peregrine falcons that return to their ancestral nesting site on Chimney Rock. Coming to know these birds intimately while sharing their home, Houle develops an abiding devotion to them. She observes their breathtaking flight, their indomitable character, and their urgent will to survive. Before me a peregrine falcon emerged from the cliff with a fierce beauty; with utmost ease and perfect control it spun in a dizzying dive to the earth. Talons outstretched, it lightly grazed the object of its attention -- a trespassing prairie falcon who had slipped across the peregrine's invisible territorial line.... Its flight was a gust of pure energy. While conducting her research, Houle learns that Chimney Rock is the site of an Anasazi ruin slated for commercial development. She meets the unexpected resistance and hostility of townspeople who resent the obstacle the endangered birds pose to potential tourist dollars. Houle uncovers the depth and complexity of the issue that leads this community -- and so many others like it in today's growing world -- to an angry impasse. With compassion, insight, and fairness, Houle explores the dilemma between environmentalists and developers, both of whom value the land, but in different ways. Wings for My Flight is the story of one biologist who, through the help of another species, comes to a greater understanding of her own. As a Colorado press, Pruett Publishing is proud to reissue thisaward-winning book that addresses issues vital to Coloradans and Westerners.
Download or read book On Falcon Wings written by Lindsay Peacock and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-11-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fighting Falcon is renowned as the best dogfighter in use with air forces around the world, and one of the stars of the Gulf War. This volume follows the F-16 Falcon's evolution from the lightweight day fighter to becoming one of the most potent warplanes ever developed and now in active service with a score of the world's air arms. It features first-hand accounts of action in the Gulf War and a pilot's eye-view of the early General Dynamics test programme.
Download or read book The Falcon Always Wings Twice written by Donna Andrews and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment. When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia. More exciting to Grandfather is the pair of rare falcons he discovers breeding at the fairgrounds. Concerned for their well-being amid all the activity, he appoints himself their protector. When one of the actors performing at the fair is found dead—an actor suspected of mistreating one of the falcons, among other sins—Grandfather is a prime suspect. Donna Andrews’s long-running Meg Langslow series continues to be beloved by its fans, who loyally read every new installment. The Falcon Always Wings Twice is a perfect new addition, full of laughter, adventure, and Andrews's wonderful cast of wacky characters.
Download or read book Wings for My Flight written by Marcy Cottrell Houle and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blends adventure, romance, humor and pathos. . . . Offers vivid descriptions of her sky-diving subjects and the seductive beauty of the wilderness.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Well crafted and compelling, a dramatization of the classic conflict between the legitimate interests of conservationists and developers. This is a fine book on several levels, as science, sociology, or a story. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal Forty years ago, the peregrine falcon was on the U.S. endangered species list and many doubted that it would survive. Marcy Houle was a young wildlife biologist observing one of the last remaining pairs—located at a site in southwest Colorado slated for development as a major tourist site. First published in 1991 and winner of several national awards, this book chronicles her work at Chimney Rock along with the recovery of the species. A new preface examines the last thirty years of the peregrine population and its remarkable comeback and culminates with President Barack Obama’s designation of Chimney Rock as a national monument.
Download or read book On Falcon Wings written by Susan Morrell and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ms. Morrell creates a literary self-portrait using a spectrum of her writings-poems, essays and stories-to chronicle episodes of her life's journey. She shares her lessons by illustrating, not by pontificating, the importance of self-reflection, hindsight and the "big picture." Purposely not a typical autobiography, Susan lets her writings tell her story as they "?explain my thought processes, expose my emotional methodology and validate my spiritual progression."Susan reveals her most heartfelt, heartbreaking and heartwarming memories, exposes her vulnerabilities and acknowledges her strengths, while allowing her readers to 'connect the dots' and learn about themselves as they learn about her. "I am a 'peaceful provocateur' in that I want to both inspire and challenge my readers to search deep inside themselves for the gems of their own evolutions. The student in me relishes the lessons I have learned-the teacher in me delights in passing on those lessons.""
Download or read book On the Wing written by Alan Tennant and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary journey, Alan Tennant recounts his attempt to track the transcontinental migration of the majestic peregrine falcon — an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths. From the windswept flats of the Texas barrier islands to the Artic and then south again into the Caribbean, On the Wing provides a hilariously picaresque and bumpy flight.
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Download or read book The Falcon who Found His Wings written by Rachel Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wings of the Falcon written by Barbara Mertz and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Falcon written by Helen Macdonald and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she told the story of the falcon, in a cultural history of the masterful creature that can “cut the sky in two” with the “perfectly aerodynamic profile of a raindrop,” as she so incisively puts it. In talon-sharp prose she explores the spell the falcon has had over her and, by extension, all of us, whether we’ve seen them “through binoculars, framed on gallery walls, versified by poets, flown as hunting birds, through Manhattan windows, sewn on flags, stamped on badges, or winnowing through the clouds over abandoned arctic radar stations.” Macdonald dives through centuries and careens around the globe to tell the story of the falcon as it has flown in the wild skies of the natural world and those of our imagination. Mixing history, myth, and legend, she explores the long history of the sport of falconry in many human cultures—from Japan to Abu Dhabi to Oxford; she analyzes the falcon’s talismanic power as a symbol in art, politics, and business; and she addresses the ways we have both endangered and protected it. Along the way we discover how falcons were mobilized in secret military projects; their links with espionage, the Third Reich, the Holy Roman Empire, and space programs; and how they have figured in countless stories of heroism and, of course, the erotic. Best of all, Macdonald has given us something fresh: a new introduction that draws on all her experience to even further invigorate her cherished subject. The result is a deeply informed book written with the same astonishing lyrical grace that has captivated readers and had everyone talking about this writer-cum-falconer.
Download or read book On Falcons Wings written by John Scharfen and published by . This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you liked Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, you will love On Falcons' Wings.Author John Scharfen tells the inspirational, heroic, sometimes humorous stories of American men and women living in an Air Force retired officer community. There are profiles of the: Air Force officer who landed a crippled airplane backwards during WWII Army officer who captured a German Mark IV tank while afoot Air Force officer who, having been shot down in Germany, walked across the country to freedom Combat hardened Marine who, upon retirement, became the military correspondent for The New York Times Young girl's WWII travails in leaving German occupied France Coast Guard officer who commanded an LCI at the Normandy landings A naval aviator who flew multiple WWII missions against the Japanese homeland Foreign Service officer who, upon retirement, appeared in 24 movies. There is a thread that runs through these profiles of achievement, heroism, sacrifice and patriotism that will make you want to salute these exceptional Americans of an intrepid generation.
