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Author: Tom Eeles
Publisher: Arena books
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1911593285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlying in Father's Slipstream describes the personal, technical details and the wider circumstances associated with a series of flights made by Harry and Tom Eeles when they served as Royal Airforce pilots between 1929 and 2010.
Author: Carol Shaben
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2013-05-21
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1455545627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead the "gripping and emotionally affecting" book where four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to (Washington Post). On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the criminal he was escorting to face charges. Despite the poor weather, Erik Vogel, the 24-year-old pilot, was under intense pressure to fly. Larry Shaben, the author's father and Canada's first Muslim Cabinet Minister, was commuting home after a busy week at the Alberta Legislature. Constable Scott Deschamps was escorting Paul Archambault, a drifter wanted on an outstanding warrant. Against regulations, Archambault's handcuffs were removed-a decision that would profoundly impact the men's survival. As the men fight through the night to stay alive, the dividing lines of power, wealth, and status are erased, and each man is forced to confront the precious and limited nature of his existence.
Author: Rinker Buck
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1401305776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriter Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.
Author: Christoph Huebener
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-02-12
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 3752884789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlying has always been an almost magical fascination. Even in times of global mass travel with huge airliners, you can hardly escape this spell. By how much more pronounced must this attraction be as a pilot of one's own plane? In his Flight Log, the 1960-born author with over three decades of flight experience up to now, tells exciting short stories about the feeling of freedom, independence and adventure. He tells how for the first time he held the controls by himself, how as an experienced pilot fixed rituals developed with his comrades and how floating above things literally gave him the necessary composure to make important life decisions. But it is not just an autobiographical narrative. Rather, this book uses individual episodes from the life of a passionate pilot to ask questions about life, uncover interpersonal behaviour and build bridges between people. In this way the reader can also find himself in this book. This makes the Flight Book unique and offers an entertaining and reflective read.
Author: Kenneth Zeigler
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2013-06-18
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0768485681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTears of Heaven, Book 5 Darkness consumes the planet as the Great Tribulation moves into its final and most critical moments. As history spirals towards its conclusion and creation imminently awaits the victorious return of Christ and His armies, Dr. Tom Carson, his family, and an elite resistance team rise up and engage the malevolent forces of evil in the battle of the millennium. After establishing a secret base, Dr. Carson and his task force use supernatural technology borrowed from the saints of Heaven to declare all-out war against the beast and his false prophet. While the resistance team cannot thwart prophetic events from unfolding, they are committed to pursuing and rescuing those whom the beast would seek to destroy—no matter what the cost. Prepare for an action-packed, heart-pounding race against time as a group of ordinary people face off against the most diabolical forces the world has ever seen.
Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2011-02-28
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 0330527835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlipstream brilliantly illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a highly personal insight into the life of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one of our most beloved British writers. 'This is a brave, absorbing and vulnerable book' – Guardian Elizabeth looks back over the course of her eventful life, providing a story of as full of love, passion and betrayal as her novels. Born in London in 1923, she was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first acclaimed novel, The Beautiful Visit, in 1950. She has written many highly regarded novels, including Falling and After Julius. Her Cazalet Chronicles have become established as modern classics and were adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. She has been married three times – firstly to Peter Scott, the naturalist and son of Captain Scott, and most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis. It was Amis' son by another marriage, Martin, to whom she introduced the works of Jane Austen and ensured that he received the education that would be the grounding of his own literary career. Her closest friends have included some of the greatest writers and thinkers of the day: Laurie Lee, Arthur Koestler and Cecil Day-Lewis, among others. In this memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard lays bare the slipstream of experience that has comprised her life – in the process, revealing her incredible adventures, wisdom and resilience. 'Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her' – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
Author: Miriam Toews
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1640091718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This saga of bad luck and good company is a wry, scary, heartfelt ode to the traverses we have to make in life when we're at the end of our rope and there's no net below us." —ELLE When Hattie's moody boyfriend dumps her in Paris, she returns home to find that her sister Min is in the psych ward again. Freaked out by the prospect of becoming a surrogate mother to Min's kids, Logan and Thebes, Hattie decides to take them in the family van to find their father, last heard to be running an idiosyncratic art gallery in South Dakota. What ensues is a remarkable journey across America, as aunt and kids—through chaos as diverse as their personalities—discover one another to be both far crazier and far more normal than any of them thought.
