Birds Without Wings
Birds Without Wings

Author: Louis de Bernieres

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0307424995

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In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment.

Flying Without Wings
Flying Without Wings

Author: Arnold Beisser

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1990-02-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 055334868X

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“Give yourself a gift and read Flying Without Wings. You will be kinder, wiser, and more compassionate for having read it. I am.”—Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren At twenty-four, Arnold Beisser was a recent medical school graduate and a nationally ranked tennis player. But overnight a devastating bout of polio left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on an iron lung to draw his next breath. Polio robbed Arnold Beisser of his strength, his athletic ability, and almost his life. Yet he discovered in this unthinkable trap not only the expected sadness and despair, but wonder, delight, and the pleasure of everyday living. This is the wise, deeply moving, and warmly humorous account of Arnold Beisser’s search for a new life and meaning as he comes to terms with his disability and then transcends it . . . to practice psychiatry, to fall in love, truly to soar without wings. His spirit and determination to fight for happiness will inspire any reader faced with unbearable loss. Dr. Beisser shows us why the contrast between winner and loser, athlete and cripple, is in our minds much more than in our bodies. And he shares with us the experiences that taught him life’s greatest truth: Nothing can keep you from love, laughter, meaningful work, or enlightenment—except yourself. “A book of blazing honesty and openness. It goes right to the heart of the reader.”—Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness

The Angel Without Wings
The Angel Without Wings

Author: Robbie Howerton

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1426988265

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The Angel Without Wings The day that Robbie's baby sister was born, he meets a boy named Kevin. Years later, he meets him again. The two of them become great friends; however, Robbie can tell that Kevin has a deep secret. When Robbie's Papa dies, Kevin is forced to tell the truth about just who he is and why he is here. He had been sent back to earth after dying in order to kill demons, with the help of a weapon created by God himself, the God Sword, the only weapon able to kill a demon. After Robbie discovers this, he agrees to help Kevin with his task. Their group slowly grows, and then Robbie finds out another truth—the more Kevin kills the demons, the closer he himself gets to becoming the strongest demon in the world. Robbie has to protect him from this fate. However he puts the blame on everything upon the demons and swears to get his revenge on them all!

Flight without Wings
Flight without Wings

Author: Patti Schofler

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1461748925

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The world’s oldest horse breed, the Arabian epitomizes equine versatility, participating in all disciplines of English, Western, dressage, driving, and in-hand horse show classes. Flight Without Wings chronicles the essential qualities and capabilities needed for success in every Arabian show division. It shares sound advice from top trainers and exhibitors to prepare for and compete in these competitions. It outlines the who, what, where, when and how of the Arabian show circuit. .

She Flies Without Wings
She Flies Without Wings

Author: Mary D. Midkiff

Publisher: Delta

Published: 2008-12-10

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307490866

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From a renowned horsewoman and gifted storyteller comes this groundbreaking new book that explores a powerful relationship like no other: the magical kinship between women and horses. Drawing from myth and literature, the author’s own experiences, and interviews with countless women, we learn, through women’s deeply personal stories, how horses enrich our lives and connect us to nature–making us readers of rhythm and invisible signs, helping us harness our youthful sexuality, sharing the “horsepower” we need to reach our dreams. And here we see how, for thousands of years, the deep kinship between women and horses has connected us to our most intimate feelings of delight, helped us learn to solve problems, and set our creativity free. From the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer to the fiction of Jane Austen to folktales from around the world, She Flies Without Wings uses great literature and myth to encompass a wide spectrum of beliefs and perspectives–and creates a true celebration of speed, air, and the spectacular animal that connects us with both. Filled with the moving lessons–-about sensuality, commitment, power, nurturance, and spirituality–women riders have known for centuries, written with a loving hand by an expert equestrian, She Flies Without Wings is an eloquent paean to a pairing that enlivened history, inspired literature, and continues to enchant us all.

FLYING W/O WINGS
FLYING W/O WINGS

Author: THOMPSON MILTON O

Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)

Published: 1999-04-17

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13:

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Written by a a pilot/engineer participant of NASA's lifting body program, this book documents the adventures, triumphs, setbacks, and fun of pioneering a technology that allowed astronauts to accomplish lifting reentries and precise runway landings.

A Butterfly Without Wings
A Butterfly Without Wings

Author: David M. F. Powers

Publisher: Pants on Fire Press

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780982727126

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When a caterpillar spots a green leaf waving from the top of a tree, he doesn't think twice about the dangers lurking about. Instead, he comes up with a plan and doggedly inches his way towards the leaf.

Books Do Not Have Wings
Books Do Not Have Wings

Author: Brynne Barnes

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1627539816

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This whimsical, rhyming tale whirls readers through all the fantastic things that can be found between the pages of a book. From a pirate adventure to a fairy fete, Books Do Not Have Wings explores all the wonderful things a book is that go way beyond its cover and pages.