Fly Away Peter

Author: David Malouf
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409029867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.

Fly Away Peter

Author: David Malouf
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099273829
Category : Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
New ISBN and cover.

Fly Away Peter

Author: Frank Dickens
Publisher: Pavilion Children's
ISBN: 1843652382
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
A classic gem from the 60's brought up-to-date while maintining a wonderful retro feel. Jeffrey the giraffe with the short neck, and Peter,the bird who can''t fly, are delighted to become friends because they are both different. When they decide to play together to cheer each other up, they hardly expect that a game of hide-and-seek will not only involve all the other animals but surprisingly solve their problems.

Fly Away

Author: Peter M. Rutkoff
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9781421418476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Great Migration—the mass exodus of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and West in the twentieth century—shaped American culture and life in ways still evident today. In Fly Away, Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott trace the ideas that inspired African Americans to abandon the South for freedom and opportunity elsewhere. Black southerners fled the Low Country of South Carolina, the mines and mills of Birmingham, Alabama, the farms of the Mississippi Delta, and the urban wards of Houston, Texas, for new opportunities in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Los Angeles. They took with them the South’s rich traditions of religion, language, music, and art, recreating and preserving their southern identity in the churches, newspapers, jazz clubs, and neighborhoods of America’s largest cities. Rutkoff and Scott’s sweeping study explores the development and adaptation of African American culture, from its West African roots to its profound and lasting impact on mainstream America. Broad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.

Just Fly Away

Author: Andrew McCarthy
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616207736
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
SPECIAL PREVIEW! A debut novel about one girl’s discovery of family secrets, first love, the limits of forgiveness, and finding one’s way in the world, written with wisdom and sympathy by the bestselling memoirist, actor, and director. When fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a child from a brief affair, an eight-year-old boy named Thomas who lives in her own suburban New Jersey town, she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her family and her life. Lucy can’t believe her father betrayed the whole family, or that her mother forgave him, or that her sister isn’t rocked by the news the way Lucy is. Worse, Lucy’s father’s secret is now her own, one that isolates her from her friends, family, and even her boyfriend, Simon, the one person she expected would truly understand. When Lucy escapes to Maine, the home of her mysteriously estranged grandfather, she finally begins to get to the bottom of her family’s secrets and lies. Fans of the rebels and antiheroes in the novels of Rainbow Rowell, A. S. King, and Meg Wolitzer will welcome this sharp, observant new voice in young adult fiction.

Fly Away, Paul

Author: Peter Davies
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780517514375
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
A teen-age boy living in a boy's home in Montreal copes with the loss of his three best friends and with the cruelty and sexuality of the other boys as he fights to make a new way of life for himself.

Fly Away

Author: Lynn Austin
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1496437276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Bestselling author Lynn Austin’s historical novels have entertained readers worldwide; now, rediscover her beloved contemporary debut. Wilhelmina Brewster and Mike Dolan are two very different people—one is trying to figure out how to live, the other how to die. Wilhelmina Brewster has been a college music professor for 41 years, never marrying, devoting her life to her career instead. After a forced retirement, however, she is mourning and searching for something to fill the empty hours. Widower Mike Dolan is a pilot and World War II veteran who has always lived life to the fullest. But when his cancer returns, he makes plans for a final flight in his airplane rather than become a burden to his family. When their paths cross unexpectedly and Wilhelmina accidentally learns of Mike’s plans, she’s horrified, certain he’s making a mistake that she can correct. What she didn’t expect was how spectacularly she would fail, or how completely Mike would change her perspective on life, loss, and faith in the process.

Fly Away Home

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395559628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal trying not to be noticed, is given hope when a trapped bird finally finds his freedom. Full-color illustrations.

Fly Away Peter

Author: David Malouf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 133

Book Description

Fly Away with Big Bird

Author: Random House
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375813245
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Big Bird is taking a trip on a plane to see his Granny Bird. Kids come along for the ride as he learns all about planes. Many of the activities have an airplane theme, from an I-Spy game to mazes and connect-the-dots. Kids can take this coloring and activity book, with a die-cut handle, wherever they go! Whether it's a trip in a car, airplane, or bus -- or on foot -- it's easy to carry and offers hours of coloring fun and games.