Sky Full of Heat

Author: Sebastian Kawa
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781481147354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
How to enjoy flying and how to fly successfully. Eight time World Champion and his secrets of success: passion, knowledge and experience. The most extreme side of the extreme sports. Almost 350 pages of aviation stories and advice on successful flying you will not find in any handbook. For recreational, cross country and competition pilots. Down to earth and brutally sincere approach to safety issues. 94 hand drawn illustrations and 29 photos Simply a must read. Part 1 - My WingsSebastian talks about sailing and flying, his first flights and first competitions, wins and loses, gliders and avionics, safety and taking necessary risk. Part 2 - Ars Volandi How to plan cross country flights, how to use thermals, where to look for them, how to win competitions and tons of other tips from the world's best.

Reflecting the Sky

Author: S. J. Rozan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312981341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
It's a great honor when Grandfather Gao, a family friend and elder in New York's Chinatown community, asks Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith to go to Hong Kong to deliver the ashes of an old friend for burial, a letter from that friend to his brother, and a vauable jade figurine for the friend's seven-year-old grandson.

A Sky the Color of Chaos

Author: M. J. Fievre
Publisher: Beating Windward Press LLC
ISBN: 9781940761183
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
"A Sky the Color of Chaos" chronicles M.J.'s perilous childhood during the turbulent rise and fall of Haiti's President-Priest - a time of nightly shootings, home invasions, robberies, and burning of former regime members in neighborhood streets. Haiti's rich culture and breathtaking beauty are contrasted not only with the terror in Port-au-Prince's streets, but also with the turmoil inside M.J.'s own home. Her father's hot-blooded nature and unpredictable moods amplify her fevered need to escape a home, and homeland, where random violence and bloodshed are commonplace.

Between the Sea and Sky

Author: Jaclyn Dolamore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 159990652X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
For as long as Esmerine can remember, she has longed to join her older sister, Dosinia, as a siren--the highest calling a mermaid can have. When Dosinia runs away to the mainland, Esmerine is sent to retrieve her. Using magic to transform her tail into legs, she makes her way unsteadily to the capital city. There she comes upon a friend she hasn't seen since childhood--a dashing young man named Alandare, who belongs to a winged race of people. As Esmerine and Alandare band together to search for Dosinia, they rekindle a friendship . . . and ignite the emotions for a love so great, it cannot be bound by sea, land, or air.

Roots and Sky

Author: Christie Purifoy
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 1493401793
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
When Christie Purifoy arrived at Maplehurst that September, she was heavily pregnant with both her fourth child and her dreams of creating a sanctuary that would be a fixed point in her busily spinning world. The sprawling Victorian farmhouse sitting atop a Pennsylvania hill held within its walls the possibility of a place where her family could grow, where friends could gather, and where Christie could finally grasp and hold the thing we all long for--home. In lyrical, contemplative prose, Christie slowly unveils the small trials and triumphs of that first year at Maplehurst--from summer's intense heat and autumn's glorious canopy through winter's still whispers and spring's gentle mercies. Through stories of planting and preserving, of opening the gates wide to neighbors, and of learning to speak the language of a place, Christie invites readers into the joy of small beginnings and the knowledge that the kingdom of God is with us here and now. Anyone who has felt the longing for home, who yearns to reconnect with the beauty of nature, and who values the special blessing of deep relationships with family and friends will love finding themselves in this story of earthly beauty and soaring hope.

Flying Conditions

Author: Dennis Pagen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description

Glow

Author: Amy Kathleen Ryan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312590563
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
Part of the first generation to be conceived in deep space, fifteen-year-old Waverly is expected to marry young and have children to populate a new planet, but a violent betrayal by the dogmatic leader of their sister ship could have devastating consequences.

The Grandmothers

Author: Glenway Wescott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description

The Sky Is Everywhere (Movie Tie-In)

Author: Jandy Nelson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593616014
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Jandy Nelson's beloved, critically adored debut is now an Apple TV+ and A24 original film starring Jason Segel, Cherry Jones, Grace Kaufman, and Jacques Colimon. “Both a profound meditation on loss and grieving and an exhilarating and very sexy romance." —NPR Adrift after her sister Bailey’s sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby—Bailey’s boyfriend who shares Lennie's grief—and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs. One boy helps her remember. The other lets her forget. And she knows if the two of them collide, her whole world will explode. As much a laugh-out-loud celebration of love as a nuanced and poignant portrait of loss, Lennie's struggle to sort her own melody out of the noise around her makes for an always honest, often uproarious, and absolutely unforgettable read.

Sky Full of Elephants

Author: Cebo Campbell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668034921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black? One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family. Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search for answers. But neither of them are prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it. Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.