Westwind

Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316497908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
For the first time in the US, this timeless cat-and-mouse classic from the Edgar Award-winning "genius" examines political tensions in an era of espionage (Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series). In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. Across the pond, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on board: A British citizen named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, at English ground control headquarters, Martin Hepton watches with dismay as they lose contact with the most advanced satellite in Europe. When a colleague who suspects something strange disappears, Hepton realizes there is much more at stake than anyone knows -- and many more people on his trail than he can possibly evade . . .

West Wind

Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395850855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
A collection of forty poems that explore the transformation of love and nature over time.

Westwind

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description

Westwind

Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 140919759X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught betwixt and between. In America, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on-board: A British man named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, Martin Hepton, an English ground control technician watches as they lose contact with the most advanced satellite in Europe. A colleague of Hepton's who suspects something strange is going on is signed off sick, and never comes back. Hepton decides to investigate his friend's suspicions and his trail leads him to Dreyfuss, the MI6, the American military, and back to his former girlfriend, Jill, who is an up-and-coming journalist with the contacts and the courage to cover the story. But there is much more at stake than anyone realises - and many more people on their trail than they can possibly evade...

A Strong West Wind

Author: Gail Caldwell
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812972562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty, its flat horizons broken only by oil derricks, grain elevators, and church steeples. Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who lit out for the territory, turned out to offer a blueprint for her own future. Caldwell would grow up to become a writer, but first she would have to fall in love with a man who was every mother’s nightmare, live through the anguish and fire of the Vietnam years, and defy the father she adored, who had served as a master sergeant in the Second World War. A Strong West Wind is a memoir of culture and history–of fathers and daughters, of two world wars and the passionate rebellions of the sixties. But it is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life. Caldwell possesses the extraordinary ability to illuminate the desires, stories, and lives of ordinary people. Written with humanity, urgency, and beautiful restraint, A Strong West Wind is a magical and unforgettable book, destined to become an American classic.

Flight of the Westwind

Author: Russ Protentis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736214626
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
In 1968, the battle in the skies over North Vietnam was a culmination of training, equipment, skill, and mostly luck. Both on the part of Navy Lt. Tony Nargi, his wingman, and the pilots in the MiGs. The terror in the skies would last but a moment. The thrill would last a lifetime. The addiction to the adrenaline of the uncertainty of life and death would send Tony on a trajectory he'd never imagine himself. Life had a few surprises ahead for Lt. Tony Nargi, but first he had to deal with the MiG 21 in his sights... In the ensuing years, he would face a total destruction of his life ending in a Federal Prison sentence. But the dedicated work of a Federal Agent named Russ Protentis would open an opportunity for Tony Nargi to redeem himself, and win a major victory in the war on drugs. This is their story.

Whispers in the Wind (Wild West Wind Book #2)

Author: Lauraine Snelling
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441270981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Book Two in Lauraine Snelling's Exciting Wild West Wind Series After fleeing North Dakota and the now defunct Wild West Show, Cassie Lockwood and her companions have finally found the hidden valley in South Dakota where her father had dreamed of putting down roots. But to her dismay, she discovers a ranch already built on her land. Cassie's arrival surprises Mavis Engstrom and forces her to reveal secrets she's kept hidden for years. Her son Ransom is suspicious of Cassie and questions the validity of her claim to the valley. But Lucas Engstrom decides from the start that he is in love with her and wants to marry her. Will Cassie be able to build a home on the Bar E Ranch and fulfill her father's dream of raising horses, or will she be forced to return to the itinerant life of her past?

Old Mother West Wind

Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description

Mother West Wind "When" Stories

Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
A collection of animal stories.

East Wind, West Wind

Author: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559210867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Pearl Buck tells the heart-seaching and tender story of a young Chinese girl's troubled acceptance of an alien way of life, with all its sorrows and rewards.