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Author : Ralph Churches
Publisher : Estate of Ralph Churches
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : 0646391178
A great yarn, about a man who could charm the birds from the trees, talking people into one of the greatest escapes of POWs of WW2
Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429967204
Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century. Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. That day comes suddenly when his grandfather dies leaving him the floundering business. With the help of Becky Salmon, an enterprising young woman, Charlie sets out to make a name for himself as "The Honest Trader". But the brutal onset of World War I takes Charlie far from home and into the path of a dangerous enemy whose legacy of evil follows Charlie and his family for generations.
Author : Gail Hartman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0785713948
A look at different geographical areas from the perspective of an eagle, rabbit, crow, horse, and gull
Author : Steve K. Bertrand
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524590376
The connection between crows and people extends far back in the history of the world. Here in the Pacific Northwest, corvids (crows, jay, and ravens) are as plentiful as rain. They frequent our forests, mountains, and seas. Because of the close proximity in which they dwell to humans, they are very much a part of our daily lives. They scavenge in our yards, streets, and trees. They perch atop stop signs, telephone poles, and automobiles. They frolic at the park, bus stops, and grocery stores. Dressed in black with a fan-shaped tail, their song is a repeated, Caw, caw, caw. Not known for being picky when it comes to food, they are known to dine on everything from insects and fruit to Burger King fare and Chinese takeout. And when it comes to lodging, crows hide their bowl-shaped nests constructed from twigs, moss, and leaves in trees or on the ground. Crows are known for their intelligence. Prevalent in the mythology of Native Americans, crows were often referred to as tricksters. Their brains are large compared to their body size. Befriend or antagonize a crow, and he will remember you. He may even pass on his praise or complaints to friends and relatives. Crows can be mischievous, passionate, playful, wrathful, and social. They have been known to drink coffee, fashion tools, and lure fish just like humans. And so long as you dont get on their bad side, crows make pretty good neighbors. This collection of poetry attempts to simply preserve observations of Corvids as we pass through the various seasons in the Pacific Northwest. One need not look too far for the human element in these poems. It is my hope this book honors these wondrous creatures. Enjoy!
Author : Martin A. Gardner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786454549
The Marx Brothers’ films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes, gags, puns, pratfalls, and mimicry. But beneath the laughs is a serious and biting condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, political practices, economic conditions, manners and customs, literary subjects, and popular entertainment as satirized in the films and considers the ways in which the films were relevant in their era and remain so today.
Author : Ann-Marie MacDonald
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307375919
“The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let’s get married. Let’s have kids. Let’s be the ones who do it right.” The Way the Crow Flies, the second novel by bestselling, award-winning author Ann-Marie MacDonald, is set on the Royal Canadian Air Force station of Centralia during the early sixties. It is a time of optimism--infused with the excitement of the space race but overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War--filtered through the rich imagination and quick humour of eight-year-old Madeleine McCarthy and the idealism of her father, Jack, a career officer. Ann-Marie MacDonald said in a discussion with Oprah Winfrey about her first book, “a happy ending is when someone can walk out of the rubble and tell the story.” Madeleine achieves her childhood dream of becoming a comedian, yet twenty years later she realises she cannot rest until she has renewed the quest for the truth, and confirmed how and why the child was murdered.. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called The Way the Crow Flies “absorbing, psychologically rich…a chronicle of innocence betrayed”. With compassion and intelligence, and an unerring eye for the absurd as well as the confusions of childhood, , MacDonald evokes the confusion of being human and the necessity of coming to terms with our imperfections.
Author : Julia J. Quinlan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448861569
Explains how to interpret and understand scales and distances on maps.
Author : David Peace
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571280674
In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England. And the most passionately supported club. Their manager was revered as a god.Destined for immortality. Their manager was Bill Shankly. His job was his life. His life was football. His football a form of socialism. Bill Shankly inspired people. Bill Shankly transformed people. The players and the supporters.His legacy would reveberate through the ages. In 1974, Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly stood on the verge of even greater success. In England and in Europe. But in 1974, Bill Shankly shocked Liverpool and football. Bill Shankly resigned. Bill Shankly retired. Red or Dead is the story of the rise of Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly. And the story of the retirement of Bill Shankly. Of one man and his work. And of the man after that work. A man in two halves. Home and away. Red or dead.
Author : Kenneth Roberts
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473347199
An exciting and fast paced adventure story based in colonial America. Written from the viewpoint of a fictional friend of the Historic Robert Rodgers, famed in America as the leader of 'Rodgers' Rangers' a guerrilla squadron harassing the English forces throughout the American War of Independence. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Veronique Tadjo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803288789
From the winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award, As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo's evocative collection of short stories. Writing in exquisite, poetic prose, Véronique Tadjo weaves together a rich tapestry of characters – all nameless and faceless – as they tell their stories of parting and return, losing and gaining, suffering and healing. Like a bird in flight, Tadjo travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, creating a lyrical and moving portrait of the interconnectedness of human life. 'A mosaic of 20th-century life.' Guardian
Author : Bruce Porter
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781466876248
BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car thief with connections to the then newly born cocaine operation in his native land. Together they created a new model for selling cocaine, turning a drug used primarily by the entertainment elite into a massive and unimaginably lucrative enterprise-- one whose earnings, if legal, would have ranked the cocaine business as the sixth largest private enterprise in the Fortune 500. The ride came to a screeching halt when DEA agents and Florida police busted Jung with three hundred kilos of coke, effectively unraveling his fortune. But George wasn't about to go down alone. He planned to bring down with him one of the biggest cartel figures ever caught. With a riveting insider account of the lurid world of international drug smuggling and a super-charged drama of one man's meteoric rise and desperate fall, Bruce Porter chronicles Jung's life using unprecedented eyewitness sources in this critically acclaimed true crime classic.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : George Robertson
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438202273
Author : W. B. Kennedy Shaw
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848328594
A “moving, exciting and authentic” chronicle of the British Army’s legendary recon and raiding unit in the desert of North African during WWII (The Observer). During its two-and-a-half years fighting in North Africa, from 1940 to 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the desert. This small, highly mobile force made a name for itself through daring exploits and vital reconnaissance far behind enemy lines. Emerging from the depths of the desert, the LRDG would raid airfields or attack Axis lines of communication along the Mediterranean coast—then vanish, only to reappear hundreds of miles away. First published in 1945, Long Range Desert Group is a classic of military nonfiction. With its brilliant description of the desert’s harsh beauty and its exciting chronicle of LRDG activities, it has lost none of its gripping, visceral power. “A remarkable record, told simply, unpretentiously and with engaging humor.” —The Manchester Guardian
Author : Ambrose Newcomb
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547601449
The Sky Pilot's Great Chase; Or, Jack Ralston's Dead Stick Landing by Ambrose Newcomb is an exhilarating aviation adventure that follows Jack Ralston in a high-stakes chase across the skies. Newcomb's narrative beautifully captures the thrill of flight, the challenges faced by pilots, and the spirit of determination, making it a must-read for those seeking action-packed aerial escapades.
Author : South Australia. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : South Australia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015392090