Hope Takes Flight American Century Book 2

Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441239952

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Hope Takes Flight (American Century Book #2) by Gilbert Morris Pdf

Just years before America witnessed the turn of the century, the three eldest Stuart children left their home in the hills of Arkansas to pursue their dreams in the land of opportunity. Now they are back for a family reunion at the humble home they left years ago. In an unforeseeable turn of events, their visit is cut short when Lylah and Amos are required to return to the city as the world edges closer to war. Within months they find themselves and their brother Gavin deeply involved in the war efforts, but not in the ways they had ever expected. And as the conditions in Europe worsen, they must face a startling reality: before it's all over, the war could claim the life of one of their own. Will the Stuarts survive these tumultuous times and return to their family safe and sound? Or will World War I forever change the lives they know?

Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781585585472

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Pages of Promise (American Century Book #6) by Gilbert Morris Pdf

As a new decade begins, the United States enters the war in Korea. From Hollywood to the Ozarks, the sons and daughters of Will and Marian Stuart are living out their dreams and living the good life. The next generation of Stuarts has everything they could possibly want. Will they continue the family's legacy of faith as they launch out to pursue dreams of their own? Book 6 of the American Century series follows several of the younger Stuarts as they cope with war, disappointment, and shattered hopes. Returning to their roots on the family farm in Arkansas, they find love and healing in unexpected ways.

Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441239945

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Dawn of a New Day (American Century Book #7) by Gilbert Morris Pdf

It is the tumultuous 1960s: Kennedy, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, and youth culture are on everyone's minds and lips. Prosperity and progress are undergirded with a sense of uneasiness for the Stuart family, along with the rest of the country. With a movie deal on the horizon, Bobby Stuart's star may be rising, but his descent into celebrity drug culture might be his undoing. And young love is blooming between two people who never expected it. Gilbert Morris fans will be delighted with his foray into a colorful and controversial decade. Dawn of a New Day is the final, never-before-published conclusion to the popular American Century series.

Author : M. Houston Johnson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781623497217

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Taking Flight by M. Houston Johnson Pdf

Taking Flight explores the emergence of commercial aviation between the world wars—and in the midst of the Great Depression—to show that the industry’s dramatic growth resulted from a unique combination of federal policy, technological innovations, and public interest in air travel. Historian M. Houston Johnson V traces the evolution of commercial flying from the US Army’s trial airmail service in the spring of 1918 to the passage of the pivotal Air Commerce Act of 1938. Johnson emphasizes the role of federal policy—particularly as guided by both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt—to reveal the close working relationship between federal officials and industry leaders, as well as an increasing dependence on federal assistance by airline, airframe, and engine manufacturers. Taking Flight highlights the federal government’s successful efforts to foster a nascent industry in the midst of an economic crisis without resorting to nationalization, a path taken by virtually all European countries during the same era. It also underscores an important point of continuity between Hoover’s policies and Roosevelt’s New Deal (a sharp departure from many interpretations of Depression-era business history) and shows how both governmental and corporate actors were able to harness America’s ongoing fascination with flying to further a larger economic agenda and facilitate the creation of the world’s largest and most efficient commercial aviation industry. This glimpse into the golden age of flight contributes not only to the history of aviation but also to the larger history of the United States during the Great Depression and the period between the world wars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180418

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nathan Harris
Publisher : Tinder Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472274415

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The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2021, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SELECTION 'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' Observer Landry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. Cast into the world without a penny to their names, their only hope is to find work in a society that still views them with nothing but intolerance. Farmer George Walker and his wife Isabelle are reeling from a loss that has shaken them to their core. After a chance encounter, they agree to employ the brothers on their land, and slowly the tentative bonds of trust begin to blossom between the strangers. But this sanctuary survives on a knife's edge, and it isn't long before a tragedy causes the inhabitants of the nearby town to turn their suspicion onto these new friendships, with devastating consequences. '[A] highly accomplished debut' Sunday Times Readers have been swept away by The Sweetness of Water: 'Such a powerful, magnificent book; I urge you to read it. The comparisons with Colson Whitehead are justified' ***** 'A staggering debut and a story that stays with you' ***** 'Thought-provoking and moving . . . a gripping and compelling novel that exposes flaws, mixed emotions and imperfect relationships, and yet it holds on with determination and hope. It fully deserves a 5-star rating' ***** 'Outstanding . . . A book that deserves widespread recognition and a wide audience' *****

Author : Laura Best
Publisher : Cammie
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1771084677

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Cammie Takes Flight by Laura Best Pdf

Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, Cammie Turple was raised by her tenacious bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend, Evelyn Merry, destroy the local moonshine still, forcing Evelyn's alcoholic father to sober up but nearly killing Evelyn in the process, Cammie convinces her aunt to send her to the Halifax School for the Blind. Cammie Takes Flight finds Cammie navigating life at her new school, armed with an envelope with her estranged mother's address on it. Unsure if she can trust her new friend, Nessa, Cammie enlists her help in tracking her mother down.

Author : William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Atlases
ISBN : UOM:39015011269779

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The Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary by William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith Pdf

Author : Gordon Fraser
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812252927

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Star Territory by Gordon Fraser Pdf

In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.

Author : Barbara Hoster,Dirk Kuhlmann,Zbigniew Wesolowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351672603

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Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity Vol 2 by Barbara Hoster,Dirk Kuhlmann,Zbigniew Wesolowski Pdf

This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin (Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English, German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian’s diverse research interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History, History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today, Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well as the Encounter of Cultures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11456149

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The Century Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Dwight Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Biography
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6N7Y

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William Dwight Whitney Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Atlases
ISBN : UIUC:30112069827696

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The Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000091946

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ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature by Cristina Herrera Pdf

ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Pérez, Erika Sánchez, Guadalupe García McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with "nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term "ChicaNerd" to argue how the young women protagonists in these novels voice astute observations of their identities as nonwhite teenagers, specifically through a lens of nerdiness—a reclamation of brown girl self-love for being a nerd. In analyzing these ChicaNerds, the volume examines the reclamation and powerful acceptance of one’s nerdy Chicana self. While popular culture and mainstream media have shaped the well-known figure of the nerd as synonymous with white maleness, Chicana YA literature subverts the nerd stereotype through its negation of this identity as always white and male. These ChicaNerds unite their burgeoning sociopolitical consciousness as young nonwhite girls with their "nerdy" traits of bookishness, math and literary intelligence, poetic talents, and love of learning. Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd," ChicaNerds learn to navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019130

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The Flight From the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch Pdf

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.