On Blackened Wings

Author : Christina Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101445402

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Black Wings by Christina Henry Pdf

The first novel of the Black Wings urban fantasy series, by Christina Henry, author of Alice and Lost Boy. As an Agent of Death, Madeline Black is responsible for escorting the souls of the dearly departed to the afterlife. It’s a 24/7 job with a lousy benefits package. Maddy’s position may come with magical abilities and an impressive wingspan, but it doesn’t pay the bills. And then, there are her infuriating boss, tenant woes, and a cranky, popcorn-loving gargoyle to contend with. Things starts looking up, though, when tall, dark, and handsome Gabriel Angeloscuro agrees to rent the empty apartment in Maddy’s building. It’s probably just a coincidence that as soon as he moves in, demons appear on the front lawn. But when an unholy monster is unleashed upon the streets of Chicago, Maddy discovers powers she never knew she possessed. Powers linked to a family legacy of tarnished halos. Powers that place her directly between the light of Heaven, and the fires of Hell…

Author : William J. Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798869162151

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Black Wings by William J. Powell Pdf

Black Wings, published in 1934 during the Great Depression, is the autobiography of black aviation pioneer, engineer, and entrepreneur William Powell. In 1917 he enlisted in officer training school and served in a segregated unit during World War I. During the war Powell was gassed by the enemy, and he suffered health problems throughout his life from this poison gas attack. After the war Powell opened service stations in Chicago. He became interested in aviation, but the only school that would train him was located in Los Angeles. He sold his businesses in Chicago and moved to the West Coast. After receiving his pilot's license in 1932, Powell set out to motivate other African Americans to pursue a career in aviation. Powell eventually opened an all-black flight school, produced a movie, published monthly journals, offered scholarships to young African Americans, and founded the first African American owned airplane manufacturer. Powell died in 1942.

Author : Samuel L. Broadnax
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313083600

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Blue Skies, Black Wings by Samuel L. Broadnax Pdf

At the age of 17, Samuel L. Broadnax—enamored with flying—enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. Blue Skies, Black Wings recounts the history of African Americans in the skies from the very beginnings of manned flight. From Charles Wesley Peters, who flew his own plane in 1911, and Eugene Bullard, a black American ace with the French in World War I, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies in the Air Corps, Broadnax paints a vivid picture of the people who fought oppression to make the skies their own.

Author : Elliott Chaze
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486824055

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Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze Pdf

Originally published: Gold Medal Books, New York, 1953.

Author : James E. Wisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945763418

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On Blackened Wings by James E. Wisher Pdf

Author : Alex London
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374306830

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Black Wings Beating by Alex London Pdf

*An NBC Today Show Book Club Pick!* *A Seventeen Magazine Best YA Book of 2018!* *A Kirkus Best YA Fantasy Book of the Year* *A We Need Diverse Books 2018 Must-Read* "Epic thrills, heart-punching romance, and a marvel of a hero" --Adam Silvera, New York Times-bestselling author of They Both Die at the End The people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more honored than the falconers who call them to their fists. Brysen strives to be a great falconer—while his twin sister, Kylee, rejects her ancient gifts for the sport and wishes to be free of falconry. She’s nearly made it out, too, but a war is rolling toward their home in the Six Villages, and no bird or falconer will be safe. Together the twins must journey into the treacherous mountains to trap the Ghost Eagle, the greatest of the Uztari birds and a solitary killer. Brysen goes for the boy he loves and the glory he's long craved, and Kylee to atone for her past and to protect her brother's future. But both are hunted by those who seek one thing: power. In this first young-adult fantasy novel in a trilogy, Alex London launches a soaring saga about the memories that haunt us, the histories that hunt us, and the bonds of blood between us.

Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785656927

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Black Wings of Cthulhu by S. T. Joshi Pdf

H. P. Lovecraft’s brand of cosmic horror has long forced readers to an inexorable truth—there are powers in the universe whose immensity dwarfs petty human conflicts. Inspired by Lovecraft and brought together by editor S. T. Joshi, the stories in Black Wings of Cthulhu 5 explore the very essence of fear. Between these covers lie many of the finest Lovecraftian authors, including Sunni K Brock, Donald R. Burleson, Mollie L. Burleson, Nicole Cushing, Jason C. Eckhardt, Sam Gafford, Wade German, Cody Goodfellow, David Hambling, Lynne Jamneck, Mark Howard Jones, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nancy Kilpatrick, W. H. Pugmire, John Reppion, Darrell Schweitzer, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, Robert H. Waugh, and Stephen Woodworth.

Author : Caitlin R. Kiernan
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857687852

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Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Two) by Caitlin R. Kiernan Pdf

Editor S.T. Joshi has assembled 18 brand-new stories of cosmic mayhem and terror, by Jason V. Brock, Rick Dakan, Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, Tom Fletcher, Richard Gavin, Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Langan, Nick Mamatas, Nicholas Royle, Darrell Schweitzer, John Shirley, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, Don Webb, and Chet Williamson.

Author : David Campiche
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039141469

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Black Wing by David Campiche Pdf

Above the precipice, a lone eagle circled. Two, three, four times, it floated across a half-dozen spots of living flesh, six men ascending painfully up the cliff face, praying for wings like his. Deep in the winter of 1896, Dan Skinner and his younger brother, André, flee into the icy, windswept mountains of British Columbia, barely ahead of a contingent of Mounties and their Tsimshian tracker, Tom LaCross, once a friend and mentor to Dan. In the brutal, relentless cat and mouse chase that ensues, some of these men will fall, but for the survivors a collision of cultures awaits far ahead in the wilderness. As history painfully unwinds at a dire time for the Native Peoples, and environmental disaster follows the destruction of their way of life, Black Wing introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: two friends torn apart by racial hatred, a Native shaman with formidable power, a wife determined to reunite with her lost husband, a band of Native people fighting to preserve their ways...and generations later, a descendant who takes on the quest for ecological balance. In gorgeous, sensory, lyrical prose, author David Campiche has filtered his meticulous research on First Nations history and traditions into a nail-biting thriller that pulses with grief and rage at all that’s been lost. Black Wing is a banquet for the senses, a symphony for the emotions, an elegy for what’s gone, and a clarion call for what needs to be done.

Author : James E. Wisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945763035

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Raging Sea and Trembling Earth by James E. Wisher Pdf

A new threat from an old empire. Damien St. Cloud has barely begun his search for Connor Blackman when a new threat appears on the horizon, ships sailing out of the Old Empire. No one has had contact with the empire in 400 years. What could they want and what will it mean for the kingdom. Meanwhile, out in the haunted lands, Connor searches for an artifact of dark and dangerous power. An artifact that could bring the kingdom to its knees. Out in the Western Ocean Damien will come eye to eye with the most powerful creature on the planet. In the haunted lands Connor will risk his existence to see his sinister plans to completion. The sea will rage and the earth will tremble.

Author : Elliott Chaze
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486832562

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Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze Pdf

Narrated by a death-row killer, this noir classic recounts the ultimate heist, undertaken by an escaped convict and a prostitute with a refined manner. "Flawless ... beyond perfection." — New York magazine.

Author : Christina Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101560402

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Black Howl by Christina Henry Pdf

Something is wrong with the souls of Chicago's dead. Ghosts are walking the streets, and Agent of Death Madeline Black's exasperating boss wants her to figure out why. And while work is bad enough, Maddy has a plethora of personal problems too. Now that Gabriel has been assigned as her thrall, their relationship has hit an impasse. At least her sleazy ex-fiance Nathaniel is out of the picture--or so she thinks...

Author : Von Hardesty
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123363066

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Black Wings by Von Hardesty Pdf

Featuring approximately 200 historic and contemporary photographs and a lively narrative that spans eight decades of U.S. history, "Black Wings" offers a compelling overview of African Americans in aviation.

Author : James E Wisher
Publisher : Sand Hill Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945763403

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On Blackened Wings by James E Wisher Pdf

He has fallen. The Binder in Chains. An archangel of immeasurable power, cast from heaven, arrives to threaten all that our heroes know and care about. Only an unlikely combination of former enemies can stop him and send him back to where he belongs. Can these desperate forces come together in time to save the kingdom or will the world fall under the Binder’s brutal rule? Read the conclusion of Chains of the Fallen now.

Author : Christina Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101618172

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Black Spring by Christina Henry Pdf

A former Agent of death, Madeline Black now has everything to live for, most importantly, her unborn child. But Chicago has become ground zero in a struggle between ancient creatures, and only Maddy can stop the carnage… The mayor of Chicago has announced a plan to round up the city’s supernatural beings and put them in camps. With her due date looming, Maddy’s best move would be to lay low for a while. But not everyone is willing to respect her privacy. Hounded by tentacled monsters, a rogue shapeshifter, and a tenacious blogger, Maddy turns to her most powerful ally, her uncle Daharan, only to find him missing. Just when it seems like things can’t get any worse, Maddy gets an invitation in the mail—to Lucifer’s wedding. Turns out everyone has been invited, friends and enemies alike. And with that kind of guest list, it’s highly unlikely there will be a happily ever after.