Wings Of Madness

Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0786885718

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Wings of Madness by Paul Hoffman Pdf

Now in paperback, an "unforgettably good book [told] with compassion and sympathy" (Simon Winchester, New York Times) about an eccentric aviator and the thrilling early days of flight.p”From Paul Hoffman, the acclaimed author of emThe Man Who Loved Only Numbers/em, comes this engaging true story of the man who was once hailed worldwide as the conqueror of the air -- Alberto Santos-Dumont. Because the Wright brothers worked in secrecy, word of their first flights had not reached Europe when Santos-Dumont took to the skies in 1906. The dashing and impeccably dressed aeronaut stunned and delighted Paris, barhopping around the city in a one-man dirigible he invented, circling above crowds and crashing into rooftops.pYet Santos-Dumont was a frenzied genius tortured by the weight of his own creation. emWings of Madness

Author : Sandy Jeffs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1925950948

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Flying with Paper Wings by Sandy Jeffs Pdf

Sandy Jeffs was born in Ballarat in 1953. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976, a time when recovery was seen as unlikely. She was in and out of institutional care for 15 years, including at the infamous Larundel Psychiatric Hospital. Sandy was among the first to start speaking publicly about living with a mental illness, and much of her writing has been about her struggle to live a full life despite this, including in eight volumes of poetry. She is well-known as a community educator, speaking to doctors and psychiatrists, at community health centres, and educational institutions. She has been honoured in the Victorian Honour Roll of Women, Her Place Women' s Museum, and with an OAM in 2020.

Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173011671670

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Wings of Madness by Paul Hoffman Pdf

Biography of the young Brazilian who moved to Paris where he experimented with flight until Europeans came to call him the man who conquered air.

Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781401389567

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King's Gambit by Paul Hoffman Pdf

As a young man, Paul Hoffman was a brilliant chess player . . . until the pressures of competition drove him to the brink of madness. In King's Gambit, he interweaves a gripping overview of the history of the game and an in-depth look at the state of modern chess into the story of his own attempt to get his game back up to master level -- without losing his mind. It's also a father and son story, as Hoffman grapples with the bizarre legacy of his own dad, who haunts Hoffman's game and life.

Author : Jo Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Actors
ISBN : 1741101786

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Wings of Madness by Jo Buchanan Pdf

Jo Buchanan has written the story of her brave family living their public lives on television and movie screens, while dealing with a desperate, hidden tragedy.; The story of Logie winner, Miles Buchanan and his health problems._____________

Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307368874

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Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences. But with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the onset of the Great War, the sweep of history has a cataclysmic effect on this peaceful place: The great love of Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim, a Muslim shepherd who courts her from near infancy, culminates in tragedy and madness; Two inseparable childhood friends who grow up playing in the hills above the town suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the bloody struggle; and Rustem Bey, a wealthy landlord, who has an enchanting mistress who is not what she seems. Far away from these small lives, a man of destiny who will come to be known as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is emerging to create a country from the ruins of an empire. Victory at Gallipoli fails to save the Ottomans from ultimate defeat and, as a new conflict arises, Muslims and Christians struggle to survive, let alone understand, their part in the great tragedy that will reshape the whole region forever.

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811211290

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Madness in the Family by William Saroyan Pdf

"What a delight to find seventeen of Saroyan's uncollected stories within one cover!....charming tales, all blessed with Saroyan's pixieish imagination and magical writing style....Even today they read as though they have been freshly minted from the Saroyan treasure house. A discovery for those who love Saroyan's fiction; his spark is still wonderfully alive." --Library Journal

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547390909

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At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft Pdf

At the Mountains of Madness is a story, which details the events of a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic continent in September 1930 and what was found there by a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University. Throughout the story, Dyer details a series of previously untold events in the hope of deterring another group of explorers who wish to return to the continent. The title is derived from a line in "The Hashish Man," a short story by fantasy writer Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany: "And we came at last to those ivory hills that are named the Mountains of Madness..." Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Some of Lovecraft's work was inspired by his own nightmares. His interest started from his childhood days when his grandfather would tell him Gothic horror stories.

Author : Laura Goering
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781934359303

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Whistling Wings by Laura Goering Pdf

Marcel the swan stays behind when his family migrates for the winter, but soon finds he cannot find food and shelter the way other animals do in the winter.

Author : Hugh Pentecost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11087567

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The Wings of Madness by Hugh Pentecost Pdf

Author : Charles Todd
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312207519

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Wings of Fire by Charles Todd Pdf

In Charles Todd's Wings of Fire, Inspector Ian Rutledge is quickly sent to investigate the sudden deaths of three members of the same eminent Cornwall family, but the World War I veteran soon realizes that nothing about this case is routine. Including the identity of one of the dead, a reclusive spinster unmasked as O. A. Manning, whose war poetry helped Rutledge retain his grasp on sanity in the trenches of France. Guided by the voice of Hamish, the Scot he unwillingly executed on the battlefield, Rutledge is driven to uncover the haunting truths of murder and madness rooted in a family crypt...

Author : Stephen Gresham
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0821728911

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Blood Wings by Stephen Gresham Pdf

Wade Martin is haunted by a horrifying and very real incarnation of his worst nightmare--a bloodthirsty batman who is winging over the Everglades at night, feeding on unsuspecting Floridians

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547687412

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "Mrs. Dalloway" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

Author : Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307552112

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Unveiling Mary Magdalene by Liz Curtis Higgs Pdf

The veil has been lifted. Discover the Gospel truth about the most myth-understood woman of the New Testament. Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute? An adulteress? The wife of Jesus? An ancient goddess? Liz Curtis Higgs, best-selling author of Bad Girls of the Bible and Really Bad Girls of the Bible, combines heartfelt contemporary fiction with extensive biblical research to bring to life the real Mary Magdalene of the Bible. With her own eyes, she saw him. With her own ears, she heard him. With her own hands, she touched him. Unveiling Mary Magdalene opens with the fictional journey of Mary Margaret Delaney, a madwoman adrift in modern Chicago. Her moving story, closely paralleling the biblical account, is followed by a verse-by-verse study of the first-century Mary Magdalene and her life-changing encounters with the Christ. “Liz has done it again! What hope and promise this will bring.” —Kay Arthur “The unforgettable portrait of a courageous woman.” —Rebecca St. James

Author : Robert E Howard
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612106670

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Wings in the Night by Robert E Howard Pdf

In Africa again, Kane comes across an entire village wiped out, and all of the roofs have been ripped off, as if by something attempting to get inside from above.