Pilot of Fortune
Title | Pilot of Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Beaudoin |
Publisher | Trafford on Demand Pub |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2009-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1426922302 |
Pilot of Fortune details the adventurous life and remarkable times of pilot extraordinaire, Sheldon Luck. It weaves the biography of a man who is truly a pilot of fortune into the fabric of Canadian history and the prominent role that aviation has played in it. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in flying or Canadian history, or both, as seen through the eyes of a very dynamic participant, a pilot who was the very type of pilot that movies are made of. It is the first book in his aviation trilogy, Walking on Air. The two other books are Earth Angels Rising - a tribute to the more than 1,500 civilians from 18 countries who helped make Ferry Command of WW II possible, and iIIGY Flies!, the story of a handful of dedicated aviation enthusiasts - the AEA 2005 Inc., a non-profit group near Niagara Falls, Ontario. This group built a full-scale replica of Canada's and the Commonwealth of Nations most important aircraft, the Silver Dart. This replica helped Canada celebrate 100 years of controlled, powered flight in Baddeck, Nova Scotia on Feb. 22nd, 2009 capping a century of powered flight for Canada, a lasting tribute to Alexander Graham Bells group of intrepid international aviation pioneers.
Pilot Fortune
Title | Pilot Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Marian Calhoun Legare Reeves |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | |
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The Pilot's Wife
Title | The Pilot's Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Shreve |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2014-11-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0349140820 |
An Oprah's Book Club selection, this gripping and powerfully wrought novel from the bestselling author of The Weight of Water is a stunning meditation on grief, betrayal and 'the ultimate unknowability of those closest to us' (Daily Telegraph) Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality? Being married to a pilot has taught Kathryn Lyons to be ready for emergencies, but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock on her door and the news of her husband's fatal crash. As Kathryn struggles through her grief, she is forced to confront disturbing rumours about the man she loved and the life that she took for granted. Torn between her impulse to protect her husband's memory and her desire to know the truth, Kathryn sets off to find out if she ever really knew the man who was her husband. In her determination to test the truth of her marriage, she faces shocking revelations about the secrets a man can keep and the actions a woman is willing to take. 'Enthralling' -Anita Brookner, author of the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac 'Compellingly told, brilliantly observed, lyrically written and when you get to the last page you simply want to run out and buy everything she's ever written' -Sunday Independent
Fortune's Rocks
Title | Fortune's Rocks PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Shreve |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1999-12-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780316781015 |
Olympia Biddeford's passionate affair with a married man nearly three times her age, results in her being exiled from society and forces her to make a new life for herself.
Pilot Your Life
Title | Pilot Your Life PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Shaw |
Publisher | Emmis Books |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781578601851 |
With humor and candor, the President and CEO of Pilot Pen Corporation of America shares the career and life lessons he's learned from eleven years in show business and more than forty years in the corporate world.
Child of Fortune
Title | Child of Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Spinrad |
Publisher | Gateway |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0575117265 |
In the exotic interstellar civilization of the Second Starfaring Age, youthful wanderers are known as Children of Fortune. This is the tale of one such wanderer, who seeks her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid humanity's many worlds.
The Pilot's Wife
Title | The Pilot's Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Shreve |
Publisher | Back Bay Books |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2007-07-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316025674 |
Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?