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Author | : Jean Thompson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439129983 |
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A National Book Award finalist for her story collection Who Do You Love, Jean Thompson towers into the stratosphere with her new novel, Wide Blue Yonder. It is the summer of 1999, and something big and bad is coming to Springfield, Illinois, "the place the Weather lived." Wide Blue Yonder is a novel about weather in all its permutations -- climatic, emotional, even metaphysical. Our guides through this summer of blazing heat and fearsome storms compose an unlikely quartet, each preparing in some measure for the end of the world. Uncle Harvey believes he is the Weather Channel's "Local Forecast." Yet even an arsenal of meteorological facts and figures can't stanch his existential fears. Harvey's niece, Josie, is fixed with a different predicament. She's seventeen, with nowhere to get to in the Land of Lincoln except into deep trouble. Josie's mother, Elaine, feigns cheerful efficiency, desperately masking a far more urgent quest. And then there's the loner Rolando, who hails from Los Angeles. A human storm system fueled by boundless rage, Rolando is on course to make Springfield the ground zero of his wrath. Newsweek memorably described Thompson's previous collection, Who Do You Love, as "a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one." Wide Blue Yonder burns brighter, yet moves in the same mysterious ways.
Author | : Audrey Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : M W Arnold |
Publisher | : The Wild Rose Press Inc |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2021-07-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1509237658 |
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Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Doris Winter is accused of stealing a valuable item from a famous Hollywood movie star, now a captain in the US Army Air Corps, after a dance at the air base in England where he's stationed. Gathering her close friends together, she's determined to clear her name. Ruth's POW son suffers a life-changing injury just as her own cottage takes damage in an air raid and Penny's estranged little sister unexpectedly turns up, having run away from school. Together with the ongoing thefts of items of clothing and surprise personal revelations, these all threaten to hamper their investigation. In spite of the worsening war situation, they must band together to rise above their troubles and prove love and friendship is worth fighting for.
Author | : Rob Morris |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1597977179 |
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The complete history of a legendary World War II bomb group
Author | : Jack B. Rochester |
Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2018-07-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1627876189 |
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Over 650 Vietnam War novels have been published, mostly dark tales from the war zone. In Wild Blue Yonder, Airman Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers goes not to Vietnam but Germany, straight into a military Catch-22. His assignment: writing stories for the Stars and Stripes newspaper that will never see print. Nate's adventure deepens as he and his fellow troops try to understand why they're there, the military mindset, and the massive social disruption roiling 1960's America. Existential, psychedelic, funny, and laced with rock 'n' roll, Wild Blue Yonder is the story of Nate's quest for personal and spiritual values while trying to learn the meaning of family, friendship, and the love of the girl he left behind.
Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2001-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743217527 |
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Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II. The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with vivid detail and affection. Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys—turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s—who suffered over fifty percent casualties. With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes. Many went down in flames. As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue illustrates the enormous contribution that these young men of the Army Air Forces made to the Allied victory.
Author | : John James Knudsen |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781455609819 |
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One Army Air Corps soldier's ordeals during World War II. Written in the personable voice of someone reflecting honestly on his life's journey, this autobiography is full of anecdotes of a Depression-era Montana boyhood and culminates with the author's training for service as a B-17 pilot and subsequent role as a flight instructor.
Author | : John Quinn Olson |
Publisher | : Dust Devil Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0982070306 |
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Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!
Author | : John Quinn Olson |
Publisher | : Dust Devil Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0982070322 |
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Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!
Author | : Jean Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781417720866 |
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In her first novel in 15 years, the author of Who Do You Love? once again explores the mysteries of life and love, tracing the frustrations and passions of four people during a summer of blazing heat and fearsome storms in Springfield, Illinois.