Fly Away Peter

Fly Away Peter PDF

Author: David Malouf

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1409029867

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.

Fly Away Peter

Fly Away Peter PDF

Author: David Malouf

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

The simple lives of three people on the Queensland coast in 1914 are altered irretrievably by the horror of World War One.

Fly Away Peter

Fly Away Peter PDF

Author: Frank Dickens

Publisher: Pavilion Children's

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1843652382

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

A classic gem from the 60's brought up-to-date while maintining a wonderful retro feel. Jeffrey the giraffe with the short neck, and Peter,the bird who can''t fly, are delighted to become friends because they are both different. When they decide to play together to cheer each other up, they hardly expect that a game of hide-and-seek will not only involve all the other animals but surprisingly solve their problems.

Fly Away

Fly Away PDF

Author: Peter M. Rutkoff

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781421418476

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

The Great Migration—the mass exodus of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and West in the twentieth century—shaped American culture and life in ways still evident today. In Fly Away, Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott trace the ideas that inspired African Americans to abandon the South for freedom and opportunity elsewhere. Black southerners fled the Low Country of South Carolina, the mines and mills of Birmingham, Alabama, the farms of the Mississippi Delta, and the urban wards of Houston, Texas, for new opportunities in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Los Angeles. They took with them the South’s rich traditions of religion, language, music, and art, recreating and preserving their southern identity in the churches, newspapers, jazz clubs, and neighborhoods of America’s largest cities. Rutkoff and Scott’s sweeping study explores the development and adaptation of African American culture, from its West African roots to its profound and lasting impact on mainstream America. Broad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.

Fly Away, Paul

Fly Away, Paul PDF

Author: Peter Davies

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780517514375

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

A teen-age boy living in a boy's home in Montreal copes with the loss of his three best friends and with the cruelty and sexuality of the other boys as he fights to make a new way of life for himself.

Fly Away

Fly Away PDF

Author: Kristin Hannah

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 125003180X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Return to the world of FIREFLY LANE—now a Netflix series—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah. Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. TullyandKate. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don't they? You lose the people you love and you have to find a way to go on. . . . Tully Hart has always been larger than life, a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past. She thinks she can overcome anything until her best friend, Kate Ryan, dies. Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate--to be there for Kate's children--but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people. Sixteen-year-old Marah Ryan is devastated by her mother's death. Her father, Johnny, strives to hold the family together, but even with his best efforts, Marah becomes unreachable in her grief. Nothing and no one seems to matter to her . . . until she falls in love with a young man who makes her smile again and leads her into his dangerous, shadowy world. Dorothy Hart--the woman who once called herself Cloud--is at the center of Tully's tragic past. She repeatedly abandoned her daughter, Tully, as a child, but now she comes back, drawn to her daughter's side at a time when Tully is most alone. At long last, Dorothy must face her darkest fear: Only by revealing the ugly secrets of her past can she hope to become the mother her daughter needs. A single, tragic choice and a middle-of-the-night phone call will bring these women together and set them on a poignant, powerful journey of redemption. Each has lost her way, and they will need each one another--and maybe a miracle--to transform their lives. An emotionally complex, heart-wrenching novel about love, motherhood, loss, and new beginnings, Fly Away reminds us that where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is forgiveness. Told with her trademark powerful storytelling and illuminating prose, Kristin Hannah reveals why she is one of the most beloved writers of our day.

Just Fly Away

Just Fly Away PDF

Author: Andrew McCarthy

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1616207736

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

SPECIAL PREVIEW! A debut novel about one girl’s discovery of family secrets, first love, the limits of forgiveness, and finding one’s way in the world, written with wisdom and sympathy by the bestselling memoirist, actor, and director. When fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a child from a brief affair, an eight-year-old boy named Thomas who lives in her own suburban New Jersey town, she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her family and her life. Lucy can’t believe her father betrayed the whole family, or that her mother forgave him, or that her sister isn’t rocked by the news the way Lucy is. Worse, Lucy’s father’s secret is now her own, one that isolates her from her friends, family, and even her boyfriend, Simon, the one person she expected would truly understand. When Lucy escapes to Maine, the home of her mysteriously estranged grandfather, she finally begins to get to the bottom of her family’s secrets and lies. Fans of the rebels and antiheroes in the novels of Rainbow Rowell, A. S. King, and Meg Wolitzer will welcome this sharp, observant new voice in young adult fiction.

Dark Roots

Dark Roots PDF

Author: Cate Kennedy

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2008-02-12

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0802199186

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

“Heartbreakingly detailed . . . vibrant—and vital” prize-winning stories by an Australian contributor to The New Yorker (Entertainment Weekly). In this “coolly exact . . . sharp, evocative and often poetic” collection of award-winning short fiction, Cate Kennedy daringly travels to the deepest depths of the human psyche to explore the collision between simmering inner lives, the cold outside world, and the hidden motivations that propel us all to act (The New York Times Book Review). Kennedy captures entire lives, expertly documenting the risks and compromises made in both forging and escaping relationships. Her “17 standout stories” are populated by people on the brink: whether it’s a woman floundering with her own loss and emotional immobility as her lover lies in a coma; a neglected wife who cannot convince her husband of the truth about his two brutish, shamelessly libidinous friends; or a married woman who comes to realize that her too-tight wedding ring isn’t the only thing that’s stuck in her relationship (Elle). Each character must make a choice and none is without consequence—even the smallest decisions have the power to destroy or renew, to recover and relinquish. Devastating, evocative, richly comic, and “full of provocative messages, tantalizingly revealed”, Dark Roots deftly unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures and the coincidences that drive our lives (O, The Oprah Magazine). “With an effortless talent for the comic and the chilling, Cate Kennedy has crafted stories that are sly, seductive, and surprising. A standout debut” (Alicia Erian, author of Towelhead).

Fly Away Home

Fly Away Home PDF

Author: Eve Bunting

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780395559628

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal trying not to be noticed, is given hope when a trapped bird finally finds his freedom. Full-color illustrations.

Fly Away with Big Bird

Fly Away with Big Bird PDF

Author: Random House

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2001-05-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780375813245

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Big Bird is taking a trip on a plane to see his Granny Bird. Kids come along for the ride as he learns all about planes. Many of the activities have an airplane theme, from an I-Spy game to mazes and connect-the-dots. Kids can take this coloring and activity book, with a die-cut handle, wherever they go! Whether it's a trip in a car, airplane, or bus -- or on foot -- it's easy to carry and offers hours of coloring fun and games.