Author: Beverley Bass
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0525645519
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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The groundbreaking female pilot featured in the hit Broadway musical Come from Away tells her story in this high-flying and inspiring picture-book autobiography! When Beverley Bass was a young girl in the late 1950s, she told her parents she wanted to fly planes--and they told her that girls couldn't be pilots. Still, they encouraged her, and brought her to a nearby airport to watch the planes take off and land. After decades of refusing to take no for an answer, in 1986 Beverley became the first female pilot promoted to captain by American Airlines and led the first all-female crewed flight shortly thereafter. Her revolutionary career became even more newsworthy when she was forced to land in the remote town of Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001, due to US airspace closures. After several days there, she flew her crew and passengers safely home. Beverley's incredible life is now immortalized in the hit Broadway musical Come from Away. Here, discover how she went from an ambitious young girl gazing up at the sky to a groundbreaking pilot smiling down from the cockpit. "Inspiring and up, up, and away all the way."--Kirkus "An inspiring biography about one woman's determination to forge a new path."--Booklist

Author: George Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: George Poulson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: George Oliver
Publisher:
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Category : Beverley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: John Slevin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783274883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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The first modern edition of a text which shows the suspicion with which Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain was received two decades after it first appeared.The history of the Yorkshire secular clerk, Alfred of Beverley (c.1148 x c.1151), an important primary source in Anglo-Norman historiography, supplies a history of Britain from its supposed foundation by Brutus down to the death of Henry I in 1135.Alfred's history is of particular interest in that it is the first Insular Latin chronicle to incorporate the legendary British history of Geoffrey of Monmouth (published c.mid 1130s) within a continuous account of the island's past. In attempting to fuse the radically new Galfridian account of the past with that of the conventional twelfth-century (Bedan) view, Alfred's use and manipulation of his sources is highly revealing and suggests a quite critical reception of Geoffrey's history, a mindset which by the end of the twelfth century appears almost entirely to have disappeared amongst chroniclers. Alfred's history is also an important, and presently undervalued, witness to the reception and dissemination of three of the most important Anglo-Norman histories: Symeon of Durham Historia Regum, The Chronicle of John of Worcester and Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, from which works it borrows extensively. In the manner of use of these sources, the author tells us much about the ecclesiastical and intellectual interests and outlook of the period.

Author: George OLIVER (D.D., Rector of South Hykeham.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: Andrea C. Neil
Publisher: 1631 Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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Life Plans. Law Enforcement. Love? Beverley Green is finally settling in to her new hometown of Guthrie, Oklahoma. Business at the bookstore is good, and she’s even got some new friends—even though some of them are certifiable weirdos! But something still feels like it’s missing … and her parents still won’t butt out of her love life. Before she can manage to put her Life-with-a-capital-L in order, Beverley is enlisted to determine the whereabouts of a missing stolen sheep (first it was stolen, then it went missing), her parents engineer a blind date … and the results are beyond surprising. Life can’t always be planned, and we may not find our path as quickly as we’d like. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun along the way. Click that buy button to read Beverley Green Finds True North, the third book in the fun and quirky Beverley Green Adventures series!

Author: Susan E. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351886789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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This represents the first study devoted to the life and after-life of St John of Beverley. John was bishop of Hexham and then York, after which he retired to his own monastery in Beverley and was buried there in 721. His cult was quickly established and spread to attract pilgrims from all over the British Isles, and even Europe. It was also established in Brittany by the tenth century, especially in the town of Saint-Jean-Brévelay, which is named after him. The great economic wealth of Beverley in the Middle Ages was largely due to it being a major ecclesiastical centre focused around John's relics. His reputation as a powerful saint was harnessed not only to protect Beverley and the surrounding areas and to give succour to pilgrims to his shrine, but also to further the ambitions of successive kings of England to the extent that Henry V raised him to the status of a patron saint of England following the battle of Agincourt, which was fought on the feast day of St John's translation. The hagiographic works on John extend over nearly six hundred years from that written by Bede c. 731, the Vita Sancti Johannis composed by a monk called Folcard c. 1066, then four separate collections of post-mortem miracle stories of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries, and a number of miracles recorded in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This span is greater even than the hagiography relating to St Benedict, which had been believed to cover more years than any other collection in Europe. Dr Wilson uses these sources as a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which an Anglo-Saxon saint was promoted over a long period of time by different hagiographers, and how the saint was continually re-created in the image which the hagiographers or his community required, depending on their current needs and perceptions. The volume also includes the first English translations of the Life and the miracle stories.

Author: Jo Beverley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101190957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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In these two delectable novels, someone craves to be married and loses sight of the joys of true love—until their heart is opened unexpectedly... The Fortune Hunter: A stunning beauty rejects the charming suitor who isn't wealthy enough to save her impoverished family. But she can't so easily dismiss the memory of their sweet shared kiss. Deirdre and Don Juan: The dashing Earl of Everdon is most eager to marry someone-anyone-who will bear him an heir. But when he meets a quiet, well-bred lady who fits the bill, he must resort to an amorous dance of deception to gain her acceptance to his proposal.

Author: American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168

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