Author: Carl Gamble
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781634918688
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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My Blue Yonder takes you into author Carl Gamble's boyhood home, the cockpit of his crippled plane, and his PTSD. You fly with him to rescue men adrift on Lake Superior, refuel combat aircraft at 400 MPH over the Gulf of Tonkin, and negotiate with a hijacker while flying near Florida...
Author: Alex Shearer
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330530518
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The Great Blue Yonder by Alex Shearer is the quirky, gentle journey of a boy stuck between looking back, and moving on. 'You'll be sorry when I'm dead.' That's what Harry said to his sister, before the incident with the lorry. And now he is just that – dead. And he wishes more than anything that he hadn't said it. He wishes he could say sorry. And say goodbye to everyone he left behind – his mum, his dad, his best friend Pete. . . even Jelly Donkins, the class bully. Now he's on the Other Side, waiting to move on to the Great Blue Yonder. But he doesn't know how to get there – until he meets Arthur, a small boy in a top hat who's been dead for years, who helps him say goodbye. . .
Author: Allan T. Stein
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603445978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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"Allan T. Stein idolized his uncle, a pilot in the Great War. So in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, he left Texas A & M University for Lackland Air Field to learn to fly. By the time he retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1969, Stein had flown everything from BT-13s and B-24s to B-52s and C-47s. During World War II, he flew missions over China and the Sea of Japan, and by V-J Day, he had participated in eight campaigns and logged 347 hours in combat. Stein later spent one year in Vietnam as operations officer for the 360 TEWS (Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron), which used refitted C-47s to monitor and locate Vietcong units. He ended his career as inspector general of the Civil Air Patrol." "Stein considers himself to have been an ordinary airman, not a hero. But he was also a seasoned pilot and a conscientious officer with a strong sense of right and wrong. After a young pilot he had certified died in an accident, Stein made it a practice to fail all but the best candidates. He was just as disgusted with the corruption he encountered in the Civil Air Patrol as he was with the tendentious reporters he met in Saigon's Hotel Caravelle." "Although he met his share of cowards and scoundrels, Stein loved to fly and he loved the air force. He was the sort of officer his superiors trusted not to make mistakes, but he was not the sort to rise to high rank. What he offers here is an account of a typical career as an air force officer, complete with its frustrations, moral dilemmas, and the occasional harrowing experience."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Sandra McDonald
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076532041X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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After he dies, Chief Terry Myell has returned as a supernatural being charged with helping humans, as he deals with time travel, tries to rescue his pregnant wife from aliens, and save Earth from an invasion which is threatening its spaceships.
Author: Jack B. Rochester
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627876189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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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: Dick Harmon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781886110335
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The soaring saga and official history of Brigham Young University football, what some people have called the Mormon Notre Dame.
Author: Christ Keivom
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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A collection of poems which chronicles the daily events of the poet. It is confessional poetry in nature, and follows the traditional method of writing poetry.
Author: Mike Raicht
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN: 1623027578
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Take to the skies in this thrilling new action-adventure sci-fi tale. In the near future, mankind has destroyed the Earth, and the only refuge from radioactive pollution can be found in the skies. Unfortunately, dwindling supplies and bloodthirsty air pirates make life all the harder. Join the crew of the Dawn as they battle their way through the hazards of living in this dangerous new world.
Author: Crispin Wood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781533218049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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For those who enjoy Crispin Wood's comics on the Small Blue Yonder website (smallblueyonder.com), this collection offers 207 of the author's favorite strips from late 2014 and early 2015, all in color. The book features appearances by recurring characters Bear with the Bendy Arms, Konkorr, Bippi and Bopi, The Clown Family, the Boysenberry Bunnies and others, and introduces a few new ones as well.
Author: M W Arnold
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509237658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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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.
