The Lost Pilots

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The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane’s long-dead pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him? Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller had fled a loveless marriage in Australia, longing for adventure in the London of the Bright Young Things. At a gin-soaked party, she met Bill Lancaster, fresh from the Royal Air force, his head full of a scheme that would make him as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster wanted to fly three times as far – from London to Melbourne – and in Jessie Miller he knew he had found the perfect co-pilot. By the time they landed in Melbourne, the daring aviators were a global sensation – and, despite still being married to other people, deeply in love. Keeping their affair a secret, they toured the world until the Wall Street Crash changed everything; Bill and Jessie – like so many others – were broke. And it was then, holed up in a run-down mansion on the outskirts of Miami and desperate for cash, that Jessie agreed to write a memoir. When a dashing ghostwriter Haden Clark was despatched from New York, the toxic combination of the handsome interloper, bootleg booze and jealousy led to a shocking crime. The trial that followed put Jessie and Bill back on the front pages and drove him to a reckless act of abandon to win it all back. The Lost Pilots is their extraordinary story, brought to vivid life by Corey Mead. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, and full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime, scandal and tragedy, it is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction that firmly restores one of aviation’s leading female pioneers to her rightful place in history.

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Genre : True Crime
Author : Corey Mead
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release : 2018-06-14
File : 338 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781509828517


The Lost Country

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The "lost country" is the familiar country of innocence and security known as youth—a country we have all known and which, occasionally, in a book like this one, we are able to rediscover. J. R. Salamanca's The Lost Country is the story of a boy, Jim Blackstarr, who grows up on a farm in Virginia. As a child, he delights in the beauty that surrounds him: the rivers and hills and trees, the seasons of the year, all the shapes and textures and patterns of his world. But, as he grows older, he makes other discoveries. He experiences brutality, passion, fear, and shame. These experiences destroy the simplicity of his early relationships; they complicate and darken his later ones. Ultimately, they drive him—as they drive all men—out of, and away from, the country of his youth.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : J. R. Salamanca
Publisher : Tantor eBooks
Release : 2011-12-05
File : 878 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781618030269


The Lost Years

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This is a true story, inspired by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It will touch you deep inside your heart and soul.Sonja B'Field had a tough childhood with a child molesting and abusive step-father; and a mother who struggled to raise her seven children. From age seven she remained devoted to her mother and her siblings. Yet, as she grew up, she wanted nothing more than to escape her abusive childhood. She dreamed of the day when she would have her own life with some tall and handsome man, who would love her unconditionally. When she finally meets Jansen, she falls madly in love with him and he sweeps her off her feet and away from her hometown, to an unfamiliar country, where she would soon find nothing, but torment and abuse at the hand of the man she trusted. It was like living her childhood all over again.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Sonja B'Field
Publisher : FriesenPress
Release : 2011-10
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781770677562


The Lost Years

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Anya had a wonderful upbringing. Loving parents, private schooling and a place at Oxford University. The perfect life. Then, tragedy struck. Her parents were killed in a car accident and the grief made her life spiral out of control. She descended into addiction, fuelled by the bad company she was keeping.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Colin Wade
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release : 2019-09-17
File : 328 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781838597016


The Lost Paths

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Discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again . . . 'A rallying cry to reclaim lost routes and preserve this precious resource for future generations' Walk Magazine ___________ Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. But by 2026, 10,000 miles of undiscovered footpaths around Britain stand to be lost. Jack Cornish has dedicated the last five years of his life to walking these forgotten routes. Now, in The Lost Paths, he will show you just how special these forgotten rights of way are, and how embedded each path is in the history of Britain. Footpaths, tracks, country lanes and urban streets illuminate how our ancestors interacted with and shaped their landscapes in the pursuit of commerce, salvation, escape, war, and leisure. Paths are an often-overlooked part of our everyday life and our country's history, crucial to understanding the cultural and environmental history of us, as a nation, in our landscape. This is a celebration of an ancient network and a rallying cry to reclaim what has been lost and preserve it for future generations.

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Genre : History
Author : Jack Cornish
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release : 2024-04-11
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781405951302


The Gathering Of The Lost

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SHE WILL NOT STAND ALONE. Five years after the assault on her stronghold home, Malian of Night remains missing, believed dead amidst the wilds of Jaransor. But not all accept her death and now her enemies are on the hunt. Suspicion falls on heralds Tarathan and Jehane, who find themselves caught in a web of intrigue and murder amidst the Ijiri Festival of Masks. They flee bearing word of a death on the Wall - and a call to duty and honour that Malian must answer or be forsworn.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Helen Lowe
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release : 2012-04-05
File : 484 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780748123254


The Lost Domain

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Alain-Fournier's lyrical novel captures the painful transition from adolescence to adulthood. First published in 1913, its story of the lost domain where le grand Meaulnes meets a beautiful girl, and his search to recover his love, has haunted readers ever since. Now published with a new Introduction by Hermione Lee in its centenary year.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Alain-Fournier,
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release : 2013-10-10
File : 229 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199678686


The Lost Generation

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The Lost Generation: The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington, Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse. After the First World War, special people returned to their home towns from the front. When the war began, they were still boys, but duty forced them to defend the homeland. "Lost Generation" - as they were called. This concept is used today when we talk about writers who worked during the breaks between the First and Second World Wars, which became a test for all of humanity and were almost all beaten out of their usual, peaceful rut. One of the themes that commonly appears in the authors' works is decadence and the frivolous lifestyle of the wealthy. Writers of the lost generation raise in their works the problem of young people who returned from the war and did not find their home, their relatives. Questions about how to live, how to remain human, how to learn to enjoy life again - this is what is paramount in this literary movement. Table of Contents: 1. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms 2. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises 3. Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 4. Richard Aldington: Death of a Hero 5. Henri Barbusse: Under Fire: The Story of a Squad

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Release : 2020-07-28
File : 1519 Pages
ISBN-13 : PKEY:SMP2300000063431


The Lost Kingdom

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His Royal Highness Prince Ali Seraj, a member of the royal family of Afghanistan, brings four decades of history to life—from the Cold War era when his famed nightclub in Kabul was a hotspot for global celebrities, jetsetters, and spies, to the communist Soviet takeover that killed members of his family, put a price on Prince Ali’s head, and forced him to make a harrowing escape from his homeland in disguise with his American wife and family. Prince Seraj’s intimate and historic portrait of modern Afghanistan tells the inside story of a proud, ancient culture grappling with a turbulent history of invasion and transformation. His passionate and adventure-filled story opens a new door to understand a nation irrevocably linked to the stability and prosperity of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and to the United States.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : His Royal Highness Prince Ali Seraj of Afghanistan
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Release : 2017-11-21
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781682615195


The Lost Heir

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"The Lost Heir" by G. A. Henty. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : Good Press
Release : 2023-09-17
File : 304 Pages
ISBN-13 : EAN:8596547572343