Flights Of Angels

Download or read book Flights of Angels written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning Southern authorhumorously explores themes of marriage, love, gender, race, age, and more in eighteen short stories. Unplanned pregnancy, born-again Christianity, and strained sibling relationships are explored through precocious sixteen-year-old narrator Aurora Harris in “The Triumph of Reason,” “Have a Wonderful Nice Walk,” and “Witness to the Crucifixion.” Crystal and her housekeeper Traceleen feel the straining of family ties and the force of chauvinism in “Miss Crystal Confronts the Past” and “A Sordid Tale.” Hope, laughter, and love balance tragedy in this must-read for die-hard Gilchrist fans. “A convincing evocation of the changing South. The new reality, as depicted here, includes the waning of racism, the sexual revolution and the growth of feminism. . . . One reads this collection entertained by her distinctive prose, beguiled by her vivid characters and buoyed by the insistent touches of humor and hope that she brings to her vision of chaotic lives.” —Publishers Weekly “Her fiction is so delectably yarny. It’s back-porch material. . . . Her dual senses of comedy and poignancy continue in close partnership; the typical laugh-and-cry reaction to a Gilchrist story is both anticipated and realized in every piece gathered here.” —Booklist “Gilchrist has always excelled in delineating smart, sexy, crazy people struggling to come to terms with a legacy of beloved, bewildering progenitors.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book And Flights of Angels written by Terrence Ortwein and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flights of Angels written by Stobie Piel and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elowyn, step-daughter of a powerful British landowner, threw herself between the man on the auction block and his owner's whip, Hengist, the prisoner, an Angle chieftain, knew he was fated to join his heart with hers forever. But that meant choosing between beautiful Elowyn, or fleeing to freedom.

Download or read book Flights of Angels 1997 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flights of Angels written by Helen Steiner Rice and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respected Christian authors add insight into the nature, historic background, and purpose of angels. Selections from Billy Graham, Joni Eareckson Tada, Helen Steiner Rice, and others.

Download or read book The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: Hamlet. Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Los Angeles's Angels Flight written by Jim Dawson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1901 to 1969, Angels Flight was America's most famous incline railway, familiar from its many appearances on postcards and in pulp fiction and film noir. It inspired the titles of five novels, including a 1999 best seller, and three films. Angels Flight's two colorful trolleys glided up and down the side of Bunker Hill in the heart of Los Angeles, carrying 100 million passengers between a downtown business district and a Victorian aerie that gradually deteriorated into a gritty slum. When the city turned Bunker Hill into an acropolis of skyscrapers, Angels Flight was packed up like a boy's electric train set and stored away for nearly 30 years. After a restoration in the mid-1990s that led to a fatal accident, Angels Flight has reopened and is now ready to claim its next chapters in Los Angeles history.