Return Flight

Return Flight
Author: Jennifer Huang
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1571317171

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Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire—and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks “what name / do you crown yourself,” Huang answers with many. Textured with mountains—a folkloric goddess-prison, Yushan, mother, men, self—and peppered with shapeshifting creatures, spirits, and gods, the landscape of Jennifer Huang’s poems is at once mystical and fleshy, a “myth a mess of myself.” Sensuously, Huang depicts each of these not as things to claim but as topographies to behold and hold. Here, too, is another kind of mythology. Set to the music of “beating hearts / through objects passed down,” the poems travel through generations—among Taiwan, China, and America—cataloging familial wounds and beloved stories. A grandfather’s smile shining through rain, baby bok choy in a child’s bowl, a slap felt decades later—the result is a map of a present-day life, reflected through the past. Return Flight is a thrumming debut that teaches us how history harrows and heals, often with the same hand; how touch can mean “purple” and “blue” as much as it means intimacy; and how one might find a path toward joy not by leaving the past in the past, but by “[keeping a] hand on these memories, / to feel them to their ends.”

Afro-Atlantic Flight

Afro-Atlantic Flight
Author: Michelle D. Commander
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822373300

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In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary, and filmic analyses, Commander shows the ways that cultural producers such as Octavia Butler, Thomas Allen Harris, and Saidiya Hartman engage with speculative thought about slavery, the spiritual realm, and Africa, thereby structuring the imaginary that propels future return flights. She goes on to examine Black Americans’ cultural heritage tourism in and migration to Ghana; Bahia, Brazil; and various sites of slavery in the US South to interrogate the ways that a cadre of actors produces “Africa” and contests master narratives. Compellingly, these material flights do not always satisfy Black Americans’ individualistic desires for homecoming and liberation, leading Commander to focus on the revolutionary possibilities inherent in psychic speculative returns and to argue for the development of a Pan-Africanist stance that works to more effectively address the contemporary resonances of slavery that exist across the Afro-Atlantic.

Flight to Canada

Flight to Canada
Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453287981

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DIVIshmael Reed’s parody of slave narratives—the classical literature of the African American tradition—which redefined the neo-slave genre and launched a lucrative academic industry/divDIV Some parodies are as necessary as the books they answer. Such is the case with Flight to Canada, Ishmael Reed’s scathing, offbeat response to conventional anti-slavery novels such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Though Flight to Canada has been classified by some as a “post race” novel, the villains and the heroes are clear./divDIV /divDIVThree slaves are on the run from the Swille plantation. Among them, the most hotly pursued is Raven Quickskill, a poet who seeks freedom in Canada, and ultimately hopes to return and liberate others. But this particular Civil War–era landscape is littered with modern elements, from Xerox copiers to airplanes, and freely reimagines historic figures as sacred as Abraham Lincoln. A comedy flashing with insight, Flight to Canada poses serious questions about history and the complex ways that race relations in America are shaped by the past. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Ishmael Reed including rare images of the author./div

Fantastic Flight

Fantastic Flight
Author: John M. Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781580085779

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Provides instructions for creating twenty-five paper airplanes using single sheets of paper.

Soar

Soar
Author: Tom Bunn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1493000691

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Captain Bunn founded SOAR to develop effective methods for dealing with flight anxiety. Therapists who have found this phobia difficult to treat will find everything they need to give their clients success. Anxious flyers who have “tried everything” to no avail can look forward to joining the nearly 10,000 graduates of the SOAR program who now have the whole world open to them as they fly anxiety free wherever they want. This approach begins by explaining how anxiety, claustrophobia, and panic are caused when noises, motions—or even the thought of flying—trigger excessive stress hormones. Then, to stop this problem, Captain Bunn takes the reader step-by-step through exercises that permanently and automatically control these feelings. He also explains how flying works, why it is safe, and teaches flyers how to strategically plan their flight, choose the right airlines, meet the captain, and so on. Through this program, Captain Bunn has helped thousands overcome their fear of flying. Now his book arms readers with the information they need to control their anxiety and fly comfortably.

DH9: From Ruin to Restoration

DH9: From Ruin to Restoration
Author: Guy Black
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-11-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1911621831

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How two British World War I-era planes came to be found many decades later in India and returned to their former glory. In 2000, upon hearing rumors of aircraft parts being found in a maharaja’s palace in India, Guy Black took a trip that would lead to the most unexpected discovery of his life. Hidden away in a former elephant stable of the maharaja’s palace in Bikaner, Rajasthan, were the hulks of at least two DH9 bombers. This was no example of this WWI aircraft in existance in Britain. Recognizing their importance to the UK’s aviation heritage, and excited by the challenge of restoration, Guy set about negotiating their purchase and returning them back to England. In DH9: From Ruin to Restoration, Guy Black details the intriguing history of how these two rare aircraft (D-5649 and E-8894) came to be in India under the Imperial Gift Scheme. He also reveals the extraordinary efforts in recovering these two planes and the extensive restoration project undertaken to bring them to their former glory. With D-5649 restored as a static and proudly on display at IWM Duxford, he then set about getting E-8894 back to airworthy status. The book then moves on to the highly anticipated flight of E-8894 and the years of frustration that followed until its maiden flight with “Dodge” Bailey at the controls on May 13, 2019—making it the only WWI bomber flying anywhere in the world. Told in meticulous detail, this fully illustrated book includes a foreword by Andy Saunders and is a must-have of all WWI and aircraft enthusiasts.

Spitfire, Return to Flight

Spitfire, Return to Flight
Author: Brendon Deere
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010
Genre: Spitfire (Fighter plane)
ISBN: 9780473167110

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The history of the Spitfire and Spitfire PV270, the career of Alan Deere, the experiences of the pilots in the Battle of Britain and the modern pilots, a detailed look at the restoration of this Spitfire and a photographic view of this Spitfire in action.

Flight

Flight
Author: Christopher C. Kraft
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2001
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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This book is the account of Chri Kraft and the U.S. space program from its infancy to its greatest triumphs.

Flight

Flight
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1914
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

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Flight

Flight
Author: Isabo Kelly
Publisher: T&D Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Can two adventure junkies find a future together? Clare O’Malley’s ambitions have brought her to the very top of her field, a profession that requires her to lie and keep secrets even from those she loves. But to become a bonafide legend, she has to find the former Shifter support group leader and Naravan cult hero, Kira Farseaker and bring her back to Narava. No easy feat, even for someone of Clare’s considerable talents. To find Kira, Clare needs the help of notorious smuggler, Raf Tygran. The sexy-as-all-hell pirate’s reputation is well earned. But falling for someone like Raf is a guaranteed disaster for someone like Clare, and she can’t afford the distraction. No matter how tempting he is. Raf knows Clare is a liar the minute they meet. Which is good for him because he loves liars, and the delectable Clare is a liar he wants to know better. She’s the kind of woman Raf could fall hard for, trouble with a capital T. And he likes trouble almost as much as he likes liars. Smuggling Clare off Narava to meet Kira Farseaker is a job he probably shouldn’t take. But the prospect of spending weeks aboard his ship with her is a game too tempting to refuse. He intends to meet her challenge, and seduce her sexy chaos into his bed. Maybe even his life. Then a threat from Raf’s past rises up to strike, and an already dangerous mission turns deadly. Facing their ghosts and this new threat to the galaxy will take everything they’ve got. And nothing will ever be the same for Raf or Clare. But if they can survive, without starting a rebellion, they might just find a way to love each other.