Devotion

Devotion
Author: Adam Makos
Publsiher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780804176590

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call. “In the spirit of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes Devotion.”—Associated Press • “Aerial drama at its best—fast, powerful, and moving.”—Erik Larson Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse became the navy’s first Black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the world’s most dangerous job—landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier—a line of work that Jesse’s young wife, Daisy, struggles to accept. Deployed to the Mediterranean, Tom and Jesse meet the Fleet Marines, boys like PFC “Red” Parkinson, a farm kid from the Catskills. In between war games in the sun, the young men revel on the Riviera, partying with millionaires and even befriending the Hollywood starlet Elizabeth Taylor. Then comes the conflict that no one expected: the Korean War. Devotion takes us soaring overhead with Tom and Jesse, and into the foxholes with Red and the Marines as they battle a North Korean invasion. As the fury of the fighting escalates and the Marines are cornered at the Chosin Reservoir, Tom and Jesse fly, guns blazing, to try and save them. When one of the duo is shot down behind enemy lines and pinned in his burning plane, the other faces an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or attempt history’s most audacious one-man rescue mission. A tug-at-the-heartstrings tale of bravery and selflessness, Devotion asks: How far would you go to save a friend?

Devotion

Devotion
Author: Patti Smith
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300218626

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"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about a young, displaced Estonian skater and a solitary dealer in rare objects and arms. This ... fable about creativity and obsession, possession and freedom is followed by a meditation on how a work of art is, for other artists, a call to action"--Booklist, 08/01/2017.

Devotion

Devotion
Author: Hannah Kent
Publsiher: Picador
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509863885

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'A glorious love story' - Sarah Winman, author of Still Life Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award A stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist, from the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Hannah Kent. Hanne and Thea's friendship is a miracle. Before, Hanne always felt apart from the local girls, but with Thea it all came easy. Suddenly she could imagine a future for herself, a happy one, by Thea's side. But when their tight-knit community embarks on a long and brutal journey to Australia, in search of new freedoms on old land, Hanne and Thea's bond must find a way to survive the most impossible devastation. Will their love prove too strong for even Nature to break? 'Extraordinarily daring . . . a remarkable novel, an almost visionary celebration of the death-defying power of the women's love' - Sunday Times, Historical Fiction Book of the Month 'Exquisite . . . it's taken root in my heart' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies 'So beautiful and so raw . . . Devotion is impossibly good' - Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock

A Higher Call

A Higher Call
Author: Adam Makos,Larry Alexander
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781101618950

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead. December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler—and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger... What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.

La D votion au Sacr C ur de J sus Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Translated from the Italian

La D  votion au Sacr   C  ur de J  sus  Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus     Translated from the Italian
Author: Jean CROISET
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1863
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: BL:A0017391611

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Mary s call to her loving children or Devotion to the dying

Mary s call to her loving children  or  Devotion to the dying
Author: Mary (the virgin.)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1880
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OXFORD:600099994

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Ancilla Pietatis or the hand maid to private devotion presenting a manuall to her mistresse furnished with instructions hymns and prayers The sixth edition augmented

Ancilla Pietatis  or the hand maid to private devotion  presenting a manuall to her mistresse  furnished with instructions  hymns and prayers     The sixth edition     augmented
Author: Daniel FEATLEY
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 826
Release: 1647
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: BL:A0020294930

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Devotion to the Sacred Heart

Devotion to the Sacred Heart
Author: Mary Frances Lester
Publsiher: TAN Books
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781505103670

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Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a powerful little booklet filled with many of the treasures to be found in the veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Besides containing an explanation of the symbolism found within the Image of the Sacred Heart, it also includes explanations of the 9 First Fridays devotion, known as The Great Promise, the miraculous cure of St. Gemma Galgani as well as many profound exhortations to offer reparation to the Sacred Heart. Authoritative and moving, Our Lord instituted this devotion Himself, saying: " I set neither limit nore measure to My gifts of grace for those who seek them in My heart."