Fly Now!

Fly Now!
Author: Joanne Gernstein London
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2008-05-20
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781426202902

Traces the history of human flight and air travel through 180 years of poster art, in a celebration of the hot air balloons of the mid-nineteenth century to the sleek, high-tech airliners of the present day.

Now Let Me Fly

Now Let Me Fly
Author: Dolores Johnson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre:
ISBN: 9780613016681

A young girl describes how she once heard the sound of warning drums in Africa signaling the coming of horror. Kidnapped, made to march while chained, and taken to America to be sold at an auction, she undergoes the brutalities of slavery in this tale of a strong-willed girl who lives in harsh surroundings. Full color.

Aura Fly Now

Aura Fly Now
Author: Wendy Meadows
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2022-08-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Murder has come to town… The quiet seaside town of Bay is abuzz with activity when a traveling consulting and marketing firm rolls into town. Amateur witch and sleuth Mimi Knotley is eager to see what kind of advice they have for her business… and how she can make sense of all the auras she’s been seeing. But when one of their key employees is murdered, the excitement soon takes a turn for the worst – and Mimi finds herself caught up in another investigation. Rumors of secret affairs and arguments with customers begin to fly, leaving Mimi and Police Chief Robert the puzzling task of finding – and catching – their elusive killer. And all the while, Mimi’s ability to see auras is growing stronger and stronger. It seems that between magic and murder, there’ll be no rest for Mimi Knotley and her trusty dog Baxter…

I, Fly

I, Fly
Author: Bridget Heos
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1627796134

Fly is fed up with everyone studying butterflies. Flies are so much cooler! They flap their wings 200 times a second, compared to a butterfly's measly five to twelve times. Their babies-maggots-are much cuter than caterpillars (obviously). And when they eat solid food, they even throw up on it to turn it into a liquid. Who wouldn't want to study an insect like that? In an unforgettably fun, fact-filled presentation, this lovable (and highly partisan) narrator promotes his species to a sometimes engrossed, sometimes grossed-out, class of kids.

Mediterranean Fruit Fly

Mediterranean Fruit Fly
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1498
Release: 1930
Genre: Mediterranean fruit-fly
ISBN:

Now Let Me Fly

Now Let Me Fly
Author: Ronald Wimberly
Publisher: First Second
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1250290279

From author Ronald Wimberly, creator of the viral comic Lighten Up, comes a soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot. On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from the muddy trenches to the open skies. In 1914, Bullard joined the fight to defend France—and made history as the world’s first African American fighter pilot. In this candid but sensitive portrait of Bullard, author Ronald Wimberly balances the personal and the historical to interrogate concepts of cynicism, idealism, fear, glory, and the pervasiveness of anti-Black racism.

Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten

Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten
Author: Martin Avery
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2014-07-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1312333006

"You're going to die," the doctor said. But Canadian author Martin Avery laughed and walked away. Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten tells the story of a man who was told he would never work or walk again, in Canada, but lived to get a better diagnosis of "jing-chi-shen" in China.

Pacific Coast Flies & Fly Fishing

Pacific Coast Flies & Fly Fishing
Author: Scott Sadil
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2023-02-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0811770818

From Alaska to the tip of the Baja California peninsula, Pacific Coast fly fishers enjoy a wealth of angling opportunities that have inspired their own selections of new and traditional fly patterns. For the first time in the sport’s history, Scott Sadil offers a lineup of proven patterns to take advantage of the region’s unsurpassed reach of flyrod prey: trout, salmon, steelhead, and both the inshore and bluewater species along the east and west coasts of the Baja peninsula. Pacific Coast Flies & Fly Fishing champions the fly patterns and fly-fishing adventure unique to these waters. This book includes over 60 fly patterns, instructions for tying each pattern, and an image of the completed fly. An introductory essay for each fly describes the development of the fly, the fishing situations in which it’s typically used, the angling problems it might solve, plus the fly’s historical antecedents. The patterns are divided between flies used for trout, flies used for salmon and steelhead, and flies tied specifically for saltwater species. To date there has never been a single book that embraces the wealth of flies and fly-fishing adventure available to Pacific Coast anglers. Over the past three decades, author Scott Sadil has written more than any other writer about the full range of the Pacific Coast's angling opportunities. His well-known work stands at the center of the Pacific Coast fly fishing community, one of the largest in the world today.