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  His To Fly

  Richard Howells Watkins

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  "His to Fly" by Richard Howells Watkins is a short story published in the late 1920s, where the characters navigate the challenges of early aviation. The narrative revolves around two pilots, Beak Becket and Jerry Tabor, as they grapple with their complicated partnership while flying a biplane. Central to the story is the theme of ambition and the tension between experience and inexperience in pursuit of flight. The plot unfolds as Jerry and Beak prepare for a flight, highlighting their contentious relationship. Beak, a seasoned pilot, often belittles Jerry, who is eager to prove himself. Tensions rise during their journey, particularly when the realities of aerial navigation become perilous amid fog and dwindling fuel. As the story climaxes with a malfunction and impending disaster, Jerry's decisive moment comes when he must choose between saving himself by jumping with a parachute or taking control of the plane that he partly owns. In a courageous act of determination, Jerry takes over the cockpit, demonstrating growth and asserting his newfound identity as a pilot, ultimately leading to their precarious landing.

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  Untitled Tea Rose Story #3

  Jennifer Donnelly

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  The Naval Officer or Scenes in...

  Frederick Marryat

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  Marryat was a midshipman under Captain Cochrane and this, his first naval adventure, is considered to be a highly autobiographical telling of his adventures with one of Britain's most famous and daring naval captains. (Summary by Paul Klipp)

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  The Winter Room - Literary...

  Valerie Fiddmont

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  In a rain-soaked corner of Sofia, a quiet botanist begins to notice something impossible—a color that refuses to fade. 
  Elitsa Petrova has built her life on certainty. As a researcher at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, she catalogues plants with scientific precision, believing that everything in the natural world can be named, measured, and understood. 
  But when she discovers a cryptic note hidden inside an old German botanical text—“Rosa damascena, the color that never fades”—her ordered world begins to fracture. 
  Drawn into a haunting mystery, Elitsa encounters a man who speaks of memory as if it were alive—etched into trees, stones, and forgotten buildings. As she follows his trail, she uncovers a buried history of political violence, erased identities, and a love story that refuses to disappear. 
  At the center of it all lies a single impossible object: a crimson rose that has defied decay for decades. 
  Is it science—or something far older? 
  The Winter Room is a lyrical work of literary fiction blending magical realism, historical memory, and psychological depth. Perfect for readers who love slow-burn mysteries, Eastern European settings, and haunting, philosophical storytelling.

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  The Adventuress of Albany

  Darry Fraser

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  She yearns for adventure, but the road to freedom is paved with peril. The thrilling new historical adventure fiction from a bestselling Australian author. 
   
   
  Albany, Western Australia, 1881. 
   
  Stifled by English society, Molly Bentley has always yearned for adventure. When her father offers to send her to the bustling port town of Albany in Western Australia, Molly readily agrees, even if it means assuming a secret identity. With only her chaperone Mrs Caldicott to answer to, her life of freedom can finally begin. 
   
  Until Molly is knocked down in the streets, nearly trampled, and a threatening letter is slipped into her hands. 
   
  Suddenly, Molly and Mrs Caldicott must reckon with the darker motives behind their move to these southern shores. The women have no choice but to put their safety into the hands of the enigmatic colonial Leo McRae and his cousin Alistair who seem to know exactly who Molly and Mrs Caldicott are, and why they're in the colonies. But from whom has Mr McRae sourced his information? And why has Molly's father stopped replying to her messages? 
   
  Attempts are made on their lives, and their motley crew must undertake a dangerous journey from Albany to Adelaide and into rural Victoria to evade capture. As secrets are revealed and loyalties tested, will Molly ever be able to find the freedom she so desperately craves?

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  Miss Burma

  Charmaine Craig

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  A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. 
  Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history.  
  After the war, the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups, and in doing so sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history. Benny and Khin’s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma’s first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family’s past, the West’s ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. 
  Based on the story of the author’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.

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