03643cam a2200565 4500 589186856 TxAuBib 20220723120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781496721693 1496721691 B07HVX6B5S Amazon 09621d99-282c-41b5-9212-fcd6d25bbc13 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4501373 OverDrive (Product ID) 604325 604325 TxAuBib Hlad, Alan. The Long Flight Home [Bridges eBook]. Kensington Books, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2000kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. based on true events. Women's Fiction. carrier pigeons. womens fiction. World War Two. Coming of age. Genre Fiction. domestic life. family life. World War 2. love story. real life. American. pigeons. British. France. Europe. WWII. HTML:<b><i><b>A <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller</b><br /> Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II,</i></b> <b>The Long Flight Home <i>is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice.</i></b><br /> <br /> It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan—loyal, intelligent, beautiful—but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world.<br /> <br /> Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, young crop-duster pilot Ollie Evans decides to join Britain's Royal Air Force. His quest brings him to Epping and the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert mission to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Many will not survive. Those that do will bring home crucial information. Soon a friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when his plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. Yet Duchess will become an unexpected lifeline, relaying messages between Susan and Ollie as war rages on—and proving, at last, that hope is never truly lost.<br /> <b>"Hlad adeptly drives home the devastating civilian cost of the war."</b><br /> <b><i>—Booklist</i></b>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-21 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=09621d99-282c-41b5-9212-fcd6d25bbc13&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=09621d99-282c-41b5-9212-fcd6d25bbc13&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=09621d99-282c-41b5-9212-fcd6d25bbc13&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)