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Seized by the Sun

The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins

By: James W. Ure

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Seized by the Sun

The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins

By: James W. Ure

Of the 38 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) confirmed or presumed dead in World War II, only one—Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins—is still missing. On October 26, 1944, the 32-year-old fighter plane pilot lifted off from Mines Field in Los Angeles. She was never seen again. Seized by the Sun is the story of a remarkable woman who overcame a troubled childhood and the societal constraints of her time to find her calling flying the fastest and most powerful airplane of World War II. It is also a compelling unsolved mystery. Born in 1912 to a wealthy New Jersey family, Gertrude's childhood was marked by her mother's bouts with depression and her father's relentless search for a cure for the debilitating stutter that afflicted Gertrude throughout her life. Teased and struggling in school, young Gertrude retreated to a solitary existence. As a young woman she dabbled in raising goats and aimlessly crisscrossed the globe in an attempt to discover her purpose. As war loomed in Europe, Gertrude met the love of her life, a Royal Air Force pilot who was killed flying over Holland. Telling her sister that she "couldn't stop crying, so she focused on learning to fly," Gertrude applied to join the newly formed Women's Air Force Service Pilots. She went on to become such a superior pilot that she was one of only 126 WASPs selected to fly fighter planes. After her first flight in the powerful P-51 Mustang, her stutter left her for good. Gertrude's sudden disappearance remains a mystery to this day. Award-winning author Jim Ure leads readers through Gertrude's fascinating life; provides a detailed account of the WASPs' daily routines, training, and challenges; and describes the ongoing search for Gertrude's wreck and remains. The result of years of research and interviews with Gertrude's family, friends, and fellow WASPs, Seized by the Sun is an invaluable addition to any student's or history buff's bookshelf.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613735901

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9781613735909

Diffusion and Mass Transfer

By: James S. Vrentas,Christine M. Vrentas

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Diffusion and Mass Transfer

By: James S. Vrentas,Christine M. Vrentas

A proper understanding of diffusion and mass transfer theory is critical for obtaining correct solutions to many transport problems. Diffusion and Mass Transfer presents a comprehensive summary of the theoretical aspects of diffusion and mass transfer and applies that theory to obtain detailed solutions for a large number of important problems. Par

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CRC Press

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1466515694

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9781466515697

Stop the Press

How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune

By: James W. Ure

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How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune

By: James W. Ure

A journalist and once-active Mormon details the behind-the-scenes manipulations of the Mormon Church as it tried to destroy a leading newspaper in Salt Lake City. The author puts the conflict in historical context exposing the deep-seated enmity that is an unfortunate part of Mormon history."--Provided by publisher.

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Prometheus Books

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1633883396

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Faith Crisis, Volume 2: Behind Closed Doors

Leonard Arrington and the Progressive Rewriting of Latter-day Saint History

By: L. Hannah Stoddard,James F. Stoddard

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Faith Crisis, Volume 2: Behind Closed Doors

Leonard Arrington and the Progressive Rewriting of Latter-day Saint History

By: L. Hannah Stoddard,James F. Stoddard

During the 20th century, an organized objective to rewrite Latter-day Saint history from within, unbeknownst to the general Church membership, went head to head behind the scenes with traditional leaders of the Church. Meet the main players of this conflict: Leonard Arrington—progressive “Father of New Mormon History,” Ezra Taft Benson—traditionalist defender, and many other advocates of traditionalist and progressive Latter-day Saint history. As traditionalists and progressives sparred during the 1970s-1980s, a covert cold war commenced in Salt Lake City, Utah, with the progressives spying on the traditionalists, and the traditionalists spying on the progressives. Secret informants, leaked documents, falsified reports, and even employed pseudonyms—all were part of this struggle to dominate Latter-day Saint history. But how did, and does, this secret conflict affect you? Progressives, working in the Church History Department and at Brigham Young University, claimed 40 years ago that it would take a generation to re-educate the Church. Where are we now in that re-education?

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Joseph Smith Foundation

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1636849644

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9781636849645

Seized by the Sun

The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins

By: James W. Ure

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The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins

By: James W. Ure

Presents the life of the American air pilot who overcame a stuttering handicap to become a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II and who disappeared in a flight from Los Angeles in 1944.

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Women of Action

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1613735871

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9781613735879

Stop the Press

How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune

By: James W. Ure

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How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune

By: James W. Ure

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Prometheus Books

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Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life

By: James Waddel Alexander,John Hall

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Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life

By: James Waddel Alexander,John Hall

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0526944285

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9780526944286

Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D., Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life:

By: James W. Alexander,John Hall

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By: James W. Alexander,John Hall

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Palala Press

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1379274818

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9781379274810

The Verses of James W. Foley

By: James William Foley

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The Verses of James W. Foley

By: James William Foley

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Wentworth Press

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0469997737

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9780469997738

Conversations with James Joyce

By: Arthur Power

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Conversations with James Joyce

By: Arthur Power

Provides insight into Joyce's literary ideas, values, and background as well as his daily routine and family life as a young writer

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111

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0226677206

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9780226677200

Animal House

By: James Brown

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Animal House

By: James Brown

Music, Magazines & Mayhem Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every award going, year after year, and came to define not only its audience but also a generation. Bright, loud, funny, provocative, ambitious and careless, loaded was read from the barracks of Afghanistan to the England dressing room at Euro '96. It captured a hedonistic lifestyle of alcohol, cocaine and more. The last great hurrah before the end of the century. It was the biggest noise in the golden generation of magazine publishing, rocketing from zero to half a million sales in a matter of months. What MTV had been to the 80s, loaded was to the 90s. ANIMAL HOUSE follows James Brown's remarkable career from a high school drop-out fanzine writer with few qualifications to NME features editor aged 22, and loaded founder at 27. In between, his mother died in tragic circumstances and gradually his own drug and alcohol use began to take over. Loaded's unexpected success legitimised (and paid for) James's lifestyle, and it wasn't until he crashed and burned at GQ, and went through rehab, that any sense of perspective kicked in. Recuperating on the island of Mustique whilst plotting his return with Oz founder Felix Denis, James was asked by neighbour Lord Patrick Lichfield: "How on earth did you manage to sell so many magazines whilst taking so many drugs?" This book is his answer.

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Quercus

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1787477924

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9781787477926

Henry James

A Life in Letters

By: Henry James

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Henry James

A Life in Letters

By: Henry James

James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection from James's eloquent correspondence allows the writer to reveal himself and the fascinating world in which he lived. The letters provide a rich and fascinating source for James' views on his own works, on the literary craft, on sex, politics and friendship. Together they constitute, in Philip Horne's own words, James' 'real and best biography'.

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Penguin

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0140435166

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9780140435160

James Welch

By: James Welch,Ronald E. McFarland

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James Welch

By: James Welch,Ronald E. McFarland

The Confluence American Authors Series publishes criticism, interviews, manuscript selections, bibliographies, letters and other materials concerning important contemporary and modern American writers. In James Welsh, the first volume of the series, nine noted authors and critics, including Jack L Davis, Robert Gish, A.LaVonee Ruoff, Kenneth Lincoln, and Kathleen Sands, examin themes, symbols, and influences of James Welch's first three books, Riding the Earthboy 40 (poetry), Winter in the Blood (fiction), and The Death of Jim Loney ( fiction). They debate the questions of Indian identity, alienation, and survival in Welch's novels and explore the sources of power that inform his poems. In addition, editor Ron McFarland has added a substantial bibliography listing all of Welch's published work and all that has been about it to date. For the convenience of readers unfamiliar with Welch, McFarland has also reprintes generous selections from Welch's original novels and poems, a selection from his current novel-in- progress, and an informative interview with the author.

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0917652541

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Book's by James W. Ure

Seized by the Sun

Seized by the Sun

Diffusion and Mass Transfer

Diffusion and Mass Transfer

Stop the Press

Stop the Press

Faith Crisis, Volume 2: Behind Closed Doors

Faith Crisis, Volume 2: Behind Closed Doors

Seized by the Sun

Seized by the Sun

Stop the Press

Stop the Press

Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life

Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life

Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D., Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life:

Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D., Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life:

The Verses of James W. Foley

The Verses of James W. Foley

Conversations with James Joyce

Conversations with James Joyce

Animal House

Animal House

Henry James

Henry James

James Welch

James Welch

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