Extraordinary Things - DeLuca, Diana M

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Résumé :
The heart-tugging dialogues between a mother and her daughter are the most sensitive and insightful I've ever read.-W/C T. W. H (Howard) Hewer, CD, RCAF ret., author of In for a Penny, In for a Pound. Makes the reader want to finish the story before putting it down.-S/L George Sweanor, RCAF, ret., 419 Squadron, author of It's All Pensionable Time. his is how I saw life on the squadron sixty-two years ago.-F/O Doug Sample, CD, RCAF ret., rear gunner, 415 Squadron, President-Chairman, Yorkshire Air Museum, Canada Branch. An untold story, aircrew and their families. Accurate, moving, and compelling.-F/O Jeff Jeffery, DFC, RCAF ret., pilot, 432 Squadron, president, The Halifax Aircraft Association. Night after night, WWII bomber aircrews flew operations from English airfields. They were ordinary men asked to do extraordinary things. Many left behind families and secrets. One involves Barbara MacDonald, a London actress, who learns from her dying mother that her father was shot down over Germany in 1943. Barbara's quest to find out about him takes her across England and out to Canada. What she learns changes her attitude toward her parents, herself, and her profession. But it will also confront her with the greatest challenge of her life....

Biographie:
Diana M. DeLuca was born in England and emigrated to Canada as a teenager. She is a retired faculty member and administrator from the University of Hawaii. She first saw Hawaii in 1959, before statehood, when Foster Tower was Waikiki's only high rise. She is the widow of Charles DeLuca, former curator of the Waikiki Aquarium, and partner of the late Dr. Sidney Bronstein, former chairman of the Maxillofacial Surgery Department at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She currently resides in Eugene, Oregon. Her novel, A Dream of Shadows: A Novel of Reincarnation, was awarded first place in two categories by Reader Views 2015. Best novel of Relationships and Spirituality, and best Novel Set in American West....

Sommaire:
Diana M. DeLuca was born in England and emigrated to Canada as a teenager. She is a retired faculty member and administrator from the University of Hawaii. She first saw Hawaii in 1959, before statehood, when Foster Tower was Waikiki's only high rise. She is the widow of Charles DeLuca, former curator of the Waikiki Aquarium, and partner of the late Dr. Sidney Bronstein, former chairman of the Maxillofacial Surgery Department at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She currently resides in Eugene, Oregon. Her novel, A Dream of Shadows: A Novel of Reincarnation, was awarded first place in two categories by Reader Views 2015. Best novel of Relationships and Spirituality, and best Novel Set in American West....