The Art Of Crash Landing

Author : Melissa DeCarlo
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062390554

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The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo Pdf

From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother’s hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she’s got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn’t make. When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother she’s never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her mother’s birthplace—the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. There, she soon learns that her mother remains a local mystery—a happy, talented teenager who inexplicably skipped town thirty-five years ago with nothing but the clothes on her back. But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew, and before long it becomes clear that something terrible happened to her mother, and it happened here. The harder Mattie digs for answers, the more obstacles she encounters. Giving up, however, isn’t an option. Uncovering what started her mother’s downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own. Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice.

Author : Britta Jeromin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3000632387

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CRASH LANDING À LA ROCK ́N ROLL by Britta Jeromin Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250172518

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Heads You Win by Jeffrey Archer Pdf

Heads You Win is international #1 bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel, with a final twist that will shock even his most ardent of fans. Leningrad, Russia, 1968: From an early age it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, Alexander and his mother will have to escape Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they have an irreversible choice: board a container ship bound for America or one bound for Great Britain. Alexander leaves the choice to a toss of a coin... In a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander’s future. During an epic tale, spanning two continents and thirty years, we follow Alexander through triumph and defeat as he sets out on parallel lives as Alex in New York and Sasha in London. As this unique story unfolds, both come to realize that to find their destiny they must face the past they left behind as Alexander in Russia.

Author : Angela Shelton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0615646778

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The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton by Angela Shelton Pdf

A modern day fairy tale about a girl who is trying to share her magic with the galaxy.

Author : Liz Hoffman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593239025

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Crash Landing by Liz Hoffman Pdf

A kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy’s winners and losers—from a leading business reporter “A true masterwork . . . perceptive, well researched, and captivating.”—David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, bestselling author of How to Invest It was the ultimate test for CEOs, and almost none of them saw it coming. In early March 2020, with the Dow Jones flirting with 30,000, the world’s biggest companies were riding an eleven-year economic high. By the end of the month, millions were out of work, iconic firms were begging for bailouts, and countless small businesses were in freefall. Slick consulting teams and country-club connections were suddenly of little use: Business leaders were fumbling in the dark, tossing out long-term strategy and making decisions on the fly—decisions that, they hoped, might just save them. In Crash Landing, award-winning business journalist Liz Hoffman shows how the pandemic set the economy on fire—but if you look closely, the tinder was already there. After the global financial crisis in 2008, corporate leaders embraced cheap debt and growth at all costs. Wages flatlined. Millions were pushed into the gig economy. Companies crammed workers into offices, and airlines did the same with planes. Wall Street cheered on this relentless march toward efficiency, overlooking the collateral damage and the risks sowed in the process. Based on astonishing access inside some of the world’s biggest and most iconic companies, Crash Landing is a kaleidoscopic account of the most remarkable period in modern economic history, revealing—through gripping, fly-on-the-wall reporting—how CEOs battled an economic catastrophe for which there was no playbook: among them, Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, blindsided by a virus in the middle of a high-stakes effort to go public; American Airlines’ Doug Parker, shuttling between K Street and the White House, determined to secure a multibillion-dollar bailout; and Ford’s Jim Hackett, as his assembly lines went from building cars to churning out ventilators. In the tradition of Too Big to Fail and The Big Short, Crash Landing exposes the fear, grit, and gambles behind the pandemic economy, while probing its implications for the future of work, corporate leadership, and capitalism itself, asking: Will this remarkable time give rise to newfound resilience, or become just another costly mistake to be forgotten?

Author : Zac Harrison
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434263100

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Crash Landing by Zac Harrison Pdf

When John Riley gets on the wrong bus, he ends up at an elite academy on an enormous space ship, where his classmates are aliens, the food is disgusting, and the penalty for failing exams is harsh. Can he show that he deserves a place at Hyperspace High?

Author : Christopher Dickey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439129593

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Summer of Deliverance by Christopher Dickey Pdf

Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel, Deliverance, a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries, and his explicit conversations with his father, Christopher Dickey has crafted a superb memoir of the corrosive effects of fame, a moving remembrance of a crisis that united a family, and an inspiring celebration of love between father and son.

Author : Daniel José Older
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:3014823

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Star Wars: The High Republic Phase III--Crash Landing by Daniel José Older Pdf

"Crash" Ongwa and her ragtag crew have been fighting against anyone who had a hand in the Nihil infiltration that plunged her home planet of Corellia into chaos. Even though an uneasy peace has been reached, if they don't continue to fight, everything they sacrificed for could slip away. Now, Crash has a lead on the person behind the entire Nihil plot—if her crew can accomplish this mission, could true peace be on their horizon?

Author : Joshua Muggleton
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781849050029

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Raising Martians-from Crash-landing to Leaving Home by Joshua Muggleton Pdf

Describes the characteristics of Asperger's syndrome and how it affects a child's life at home and school.

Author : Kimberly van Ginkel
Publisher : Genz Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952919177

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In The Sleep of Death by Kimberly van Ginkel Pdf

The man of her dreams turned out to be a necromancer's illusion. Now she's stranded in the Old West, falsely accused of murder, hunted by Death himself, and determined to wrest her lover's soul back from the gods.Her impulsive marriage to decrepit-but-rich Master Adalwolf turned sour when the old man's death fixation led him to stolen tribal magic. He learned to invade Lorena's dreams and distort her reality. Then the old coot got his hands on Death's Dearest, an ancient artifact with the power to bring back the dead.The gods were not pleased.Ancient deities, notably Sleep, Death, and Revenge, grew wrathful at Adalwolf's fledgling attempts at necromancy and whisked him from the living world. His eerie disappearance framed Lorena for his murder and plastered her across the headlines with the nickname "The Hellfire Witch." Armed only with her wits, two squabbling servants, and Adalwolf's book of gods and magic written in a language she cannot understand, Lorena fled the city with a posse on her trail.Now she must evade the noose while feverishly seeking to reclaim her husband's soul or this nightmare may span an eternity. Her time on Earth is running out. And Death holds a grudge.In the Sleep of Death blends the Weird West genre with the magical realism of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I channeled my Midwestern pride and passion for research into crafting this historical world.

Author : Charmaine Anne Li
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1773218425

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Crash Landing by Charmaine Anne Li Pdf

This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything!) to make her senior year different--to finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan, it seems like she's getting what she asked for. Ash is confident, intensely independent, and hell on a skateboard--nothing like anyone Jay knows and exactly how she wishes she could be. Offering to film Ash's submission to an upcoming skate contest introduces Jay to a side of Vancouver she's never seen and gives her the chance to push back against the expectations placed on her. But Ash has a secret, and Jay is increasingly desperate to figure it out. As things between them ride the fine line between friendship and something more, Jay has to decide just how much Ash will impact all the choices she still has to make about where she's going and who she wants to become.

Author : Scott Seegert
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407180885

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Sci-Fi Junior High by Scott Seegert Pdf

At Sci-Fi Junior High, everyone knows Kelvin Klosmo's scientist parents are geniuses, but Kelvin's own geniusness hasn't exactly ... kicked in yet. Can he keep his secret hidden, even when an evil scientist takes the form of a stuffed bunny and tries to conquer the universe? A hilarious illustrated story that's out of this world!

Author : Benjamin Fraser
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477318126

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The Art of Pere Joan by Benjamin Fraser Pdf

Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuŽrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and Spain's transition to democracy. The first monograph in English on a comics artist from the Spain, The Art of Pere Joan takes a topographical approach to reading comics, applying theories of cultural and urban geography to Pere Joan’s treament of space and landscape in his singular body of work. Balancing this goal with an exploration of specific works by Pere Joan, Benjamin Fraser demonstrates that looking at the thematic, structural, and aesthetic originality of the artist's landscape-driven work can help us begin to newly understand the representational properties of comics as a spatial medium. This in-depth examination reveals the resonance between the cultural landscapes of Mallorca and Pere Joan's metaphorical approach to both rural and urban environments in comics that weave emotional, ecological, and artistic strands in revolutionary ways.

Author : Dan Barry,Harvey Kurtzman,Frank Frazetta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878160353

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Flash Gordon by Dan Barry,Harvey Kurtzman,Frank Frazetta Pdf

For the first time, those rollicking space adventures of Flash Gordon have been collected in one volume, a generously-sized book which reprints the strips from sharp artist's proofs.

Author : Arthur G. O'Malley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429905872

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The Art of BART by Arthur G. O'Malley Pdf

The Art of BART (the Bilateral Affective Reprocessing of Thoughts) is a practitioner's introduction to an innovative psychotherapy model that draws on and integrates well-proven therapies (such as EMDR, sensorimotor psychotherapy and CBT) and on the Indian chakra tradition and other historical beliefs. As a therapeutic approach it has particular relevance to those who are living with the consequences of a traumatic event and those who seek after peak performance in fields such as sport and the arts. The book introduces the reader to BART as a psychotherapy that can benefit patients with disorders such as anorexia nervosa and dissociative identity disorder, and those who have suffered a traumatic event. It also looks at the information processing of the mind-body at the levels of the gut heart and the gut brain, and it makes connections between the endocrine and immune systems and the chakras of Indian tradition.