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Splat the Cat is back in New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Rob Scotton's beginning reader Splat the Cat: Up in the Air at the Fair. In this My First I Can Read Book, Splat, Spike, and Plank can't wait to go to the fair. But when Kitten can't come, the friends are determined to bring her back the perfect gift. Beginning readers will delight in Splat's hilarious attempts to find the perfect present. Readers won't even know they are learning...
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With over 20,000 flying hours Robert Fulton takes you "Up in the Air" in a series of ten chapters that detail stories produced by a wide variety of fixed wing and helicopter missions that on occasion rise to the level of breathtaking terror as well as the luxury of immense relief. In a career spanning almost fifty years Fulton dives into the riddles of fate in the air, into life's struggle to survive no matter what--finding a way, risking life and...
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Charlotte Dawson is one of the most honest, self deprecating female personalities in Australian media circles. She has a great profile and loyal following from the hit TV show Australia's Next Top Model and Celebrity Apprentice, as well as from her days as a fashion journalist and model. She's constantly talked about - whether it's for her honesty about botox, her broken marriage to Olympic swimmer Scott Miller, her battle with depression, or her...
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Imagine being in a vast body of water that glows with shafts of light. As you dive for oysters, you hope to find one treasured pearl. Formed by a tiny kernel of sand, each pearl takes years of abrasion to form luminous hues of reflective light. As you face grim realities and have difficult choices, diving for pearls can symbolize new wisdom to be gleaned. Are you flattened with worry, grief, anger, or regret? These spiritual reflections may help you...
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Ice Pilots NWT volume 13
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After her husband's acrimonious departure from Buffalo, Kelly has a confrontation that decides whether she, too, will quit. Jeremy makes a mistake that could end his Buffalo career.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We're about to enter an area of known turbulence, so please put on your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Erika Armstrong is the first modern woman airline captain of a commercial Boeing 727 to write a book about her experiences. Women in aviation are sparse, and Erika quickly learns the humor of being locked in the cockpit with men for countless hours, the grace of suffering discrimination...
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer volume 11
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Arthur and Mary fall in love. He decides to fly the balloon with the children's help before the army comes to recover it. But the sheriff suspects he is a devil and intervenes. The children are disappointed, but Tom won't give up his dream of flight.
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Rainbow Ruby volume 8
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Rainbow Ruby becomes a Pilot to help Chirpee see what it's like to fly, like other birds. // Paige is heartbroken because her favorite dress gets a tear just before her big party. Rainbow Ruby becomes a Fashion Designer and finds the perfect solution to Paige's fashion catastrophe.
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Arctic Air volume 7
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Bobby's old life in Vancouver comes back to haunt him when he travels south.
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The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare. Battle fronts had become immobilized in the grip of machine-guns and heavy artillery, leading to slaughter on an unprecedented scale.
The end of the war saw exhausted governments extricating themselves from the carnage, but some leaders were concerned that, sooner or later, another major war would follow. As France's Marshal Foch put it, the Treaty of Versailles was only a 'twenty-year...
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When both an industry's workers and its customers report high and rising frustration with the way they are being treated, something is fundamentally wrong. In response to these conditions, many of the world's airlines have made ever-deeper cuts in services and their workforces. Is it too much to expect airlines, or any other enterprise, to provide a fair return to investors, high-quality reliable service to their customers, and good jobs for their...
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The practical guide to go from "drowning in work" to freeing up an extra business day per week for everyone on your team.
"There just aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done!" Sound familiar? Forget the old concepts of time management and the hustle culture of working until you burn out. You and your entire team can get more done, in far fewer hours, with the right blueprint. “Come Up for Air” is that blueprint.
Through years of...
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