Download or read book Fly Me written by Daniel Riley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nation on the verge of a new era-and a girl caught between her past and the ever-expanding present. Now a Los Angeles Times Bestseller! The year is 1972, and the beaches of Los Angeles are the center of the world. Dropping into the embers of the drug and surf scene is Suzy Whitman, who has tossed her newly minted Vassar degree aside to follow her older sister into open skies and the borderless adventures of stewardessing for Grand Pacific Airlines. In Sela del Mar, California-a hedonistic beach town in the shadow of LAX-Suzy skateboards, suntans, and flies daily and nightly across the country. Motivated by a temporary escape from her past and a new taste for danger and belonging, Suzy falls into a drug-trafficking scheme that clashes perilously with the skyjacking epidemic of the day. Rendered in the brilliant color of the age and told with spectacular insight and clarity, Fly Me is a story of dark discovery set in the debauchery of 1970s Los Angeles.
Download or read book Come Fly with Me written by Jodi Peckman and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wistful love letter to the joys of flying and the fun, fashion, and glamour that go with it. Now, more than ever, nothing captures our yearning for travel, freedom, glamour, and adventure than the fantasy of flying away from it all. From Frank Sinatra dressed to the nines in the golden age of Pan Am to celebrities snapped in luxury leisurewear in the lounges today, airports have always afforded the most glamorous glimpses into that most enviable aspect of celebrity life--jet-setting in style. Curated by the renowned photo editor Jodi Peckman, Come Fly with Me is a love letter to the most longed-for escape, told through evocative images of the icons who've made the airport their runway. From John and Yoko waving from the airstairs to Rihanna bustling incognito through the halls, and from Muhammad Ali's crisp-pressed suits to Miley Cyrus's playful onesies, this is a whimsical and welcome reminder when we need it most of the joys of travel.
Download or read book Fly Me to the Moon Vol 11 written by Kenjiro Hata,Kenijro Hata and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their camping trip, the gang surprises Nasa and Tsukasa with a belated wedding reception and a glampsite with a king-size bed! When they’re not blushing and stammering their way through the festivities, the no-longer-newlyweds consider what marriage means to them. Maybe it’s time to move out of the neighborhood bathhouse and into a place with a little more privacy. -- VIZ Media
Download or read book Fly Me to the Moon written by Edward Belbruno and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edward Belbruno shows how to harness the same principle for low-fuel space travel--or, as he puts it, "surfing the gravitational field." Belbruno devised one of the most exciting concepts now being used in space flight, that of swinging through the cosmos on the subtle fluctuations of the planets' gravitational pulls. His idea was met with skepticism until 1991, when he used it to get a stray Japanese satellite back on course to the Moon. The successful rescue represented the first application of chaos to space travel and ushered in an emerging new field. Part memoir, part scientific adventure story, Fly Me to the Moon gives a gripping insider's account of that mission and of Belbruno's personal struggles with the science establishment. Along the way, Belbruno introduces readers to recent breathtaking advances in American space exploration. He discusses ways to capture and redirect asteroids; presents new research on the origin of the Moon; weighs in on discoveries like 2003 UB313 (now named Eris), a dwarf planet detected in the far outer reaches of our solar system--and much more. Grounded in Belbruno's own rigorous theoretical research but written for a general audience, Fly Me to the Moon is for anybody who has ever felt moved by the spirit of discovery.
Download or read book Fly Me to Paris written by Helga Jensen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Thomas is not living her best life, so she's going to start spreading her wings. But can she fly? Penny Thomas's job is far from thrilling, and her boyfriend of fifteen years shows no sign of wanting to commit. She has just turned fifty and is going nowhere. Wanting a new start in life, Penny applies for a job as a flight attendant to find out what she is truly capable of. Her new job brings the adventure she craves, even if she does keep bumping into an impossibly handsome but deeply annoying pilot named Matt Garcia. Stuck in Paris on an unscheduled stopover, the chemistry between them grows. But the path of love never did fly smooth, as Matt's past threatens to come between them. And anyway, Penny isn't looking for love. But what if it finds her?
Download or read book Fly Me to the Moon written by Alyson Noël and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flight attendant Hailey Lane decides it is time to start life over when she discovers her live-in boyfriend in bed with another man, and sets out to find happiness and fulfill her wildest dreams while traveling around the world for her job, meeting her fair share of good looking men who turn out to be all wrong for her, and one man, who may just turn out to be Mr. Right.
Download or read book Fly Me to the Morgue written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bing Crosby wants to buy a horse to indulge his other passion―when he’s not playing golf with Bob Hope, that is. But when his trainer fails to show up in Vegas, and when he finds the horse’s owner dead, problems begin to mount up. Time for Eddie G and Jerry to come to the rescue, urged on by Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, in town to watch the start of Frank Junior’s career. But soon the body count―and temperature―starts to rise . . . PRAISE FOR RAT PACK MYSTERY NOVELS "This breezy caper is unalloyed fun." Booklist on I'm a Fool to Kill You "Randisi perfectly captures the GLITZ, GLAMOUR, CORRUPTION, AND CRIME of the era, using the Rat Pack gang with affectionate respect and considerable acumen."―Publishers Weekly on Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die "Longtime mystery veteran Randisi does a BANG-UP JOB CAPTURING SINATRA, MARTIN, DAVIS JR., AND THEIR FELLOW KINGS OF COOL in all their Vegas glory....With a likable but savvy protagonist, a deep understanding of Vegas culture and sixties style, and an obvious love of the Rat Pack, Randisi delivers a stylish, memorable winner."―The Baltimore Sun on Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime “A RAT-A-TAT WHODUNIT [that] harks back to drugstore pulp fiction…Randisi conjures up a sharkskin-suited man's world, awash in booze [and] broads…a quick romp…with a flashy façade.”―The Washington Post on Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime
Download or read book Working the Skies written by Drew Whitelegg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Livin N This S k in written by Rashida Garner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Journey!This is a journey through love. A journey through pain. A journey through faith. A journey on a path that not only leads to fulfillment but to understanding and the appreciation of oneself and finding the love within.Experience the life and the trials and tribulations of a single woman. Living, loving, laughing, hurting, crying and then finally just living.Join the poet .. "Livin N This S(k)in".
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book As Boorish As Myself written by Valvin Lee Jeanty and published by Valvin Lee Jeanty. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Boorish As Myself is a collection of poems and proverbs which showcase how artistically indifferent one can be. A look into VLJ's perspective on life.
Download or read book December Moods written by Crystal Wright and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every poem in this book represents a part of mewhere Ive come and gone within my mind. This book contains the most vulnerable parts of myself that I do not speak about often. I speak on my experiences and my own truths, mixed with a little imagination. It talks about my ups and downs through my years on this earth, the good and the bad, the love, the loss and a little more. I question my reality and what could be, alongside with giving a little advice on how to cope with our everyday living. I hope you do enjoy this book and take away some of the things that Ive learned and recognize that you arent the only ones going through something, whether in the past, present, and future.
Download or read book The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer written by Johnny Mercer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.
Download or read book The Flowers of Harmony being a Collection of Catches Glees Duets Selected from the most Eminent Composers etc Edited by G Walker written by George Walker and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Come Fly the World written by Julia Cooke and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The Fearless Book Club by Nobel Peace Prize–Winner, Malala Yousafzai ** Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era. Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am offered young women the world. Come Fly the World tells the story of the stewardesses who served on the iconic Pan American Airways between 1966 and 1975 – and of the unseen diplomatic role they played on the world stage. Alongside the glamour was real danger, as they flew soldiers to and from Vietnam and staffed Operation Babylift – the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon. Cooke's storytelling weaves together the true stories of women like Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few African American stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of a jet-set life. In the process, Cooke shows how the sexualized coffee-tea-or-me stereotype was at odds with the importance of what they did, and with the freedom, power and sisterhood they achieved.
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language written by Walter W. Skeat and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and reliable, this reference traces English words back to their Indo-European roots. Each entry features a brief definition, identifies the language of origin, and employs a few illustrative quotations. An extensive appendix includes lists of prefixes, suffixes, Indo-European roots, homonyms and doublets, and the distribution of English-language sources.
Download or read book Sicilians Don t Cry II written by Leonardo Guzzardo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And again I want to state that I have lived one of the most bizarre, wildest, dangerous and tragic life any human being could have ever lived. I have been stabbed and shot before, damn near beaten to death by people with baseball bats, and being Catholic received my last rites two times. In my life I made a lot of big money, blew a lot of big money, did a lot of gambling, drank a lot of alcohol, did a lot of drugs, and from becoming a normal sex addict, I became a hardcore sadist and masochist sex addict.
