Author: Samuel Santana
Publisher: Samuel Santana
ISBN: 1623099234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In slow paced, post-World War I America, Guadalupe is no different than any other town its size on the California Central Coast. With its whistle stop ambiance, sparse population and vibrant collection of personalities that make up the small farming community, Guadalupe is a haven to those who prefer a tranquil existence and those who recognize a lucrative opportunity when they see it. Jonah Quentin and long-time friends, Mel and Ona Archer, came to the fertile Santa Maria Valley with nothing more than an idea and a surplus Curtiss Jenny biplane to set up shop as the valley’s first crop dusting company, the latest concept in agricultural pest control. Even with its limitations Angel Dust Incorporated is an instant success, though perhaps a little too successful for a corporation whose fleet consists of only one tired old surplus biplane flown by Jonah, an ex-Army Air Service fighter pilot who knows nothing about crop dusting. Late in the evening on the Forth of July 1926, Jonah wants nothing more than to cap off a night of celebration with a shot of whiskey and a beer at the Bésame Bar & Grille, Guadalupe’s not so clandestine speakeasy. But first he must step over a dirty little girl, around the age of four, sitting on the gin mill’s steps despite the late hour. Jonah, a devote bachelor, has no idea that that night their lives would merge forever. By the time Anna Lea turns seven a deep love for flying already smolders deep inside her. She loves nothing better than to sit on Jonah’s lap and peek over the rim of the cockpit while leisurely circling high above the small town surrounded by a sea of crop fields. At age ten, still on Jonah’s lap, Anna Lea is hooked when she holds the controls for the first time in flight, with Jonah handling everything else below the stick since she’s way too small to even reach the rudder bar. By her seventeenth birthday Anna Lea is flying tracks five feet above long rows of crops with the skill of a veteran fighter pilot. On the morning of December 7, 1941, following a vicious attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy, the United States plunges headfirst into World War II and Americans everywhere scramble to lend a hand. But even though manpower is stretched dangerously thin, America, the land of opportunity and progress, continues to hold fast to the narrow-minded notion that women are the weaker, inferior sex, with little to contribute outside their own front doors. But with the dismal initial progress of the war, the country hesitantly turns its eyes to the other half of its populace that for generations has been ignored as a viable contributing force. After several attempts and failures, Nancy Harkness Love, an affluent aviatrix from Houghton, Michigan, and Jacqueline Cochran, a successful self-made businesswoman and pilot from the Florida panhandle, finally convince the General of the Air Force, General Henry “Hap” Arnold, that the Army Air Force would benefit from having women pilots ferrying military aircraft from the factories to the airfields, and from airfield to airfield, to free up male pilots for combat duty overseas—something the Royal Air Force had been doing since 1939 with the advent of the Air Transport Auxiliary. At first the proposal to have women pilots perform a task that only men were suited to do was met with sarcasm, indifference and even hostility. But despite it all the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or “WASP,” took to the sky. When Anna Lea reads in the local paper that the Army Air Force is hiring women civilian pilots to help in the war effort, crop dusting quickly loses its allure and she sets her eyes on the WASP. Nobody tells her that the demanding, intensely paced training would be the easy part. From its humble beginnings the WASP program is an unpopular decision among the Air Force rank and file; some even call it blasphemy. Nobody wants a woman soaring high above the clouds in control of the worlds most powerful and modern military aircraft, undermining the male pilot’s superior aptitude and physical prowess. SEND ME AN ANGEL is a fictionalized account of the blatant prejudices and harsh chauvinism the 1,074 women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots endured and ultimately overcame, and the intestinal fortitude it took to became a fully operational WASP.
Send Me An Angel
Author: Samuel Santana
Publisher: Samuel Santana
ISBN: 1623099234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In slow paced, post-World War I America, Guadalupe is no different than any other town its size on the California Central Coast. With its whistle stop ambiance, sparse population and vibrant collection of personalities that make up the small farming community, Guadalupe is a haven to those who prefer a tranquil existence and those who recognize a lucrative opportunity when they see it. Jonah Quentin and long-time friends, Mel and Ona Archer, came to the fertile Santa Maria Valley with nothing more than an idea and a surplus Curtiss Jenny biplane to set up shop as the valley’s first crop dusting company, the latest concept in agricultural pest control. Even with its limitations Angel Dust Incorporated is an instant success, though perhaps a little too successful for a corporation whose fleet consists of only one tired old surplus biplane flown by Jonah, an ex-Army Air Service fighter pilot who knows nothing about crop dusting. Late in the evening on the Forth of July 1926, Jonah wants nothing more than to cap off a night of celebration with a shot of whiskey and a beer at the Bésame Bar & Grille, Guadalupe’s not so clandestine speakeasy. But first he must step over a dirty little girl, around the age of four, sitting on the gin mill’s steps despite the late hour. Jonah, a devote bachelor, has no idea that that night their lives would merge forever. By the time Anna Lea turns seven a deep love for flying already smolders deep inside her. She loves nothing better than to sit on Jonah’s lap and peek over the rim of the cockpit while leisurely circling high above the small town surrounded by a sea of crop fields. At age ten, still on Jonah’s lap, Anna Lea is hooked when she holds the controls for the first time in flight, with Jonah handling everything else below the stick since she’s way too small to even reach the rudder bar. By her seventeenth birthday Anna Lea is flying tracks five feet above long rows of crops with the skill of a veteran fighter pilot. On the morning of December 7, 1941, following a vicious attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy, the United States plunges headfirst into World War II and Americans everywhere scramble to lend a hand. But even though manpower is stretched dangerously thin, America, the land of opportunity and progress, continues to hold fast to the narrow-minded notion that women are the weaker, inferior sex, with little to contribute outside their own front doors. But with the dismal initial progress of the war, the country hesitantly turns its eyes to the other half of its populace that for generations has been ignored as a viable contributing force. After several attempts and failures, Nancy Harkness Love, an affluent aviatrix from Houghton, Michigan, and Jacqueline Cochran, a successful self-made businesswoman and pilot from the Florida panhandle, finally convince the General of the Air Force, General Henry “Hap” Arnold, that the Army Air Force would benefit from having women pilots ferrying military aircraft from the factories to the airfields, and from airfield to airfield, to free up male pilots for combat duty overseas—something the Royal Air Force had been doing since 1939 with the advent of the Air Transport Auxiliary. At first the proposal to have women pilots perform a task that only men were suited to do was met with sarcasm, indifference and even hostility. But despite it all the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or “WASP,” took to the sky. When Anna Lea reads in the local paper that the Army Air Force is hiring women civilian pilots to help in the war effort, crop dusting quickly loses its allure and she sets her eyes on the WASP. Nobody tells her that the demanding, intensely paced training would be the easy part. From its humble beginnings the WASP program is an unpopular decision among the Air Force rank and file; some even call it blasphemy. Nobody wants a woman soaring high above the clouds in control of the worlds most powerful and modern military aircraft, undermining the male pilot’s superior aptitude and physical prowess. SEND ME AN ANGEL is a fictionalized account of the blatant prejudices and harsh chauvinism the 1,074 women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots endured and ultimately overcame, and the intestinal fortitude it took to became a fully operational WASP.
Publisher: Samuel Santana
ISBN: 1623099234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In slow paced, post-World War I America, Guadalupe is no different than any other town its size on the California Central Coast. With its whistle stop ambiance, sparse population and vibrant collection of personalities that make up the small farming community, Guadalupe is a haven to those who prefer a tranquil existence and those who recognize a lucrative opportunity when they see it. Jonah Quentin and long-time friends, Mel and Ona Archer, came to the fertile Santa Maria Valley with nothing more than an idea and a surplus Curtiss Jenny biplane to set up shop as the valley’s first crop dusting company, the latest concept in agricultural pest control. Even with its limitations Angel Dust Incorporated is an instant success, though perhaps a little too successful for a corporation whose fleet consists of only one tired old surplus biplane flown by Jonah, an ex-Army Air Service fighter pilot who knows nothing about crop dusting. Late in the evening on the Forth of July 1926, Jonah wants nothing more than to cap off a night of celebration with a shot of whiskey and a beer at the Bésame Bar & Grille, Guadalupe’s not so clandestine speakeasy. But first he must step over a dirty little girl, around the age of four, sitting on the gin mill’s steps despite the late hour. Jonah, a devote bachelor, has no idea that that night their lives would merge forever. By the time Anna Lea turns seven a deep love for flying already smolders deep inside her. She loves nothing better than to sit on Jonah’s lap and peek over the rim of the cockpit while leisurely circling high above the small town surrounded by a sea of crop fields. At age ten, still on Jonah’s lap, Anna Lea is hooked when she holds the controls for the first time in flight, with Jonah handling everything else below the stick since she’s way too small to even reach the rudder bar. By her seventeenth birthday Anna Lea is flying tracks five feet above long rows of crops with the skill of a veteran fighter pilot. On the morning of December 7, 1941, following a vicious attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy, the United States plunges headfirst into World War II and Americans everywhere scramble to lend a hand. But even though manpower is stretched dangerously thin, America, the land of opportunity and progress, continues to hold fast to the narrow-minded notion that women are the weaker, inferior sex, with little to contribute outside their own front doors. But with the dismal initial progress of the war, the country hesitantly turns its eyes to the other half of its populace that for generations has been ignored as a viable contributing force. After several attempts and failures, Nancy Harkness Love, an affluent aviatrix from Houghton, Michigan, and Jacqueline Cochran, a successful self-made businesswoman and pilot from the Florida panhandle, finally convince the General of the Air Force, General Henry “Hap” Arnold, that the Army Air Force would benefit from having women pilots ferrying military aircraft from the factories to the airfields, and from airfield to airfield, to free up male pilots for combat duty overseas—something the Royal Air Force had been doing since 1939 with the advent of the Air Transport Auxiliary. At first the proposal to have women pilots perform a task that only men were suited to do was met with sarcasm, indifference and even hostility. But despite it all the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or “WASP,” took to the sky. When Anna Lea reads in the local paper that the Army Air Force is hiring women civilian pilots to help in the war effort, crop dusting quickly loses its allure and she sets her eyes on the WASP. Nobody tells her that the demanding, intensely paced training would be the easy part. From its humble beginnings the WASP program is an unpopular decision among the Air Force rank and file; some even call it blasphemy. Nobody wants a woman soaring high above the clouds in control of the worlds most powerful and modern military aircraft, undermining the male pilot’s superior aptitude and physical prowess. SEND ME AN ANGEL is a fictionalized account of the blatant prejudices and harsh chauvinism the 1,074 women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots endured and ultimately overcame, and the intestinal fortitude it took to became a fully operational WASP.
Send Me An Angel
Author: Alysha Ellis
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1784308072
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Ellie's angel shows her Heaven on Earth. It's not every day a woman opens her door to find a gorgeous, naked man asleep on her front step. But then, a man claiming to be an angel is no everyday occurrence. Wherever Matthew has come from, and whatever his purpose, one thing is for certain. Sex with him is the closest Ellie has ever been to heaven. And she'll fight anyone or anything that tries to take her angel away from her.
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1784308072
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Ellie's angel shows her Heaven on Earth. It's not every day a woman opens her door to find a gorgeous, naked man asleep on her front step. But then, a man claiming to be an angel is no everyday occurrence. Wherever Matthew has come from, and whatever his purpose, one thing is for certain. Sex with him is the closest Ellie has ever been to heaven. And she'll fight anyone or anything that tries to take her angel away from her.
God Sent Me An Angel
Author: Tracy Wilson-Coleman
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481736558
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
This book is about an little girl that was here on earth for a short time. And the time she was here how she touch so many people and put smiles on there face. How she lived her life till the end. And how she pulled her family together thought the bad times as well as the hard times. And how her sister's and brother's deal with it all. Even how her dad and I did all we could do. How we lived apart for so many months. And still stayed together till the end.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481736558
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
This book is about an little girl that was here on earth for a short time. And the time she was here how she touch so many people and put smiles on there face. How she lived her life till the end. And how she pulled her family together thought the bad times as well as the hard times. And how her sister's and brother's deal with it all. Even how her dad and I did all we could do. How we lived apart for so many months. And still stayed together till the end.
Send Me Your Guardian Angel
Author: Alessio Parente
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788849900781
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788849900781
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop
Author: Susan Hadley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136652329
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In perceiving all rap and hip-hop music as violent, misogynistic, and sexually charged, are we denying the way in which it is attentive to the lived experiences, both positive and negative, of many therapy clients? This question is explored in great depth in this anthology, the first to examine the use of this musical genre in the therapeutic context. The contributors are all experienced therapists who examine the multiple ways that rap and hip-hop can be used in therapy by listening and discussing, performing, creating, or improvising. The text is divided into three sections that explore the historical and theoretical perspectives of rap and hip-hop in therapy, describe the first-hand experiences of using the music with at-risk youth, and discuss the ways in which contributors have used rap and hip-hop with clients with specific diagnoses, respectively. Within these sections, the contributors provide rationale for the use of rap and hip-hop in therapy and encourage therapists to validate the experiences for those for whom rap music is a significant mode of expression. Editors Susan Hadley and George Yancy go beyond promoting culturally competent therapy to creating a paradigm shift in the field, one that speaks to the problematic ways in which rap and hip-hop have been dismissed as expressive of meaningless violence and of little social value. More than providing tools to incorporate rap into therapy, this text enhances the therapist's cultural and professional repertoire.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136652329
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In perceiving all rap and hip-hop music as violent, misogynistic, and sexually charged, are we denying the way in which it is attentive to the lived experiences, both positive and negative, of many therapy clients? This question is explored in great depth in this anthology, the first to examine the use of this musical genre in the therapeutic context. The contributors are all experienced therapists who examine the multiple ways that rap and hip-hop can be used in therapy by listening and discussing, performing, creating, or improvising. The text is divided into three sections that explore the historical and theoretical perspectives of rap and hip-hop in therapy, describe the first-hand experiences of using the music with at-risk youth, and discuss the ways in which contributors have used rap and hip-hop with clients with specific diagnoses, respectively. Within these sections, the contributors provide rationale for the use of rap and hip-hop in therapy and encourage therapists to validate the experiences for those for whom rap music is a significant mode of expression. Editors Susan Hadley and George Yancy go beyond promoting culturally competent therapy to creating a paradigm shift in the field, one that speaks to the problematic ways in which rap and hip-hop have been dismissed as expressive of meaningless violence and of little social value. More than providing tools to incorporate rap into therapy, this text enhances the therapist's cultural and professional repertoire.
My Everyday Life
Author: Ruth Nunez
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300149736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This story is almost like a biography. In reality, its about the author's life and her hardships in her life. The way she struggles to comprehend her family. And how living in poverty affects her and her family. Its like a diary of everything that goes on her life everyday and thats why its called My Everyday Life/
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300149736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This story is almost like a biography. In reality, its about the author's life and her hardships in her life. The way she struggles to comprehend her family. And how living in poverty affects her and her family. Its like a diary of everything that goes on her life everyday and thats why its called My Everyday Life/
You Can't Say That! English Usage Today
Author: Laurence Lerner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521140978
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book discusses the issues involved and so enables you to make your own informed decision.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521140978
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book discusses the issues involved and so enables you to make your own informed decision.
You're the One Behind the Curtain
Author: Jon Davis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462837239
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An analysis of OCD and strategies to combat it lead off this book, which chronicles the evolution of one man’s OCD over the course of his life. The argument presented is that everyone subconsciously has complete control over their OCD and decides their own rules and stipulations that wreak havoc on their daily lives. Because of this, it can be controlled. These issues are addressed in the introduction as OCD is analyzed. Ten strategies are then presented which will help those with OCD to keep it under control, or to “fight back”, so to speak. The book then takes on a lighter tone as Jon travels through his life story, explaining the evolution of his OCD, as well as recounting humorous and entertaining stories from his life. His childhood and teenage years are filled with tales of pranks and mild rebellion, while he found himself reciting strange chants in his mind and repeating actions to ward off bad luck. As he got older, his misadventures with drunken friends took the place of superstition, until he reached his twenties and faced some major life stressors. At that point OCD got out of control. He fought back with therapy, research, and medication, and slowly got it back under control. In the more recent years of his life, his nieces and nephew act as fodder for humorous tales. Because he has passed the point in his life in which he was forced to face severe OCD, he feels he can help others with their struggle.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462837239
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An analysis of OCD and strategies to combat it lead off this book, which chronicles the evolution of one man’s OCD over the course of his life. The argument presented is that everyone subconsciously has complete control over their OCD and decides their own rules and stipulations that wreak havoc on their daily lives. Because of this, it can be controlled. These issues are addressed in the introduction as OCD is analyzed. Ten strategies are then presented which will help those with OCD to keep it under control, or to “fight back”, so to speak. The book then takes on a lighter tone as Jon travels through his life story, explaining the evolution of his OCD, as well as recounting humorous and entertaining stories from his life. His childhood and teenage years are filled with tales of pranks and mild rebellion, while he found himself reciting strange chants in his mind and repeating actions to ward off bad luck. As he got older, his misadventures with drunken friends took the place of superstition, until he reached his twenties and faced some major life stressors. At that point OCD got out of control. He fought back with therapy, research, and medication, and slowly got it back under control. In the more recent years of his life, his nieces and nephew act as fodder for humorous tales. Because he has passed the point in his life in which he was forced to face severe OCD, he feels he can help others with their struggle.
Statement of Disbursements of the House as Compiled by the Chief Administrative Officer from ...
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
Gabriel's Tears
Author: Nedra Kiper
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130081831X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Gabriel's Tears is about my life of extreme child abuse and the process of healing that abuse. Along the way you will learn why God allows children to suffer. You will also learn how Gods amazing angel's are right here with us and helping us heal. And you will also learn about my own angel, Angel Gabriel, and how he helped me and healed me in the most amazing ways. I will not spoil the learning process as you read my life's story. Be warned this book will shock you on many different levels.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130081831X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Gabriel's Tears is about my life of extreme child abuse and the process of healing that abuse. Along the way you will learn why God allows children to suffer. You will also learn how Gods amazing angel's are right here with us and helping us heal. And you will also learn about my own angel, Angel Gabriel, and how he helped me and healed me in the most amazing ways. I will not spoil the learning process as you read my life's story. Be warned this book will shock you on many different levels.