Lyrical, inspiring, and affecting text paired with bright, appealing illustrations make Ready to Fly perfect for aspiring ballerinas everywhere who are ready to leap and to spread their wings! Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share at home or in the classroom. Although there aren’t many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet. Soon Sylvia learns how to fly—how to dance—and how to dare to dream. Includes a foreword from Sylvia Townsend, a brief history of the bookmobile, an author’s note, and a further reading list.

Get Ready to Fly, preparing your soul to soar, personal development guru; Pam Ross delivers powerful strategies to prepare you for the success you've been working so hard to achieve. Using the Federal Aviation Administration's preflight instructions, Pam shows you how to level up your life without losing your sanity. This book challenges the reader to Check Your Baggage; because we all have baggage. Own your true identity and Take the Right Seat both spiritually and naturally. It tells the truth about the cost of commitment and warns you to Fasten Your Seatbelt. You'll understand the power of putting your Tray Tables Up because nothing tastes as good as a breakthrough. The author teaches you when to Silence Your Communication Device by knowing when to speak and when to keep quiet. You will learn how to handle life's turbulence and hold on to only what's most important to you. And lastly, you'll get the wisdom to adequately respond to the unlikely and unexpected loss of cabin pressure. If you plan on being better and living higher in the future, this book is the wisdom you need to safely arrive at your next! Sober up, buckle up, and Get Ready to Fly!

We've heard more than a few tragic stories of "death by success." Athletes who go pro, only to lose it all to drug addiction. Musicians who make it to the top and leave us all too soon, choosing suicide to escape the pressures of fandom. Politicians who honorably served their local community, but left a legacy of scandal to the global community. I'm sure you can name at least one person in your world who crashed and burned under the pressure caused by sudden elevation. Some of us are those people!In this Personal Flight Guide, Pam Ross brings you the life application for the book, Get Ready to Fly, preparing your soul to soar. Through a series of questions, Pam coaches the reader in doing the deep work required to ensure a safe departure into the life of our dreams.

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A little boy is excited by his first airplane ride

Nelson is a superhero with an embarrassing problem… He can't fly very well and he's been ordered to attend remedial flying school. If he doesn't pass the class he'll lost his superhero license and have to work at the weather bureau. But a class in remedial flying is just the beginning of his problems. His girlfriend thinks he’s self-obsessed, and his mom won’t get off his case about not living up to the family legacy. When Nelson is framed for a crime and sent to the Defining Center of Adjustments, the sinister warden Pretty Boy will challenge everything he thought he knew about being a hero. If Nelson can’t get his act together and realize that what makes a superhero isn’t the costume, but the actions the superhero takes, he might lose more than his career. He might lose his life and everyone important to him.

About Free to Fly: When life gets you feeling “grounded”, where do you turn? When hopes are dashed and disappointments come, how do you respond? Free to Fly is an analogy of what it takes to get a multi-ton piece of steel off the ground, thrust into the air, and stay there—and how that can correspond to what it takes to get human spirits off the ground and up where they belong. If you are looking to revive your joy and your spirit, take a flight into Free To Fly and get ready for take-off!

Have you ever wondered if there is more to life than chasing the so-called American dream and practicing religion? Arianne Mockabee sought to discover why she existed and what plans God had for her life, if any. Even though she grew up in church, while there she learned more about religion than about developing a relationship with God. As a result, she found herself lost and attempting to fill the voids in her life with people, degrees, theories, and material thingsand failing miserably. In a society run by corporate ladders and fame, the emptiness that she felt could not be satisfied with another diploma, promotion, or relationship. She needed God. She needed to know Him and the purpose that He had for her life. In a casual and transparent manner, Arianne shares her journey of redemption, restoration, and transformation through the imagery of the butterfly life cycle. Beginning with the initial laying of the egg, throughout each stage she reveals her struggles, insecurities, and path to spiritual maturity. By including simple reflection questions and prayers at the end of every chapter, Arianne invites you to take on a personal journey of your own.

A dream. An boundless journey through life joining the dots. This printed work speaks of me, my life, my childhood, my travels and events that have touched my soul. It was written to show that life does not always give you “the winning hand”, but through perseverance and bravery, you can have it all. Writing this book brought me in contact with my inner self, one that I had ignored all my life. I relived al my existential emotions: fear, wonder, abandonment, desperation, joy, love and finally stability. A whirlwind of emotions that took shape through the written pages. I carry with me moments of despair, trials and tribulations however, this book is a message to my children that here stands a man who fought his battles and won. He never gave up! The real Gary has shown up and can be counted upon. Now I can see the bigger picture of life and the wonderous thing is, I see where I fit in. I finally recognize myself. Gary Marcus Judge is a successful entrepreneur, student, husband and father to three wonderful children. Of Anglo-Indian origins, he has been an English language teacher for more than 25 years. Currently an international business coach and mentor, he works with managers and company owners on topics as varied as leadership, communication and team management. Passionate about nature and the outdoors, his interests include trekking, photography, soul and reggae music. His outlook on life is: “We experience what we do because it is what we need to grow. Good and bad. We were not created to stand still, through our interactions and difficulties we become the person our existence needs.

For author Ron Carpenter, his foray into the world of flying and airplanes began with a guy named Hank, a policeman who loved to fly in his off-duty time. After their first flight over Glendale, Arizona, in a Cessna 172, Carpenter was hooked. In So You Think You Want to Fly!, he shares his detailed story of learning to fly and how he eventually became a bush pilot in Alaska. In this memoir, Carpenter tells how he and his wife took flying lessons together, logged air time, passed their exams, and how they purchased several airplanes. He narrates some of their excursions, in-flight experiences, destinations, and near-miss incidents. So You Think You Want to Fly! discusses how Carpenter took the opportunity to fly in Alaska and the wide range of passengers and places he flew. Offering firsthand insights into the world of airplanes and flying, Carpenter gives a look at the world from the seat of a cockpit.