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From the New York Times bestselling author Caroline Paul, a thrilling, gravity-defying book that takes us skyward to explore the art of aeronautics-and the human drive to live daringly.
Flying has long represented that beautiful, high-stakes human drive to invent, to explore, to experience. Caroline Paul has known it since she was twenty and learned to fly a single-engine plane for the first time. In her thirties, she moved to a paraglider; in her forties, a motorized hang glider. Now in her fifties with her long-term marriage having dissolved beneath her, she has again turned to the skies by way of a gyrocopter, finding that it's easier to learn a landing than a human heart.
Historically, she hasn't been alone in escaping upward. Alongside her own experiences over decades of flight, Why Fly includes the gripping stories of those through history who have defied the things that weighed them the Night Witches, Russian women who flew slow biplanes against the high-tech Nazi Luftwaffe; the famous female barnstormers of the 1920s, particularly African American pilot Bessie Coleman who traveled to France to earn her license after her own country refused her the chance; and the ultralight pilots who believed they could teach birds brought to extinction in their old habitat not just to return but to retrace their old migration routes by following humans in flight. Arranged in five parts, Preflight, Taxi, Takeoff, Flight, and Landing, Why Fly shows all the ways we've been reaching for flight for centuries. Along the way we flub, we crash land, we simply crash. Still, we want to fly.
But why? Why Fly reveals all.
Flying has long represented that beautiful, high-stakes human drive to invent, to explore, to experience. Caroline Paul has known it since she was twenty and learned to fly a single-engine plane for the first time. In her thirties, she moved to a paraglider; in her forties, a motorized hang glider. Now in her fifties with her long-term marriage having dissolved beneath her, she has again turned to the skies by way of a gyrocopter, finding that it's easier to learn a landing than a human heart.
Historically, she hasn't been alone in escaping upward. Alongside her own experiences over decades of flight, Why Fly includes the gripping stories of those through history who have defied the things that weighed them the Night Witches, Russian women who flew slow biplanes against the high-tech Nazi Luftwaffe; the famous female barnstormers of the 1920s, particularly African American pilot Bessie Coleman who traveled to France to earn her license after her own country refused her the chance; and the ultralight pilots who believed they could teach birds brought to extinction in their old habitat not just to return but to retrace their old migration routes by following humans in flight. Arranged in five parts, Preflight, Taxi, Takeoff, Flight, and Landing, Why Fly shows all the ways we've been reaching for flight for centuries. Along the way we flub, we crash land, we simply crash. Still, we want to fly.
But why? Why Fly reveals all.
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A 342-Mile Exploration of America's Second Largest CityWalking the Line is an inspirational urban walking adventure that explores Los Angeles, away from the glamor and fame of its well-known centrally located attractions.
Longtime LA resident Roy Meals describes numerous little-known points of interest he discovered while tracing the 342-mile perimeter of America’s second-largest city. In ten-mile twice-weekly segments, he follows LA’s city limits beginning atop a 5,000-foot mountain, proceeding along sea-level beaches, and continuing through residential, commercial, and industrial areas.
He samples ethnic delicacies, races go-karts, pets a giraffe, suffers landfill ejection, paints graffiti, and takes hang gliding and fencing lessons. For LA residents and visitors, this is a unique guide to underappreciated and fascinating local attractions.
Highlights
Full chapters on attraction-dense Venice, Griffith Park, San Pedro and Wilmington7 wilderness hikes in the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains27 urban segments, including Sylmar, Brentwood, South LA, Boyle Heights, North Hollywood, and Eagle Rock107 color photographs
Regardless of readers' home turf, Walking the Line encourages everyone to escape their own neighborhoods, venture forth on foot, and make interesting, life-enriching discoveries.
Longtime LA resident Roy Meals describes numerous little-known points of interest he discovered while tracing the 342-mile perimeter of America’s second-largest city. In ten-mile twice-weekly segments, he follows LA’s city limits beginning atop a 5,000-foot mountain, proceeding along sea-level beaches, and continuing through residential, commercial, and industrial areas.
He samples ethnic delicacies, races go-karts, pets a giraffe, suffers landfill ejection, paints graffiti, and takes hang gliding and fencing lessons. For LA residents and visitors, this is a unique guide to underappreciated and fascinating local attractions.
Highlights
Full chapters on attraction-dense Venice, Griffith Park, San Pedro and Wilmington7 wilderness hikes in the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains27 urban segments, including Sylmar, Brentwood, South LA, Boyle Heights, North Hollywood, and Eagle Rock107 color photographs
Regardless of readers' home turf, Walking the Line encourages everyone to escape their own neighborhoods, venture forth on foot, and make interesting, life-enriching discoveries.
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At twenty-something, she had the perfect life — on paper.
A rising career, a sexy, long-term boyfriend, and a well-mapped future.
But when betrayal cracked the foundation of everything she thought she wanted, she packed a suitcase — and her dog — and set off across continents in search of something real.
A place that felt like home.
A version of herself that felt like truth.
In No Longer Her(e), Connie Kulczycki invites readers on a raw and riveting journey of heartbreak, healing, and becoming.
From a college romance gone wrong to a nationally televised proposal...
From the rigid roles of marriage and military life to the wild freedom of digital nomadism...
She unpacks the grief of letting go — of people, places, identities, and the illusion of control.
Told through journal entries, spiritual reflections, and unflinching vulnerability, this memoir doesn’t just chronicle a breakup — it reveals a woman rising from the ashes of her almost life.
Through sacred medicine journeys, foreign coastlines, loyal canine companionship, and soul-shaking realizations, Connie discovers that the “here” she was chasing had always lived within her.
And in finding here, she finally found her.
No Longer Her(e) is a love letter to the woman who chooses herself — even when it breaks her heart to do so.
For anyone who has ever questioned the life they were “supposed” to live, this is a story of what it means to stop waiting to be chosen — and start choosing yourself instead.
A rising career, a sexy, long-term boyfriend, and a well-mapped future.
But when betrayal cracked the foundation of everything she thought she wanted, she packed a suitcase — and her dog — and set off across continents in search of something real.
A place that felt like home.
A version of herself that felt like truth.
In No Longer Her(e), Connie Kulczycki invites readers on a raw and riveting journey of heartbreak, healing, and becoming.
From a college romance gone wrong to a nationally televised proposal...
From the rigid roles of marriage and military life to the wild freedom of digital nomadism...
She unpacks the grief of letting go — of people, places, identities, and the illusion of control.
Told through journal entries, spiritual reflections, and unflinching vulnerability, this memoir doesn’t just chronicle a breakup — it reveals a woman rising from the ashes of her almost life.
Through sacred medicine journeys, foreign coastlines, loyal canine companionship, and soul-shaking realizations, Connie discovers that the “here” she was chasing had always lived within her.
And in finding here, she finally found her.
No Longer Her(e) is a love letter to the woman who chooses herself — even when it breaks her heart to do so.
For anyone who has ever questioned the life they were “supposed” to live, this is a story of what it means to stop waiting to be chosen — and start choosing yourself instead.
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- Sep 30 - Oct 13
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You can take the girl out of the graveyard, but you can’t take the graveyard out of the girl.
Loren Rhoads stumbled unexpectedly into a cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the 1980s. That led her to explore burial grounds from the California Gold Country to Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and beyond. Whether uncovering history, searching for celebrities, chasing ghosts, or facing the reality of death, Loren invites you along on her adventures.
This cemetery memoir—part travel memoir, part cemetery history—contains 35 graveyard travel essays that visit more than 50 burial grounds, churchyards, and gravesites around the globe.
Loren Rhoads stumbled unexpectedly into a cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the 1980s. That led her to explore burial grounds from the California Gold Country to Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and beyond. Whether uncovering history, searching for celebrities, chasing ghosts, or facing the reality of death, Loren invites you along on her adventures.
This cemetery memoir—part travel memoir, part cemetery history—contains 35 graveyard travel essays that visit more than 50 burial grounds, churchyards, and gravesites around the globe.
- Travel
- Memoir
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