Blazing Trails
Blazing Trails

Author: Vern Overbye

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002-10-14

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0595248217

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During the late 1950s and the 1960s, Vern Overbye and John Brauer joined with four other engineers of diverse backgrounds at A.O. Smith's corporate headquarters in Milwaukee to embark on an unprecedented and unanticipated path of innovation. Each had an advanced degree and, more importantly, each had an entrepreneurial spirit. With their forward-looking, optimistic manager at Smith's Data Systems Division, Robert Y. Bodine, they built a path-breaking business in the fledgling technology of finite element analysis that is still impacting the fortunes of the companies that became their customers. Together they helped transform a rarefied aerospace technology into a design tool now used to design in a staggering variety of applications and industries. "I will propose that Data Systems should be particularly bullish in adaptive creative technology-it simply pays, but, in fact, growth, not to say survival, depends on it." Robert Y. Bodine, January 1978

Blazing Trails With Hirah Blaze Book One
Blazing Trails With Hirah Blaze Book One

Author: BLMorticia

Publisher: Triad Literary

Published: 2016-10-21

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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My name is Hirah Blaze. I’m The Wretched’s lead woman on axe. From the first day I picked up a guitar, I wasn’t satisfied with being the best female guitarist or the best black female guitarist. I had to be the best fucking guitarist on the planet or it was considered a failure. The metal world could eat you alive if you didn’t know how to play and I’ve spent my entire life to make sure that never happens. Although Sarge and Diabolical Plan had given me the initial opportunity to show off my chops, I couldn’t be what I wanted with my ex-boyfriend steering the ship. I had to be the captain of my own destiny, the one taking the lead. Five months into being part of one of the biggest rock bands in the world and I’m still pinching myself. Me, the little Blatina goth girl from Milwaukee, along with Corey Patrick, Bryan Taylor, Nicolai Zander and the new guy on bass named Chad Stephenson. Have I mentioned that Chad is hot as hell? If I truly wanted to control my future, I couldn’t be derailed by gorgeous, tattooed dudes with pretty eyes and piercings. Who was I kidding? As long as Chad wasn’t looking for something serious we could have some fun while taking the hard rock world by storm. This is a spinoff of The Wretched Tales with new guitarist Hirah Blaze. She's kicking ass and taking names, looking to become the metal world's newest guitar goddess!

Blazing Trails With Hirah Blaze Book Two
Blazing Trails With Hirah Blaze Book Two

Author: BLMorticia

Publisher: Triad Literary

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13:

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This man had me. Oh God, he had me in a freaking tizzy. I want Chad. I want Chad Stephenson. I want him in my bed. I want him now before we go on this stage. Oh shit. I am such a goner. I am off the deep end now. This wasn’t supposed to happen. I’m supposed to be all about fucking world domination with my guitar, not obsessing over my hotter-than-hell bass player. It’s show time for The Wretched. We’re about to go on tour and I’m stoked to be onstage in front of thousands. However, I can’t get a certain someone off my mind. Hot bassist, Chad Stephenson has become my crack and I’m happily addicted. This is a spinoff of The Wretched Tales with new guitarist Hirah Blaze. She's kicking ass and taking names, looking to become the metal world's newest guitar goddess! All books must be read in order.

Blazing Trails With Hirah Blaze Boxset
Blazing Trails With Hirah Blaze Boxset

Author: BLMorticia

Publisher: Triad Literary

Published: 2017-12-26

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13:

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This is the full boxset of Hirah Blaze. From Book One My name is Hirah Blaze. I’m The Wretched’s lead woman on axe. From the first day I picked up a guitar, I wasn’t satisfied with being the best female guitarist or the best black female guitarist. I had to be the best fucking guitarist on the planet or it was considered a failure. The metal world could eat you alive if you didn’t know how to play and I’ve spent my entire life to make sure that never happens. Although Sarge and Diabolical Plan had given me the initial opportunity to show off my chops, I couldn’t be what I wanted with my ex-boyfriend steering the ship. I had to be the captain of my own destiny, the one taking the lead. Five months into being part of one of the biggest rock bands in the world and I’m still pinching myself. Me, the little Blatina goth girl from Milwaukee, along with Corey Patrick, Bryan Taylor, Nicolai Zander and the new guy on bass named Chad Stephenson. Have I mentioned that Chad is hot as hell? If I truly wanted to control my future, I couldn’t be derailed by gorgeous, tattooed dudes with pretty eyes and piercings. Who was I kidding? As long as Chad wasn’t looking for something serious we could have some fun while taking the hard rock world by storm. This is a spinoff of The Wretched Tales with new guitarist Hirah Blaze. She's kicking ass and taking names, looking to become the metal world's newest guitar goddess!

Blaze Your Own Trail
Blaze Your Own Trail

Author: Rebekah Bastian

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2020-02-11

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 152308796X

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A modern, feminist take on the classic choose-your-own-journey book, inspiring readers to embrace the fact that there is no singular right path—just your own! So many women enter their adult lives believing that they should know where they are going and how to get there. This can make life decisions feel intimidating and overwhelming. While some choices that lie ahead are fairly predictable, such as those surrounding career, partnership, and motherhood, the effects of these choices can lead to more complicated and unexpected turns that are seldom discussed. Rather than suggesting a rule book, Rebekah Bastian, vice president at Zillow and recognized thought leader, inspires you to Blaze Your Own Trail. “I have the benefit of being a living example of crooked paths, magnificent screw-ups, and shocking successes,” she writes. Through storylines and supportive data that explore workplace sexism, career changes, marriage, child-rearing, existential crises, and everything in between, you will learn to embrace and feel less alone in your own nonlinear journey. Even better, you can turn back decisions and make different ones. Blaze Your Own Trail includes nineteen possible outcomes and many routes to get there. You will find that you have the strength to make it through any of them.

Blazing Alaska's Trails
Blazing Alaska's Trails

Author: Alfred Hulse Brooks

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13:

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New edition of 1953 publication which includes a biography of Brooks and his account of the true first ascent of Mount McKinley.

Blazing Trails With Hirah Blaze Book Three
Blazing Trails With Hirah Blaze Book Three

Author: BLMorticia

Publisher: Triad Literary

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13:

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Hirah - I’m ready to stake my claim to superstardom and I want to bring Chad with me. At this stage, we’re all about making The Wretched better as a tandem, and having some fun along the way. Unfortunately, Chad doesn’t appear ready to move forward and this is pissing me the hell off. This was why I’d refused to commit to anyone because of shit like this. How can we be metal’s new power couple if Chad slams on the brakes? Chad - For the last few months, Hirah and I have ridden the merry-go-round between bandmates and friends. Our fellow members had done everything to throw us together, and even with those moments, we had yet to take full advantage. Despite the attraction to her, I still can’t get a certain somebody out of my mind. And, I know if I want something real with Hirah, I need to forget about it. A hard thing to do when it feels so damn good. I need to drop that other piece or I’ll lose the chance of being her soulmate. This is a spinoff of The Wretched Tales with new guitarist Hirah Blaze. She's kicking ass and taking names, looking to become the metal world's newest guitar goddess, but will she get sidetracked by The Wretched's gorgeous new bass player? This is the final book in the Hirah Blaze Series. All books must be read in order

Burn the Page
Burn the Page

Author: Danica Roem

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0593296559

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An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation's first openly trans person elected to US state legislature Danica Roem made national headlines when--as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated Virginia's most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively. In wildly entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authenticity, it's possible to embrace the low points, and even transform them into her greatest strengths. Burn the Page takes readers from Danica's lonely, closeted, and at times operatically tragic childhood to her position as a rising star in a party she's helped forever change. Burn the Page is so much more than a stump speech: it's an extremely inspiring manifesto about how it's possible to set fire to the stories you don't want to be in anymore, whether written by you or about you by someone else--and rewrite your own future, whether that's running for politics, in your work, or your personal life. This book will not just encourage people who think they have to be spotless to run for office, but inspire all of us to own our personal narratives as Danica does.