Virgin Flyer
Virgin Flyer

Author: Lucy Lennox

Publisher: Lucy Lennox LLC

Published: 2020-03-02

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13:

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Wanted: One night together, no strings attached. Hold me, make love to me, treat me like I’m the most important person in the world. No talking. No names. And don’t be surprised if I’m gone in the morning. After crushing on my best friend for years, I realize he’ll never want someone inexperienced like me. So I decide to get it over with, play the V-card once and for all with an anonymous hook-up. The terms are simple: no talking, no names. It isn’t as easy as it seems. Now I can’t get the handsome stranger who greeted me with soft kisses and gentle touches out of my mind. Those hands, those lips... But it was just a one-time thing, and I need to forget about him once and for all. At least I know I won’t ever see him again—until I board a flight and catch sight of a familiar profile in the cockpit just as the door closes.

Virgin Capital
Virgin Capital

Author: Tami Navarro

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1438486049

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Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands—St. Croix—has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008–2009 financial crisis, Virgin Capital provides ethnographic insight into the continuing relations of coloniality at work in the quintessentially "modern" industry of financial services and neoliberal "development" regimes, with their grounding in hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitical positioning.

Chasing the Wind
Chasing the Wind

Author: Steve Fossett

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0753541785

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As a world record holder in ballooning, speed sailing, and aviation, Steve Fossett was the pinnacle of extreme sporting achievements. His adventurous spirit continually inspired his fellow competitors and sports aficionados, and attracted the curiosity of the world. In 2005, Fossett made the first solo, non-stop, non-refueled circumnavigation of the world at the helm of what has been described as "a fuel tank with room for one"--the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer. But what made someone like Steve give up a secure, well-paid job in the financial sector for the romantic, yet increasingly dangerous, world of the adventurer? He achieved the first balloon crossings of Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America; the first ocean crossings of the South Atlantic, South Pacific, and Indian Oceans; and the first solo balloon flight round the world--a milestone in aviation history. And he didn't just take on the air. The most-successful speed sailor in the history of sailing, he also completed premier endurance sports events, including the Iditarod and Ironman Triathlon. In this dynamic autobiography, Steve Fossett shared his inspirational stories and candidly recounted the milestones, challenges, and victories that made up his much-heralded career and paved the path to his numerous world records.

Virgin Territory
Virgin Territory

Author: Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780814333181

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A critical investigation of how virginity is represented in film. It considers virginity as it is produced and marketed in film. With chapters that span a range of periods, genres, and performances, it intends to prove that although it seems like an obvious quality at first glance, virginity in film is anything but simple.

Flip Back
Flip Back

Author: William A. Kelly, Jr.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2000-09-26

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0738830682

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"Flip Back" is a story of two scientists who have lived well into their 70´s. One discovers a drug that makes them young again to about 20 to 30 years old. They have no muscle tone however, but get it back through the help of two beautiful women. Their new muscles allow them to be fabulous athletes. Jennifer the youngest women in this story had been raped at the age of thirteen. Her father the martial arts instructor of the FBI had been teaching Jennifer how to protect herself ever since. If a man touches her even in an innocent gesture, he will suddenly become airborn and when he lands hear a loud "ZAP" as Jennifer has stopped a deadly hit inches from the innocent man. The men and the girls in this story form a detective agency to rescue young girls from sexual abduction into New York. All have been taught the ability to kill with their hands .and on occasion do so. They break fingers, arms, legs and smash the noses of the abductors. This type of crime drops rapidly in New York By chance Jamey becomes a basket ball player with the NETS. Over 95% of his shots swish through the basket and he develops a slam dunk from his waist because his new muscles allow him to jump so high. Although" Flip Back" can be considered Science Fiction, it is closer to reality than most of that gender Already there are a large group of anti-aging medicines available. Who knows when a story such as "Flip Back" may become a reality.

Heroes of the Metal Underground
Heroes of the Metal Underground

Author: Alexandros Anesiadis

Publisher: Feral House

Published: 2023-08-29

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1627311432

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The only encyclopedic and definitive book on American indie metal! If all you know about metal music was what was heard on commercial radio, then you don’t know metal at all. Heroes of the Underground profiles 600 American bands from every town and city in the United States who ever released a record. Metal bands exploded during the 1980s. Influenced by the heavy sounds coming out of Britain via Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, young guitar shredders turned the amps up and played harder and faster. American record companies scooped up a few bands and signed them to major label recording deals (Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax), but that left hundreds of bands—and their fans—trying to get their songs heard. These intrepid metal bands borrowed a page from punk’s DIY handbook and did it themselves. Regional favorites. Hometown heroes. Tour van veterans. Bands who invested their life savings into recording and pressing their songs onto albums for a shot at immortality on vinyl. Fans remember these bands with joy. Collectors seek these records like the Holy Grail. And in Heroes of the Metal Underground, author Alex Anesiadis compiles the details of these bands and their records. Whether you’re a true or baby metalhead, Heroes of the Metal Underground will become your guide to all things metal.

Best Served Cold
Best Served Cold

Author: Karina Dolehide

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-01-14

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0557570506

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Rose Watson, a woman with a troubled past, thought she found the job of a lifetime when she was hired as Alexander Sanders' personal assistant. After he asked Rose to help protect his son by looking out for his ex-wife, Maureen, Rose became a little worried but not enough to leave the job. It had led her to a home, friends, a surrogate family, and new love. Never did it occur to her that she would become the target of Maureen's frantic attempt to seek vengeance on her ex-husband. Her peaceful life quickly turns into a fight of survival and she must use her wits to fight her way back home.