Coming Back Alive

Author : Spike Walker
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466805374
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Back Alive written by Spike Walker and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2002-10-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can. One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crew's desperate mission. As the crew of the La Conte begin to die one by one, those sworn to watch over them risk everything to pull off the rescue of the century. Spike Walker's memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge, was hailed by James A. Michner as "masterful . . . will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea." In Coming Back Alive, Walker has crafted his most devastating book to date. Meticulously researched through hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true account of the La Conte's final voyage and the relationship between Alaskan fishermen and the search and rescue crews who risk their lives to save them.

Author : J.L. Stiles
Publisher : Fresh Air Media
ISBN 13 : 1777670012
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Back Alive written by J.L. Stiles and published by Fresh Air Media. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exceptional! JL Stiles has a way of drawing you in so that you won’t be able to put this book down. A definite must read!" - reader KT Joanna Barrett has lived two lives. The one before tragedy stole her husband, and the one after. IF you call 18-hour days, way too much alcohol and random hook-ups a life. When a routine night out goes horribly wrong, Jo is forced to take stock of her bleak reality. With the help of her best friend, Tim, and a budding new relationship with a work colleague, Jo’s life finally seems to be going right for once. That is, until the one person she hoped to never see again suddenly steps back into view. Long-buried truths are finally unearthed. Precarious relationships splinter while others mend. And Jo has the chance to find out which of her two lives is worth living. Will she take that chance, or will she let the truth continue to keep her from coming back alive?

Author : Dennis J. Reader
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Back Alive written by Dennis J. Reader and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two teenagers, both recently devastated by personal tragedy, abandon civilization for the isolated mountains of nothern California where they hope to survive on their own.

Author : Scott Sigler
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780553393101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alive written by Scott Sigler and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waking up in a mysterious enclosed space with no memory of their identities, a group of teens uncovers evidence of a long-past war and the horrifying realities of their confinement.

Author : Beth McColl
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783527218
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Come Alive Again written by Beth McColl and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Essential reading, not just for anyone struggling with mental illness, but for anyone who knows someone who needs support. That's all of us' Daisy Buchanan, author of *How to Be a Grown-Up 'An essential, wondrous WOW of a book' Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k It doesn't matter that you've lived in the shadows, that you've slept through years of your life, that you've done things you're shamed to admit even to yourself. It doesn't matter that you're an anxious mess with a shouty monster brain that keeps you from conforming to society's definition of normal. How to Come Alive Again is a relatable, honest, joyous and above all practical guide for anyone who has a mental illness – or anyone who knows and loves someone who does. Beth McColl shares what's worked for her and what hasn't, and what she wishes she'd known from the start: from advice on how get through a bad day to the truth about medication and what to expect from a partner. Here are the basics for mending your life, accepting yourself, and learning to live again.

Author : Chris Meyer
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 1400050391
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Alive written by Chris Meyer and published by Currency. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we are on the cusp of a new economic era that will make the changes and challenges of the Information Era seem like child’s play From the bestselling authors of Blur—a defining book of the Information Age—comes a startling glimpse into the near future and the emerging economy that awaits us. It’s Alive foretells the jolt the world is about to receive as the science of molecular evolution races out of the laboratories and into the business world. Think back to the early 1970s. Imagine the opportunities for your business, career choice, and investments had you received an advance report on the ways in which computer and information technology would revolutionize the world. It’s Alive provides that opportunity today: a realistic and persuasive look into the future—the molecular economy—and how it is starting to overtake and reshape the Information Age. Today’s gene mapping and molecular engineering are equivalent to the introduction of transistor radios at the advent of the information economy. Solid-state technology moved from the labs into the business arena, providing in turn the transistor, the microprocessor, and the modem—and the information business. During the next ten years, molecular technology will follow the same pattern, moving from the lab and into the basic operation of the corporation itself. Chris Meyer and Stan Davis are our guides in understanding this new future. They show that not only biological systems evolve. The rules of evolution help explain the process of change in biology, business, and the economy, thereby providing a management guide to the business world around the corner. It’s Alive is not science fiction or futurism. It bases its insights and predictions on the impact the molecular economy is already having in such diverse business environments as manufacturing, financial services, and energy. Through in-depth case studies of Capital One Financial, the U.S. Marine Corps, British Petroleum, and the biotech firm Maxygen, Meyer and Davis show how adaptive behavior works in the real world. As the rules of evolution combine with the connected economy, our business world will become unpredictable, volatile, and continually adaptive—in other words, alive. Also available as an eBook.

Author : Gail Giorgio
Publisher : Bright Books (TX)
ISBN 13 : 9781880092491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elvis Undercover written by Gail Giorgio and published by Bright Books (TX). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features brand-new evidence and previously secret documents that the king of rock-and-roll was also a bona fide agent for the United States government and was involved in one of the most dangerous undercover operations ever orchestrated by America's criminal justice establishment. This startling new book also probes events surrounding Elvis Presley's disappearance over 20 years ago (his alleged death on August 16, 1977).

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Spike Walker's Coming Back Alive written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-21T22:59:00Z with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Skip Holden was a fisherman who set out from San Leandro, California, to hitchhike to Alaska. He and his wife, Marlene, bought a twenty-foot boat and lived on it. They fished off of it and used a bucket for a toilet. #2 Skip Holden, a fisherman, liked to fish the deep, outside waters. He liked the sight of free, open spaces and uncluttered horizons. He had been raised that way. When he was a boy, sailing off the California coast, his father had taught him the art of navigation, as well as how to keep a ship in good repair and how to tie the rope knots that were essential to life at sea. #3 Holden was determined to make it into Hinchinbrook Channel, and he began jogging along the outside edge of the sandbar at the Egg Island entrance. He was unable to find any openings in the surf. #4 As the night progressed, the storm intensified and the wind pushed the waves higher. In the gathering darkness, the winds hissed across the water at ninety miles per hour, with stronger gusts ranging out of wave valleys large enough to hold a football field.

Author : Barry Michels
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812994124
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Alive written by Barry Michels and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The tools Barry and Phil teach in Coming Alive gave me the courage and clarity to align myself with the truth—no matter how hard or painful it seemed at the time.”—Gwyneth Paltrow Tap into the Life Force with this critical and contemporary guide to unlocking our most powerful selves—from the bestselling authors of The Tools (and Goop’s resident shrinks). Phil Stutz and Barry Michels’s tools will be featured in an upcoming Netflix original documentary directed by Jonah Hill and co-produced by Joaquin Phoenix In The Tools, Michels and Stutz revolutionized the world of personal growth. Now, in Coming Alive, they guide readers toward a wellspring of positive energy: the source of creativity, renewal, and engagement. The first step in gaining mastery over one’s life—in deepening both emotional and spiritual experiences—is identifying the enemy within, which Michels and Stutz have named Part X. This formidable adversary is a shape-shifter: it may be the voice in your head that is a torrent of negativity; it may take the form of outside forces that conspire against you. In whatever guise it appears, Part X aims to derail your progress, keep you small and stuck, and defeat hope. The four vital tools in Coming Alive help you connect to the Life Force—a wellspring of positive energy that is the source of creativity, renewal, confidence, and engagement—and harness the energy and will to combat Part X. Drawing insights from their decades of psychotherapeutic practice, their lived experience, and their moving and generous understanding of our interconnectedness, Michels and Stutz have created a paradigm-shifting guide to achieving optimal mental health and spiritual well-being. Praise for Coming Alive “What a gift! A riveting exploration of four (bone-chillingly relatable) modern ailments and their thrillingly practical solutions . . . Singular in its approach and deeply spiritual in its concerns, Coming Alive is a book I’ll be pressing on friends and foes alike.”—Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Author : Doug Dorst
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101014946
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alive in Necropolis written by Doug Dorst and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "dark and funny debut"(Seattle-Times) about a young police officer struggling to maintain a sense of reality in a town where the dead outnumber the living. Colma, California, the "cemetery city" serving San Francisco, is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and William Randolph Hearst. It is also the home of Michael Mercer, a by-the-book rookie cop struggling to settle comfortably into adult life. Instead, he becomes obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, Sergeant Wes Featherstone, who spent his last years policing the dead as well as the living. As Mercer attempts to navigate the drama of his own daily life, his own grip on reality starts to slip-either that, or Colma's more famous residents are not resting in peace as they should be.