Nathaniel Fludd’s life has taken a turn for the worst. With his parents lost at sea, he lands on the doorstep of a distant cousin—the world’s last remaining beastologist. Soon Nate is whisked off on his first expedition, to Arabia, where the world’s only phoenix prepares to lay its new egg. When disaster strikes, Nate quickly finds himself all alone. Will he be able to see the phoenix safely hatched, keep his accidental pet gremlin out of trouble, and rescue his guardian from the Bedouin? If he fails, nothing will stand between the world’s mythical creatures and extinction. Too bad Nate’s not the sort of boy who enjoys adventure . . .yet.

No way out ... Twelve men survived the crash when a blinding, unexpected sandstorm sent their Skytruck air freighter plummeting to the Earth. Now they are in Hell, stranded and alone in the empty wastes of the Sahara, facing a slow, agonizing death under the unrelenting Libyan sun. Two of them have the skills to avert a terrible fate: the brilliant, obsessed engineer Stringer, and the tormented pilot Towns. Bitter enemies, they must now work together to build an impossible dream from the wreckage and fly it to freedom ... if madness, rage, suspicion, and the merciless desert don't destroy them first. This is a story so riveting it inspired two major motion pictures -- the memorable 1965 film starring Jimmy Stewart and the 2004 film starring Dennis Quaid.

Flight of the Phoenix provides insights to the series of management initiatives seeping the workplace, such as re-engineering, restructuring, and reinvention. This title shows how employees can assert themselves and redress imbalances wrought by wave upon wave of management fads that masquerade as mutually beneficial but in fact serve the existing power structure. Flight of the Phoenix delivers a useful, positive message for the individual employee. It presents strategies, insights, tools and case histories to help employees claim their rightful reward as an organisations most important asset. It includes over 200 true stories of individuals all creating a new and better way to work.

This gripping autobiography of Indian author H L Agnihotri can play lighthouse as well as the Pole Star for those ships wavering and struggling to reach shore in the uprising seas of life. His is an interesting life journey and an incredible but true-life narrative that speaks of the unique man he is. Showing indomitable courage and patience, he suffered the heavy blows of cruel times, but never bowed down to them. Storms and whirlwinds came and passed over his head with their hollow roars, proving him rightly true to the dictum, “Abraham Lincoln: From Log Cabin to the White House.”

'From None to the Sun' is a true story of the flight of a phoenix. It is a success story of the conquest of a man who survived a near fatal accident with sheer indomitable will power, unparalleled courage, unfathomable tenacity and positive optimism. This story is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It is not just a narration of the calamities, pains, worries and sorrows but of the courageous struggle of surmounting those and achieving stupendous success. To know yourself you must realize your strengths and weaknesses, accept the reality and face it with courage. This is the true meaning of the saying - 'You are the sculptor of your life'.

Synopsis Natália is the secretary of a famous law firm, a position of which she holds with her hard work, just as her freedom and her independence of being able to afford a simple apartment but hers. Coming from a humble family, Natália grew up alongside Andrew, a problematic boy that swears he hears voices from beyond and sees Death accompanying people that are dying. That day, she wakes up indisposed, in a lot pain and feeling dizzy. She got up with a lot of effort and still had on her memory images of a nightmare. Natália went to answer her boss’ call that morning and lost her senses. She wakes up two days later in a hospital bed and faces a new reality: a will and joy to live her life, even though she knows she has a brain aneurysm that may not let her live long enough to make her new dreams come true. Among Natália’s new desires, the strongest one is to find the man that have been tormenting her nights in nightmares. For that, she counts fully on Andrew’s help, who encourages her to start regression. However, during the sessions she sees herself facing horrible memories from past lives and of how she witnessed many times the catastrophic deaths of this same strange man. Andrew, not only supports her decision to find out who this man is but also, follows her in a journey through the unknown. Once Natália finds the untouchable man of her dreams, she has to come up with a way calling his attention and making him listen to her account, who is convinced that this time she can prevent this man’s premature death.

Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to this soaring fantasy series. In a world where everyone is born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high. In the Clandoms, every person is born with wings, along with the ability to fly. But there has always been one deadly restriction to this gift -- a rule that must never be broken. Flying in cloudy skies summons gargols, vicious stone monsters that will tear any poor trespassers apart. History doesn't tell where the gargols came from, or why they're so intent on punishing those who soar too high. But now Ellie Meadows thinks she knows why. An aspiring knight turned wanted fugitive, Ellie has seen the truth with her own eyes. The Clandoms' history has been taken from them, along with their ancestral homes. Only one person can return the Clandoms back where they belong. Nox Hatcher is the key to the skies, if only Ellie can get him to believe it.