Author Name: Brigid Johnson
Book Title: True Course–Lessons of a Life Aloft
Author Website: http://lbjohnsonauthor.blogspot.com/
Book Genre: Nonfiction
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About the book: True Course–Lessons of a Life Aloft
Raised in a small factory town in the 1960's, when aviation was predominantly a male profession, with parents who didn't support her ambitions, Brigid nevertheless learned to fly. Hers was a busy life of setting limits and learning philosophies of growth and risk well beyond her years, even as she juggled two jobs, college, and a rescue Siberian husky whose wandering spirit put her own to shame.
From first solo to an airline career, and finally a decision to hang up her wings for another profession when her elderly father needed her care, Brigid captures with understanding, humor, and grace the moments that change the path of our lives.
With lyrical expression of her love for flight, she writes old and new stories of family, adventure, and the thrill of taking to the sky. True Course is more than a memoir or a story of the lure of aviation--it's a story of learning to let the spirit soar and unfurling the wings of personal freedom, an inspiration to adventurers everywhere.
Author Bio: Mrs. Johnson grew up out West where she earned her professional pilot ratings while pumping gas at the local airport a job her parents told her she “would not last a week at”. Surviving ‘almost starving’ (O.K., there were LOTS of Raman noodles) as a flight instructor in the Pacific Northwest (where it rains a LOT), she went on to be one of the first female Captains at the airline that employed her. She later received a doctorate in Criminal Justice in order to pursue a career in that field after hanging up her wings to care for elderly parents. She writes from a restored 110-yer-old Mission Bungalow in the Midwest with her engineer husband and two rescue dogs. Mrs. Johnson is active in animal rescue and donates 100% of her writing proceeds to animal rescue organizations across the United States and the United Kingdom as well as Search Dog Foundation of California.
She is a two-time winner (Silver, Gold) of the Reader's Favorite International Book Award (as L.B. Johnson).
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Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/L-B-Johnson/e/B00M8ME9NC
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