You Are Ready For Takeoff: A Short Trip by Susan Orlean

 

 

As we struggle with new anxieties, the New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book tackles an old fear in this insightful and hypnotizingly funny essay about taking off and letting go.

Susan Orlean has a full-on phobia of flying—an epic inconvenience for an author on a national book tour. With her trademark curiosity, she decides to rewire her thinking through hypnosis. Along the way, Susan discovers a lot about the unconscious mind, suggestibility, Mesmer, Freud, today’s cutting-edge treatments, and the dulling power of a sonorous voice. Most of all, she learns what it takes to close her eyes, open them again at thirty thousand feet, and finally be able to exhale. And you can too.

 

Welcome to Sochi: A laugh out loud life-altering trip! by Jude Haste

 

 

Julia, an unemployed scriptwriter goes on a journey of self-discovery, in this quirky romantic comedy, flying off to distant lands. Coming to terms with a broken relationship and her own shortcomings, Julia finds herself lost. But when her plane finds itself lost too, it forces her to take a step back and realize that in order to progress forward, she needs to do some soul-searching. But where will she land?All the characters and events in this story are fictitious and come straight from the author's imagination