A modern mobile crane with outriggers. The latticed boom is fitted with a gib. A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for lifting heavy things and transporting them to other places.
The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty.
darby McCormick is one of the best heroines in thriller fiction: smart, resourceful and tough as nails. Thriller Night David J. Montgomery August 28, 2009 The book that introduced darby, The Missing, is currently the only one available from an American publisher.