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.
by Sophie Kinsella. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shopaholic series comes a terrific blend of comedy, romance and psychological recovery in a contemporary YA novel sure to inspire and entertain. An anxiety disorder disrupts 14-year-old Audreyâs daily life.