Flying High is a tantalizing and graphic peek into the lifestyle of flight attendants told by someone who lived it. Amanda Callaway, a flight attendant for 32 years, takes you back to the good'ol days when the word stewardess was equivalent to a VIP ticket to the good life. They lived in the fast lane only to find that there was a price to pay. Some found true love, some found heartbreak and pain, while others paid with their lives. Now sit back relax and enjoy the flight.

Amanda Callaway Mitchell is happy with her life. She's married to a wonderful man, a handsome former professional football player. She's a mother of two delightful children, and a seasoned flight attendant of thirty-one years with Elite World Airlines. Today, the only thing on Amanda's mind is commuting from her home in Sarasota, FL to Atlanta so she can work a flight to Rio de Janeiro. This isn't her regular trip-she swapped with another flight attendant in order to be free for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party. It is a beautiful day, but don't be fooled, it is the quiet before the storm. God has another plan for Amanda that was to rock her world...her plane never made it to Rio. Instead, the Captain was forced to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville, FL, one hour after take-off, with the right wing and tail on fire and smoke in the cabin. Caught up in a fiery flight and paralyzed with fear, Amanda's mind drifted to a safe place, a diary she kept of the good ol' days-chronicling her life and the lives of five of her best stewardess girlfriends. They were young, beautiful and left no stone unturned as they battled racism, sexism and drug abuse at 37,000 feet. They had countless love affairs that left them unfulfilled and out of control. They fought like cats and dogs among themselves, but always had the other's back. They shared joy, heartbreak and pain; and there was plenty of each to go around. They lived life in the fast lane. However, as they found out, there's a price to pay for living in the fast lane-some paid with their lives. Please, sit back, relax and enjoy the flight.

The indigenous people of the hemisphere have resisted a five-hundred-year assault, fighting to maintain their cultural identities. During this time, authorities in the Americas have insisted that the toleration of indigenous societies and cultures would undermine their respective states. In recent years, however, the nations of the Americas have started to reverse themselves. They are altering their constitutions and proclaiming themselves multiethnic. Why is this happening now? "The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States," edited by David Maybury-Lewis, helps us understand the reasons and history behind these times of transition.

The book provides a valuable overview of current problems facing indigenous peoples in their relation with national states in Latin America, from the highlands of Mexico to the jungles of Brazil. The traditional, sometimes centuries old, relations between states and indigenous peoples are now changing and being rediscussed. The collection, authored by U.S. and Latin American anthropologists using interdisciplinary approaches, enables the reader to understand these recent developments in a comparative framework. An ambitious and quite thorough collection, it is brought together skillfully by one of the discipline's maitre penseurs.

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Jean Jackson recounts the tragic events after the murder of her oldest son in March 2007. During that time in her life, she learned to depend more on God for direction and guidance for her life. Seven years after the murder, she is still telling her story.

On her wedding day, Mary Ellen Scott is forced to relive all of the hardships she and her husband-to-be, Harland Musgrove, had to endure to get to this day. He was born in the big house, white, rich and the heir to the huge Musgrove's family fortune. She was born two days later in a small three room shotgun house, black, poor and the daughter of the Musgrove's beloved family maid. In a small southern town, it is not a match made in Heaven. Growing up, they shared two dysfunctional families. Harland's mother was mentally ill and turned to alcohol, after his father turned his attention to other women, leaving her son to be raised by the family maid. Mary Ellen still has scars from beatings delivered by her abusive father. Yet, Mary Ellen could not fathom the extent their fathers will go to stop this wedding, as hatred and dark family secrets are revealed. Secrets that could not only stop the wedding, but destroy their lives.

In Finland's snowy past lived the greatest sorcerer who ever was. He was born an old man of his mother, Ilmatar, a great air and sea goddess. He sang his magic and created all we see around us. But one day he sang a change into the world and that's when all the trouble began. In the north, past Finland's furthest fields, lay Lapland, a green and fertile place under the rule of Louhi, a shape-shifting witch. She and her priestesses tended a magical chest from which the land's fertility came. Theirs was an idyllic world, until the aftershocks of the sorcerer's song of change swept through their land and their lives. Even the eternal magical forestfolk sensed that something new was coming. Among the oldest myths are the oral stories that Finnish storytellers told around their firelit inglenooks. A few of these myths were recorded in the Finnish epic, The Kalevala. Snowmagic is written in homage to this classic epic, using its characters and events as a jumping off point. Tolkien based aspects of his Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion on The Kalevala.

Amanda Callaway Mitchell is happy with her life. She's married to a wonderful man, a handsome former professional football player. She's a mother of two delightful children, and a seasoned flight attendant of thirty-one years with Elite World Airlines. Today, the only thing on Amanda's mind is commuting from her home in Sarasota, FL to Atlanta so she can work a flight to Rio de Janeiro. This isn't her regular trip-she swapped with another flight attendant in order to be free for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party. It is a beautiful day, but don't be fooled, it is the quiet before the storm. God has another plan for Amanda that was to rock her world...her plane never made it to Rio. Instead, the Captain was forced to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville, FL, one hour after take-off, with the right wing and tail on fire and smoke in the cabin. Caught up in a fiery flight and paralyzed with fear, Amanda's mind drifted to a safe place, a diary she kept of the good ol' days-chronicling her life and the lives of five of her best stewardess girlfriends. They were young, beautiful and left no stone unturned as they battled racism, sexism and drug abuse at 37,000 feet. They had countless love affairs that left them unfulfilled and out of control. They fought like cats and dogs among themselves, but always had the other's back. They shared joy, heartbreak and pain; and there was plenty of each to go around. They lived life in the fast lane. However, as they found out, there's a price to pay for living in the fast lane-some paid with their lives. Please, sit back, relax and enjoy the flight.