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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.
(see inside front cover of sample books sent-second paragraph)
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Dad! (Paperback)
Jean Jackson
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R665
Discovery Miles 6 650
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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.
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