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Seeking to show his integrity, young Millhouse Banks finds it personally necessary to become his beautiful jet set, starlet wife's equal. Millhouse Banks searches the world over for his own niche in life, a "gimmick" that will make him filthy rich and famous just like his starlet mate. Discover how he accomplishes this enormous task and undoubtedly becomes the wealthiest man in the world while living luxuriously upon Fat Man's Island.

When Midwesterner Steve Friedman arrived in Manhattan, the land of the quick and the mean, raring to go and ready to conquer, he soon found pitfalls and pratfalls more numerous and perilous than he had ever imagined. Here is his utterly honest, often hilarious, self-deprecating account of those fateful years, starting with his first job at GQ and his awkward efforts to impress his boss, Art Cooper, and including real and imagined love affairs, disasters at work and play, growing self-awareness with its inevitable bouts of depression and subsequent therapies—all of which fail—and in the end, a wisdom that promises better things to come. In the tradition of Bright Lights, Big City and The Devil Wears Prada, Lost on Treasure Island is a witty rendition of the perils of growing up and being thrown into the real world. With sharp humor and unexpected sincerity, Friedman crafts a inviting portrait of the best of times and the worst of times. For all those who have confronted the endless opportunities of the Big Apple, only to discover how hard it is to succeed in this—or any—big city, this boisterous and often enlightening memoir will prove irresistible.

This book of short stories by the prominent English writer W. Somerset Maugham touches upon the events and experiences of different ordinary people who were caught in unordinary circumstances. He tells stories about love between people of different cultures, tragic obsession with the other person, or people trying to understand what is really important in life. All of the stories in the book were inspired by Maugham's vacation at the South Seas, where he traveled to regain his health. His experiences there became the bedrock for the stories represented here.

A killer haunts New York, his victims are young, black women, and his pursuer is relentless. Within the racially conflicted streets of 1963 New York, psychic and artist Carmella Noto tries to maneuver a working-class life and watch out for her non-verbal autistic brother Enzo. But her past only brings her to the attention of a secret group of psychics intent on solving difficult murders. They want Carmella’s help to find a degenerate murdering single, young black women. Completely unaware that the killer wants Carmella. Buy this mysterious dark fantasy that pushes deeper into long coveted secrets, low-level criminals, and the dangerous desire found within them.

Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus is a journey round Greece inspired by the heroes, locations and tales of the Odyssey and tracing ancient Greek civilization at its height. Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former.The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the popular mind as the first great civilization and one of the most influential in the creation of modern thought. It is the starting block of Western European civilization. In his new Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, Harry visits Troy, still looming over the plain where Achilles dragged Hector's body through the dust, and attempts to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover, Leander. Whether in Odysseus's kingdom on Ithaca, Homer's birthplace of Chios or the Minotaur's lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey - and ancient Greece - back to life.

Well, 1935 has been a banner year for our heroes, and it's not over yet. When we left the gang, they'd been scattered to the proverbial wind following a little mishap involving mythological relics, mind control, and a smorgasbord of other pulp-rich ingredients. Now they are fighting for their survival on the chilly hills of the Faroe Islands and the baking sands of southern Spain, exploring ancient ruins and flying high over the frigid North Atlantic. Say hello once again to Lily, Archibald, the myriad Brothers Max, and that lovable Hugo "Brick" Brannigan as our band of adventurers continues their quest to foil the schemes of the wicked Cabal and Black Fang Delacroix and save the world as we know it. If, that is, they can survive... More packed with pulp than your day-old orange juice, come along for a rollicking adventure and see how the gang can survive being BURIED ALIVE IN THE FAROE ISLANDS. Now with more suspense!

When people like Herbert Muskie take up residence in your mind, there's nothing you can do to get them out. Colin Potter is a skinny boy, hungry for chocolate. Herbert Muskie is enormously fat, hungry for revenge. A dramatic encounter down at the creek forges an unhappy alliance between the vindictive man and the fearful child. But who is the fat man and why does he hate the people of Loomis? What guilty secrets are hidden in the past and why are Colin's parents such special targets? A taut thriller from the award-winning author of The Fire-Raiser, Salt and Gool. Also available as an eBook

This book addresses the recovery of submerged memories, loss and trauma in self-avowed intertextual fiction, while simultaneously exposing the tensions and untenability of any stable figuration of alterity. Otherness thus posits a liminal and largely transversal site of resistance to monological representations of Western identity, history and canon, which are now displayed inherently crossbred and built on the occulting and alienating of difference. With this in view, the author carries out a close reading of the works and scholarly statements of J. M. Coetzee and Marina Warner by taking as the point of departure the intertextualist approaches that most attend to the phenomenon of alterity against the critical discourses of modern representation. Fully installed in the revision of canon policies, Foe and Indigo re-read Eurocentric institutionalised forms of othering at the same time they posit new and suggestive rehearsals of identity languages via literature. Intertextual fiction thus turns out to be a powerful instrument to render alterity visible and agential in the discourses of reality. Ultimately, alterity is enabled to speak and invite social change and ethical awareness without denying the history of its alienation.