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Rat Race is a semi-autobiographical novel set in the 1980s in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. It focuses on Paul, who has just graduated and wants to be a writer. He faces overwhelming pressure from everyone around him, however, to ‘get on’ and join the Rat Race, against his will and in sharp contrast to the alternative lifestyle he wants to live. Pretty soon he finds himself on the scrapheap and having to compromise his beliefs in order to make something of himself. Rat Race is one year in his life, charting his fluctuating fortunes, set against a background of the music and fashion of the alternative scene at the time. It is also a love story, as he meets and falls in love with the girl...
The heavens have a secret from the humans--a predesignated order in which humans are allowed to live their lives. This order has been carefully guarded for countless centuries by the Milky Guards, ruled by a powerful Council with supreme jurisdiction over the humans. Sean O'Neill and Paul Washington are the two humans that make contact during the sorting, which has sent the Council into a panic to prevent the two humans from reconnecting and discovering that there is no human free will. The all-powerful Malaywah and his Council will do whatever it takes to restore the secrets of the sorting table and restore order to the rebellious humans and of the sorting of humans. The second book in the series of The Common Man is The Common Man: The Scurry.
Meet Zooey James, an attractive, brainy student and talented tennis player; Danielle Delacroix, the beautiful and wealthy child of an aristocratic French family; Patti Hammond, a funny, irreverent redhead and ex-cheerleader; Brenna Donovan, an Irish beauty who is sweet, loving and devoutly Catholic; and Elizabeth Riordan, brilliant but remote and aloof since the death of her mother. These five women stay in touch through marriages, affairs, estrangements and finally reconciliation over 35 years as their warm, funny friendships stay in tact in a changing world.
Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1976 harbouring a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in shame. When the AIDS epidemic hit in the early '80s, Strub turned to activism to combat discrimination and demand research. Strub takes readers through his own diagnosis and inside ACT UP, the activist organisation that transformed a stigmatised cause into one of the defining political movements of our time.
College students Neil Carpenter and Mark Hudson set out to create "The Triumvirate," a comic book about supernatural creatures who resist their evil natures and hunt their own kind. When Neil learns hypnosis in his Psychology class, he proposes to use it to enrich the characters -- they could hypnotize themselves into thinking that they ARE the characters, then exchange interviews. To test the idea, Neil assumes the identity of the vampire, the independently wealthy and deeply religious Alistaire Bachman. The Game begins... ...a Game that leads to a whirlwind of confusion, murder, and impossibility. Praise for Pandora ́s Game: "Pandora ́s Game is written in a unique way, where it is more o...
Margaret faces the effects of divorce and the increasing weight of her work. Yet there is the promise of happiness in the form of a new love. Margaret takes a determined control of her life. She finds a real partner and soul-mate in Mark. Their budding romance is fraught with obstacles; Mark is already married and living many miles away.
Enzho Parker is a nineteen year old who has just graduated high school and is looking forward to college life. He is going to spend the next year living in the dorms at his new school. Enzho soon realizes that living at school isnt for him and comes up with an unconventional plan that will use up all his money and free time, but may even save his life.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.