Ticket to Minto, Sohrab Homi Fracis's premier fiction collection, offers readers a passage to an unfamiliar destination-a world suspended between East and West, India and America, home and away. With piercing insight, Fracis expertly reveals the underlying differences between immersion in India's culture-Hindu, Muslim, or Parsi-and life as an Indian in America. Alternating between East and West, the stories in Ticket to Minto serve as companion pieces, interrelated across continents in both theme and content. A middle-aged man's search for love in Bombay is contrasted with an Indian American family's hopes for the marriage of their westernized daughter. A university student rushes to save the life of a servant in his homeland only to find his own life threatened while attending graduate school in America. Poignant and daring, Ticket to Minto underlines the harsh realization that the immigrant never truly arrives but is in constant limbo between two worlds. As one character relates, "There's a part of me that's American and a part that's Indian. I'm clear about that and comfortable with it, except that sometimes people want me to be just the one or the other."

This book is one of the rare books that delves into the psyche of the Parsi community, their culture and anxieties. The book takes into consideration all these aspects reflected in the fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa and Rohinton Mistry. Meticulous style, deep critical insights into the literary, critical, cultural as well diasporic, religious, political, and minority aspects are the hallmarks of this book. The book is a superb model of comparative study. This is must have for the students of language & literature, criticism.

In this second volume of memoirs, wistfully entitled Ticket to Ride, Robert Bowman again draws on events and experiences from his interesting international legal and commercial consultancy career, which has spanned the last four decades. In so doing, he inexorably draws the reader into the highs and lows of working internationally at the sharp endwhere nothing is quite what it seems and every day throws up new challenges. In this volume of Dispatches from the Coal Face of Life, the reader relives the poignancy of the early and sudden death of Beatle John Lennon in New York city, the raw excitement and deadly confusion of a live shoot-out in Downtown New Orleans, a visit to the distant River Kwai on the Thai/Burmese border before the days of package tours take the traveler there, and a desolate trip to the Delta region of Nigeria. In this new splendidly entertaining volume, the reader climbs Diamond Head above Honolulu and travels on the famous Blue Train across the Karoo from Johannesburg to Cape Town and then goes across the sea to meet the ghost of Nelson Mandela on Robben Island before shooting the rapids and climbing a volcano in the southern Philippines, and then returning in triumph through the dramatic snowy scenery of Glacier National Park and the Rockies on Canadian Pacific 1090. In this unique book, the reader gets to sample another unforgettable walk on the wild side of life. Grab it and taste it while you can, before it melts away into the distant blue yonder.

Corruption: Part One, Yielding to Temptation is an inspirational book that revisits the lives of forty-nine men accused of committing various crimes. All of them were locked away inside complex prisons of the Connecticut Department of Correction. Compiled as forty-nine biographic short stories, Corruption ... will educate you on early warning signs, troublesome days, and the most recent arrest days for each character. You will clearly understand the motives behind those who intentionally committed offenses against humanity and/or personal property. Though you may find Corruption ... an excellent reading book for leisure activity or pastime enjoyment, it was systematically created especially for implementation into Criminal Justice/Law programs at universities, colleges, business institutes and social services programs that specialize in criminal justice/injustice. Story lines in Corruption ... are easy to read and understand. Most importantly, each and every story ¿ no matter its contents ¿ has a thought-provoking ending.

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.