Members Only

Members Only
Author: Sameer Pandya
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2020
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0358098548

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First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America? Raj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California, with a job at a university. Still, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, especially at their tennis club, a place he's cautiously come to love. But it's there that, in one week, his life unravels. It begins at a meeting for potential new members: Raj thrills to find an African American couple on the list; he dreams of a more diverse club. But in an effort to connect, he makes a racist joke. The committee turns on him, no matter the years of prejudice he's put up with. And worse still, he soon finds his job is in jeopardy after a group of students report him as a reverse racist, thanks to his alleged "anti-Western bias." Heartfelt, humorous, and hard-hitting, Members Only explores what membership and belonging mean, as Raj navigates the complicated space between black and white America.

Members Only

Members Only
Author: Diana Kendall
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2008-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461640105

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In Members Only Diana Kendall shows how the upper classes use exclusive clubs as their private domain for conducting business, fostering social networks, and launching the next generation of elites - all beyond the view of outsiders and the media. In her research, Kendall explains how and why club members routinely engage in exclusionary practices that help them accumulate personal power and social capital that is unavailable to outsiders. Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. This book continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds, and Framing Class.

Members Only

Members Only
Author: Julie Tibbott
Publisher: Zest Books ™
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 154158192X

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Throughout human history, people have banded together to pass on traditions, climb the social ladder, and often just have a good time. And sometimes, keeping other people out is part of the fun. (Every hot club needs a velvet rope, after all.) But some of these groups have proved so exclusive and secretive that we on the outside can't resist some speculation. Wouldn't you like to know what they're really up to? No need for secret handshakes or passwords—Members Only is your all-access guide to the secret societies, clandestine cults, and exclusive associations that you've always wondered about.

For Members Only

For Members Only
Author: sG. T. Harrell
Publisher: Publish Green
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1937003264

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For Decades The Mafia Systematically Fed Law Enforcement Authorities, such as the FBI, false information. Much has become history. Much is wrong. Mob Bosses had front-men in order to hide their real identities. These names will not be found on the internet because they succesfully remained secret, until now! One of the most powerful men in organized crime is documented in this book. He was respectfully referred to as the Mafia's "Judge". His story for the first time ever is vividly told...

Members Only

Members Only
Author: Diana Elizabeth Kendall
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780742545564

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Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, whic...

Members Only

Members Only
Author: Julie Tibbott
Publisher: Zest Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1936976528

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No need for secret handshakes or passwords - Members Only is your all-access guide to the secret societies, clandestine cults, and exclusive associations that you've always wondered about. Profiling fifty groups, from the centuries-old Freemasons to the snooty Skull and Bones Society to a club just for magicians, this book reveals the secrets of these mysterious organizations - and even tells you how to join up. Get ready to go underground and explore secret worlds that are sometimes shocking, sometimes frightening, and always fascinating.

Members Only

Members Only
Author: Fabrice Roger-Lacan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2006-03-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1849437882

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Who was it who said that a friend is someone you can phone in the middle of the night and say, "I've just killed a man" and he'll say "OK, where's the body?" Adrien and Bernard are lifelong friends and business partners. It's Bernard's fortieth birthday. But Adrien can't come. Adrien has a big night at his club. And the crash starts there. An intimate, fast moving, cruel and tender comedy about friendship, obsession and the absurdity of desire. An epic journey from small things to the big one."There are no rules for friendship, but there are...guidelines" Members Only opened at the Trafalgar Studios in March 2006.

Members Only

Members Only
Author: Leonie Fox
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141900180

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Remember the sexy shenanigans at St Benedict’s? The exclusive country club and spa with more millionaires per square foot than the Hamptons in midsummer? Well, the four gorgeous golfers’ girls are back ... let Cindy, Laura, Keeley and Marianne suck you into their naughty world where intrigue, blackmail and depravity bubble beneath the steamy waters of the Jacuzzi. The girls go gossip crazy when fading soap actress Amber Solomon catches her billionnaire hotelier husband in flagrante with the housekeeper and messy divorce proceedings ensue. He won't part with a penny and she's damned if she's going to join the next series of Hell's Kitchen to keep herself in Krug. Meanwhile, an oversexed American teenager is prowling the spa and Swinging is having a revival among the WAGs and their footballers. But will the Solomons' battle royal disrupt the delicious decadence of Delchester's favourite Spa resort and end in disaster? Of course it will!

The Blind Writer

The Blind Writer
Author: Sameer Pandya
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2015-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0824854349

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Together, the five stories and novella in this collection follow the lives of first- and second-generation Indian Americans living in contemporary California. The characters share a similar sensibility: a sense that immigration is a distant memory, yet an experience that continues to shape the decisions they make in subtle and surprising ways as they go about the complicated business of everyday living. The collection is anchored by the title novella about a love triangle between an aging, blind writer, his younger beautiful wife, and a young man desperate to start a writing life. Over several months, the three will get to know one another and move toward a moment that will change the lives of each of them forever.