Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries

Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries
Author: Becky Wicks
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-07-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1616085894

What s it like to be a beautiful female expat living the good life in the MiddleEast? Becky Wicks reveals everything in this scandalous Middle East...

Balilicious

Balilicious
Author: Becky Wicks
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1743095481

EAT, PAY, LEAVE!Becky Wicks lifted the burqa on Dubai In BURQALICIOUS. Now she turns her attention to Bali as she hilariously navigates life as an adopted Balinese local. A lot can happen when you set out to 'find yourself'. Sometimes, you can even lose the plot.From visiting ancient healers with cellphone addictions to leaving a shaking ashram intent on extracting her soul, Becky Wicks soon discovered that six months travelling round Bali wasn't all going to be about finding inner peace and harmony. In fact, the perils of possessed teens, eating raw, yogic headstands, diving shipwrecks and dicing with black magic and demons all took their toll on the Island of the Gods.And that was before the vaginal steaming.Becky Wicks lifts the sarong on real life in Bali in a blur of locals, tourists, expats and other other eating, praying lovers who arrive... you know... not really knowing who they are.

Burqalicious

Burqalicious
Author: Becky Wicks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2011-05-14
Genre: British
ISBN: 9781459610149

For a sassy young woman used to blagging, blogging and slogging her way through dreary London, the call of a glamorous, tax-free lifestyle in sunny Dubai just couldnt go unanswered. Over the course of two years, while an entire city rose from the dust Becky Wicks scaled a good few rungs of the hard-to-climb career ladder. She became a celebrity editor in a land where sex definitely does not sell and spent most nights in a five-star blur of champagne luxury. Dubai offered everything, but things soon got messy -- not least because a wealthy Arab man made Becky his mistress. These days, shamed rule-breakers and failed entrepreneurs are a dime a dozen in Dubai, yet the city retains its allure. Becky Wicks lifts the burqa on the razzle-dazzle and reveals some of what goes on in the worlds fastest up-and-coming city and shopping Mecca.

Sun, Sand, Sex

Sun, Sand, Sex
Author: Linda Lael Miller
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0758210973

New York Times bestselling author Linda Miller teams up with Jennifer Apodaca and Shelly Laurenston for a tantalizing anthology that makes summertime sizzle.

The Painted Alphabet

The Painted Alphabet
Author: Diana Darling
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2012-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 981438500X

Magic, depravity, spiritual ambition, sensuality, and love -- The Painted Alphabet binds mythic and modern time together in a rich, slyly suggestive novel based on an old Balinese poem. In a fresh and startling picture of Bali -- where witches coexist with tourists and talking animals -- the novel explores a kaleidoscope of vanity, desire, and the longing for goodness. ,

Desperate in Dubai

Desperate in Dubai
Author: Ameera Al Hakawati
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8184002319

Oozing with men, money, and Maseratis, Dubai is the ultimate playground for the woman who knows her Louboutins from her Louis Vuittons. But for some, there’s a lot more at stake than a Hermes Birkin. Leila has been in search of a wealthy husband for over a decade. Nadia moves to Dubai to support her husband’s career, only to have her sacrifices thrown in her face. Sugar escapes the UK in an attempt to escape her past. Lady Luxe, the rebellious Emirati heiress, scoffs at everything her culture holds sacred. Until the day her double life starts unravelling at the seams. Set against a backdrop of luxury hotels and manmade islands, Desperate in Dubai tells the tale of four desperate women as they struggle to find truth, love, and themselves.

Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn

Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn
Author: Jamie Maslin
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1602397910

This work presents a hilarious, charming, and astonishing account of one Westerner's life-altering rambles across Iran and the secret counterculture world he discovers. 24 color illustrations.

Tiger's Dream

Tiger's Dream
Author: Colleen Houck
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2018-11-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1473693616

A tiger left behind. A goddess in need of an ally. Stranded in a time and place he never wished for, Kishan Rajaram struggles to forget the girl he loves and the brother who stole her away as he fulfills his divine role - that of assisting the beautiful yet extremely irritable goddess Durga. When the wily shaman Phet appears and tells Kishan that Kelsey needs him, he jumps at the chance to see her again, but in saving Kelsey, he discovers that the curse he thought was over is only just beginning. With the power of the goddess hanging in the balance, Kishan must sacrifice the unthinkable to fight the dark forces swirling around the woman he's charged to defend. *************** Praise for the Tigers Curse series 'A sweet romance and heart-pounding adventure . . . Tiger's Curse is magical!' - Becca Fitzpatrick, New York Times best-selling author 'Epic, grand adventure rolled into a sweeping love story' - Sophie Jordan 'Part Indiana Jones and part fairy tale' - Booklist

Contemporary World Narrative Fiction and the Spaces of Neoliberalism

Contemporary World Narrative Fiction and the Spaces of Neoliberalism
Author: Michael K. Walonen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137549556

This book is a transnational study of how contemporary fiction writers from the United States and Canada to Nigeria to India to Dubai have conceptualized the emergent social spaces of the diverse corners of the neoliberal world system. Over the span of the past three to four decades, free market economic policies have been sold to or pushed upon every society on the globe in some way, shape, or form. The upshot of this has been a world system structured in terms of a vast shift of power and resources from government to private enterprise, dwindling civic life replaced by rising consumerism, an emerging oligarchic rentier class, large segments of population faced with meager material conditions of existence and few prospects of socio-economic mobility, and a looming sense of a near future dominated by further economic collapses and mounting social strife. This book analyses a wide cultural array of some of the most poignant narrative engagements with neoliberalism in its various localized manifestations throughout the world.

Enticed by Her Island Billionaire

Enticed by Her Island Billionaire
Author: Becky Wicks
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488066655

Tempted… By a man she can’t have! Dr. Mila Ricci is excited to visit the stunning Indonesian island where Sebastian Becker is pioneering a technique to heal scars. But he’s the exact opposite of the rich celebrity surgeon she’d been expecting—and Mila is immediately attracted to him! Wrestling his own demons, Sebastian might be sexy but he’s no superficial playboy; he craves a home and family. Things Mila feels are not for her, especially not with him…