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Our Story Ends Here
Terrorists are not born to love. Sarmad was trained as a terrorist to be ruthless, to be fearless and to take away innocent lives. He has caused pain that he can't undo. For years, he has been living without a heart, without a soul, without her. Mehar is an army general's daughter. After losing a loved one she decides to go to the Swat valley with her college friends to revisit the place that holds all her childhood memories. While Mehar is looking forward to her adventurous trip, Sarmad is working on his upcoming deadly mission. Unwittingly, their paths cross and they are forced to stay together in the same room for eleven days. Fate brings them together, but destiny has planned something else. Does their story end here? Or has it just begun?
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Summit
The view from 8,848 meters is not always clear... In the autumn of 1938, Germanys reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler, is growing frustrated at the British using their regional power in India to block the passage of an SS expedition to Tibet. Determined to spite them, he plots to steal something the British hold dear and have failed for the seventh time that spring to achieve-a first summit of Mount Everest. Seventy years later, seasoned mountain guide Neil Quinns ninth visit to the top of the worlds highest mountain, this time in charge of the sixteen-year-old son of a Long Island billionaire, begins to unravel. As a desperate fight for their lives begins in the freezing air high above Tibet, Quinn stumbles across a clue to a story that challenges everything he thinks he knows about the great mountain. When the bitter aftermath of Quinns disastrous climb turns to violent tragedy in Kathmandu, his discovery pushes him into a relentless journey that takes him from the dangerous heights of Everest to the equally treacherous margins of a new Europe, where history hungers to repeat itself. Amid a rich and diverse cast of characters, each with their own reason to possess the mystery of his discovery, Neil Quinn has to fight, increasingly desperately, for order and the truth. A complex, deftly crafted, consistently compelling suspense thriller of a read from beginning to end. Midwest Book Review. A gripper. Takes you up to the majesty of Mt Everest and into the single-minded madness of climbers... What a plot. Fantastic. Sir Robert Swan, bestselling author of Antarctica 2041 and first person to walk to the South and North Poles., About the Author : Harry Farthing is a Fellow at the Royal Geographical Society and he has climbed Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn in the Alps, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Denali in Alaska and Shishapangma and Mount Everest in the Himalayas. Summit is his first novel.
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Merchants Of Death
A sinister curse trails the House of Loya, a powerful Marwari family of arms dealers that head a vast conglomerate of industries. Leading oddly distorted lives where immorality and sexual perversions are infinitely glorified, they cruise along mindlessly even as they become victims of strange mishaps and untold tragedies. Bharat Loya, the firstborn in the third generation, grows up with a deep-rooted mother-fixation. He is afflicted with all the maladies of the upper class, with licentiousness and perversity steeped in his veins. In an unexpected turn of events, tumultuous political changes divest the family of their clout and they find themselves in an ugly wrangle with the government that threatens to bring them to ruination. Bharat Loya takes over as the head of business. With his deep pockets and a legitimate facade of hotelier-cum-airline-owner, he obliterates his rivals to become the uncrowned king of the whole immoral pack. Yet Bharat Loya is a troubled man. Set in India in the second half of the last century, the story gives a scathing insight into the lives of the Marwaris, also known as the Jews of India, highly religious, very private people who, at times, even lead lurid and decadent lives. About the Author - When Neelima Dalmia Adhar wrote Father Dearest - The Life and Times of R. K. Dalmia in 2003, she was on the bestseller list and labelled a daredevil family chronicler who had exposed some fiercely-guarded secrets. She then wrote a novel, Merchants of Death in 2007 to be established as a mistress of the genre. Educated in a convent school and a reputed college in Delhi, she has a Masters in Psychology with a specialization in Personality. Her first and only job was to teach Psychology to undergraduate students of Delhi University. A passionate people-watcher, she is drawn to oddities and thrives on writing about personalities and human behaviour, from the quirky to the mysterious to the bizarre, a subject she does chillingly close to the bone. She lives in Delhi with her husband, children and two grandchildren.
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Father Dearest
An extraordinary father, an extraordinary daughter. - The Hindu, A gripping biography of R.K. Dalmia, the most flamboyant character India produced in the last century. Like a meteor, he flashed across the firmament in a blaze of glory before being reduced to the ashes of ignominy in a prison, convicted of fraud. An old mixture of puritanism and profligacy and a sadist who tortured his family of six wives and eighteen children, he broke all the laws of God and man. Written by his daughter, Neelima Dalmia Adhar, who loved and loathed him with equal passion, this book makes most compelling reading. - Khushwant Singh, About the Author : When Neelima Dalmia Adhar wrote Father Dearest - The Life and Times of R. K. Dalmia in 2003, she was on the bestseller list and labelled a daredevil family chronicler who had exposed some fiercely-guarded secrets. She then wrote a novel, Merchants of Death in 2007 to be established as a mistress of the genre. Educated in a convent school and a reputed college in Delhi, she has a Masters in Psychology with a specialization in Personality. Her first and only job was to teach Psychology to undergraduate students of Delhi University. A passionate people-watcher, she is drawn to oddities and thrives on writing about personalities and human behaviour, from the quirky to the mysterious to the bizarre, a subject she does chillingly close to the bone. She lives in Delhi with her husband, children and two grandchildren.
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The Anatomy of Success
How different will people lives be if they approach success the same way the medical profession does as if it were a matter of life and death? What can medicine teach us about beating the odds? In our jobs and our work lives, do we genuinely do the best we can? Gynaecological endoscopic surgeon Dr Rakesh Sinha a two - time Guinness World Record holder for his surgeries draws lessons from his own profession to elaborate on success in simple, easy - To - understand steps. In this book, you will discover that success is a combination of three parts - What you�re born with, or Biology, what you learn along the way, or Learning and your deep desire to succeed, or Cognition. You will become an expert in effective visualization techniques to enhance your performance, learn how to take premeditated risks, focus on one task at a time, achieve mastery through deliberate practice and cultivate optimism consciously. Dr Sinha also shows you how to work with your brain to get you out of your rut. Because success is, quite literally, all in your head. Over and above, The Anatomy of Success reveals that you can be successful despite your genes by chasing victory with the same resolve as doctors do. Because a life does depend on whether you succeed or fail. Yours. About the Author - World record - winning gynaecological endoscopic surgeon Dr Rakesh Sinha holds two Guinness World Records for his surgeries. The former president of the Indian Association of Gynaecological Endoscopists, he is a teacher, trainer, author and marathon runner. He is also an internationally certified motivational speaker and a licentiate practitioner for neuro linguistic Programming (NLP) and has been featured on Jack Canfield�s Success Profiles. Dr Sinha is the managing director of Women�s Hospital, a premier institute specializing in minimal access surgery and has also done a Post Doctorate Clinical Fellowship in Endoscopy at the Royal Free Hospital in London. At the time of going to press, he has thirty publications in international index journals. He is the proud parent of two doctors and is a devoted son and husband. He lives and works in Mumbai. This is his first book.
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The Parcel
The Parcel�s astonishing heart, soul and unforgettable voice is Madhu - born a boy, but made a eunuch - who has spent most of her life in a close - knit clan of transgender sex workers in Kamathipura, the notorious red - light district of Bombay. This is a dark, devastating, but incandescent novel that promises to be one of the most talked about publications of the year. About the Author : Anosh Irani has published three critically acclaimed and award-winning novels - The Cripple and His Talismans (2004), a national bestseller, The Song of Kahunsha (2006), which was an international bestseller and shortlisted for Canada Reads and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and Dahanu Road (2010), which was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. His play Bombay Black won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2006) and his anthology The Bombay Plays - The Matka King & Bombay Black was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. He lives in Vancouver. The author lives in Vancouver, BC.
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The Seventh Plague
A British archaeologist-a member of an expedition gone missing for over two years-stumbles out of the Egyptian desert. Before he can explain what happened to his team, he dies. But his remains hold a terrifying discovery that only deepens the mystery - Something had begun mummifying his body while he was still alive. Summoned by a former ally at the British Museum, Commander Grayson Pierce of Sigma Force must uncover the truth behind the brutal murder and discover the fate of the missing team. The first clues are tied to a shocking historical mystery, one connecting the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla and the journeys of famous explorer, Henry Morgan Stanley. The frantic hunt for the truth will take Sigma Force from an ancient tomb buried under the burning sands of Egypt to a modern engineering complex built atop the frozen fields of the Arctic. As a looming crisis grows, Gray Pierce and his allies must confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science, a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues around the globe, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world�s children... and forever end mankind�s future.,
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Khullam Khulla Rishi Kapoor Uncensored
Son of a famous father. Father of a famous son. I am the hyphen between them. Only, Rishi Kapoor was and is so much more. Few actors in Hindi cinema have had this sort of a career arc - From the gawky adolescent pining for his schoolteacher (Mera Naam Joker, 1970) to the naughty ninety-year-old (Kapoor and Sons, 2016), Rishi Kapoor has regaled audiences for close to fifty years. He won a National Award for his debut, became an overnight sensation with his first film as a leading man (Bobby, 1973) and carved a niche for himself with a string of romantic musical blockbusters in an era known for its angst - ridden films. He was the youth icon that is still the toast of the satellite TV circuit. The songs he lip - synced are the bread and butter of all radio stations even today. Then there was the second coming after a brief hiatus in the 1990's � as one of the finest actors in mainstream Hindi cinema with powerhouse performances in films like Do Dooni Chaar, D - Day, Agneepath and others. Characteristically candid, Rishi Kapoor brings Punjabi brio to the writing of Khullam Khulla. This is as up close and personal a biography as any fan could have hoped for. He writes about growing up in the shadow of a legendary father, skipping school to act in Mera Naam Joker, the workings of the musical hits of the era, his streak of rotten luck with awards, an encounter with Dawood Ibrahim, his heroines (their working relationship, the gossip and the frisson that was sometimes real), his approach to his craft, his tryst with clinical depression and more. A heart-warming afterword by Neetu Singh rounds off the warmest, most dil se biography an Indian star has ever penned.,
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Standing On An Apple Box
Director, dancer, goodwill advocate for the United Nations - Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush is so much more than the daughter of a legendary actor, or the wife of southern cinema�s biggest star. Growing up in Bangalore and then Madras, in a household that resolutely kept out any hint of her father�s super-stardom, she was a quiet, introverted child whose greatest pleasure was a visit to Marina Beach and an occasional meal out. It was not cinema but law that became a preoccupation when she started thinking about college and career-but fate and her mother, had other plans for her. Aishwaryaa writes with disarming honesty about life as Rajinikanth�s daughter, of falling in love and raising two boys with Dhanush, of fighting her own demons and finding satisfaction in a career of her choice. She reflects on the many roles a woman has to juggle at home and outside-in her case, under the watchful gaze of cameras and celebrity-watchers. Intensely personal, but also inspirational, Aishwaryaa�s memoir is an unusually frank insight into growing up in cinema-land. A playful meditation on the joys and difficulties of being a woman in this age, Standing on an Apple Box is as much a celebration of individual fulfillment as it is of family.,