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India Vs Pakistan
What stops India and Pakistan from being friends? In this provocative, deeply analysed book, full of riveting revelations and anecdotes, Husain Haqqani, adviser to four Pakistani prime ministers, looks at the key pressure points in the relationship, and argues that Pakistan has a pathological obsession with India, which lies at the heart of the problems between the two countries.
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The Gene
Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a 'unit of heredity'. It intersects with Darwin�s theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms post-war biology. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. Above all, this is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds�from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes. This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea being brought to life, by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history�the story of Mukherjee's own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to 'read' and 'write' the human genome�unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children. Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity�and a vision of both humanity�s past and future.
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Room
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don???t have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. ???Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it???s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days??? Audrey Niffenegger ???One of the most profoundly affecting books I???ve read in a long time??? John Boyne ???Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of lan Room is unlike anything I???ve ever read before??? Anita Shreve ???Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can???t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it???s potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory??? Michael Cunningham
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Happily Ever After
A companion volume to the bestselling The Selection series - extra stories and never-before-seen extras. Fans should prepare to swoon! The achingly romantic and stylish four The Selection enovellas � The Prince, The Guard,The Queen and The Favorite � together in one irresistible volume. Plus exclusive extra content � Art for each of the novellas, a new intro for each of the novellas and 3 brand new scenes from each of the first 3 novels.
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When Love Meets Ego
Would you dare to fall in love after someone breaks your heart and cheats on you? What if someone uses you to satisfy their ego? Would you play with someone else�s feelings to get even? Of late, falling in love has conveniently been replaced with falling into time-pass. So when He reaches a new city and encounters people who are already a victim of bruised egos, He finds himself a mere mode or object to satisfy their egos. Broken and shattered, He gives up on the thought of finding love. That�s when He gets chatting with someone on His blog and they plan to meet. He ends up meeting someone else instead and that drives Him crazy. It feels like love and He decides to propose to her. But when has life been so simple! Will He be able to find time-pass? Or will love find Him once again ? Read on to know what happens When Love Meets Ego.
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2 Peg Ke Baad
2 Peg Ke Baad brings together 14 short stories that happened after 2 pegs, in an inebriated state. World�s greatest stories are created when people are high - asterpieces are painted, universal truths are realised, models on billboards are befriended, lovers are united, butts are kicked, confessions are made and relationships are sorted. The book started as a blog with people from across the world sharing their stories, ideas, confessions and beliefs, and the elixir of the 14 best stories is here to reveal what lies beyond a conscious mind. Though the book does not intend to encourage drinking alcohol in any sense, here�s to celebrate every emotion that kicks after a few pegs. Cheers!!"
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Punk Sunk Love
Two men; two personalities; two slants of love; one destiny. Roy�s tender heart is on a quest to find the holy grail of mankind � true love. But, the soft echo of feisty Monica�s whispering words � remember, remember, the sixth of September � will change everything, raining mayhem on him and everyone he touches. Shammi, a serial monogamist, thinks love is an urban myth � a ridiculous creation of the feeble hearts. As awe-inspiring beautiful Sona brisks through his life, the sublime aura of her love brews a raging battle within him. A battle between his objectivity and his heart. Smothered by the haunting shadows of the causality of love, Shammi�s life spirals down a path of retribution against his own demons, and Roy�s life is sunk in a deluge of inexplicable state of affairs. Facing imminent danger, and running out of options, Roy suddenly finds himself cornered and isolated. Roy�s only glimmer of hope is by helping Shammi pull out of the dark tunnels of his inner demons; transforming his retribution into redemption; healing his agony with hope; and swapping his wretchedness with swagger... the swagger of love.
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The Wedding Photographer
On a seventeen-hour-long flight, a chance upgrade to business class lands journalist Risha Kohli next to handsome real estate hotshot Arjun Khanna. What's more? Risha has been moonlighting as a photographer and her next assignment is Arjun's sister's wedding: the most anticipated social event of the year! But Arjun doesn't trust journalists and suspects this smart, sexy and incredibly spunky girl of using their mutual attraction as a ploy to invade his privacy for a newspaper scoop. And Risha, unaware of Arjun's personal demons, is worried that this dishy tycoon's unnerving behaviour will jeopardize her biggest photography gig so far. What follows is a rollercoaster of snarky quips, sizzling chemistry and simmering drama amidst a Big Fat Punjabi Wedding.
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She Swiped Right Into My Heart
"If you've never had friends, you've never really lived Geet, one of the most unpopular girls in college, is best friends with the beautiful and soughtafter Shibani. To win the popularity vote, Geet takes the help of college hottie Rudra, who agrees to act as her 'boyfriend' - he sees an opportunity to get closer to Shibani. Little does he know that Shibani has been harbouring feelings for someone else all along. As misunderstandings and jealousies take centre stage, Geet must make a decision that will affect not just her own life, but also those of her loved ones. She Swiped Right into My Heart is a story about love - gained and lost - and the healing power of friendship."
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The Good Earth
Set in a pre-World War I age, the novel tells the story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant. Beginning with his wedding to O-Lan, a slave of the House of Hwang, the story follows Wang Lung as he makes and breaks his fortunes. Devastated by abject poverty, Wang Lung moves with his family to the city where they survive off charity. The novel dwells on the lives of Chinese peasants and shows them in a light that western literature had not dared to before. The difficulties that Wang Lung and his family go through, involving heartbreaking scenes where his wife is forced to choose between raising her children in poverty or in ending their life the moment they are born showcase the hardship that plagued pre-World War I China. This novel was adapted into an Oscar winning hit movie in 1937 and was largely a factor in helping the relations between the West and China before the battle with Japan.
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Love Loss And What We Ate A Memoir
Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home--and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. Shuttling between continents as a child, she lived a life of dislocation that would become habit as an adult, never quite at home in the world. And yet, through all her travels, her favorite food remained the simple rice she first ate sitting on the cool floor of her grandmother's kitchen in South India. Poignant and surprising, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is Lakshmi's extraordinary account of her journey from that humble kitchen, ruled by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges' table of Top Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way, from her headstrong mother who flouted conservative Indian convention to make a life in New York, to her Brahmin grandfather - a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet tooth - to the man seemingly wrong for her in every way who proved to be her truest ally. A memoir rich with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative recipes, it is alive with the scents, tastes, and textures of a life that spans complex geographies both internal and external.Love, Loss, and What We Ate is an intimate and unexpected story of food and family - both the ones we are born to and the ones we create - and their enduring legacies.
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The Jim Corbett Omnibus
Jim Corbett's tales of tiger hunts are legendary. Mostly alone, he would traverse the hills and jungles of India, hunting his quarry using blood trails, examining pug marks and following broken twigs and branches, often putting himself at risk. Later, he became a conservationist, taking up the cause of the endangered royal Bengal tiger. This comprehensive volume contains some of Jim Corbett's best-known books and short stories, from The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, a gripping tale of a notorious leopard, to the fascinating stories in Man-eaters of Kumaon and The Temple Tiger. Showcasing Corbett's acute awareness of jungle sights and sounds and enlivened by his descriptions of village life, this is a must-read for those interested in wildlife and tiger tales.
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The Last Queen Of Kashmir
A historical saga of treachery, betrayal and the quest for land and religious supremacy in Kashmir in 1330 AD, The Last Queen of Kashmir is the story of the beautiful Kota and how she is, unknowingly, swept into the intrigues of the court of Kashmir. The book is as much a description of what Kashmir was like in the fourteenth century as the story of a strong woman leader, a kingdom and a civilization in turmoil.
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A Little life
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever travelled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome - but that will define his life forever. In a remarkable and precise prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.
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The Enemy Inside
A truly original debut novel from an extraordinarily talented new voice in children�s books. Laugh, cry and wonder at this raceagainsttime story of a boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a gokart accident, and save his father�s life My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve. The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn�t been for his �time machine� When Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad�s time machine, he finds that going back to the 1980s requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, burglary, and setting his school on fire. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer
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Demigods and Magicians
Join Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Carter and Sadie Kane as they do battle with an ancient Egyptian magician determined to become a god. Against impossible odds, the four demigods and magicians team up to prevent the apocalypse. Contains the short stories The Son of Sobek, The Staff of Serapis and The Crown of Ptolemy, together in one volume for the first time. Plus, read an exciting extract from The Sword of Summer, the first book in Rick Riordan's latest series, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard.
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Stranded With A Spy : Code Name Danger
Escape from hell? To hell was more like it! When Mallory Dawes, suddenly infamous in the States, decided to take that vacation to France, her problems were just beginning: a lost passport. A car swept out to sea. Missing travelers' checks. And a mysterious, if intriguing, man who always seemed to turn up just when she was in trouble... Cutter Smithcode name: Slashwas told to keep the beautiful blonde in his sights. But as his interest in her veered from the professional to the intensely personal, Cutter knew the cost of falling in love would be high indeed. And he would have to pay the price
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kingdom Come.
Set against the backdrop of Kashmir, Ladakh and Tibet, this historical romance tells the story of Krivi Iyer, a former spy and bomb defusal expert who has an unsettled score with an unstable bomber known as The Woodpecker. In his mad vendetta against the bomber, he finds a trail which leads to Ziya Maarten, the manager of 'Goonj Business Enterprises' in Srinagar, Kashmir. Ziya is alleged to be the Woodpecker's sister. With her, Krivi thinks he can find his nemesis and settle the score. However, Ziya is not the terrorist's sister, but a beautiful distraction, one that Krivi finds himself infinitely enthralled by. Ziya discovers Krivi's past, and the two must decide whether the darkness of the past is enough to keep them away from each other, especially when Ziya herself hides a thirst for vengeance that scars her heart.
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Good Girls Don't
Too much of a good thing - With her sun-kissed hair and sparkling green eyes, Tessa Donovan looks more like the girl next door than a business woman or a heart-breaker. Which may explain why Detective Luke Asher barely notices her when he arrives to investigate a break-in at her familys brewery. Hes got his own problems-starting with the fact that his partner, Simone, is pregnant and everyone thinks hes the father. Tessa has her hands full, too. Her brothers playboy ways may be threatening the business and the tension could tear her tight-knit family apart. In fact, the only thing that could unite the Donovan boys is seeing a man come after their baby sister especially a man like Luke Asher. But Tessa sees past the rumors to the man beneath. Hes not who people think he is and neither is she.