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The 3Rd Woman
She cant save her sister Journalist - Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her own sisters murder. She cant trust the police - Madison refuses to accept the official line that Abigails death was an isolated crime. She uncovers evidence that suggests that Abi was the third victim in a series of killings thats been hushed up as part of a major conspiracy. She can exposethe truth - In a United States that has yielded to the Peoples Republic of China, corruption is rife - the government dictates what the truth is. With her life on the line, Madison must give up the story or face the consequences.
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The 6Th Extinction
A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command - Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated - every animal, plant and insect, even bacteria. The land is entirely sterile and the blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice. From millennia old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date - stopping the coming extinction of mankind. But is it already too late?
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The English Spy
She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. When a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer - legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. Gabriels target is Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. Fortunately Gabriel does not pursue him alone, at his side is Christopher Keller, a British commando turned professional assassin who knows Quinns murderous handiwork all too well. And though Gabriel does not realize it, he is stalking an old enemy - a cabal of evil that wants nothing more than to see him dead. Gabriel will find it necessary to oblige them, for when a man is out for vengeance, death has its distinct advantages.
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Finding Audrey
A laugh-out-loud romance from the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series. Meet Audrey: an ordinary teenage girl with not so ordinary problems. Aside from her completely crazy and chaotic family, she suffers from an anxiety disorder which makes talking to her brother's hot new best friend a bit of a challenge. But Audrey has a plan to help her face her fears and take on the world again. First stop - Starbucks.
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The Bone Tree
Former prosecutor Penn Cage faces the crisis of a lifetime. His family has been torn apart and his father made a fugitive after being accused of murdering an African-American nurse. Now, Penn has unwittingly started a war with the Double Eagles, a violent faction of the KKK who know more about Dr. Tom Cage than Penn ever did. Tracking his father through Natchez and beyond, Penn is targeted by criminals and corrupt police whose power reaches the top levels of state government - people who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from coming out. To clear Toms name, Penn must either make a deal with the devil or destroy him. But there are others pursuing a different mission - one which will lead them to the Bone Tree, a legendary killing site that conceals far more than the remains of the dead.
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Tell Me a Story
Tell Me a Story is a collection of heartwarming stories about events and incidents that have affected or changed the lives of the writers in ways that they cannot forget. Happy or sad, inspiring or shocking, these are stories of moments that have left an indelible mark on their lives. Stories, that they would love to share. Selected by Ravinder Singh, Tell Me a Story is about moments that make life worth living. It is the second such anthology, after the highly successful Love Stories that Touched My Heart
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Summer Rental
"Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction...." Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Julia--whose caustic wit covers up her wounds--has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world...though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what they each of them needs. Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though he's hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything he's ever cared about. Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run. Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants; can they also provide what she needs? Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Five people who each need a sea change, and one month in a summer rental that might just give it to them.
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The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Wi
Sitting Quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting dor a party he doesn't want to begin. his one hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But as it turns out, Alan will not.... Escaping (in his slippers) trough his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminal, several murders, a suitcase full of cash and incompetent police.
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The Emperor Waltz
The Emperor Waltz is a single novel with three narrative strands, fourth century Rome, 1920s Germany and 1980s London. In each place, a small coterie is closely connected and separated from the larger world. In each story, the larger world regards the small coterie and its passionately held beliefs and secrets with suspicion and hostility. It is the story of eccentricity, its struggle, its triumph, its influence but also its defeat.
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Gaata Rahe Mera Dil
Look behind the scenes of fifty celebrated songs, from an estimated repository of over one lakh! 'De de khuda ke naam pe' - When Wazir Mohammed Khan sang these words in India's first talkie, Alam Ara, he gave birth to a whole new industry of composers, lyricists and singers, as well as an entirely new genre of film-making that is quintessentially Indian: the song-and-dance film. In the eight decades and more since then, Hindi film songs have enraptured listeners all over the world. From 'Babul mora, naihar chhooto jaye' (Street Singer, 1938) to 'Dil hai chhota sa' (Roja, 1992), from the classical strains of 'Ketaki gulab' (Basant Bahar, 1956) featuring Bhimsen Joshi to the disco beats of Nazia Hassan's 'Aap jaisa koi' (Qurbani, 1981), from the pathos of 'Waqt ne kiya' (Kaagaz Ke Phool, 1959) to the exuberance of the back-to-back numbers in Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977), here is an extraordinary compilation, peppered with trivia, anecdotes and, of course, the sheer joy of music. Find out answers to questions like - With which unreleased film did Kishore Kumar turn composer? In which song picturization was dry ice first used? Which all-time classic musical was initially titled Full Boots? Where was the title song of An Evening in Paris shot? The idea for which song originated when the film-maker visited Tiffany's in London? Which major musical partnership resulted from the celebrations around an award function for a commercial jingle for Leo Coffee? How many of your favourites find mention here? Make your own list!
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Farthest Field
The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could remember, 'beheld but not noticed, as angels are in a frieze of mortal strugglers'. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo-frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India's fledgling air force, gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby's pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq and the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939-45 might be the most revered, deplored and replayed in modern history. Yet India's extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family - a story of love, rebellion, loyalty and uncertainty - and with it, the greater revelation that is India's Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India's war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma - unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world, and swept up in its violence.
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A Children's History Of India
Which were the first cities of India and how were they discovered? What was it like living in Mughal times? How did the British, who had come to trade in India, end up ruling the country? How has India changed after Independence? Delve into Indias past to discover the answers to these questions and many more in this comprehensive history of our nation. Journey through time to visit the baths and palaces of the first cities of Harappa, the stupas of Ashoka and the flamboyant courts of the great Mughals, rich in art, culture and architecture. Learn how the revolution of 1857 really started and march alongside Gandhi on his quest for an India free from British rule. Plus, discover more about each period through fun and easy To do activities. Told in simple, lucid prose and interspersed with beautiful illustrations, A Childrens History of India makes learning history a fun and engaging experience for readers of all ages.
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The Argumentative Indian
India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of view points. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition. The understanding and use of this rich argumentative tradition are critically important, Sen argues, for the success of India's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace.
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Unfinished Tales
Published posthumously by Tolkien's youngest son, The Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth tells the stories of how Gandalf found Bilbo and how he decided to send the Dwarves of Erebor to him. It also tells the story of Aldarion and Erendis, one of the most moving love stories to be found in Tolkien's fantasy setting. Illuminating on subjects hitherto untouched such as the identities of the five Istari who would later be known as Wizards, the Palantiri and their making, the legend of Amroth and the coming of the sea god Ulmo before Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, this is a collection any Tolkien fan would not want to miss.
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The Collected Short Stories Of Roald Dahl
Get this amazing book from the acclaimed author that contains a collection of short stories, including: Over To You, Kiss Kiss, Someone Like You, Switch Bitch, The Umbrella Man, Mr. Botibol, Vengeance is Mine Inc., The Butler, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, The Bookseller, The Hitchhiker and The Surgeon. Read these tales of the unexpected that will leave you baffled and in awe. It is the perfect book for a Roald Dahl fan that will make you fall in love with the author all over again.