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Akbar And Birbal-Tales Of Humour
Birbal, oh Birbal the emperor exclaimed. You are wiser than any philosopher. Stories about Mughal Emperor Akbar and his witty and intelligent prime minister, Birbal, have delighted readers since time immemorial. In this lively collection, learn how an ordinary young man, Mahesh Das, became the beloved Raja Birbal we all know today and how he uses his famous wit, time and again, to build a celestial palace for Emperor Akbar, order a census of crows, trap a thief using a magic bamboo and much more. Replete with wisdom and wit and brought to life by Tapas Guhas beautiful illustrations, this clever collection of stories also offers valuable life lessons hidden beneath its humor.
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The Thirteenth Day-A Story Of The Kurukshetra War
There can be no peace with the Pandavas now. No hope of conciliation. Were doomed to kill our cousins, or die in the attempt. It is the tenth night of the great war between the Pandavas and Kauravas. Bhishma, the venerable patriarch of the families, lies fatally wounded on the plains of Kurukshetra. On his deathbed he offers Radheya, his nemesis, a chance to rule the Kuru kingdom by capturing Yudhishthira. In the Pandava camp, Yudhishthira, a reluctant warrior, tries desperately to hold his allies together and escape capture without appearing to be a coward. Meanwhile, his young and impulsive nephew, Abhimanyu, a warrior prince, dreams of glory and yearns for a chance to save the Pandava cause. The lives of these three warriors, Yudhisthira, Radheya and Abhimanyu, collide brutally on the thirteenth day. A story of how stories are created, how fact becomes fiction, how history becomes mythology and how men become legends, The Thirteenth Day re-imagines Indias greatest epic like never before.
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A Good Girl
Raised to be a good girl, by her elderly uncle and aunt, Ellora Chatterjee lives by the rules of her orthodox society…until she falls in love at eighteen. The news of her romantic involvement with a debutant batsman playing for the Indian Cricket Team makes national headlines. Overnight, a shy Ellora turns into a sexy poster girl chased by the college hooligans, shunned by her prudish classmates and condemned by the parochial population of her provincial town. Set in India and America, A Good Girlis a heartrending story of a bright and beautiful young woman haunted by her scandalous past and caught up in a struggle to reinvent herself, after her whole life is turned upside down by one bad choice she had made as anaïve teenager. Now thirty-three, Ellora is once again facing a tough choice that will scandalize her community and hurt the people she cares for very deeply. Will she follow her heart this time?
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Rain On The Dead
It begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of the Prime Ministers Private Army prevents it becoming a bloodbath. Soon they are on the trail of the perpetrators, confident they will catch them. What Dillon & Co dont realize is that they have just sprung a trap that will lead them to almost certain death. For there is a new master pulling the strings for al Qaeda in London and this time hes going to make sure the hated enemy is destroyed once and for all. A storm is coming for Sean Dillon
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The Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia. This book provides an account of the Mongol Empire.
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Fortress
Tom Buchingham has blood on his hands. Neck deep in troble for taking doen a renegade Afghan soldier, he's sent back home: angry, betrayed and out of work. But with riots and rebellion spreading like wildfire on the streets of Britain, Tom's unique skills are soon noticed by a charismatic billionaire with a questionable agenda. Buchkingham finds himself thrown back into the covert world of intelligence where a play for power is underway. He'll have to decide where his loyalties lie if he's tp intervene in a series of events that will threaten the whole nation Time is running out and lives are at stake; is there anyone Tom can trust?
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The Roadside MBA
A one-stop toolkit for entrepreneurs and small businesses, from three leading MBA teachers. Three top MBA Professors - one big road trip Full of powerful insights about product differentiation, pricing, brand management and tactics for battling the 'Big Boys', The Roadside MBA takes the blue-chip knowledge and tactics of wall street and brings them to the high street. Paul Oyer, Michael Mazzeo and Scott Schaefer have taught thousands of MBAs at some of the world's leading business schools. While traveling back from an economics conference together they dropped into a shoe store in Maine and chatted to the staff - and quickly realized that the strategic problems faced by small businesses are just as rich and compelling as anything challenging Microsoft or General Electric. These three wise men decided to go in search of real-world case studies that illustrate the key lessons of an MBA. The result is a rollicking American road trip that is both a great introduction for business owners who haven't done an MBA and an entertaining refresher for those who have.
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Six Little Miracles
Janet had been told she couldn't have children so she and her husband Graham were overjoyed to find out she was pregnant. Then they told her the real news -it was not just one baby but six! On 18 November 1983 Janet Walton gave birth to the world's first all-female sextuplets: Hannah Luci Ruth Sarah Kate and Jennie.
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The Secret Life Of Bees
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father, they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother.
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Brain Maker
Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise - from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revolution is underway that can solve this problem. Astonishing new research sheds light on the influence of the human microbiome in every aspect of health, including your nervous system. In brain maker, Dr. Perlmutter explains the connection between intestinal microbes and the brain, describing how the microbiome develops from birth and evolves based on the environment, how it can become 'sick' and how nurturing gut health through a few easy strategies can alter your brain's destiny for the better. With simple dietary recommendations and a highly practical program of six steps to improving gut ecology, brain maker opens the door to unprecedented brain health potential.
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Better and Faster:The Proven Path To Unstoppable I
What great ideas are you missing that are so close within your grasp? In our world of chaos and change, what are you overlooking? If you knew the answer, you’d be a better innovator, better manager and better investor. This book will make you better by teaching you how to overcome 3 neurological traps that block successful people, like you, from realizing your full potential. Then, it will make you faster by teaching you 6 patterns of opportunity – Convergence, Divergence, Cyclicality, Redirection, Reduction and Acceleration. Each pattern you’ll learn is a repeatable shortcut that has created fortunes for ex-criminals, reclusive billionaires, disruptive CEOs and ordinary people who unexpectedly made it big. In an unparalleled study of 250,000 ideas, Jeremy and his TrendHunter.com team have leveraged their 100,000,000 person audience to study what actually causes opportunity, data-driven research that was never before possible. The result is a series of frameworks battle-tested with several hundred brands, and top executives at some of the most successful companies in the world who rely on Jeremy to accelerate their hunt for ideas. Now, for the first time, you can learn the same tactics to out-innovate, outsmart and outmaneuver your competitors. You will learn to see patterns and clues wherever you look that will put you on the smarter, easier path to finding those breakthrough ideas, faster.
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Sikkim-A Requiem For A Himalayan Kingdom
Based on exclusive interviews and new archive research, this is a thrilling, romantic and informative glimpse of life in a lost paradise. A tale of intrigue, love and Cold War politics in India Features newly released intelligence files shedding light on the Cold War in Asia there will be major news interest even outside of the book review pages. Sikkim ranked #1 region in the world to visit in 2014 by Lonely Planet. This is the incredible true story of Sikkim, a fairy-tale kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire in India only to be annexed by India in 1975. Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom tells the remarkable story of Thondup, the handsome last King of Sikkim and his young and beautiful American queen, Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight as they sought support for Sikkims independence after their wedding in 1963. But as tensions between India and China spilled over into war in the Himalayas, Sikkim became a pawn in the Cold War ideological battle that played out in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Rumours circulated that Hope was a CIA spy. Meanwhile a shadowy Scottish adventuress, the Kazini of Chakung, married to Sikkims leading political figure, coordinated opposition to the Palace. As the geopolitical tectonic plates of the Himalayas ground together, forming the political landscape that exists today, Sikkim never stood a chance. Thondup died a broken man in 1982; Hope returned to New York; Sikkim began a new phase as Indias twenty-second state.
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Return Journey Of A Stranger
Is the destination of our life already fixed, or is it a result of several coincidences? What impact do our actions have in shaping our future? Is life like a small boat drifting aimlessly in a vast ocean without sails and a compass? Welcome to ‘Return Journey of a stranger’, a book based on human endurance to rise above the surrounding adversities. It talks about how a determined person can bring about a tremendous positive change in the lives of millions of people in the world. This is the story of Chandrakant, a 12-year-old illiterate boy from Mumbai slums. One day, he is falsely implicated in a murder charge. In sheer panic, he flees from the scene and unknowingly boards a train, which takes him to New Delhi. That one move commences a new phase in his life, which is full of struggle and challenges at every step. However, he overcomes every difficulty with courage and determination. He gets lucky to meet some individuals, who believe in him and his capabilities, and assist him in his efforts to get on with life. He has only two strong desires … to go back to his slums and secondly to clear his name of the murder accusation. At the age of 18, Chandu learns how to read and write and starts his career as an office boy in a real estate company. He soon becomes a voracious reader and reads lot of books on philosophy, history and management. By the age of 24, with his extraordinary performance, he becomes the CEO of that company. He faces the ultimate test of his life when the company asks him to study the feasibility of demolishing the same slums in Mumbai where he had grown up. However, he cannot go there as Chandrakant, because he is already facing murder charge. That marks the beginning of his return journey as a stranger…! Does he go back to his slums? How does he extricate himself from the murder charge? Would he allow the demolition of his slums? Does he change with times, enjoying his new high profile status in the elite society? ‘Return journey of a stranger’ is a fast-paced story depicting the tenacity of an underprivileged boy to think big against all odds.
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Ladies Coupe
The story of a woman's search for strength and independence Meet Akhilandeshwari, Akhila for short: forty-five and single, an income tax clerk and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari, gloriously alone for the first time in her life and determined to break free of all that her conservative Tamil brahmin life has bound her to. In the intimate atmosphere of the ladies coupe which she shares with five other women, Akhila gets to know her fellow travellers: Janaki, pampered wife and confused mother; Margaret Shanti, a chemistry teacher married to the poetry of elements and an insensitive tyrant too self-absorbed to recognize her needs; Prabha Devi, the perfect daughter and wife, transformed for life by a glimpse of a swimming pool; fourteen-year-old Sheela, with her ability to perceive what others cannot; and Marikolanthu, whose innocence was destroyed by one night of lust. As she listens to the women's stories, Akhila is drawn into the most private moments of their lives, seeking in them a solution to the question that has been with her all her life: Can a woman stay single and be happy, or does a woman need a man to feel complete? 'Articulate, comic, wise, delicate, melancholy, exquisite...a carefully-pulsed breath of a book with an impact that sneaks into one's dreams' Independent In turn revelatory and redeeming. Filled with the incantatory power to burn up the tracks, to seek a new destination. Her style stands out. The Pioneer, New Delhi Anita Nair is a fine writer, with a great sense of character and is a compelling teller of stories. The Hindu, New Delhi Each of the women is finely drawn. The Hindustan Times, New Delhi 'The novel is about making choices and living life on one's own terms. It is this strength and resilience of the everyday woman that Nair brings out as a writer. Nair's women are fleshed out to the last detail. You can visualize them clearly -their faces, their bones, their desires as they talk animatedly in the train discussing their lives.' The Telegraph, Calcutta.
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Leaving Time
Jenna Metcalf was with her mother the night she disappeared, but she remembers nothing. Over ten years have passed and still Jenna reads and rereads her mother's journals, hoping to find some clue hidden there. Desperate for answers, Jenna uses all her savings to recruit the aid of a private detective - and a psychic. Jenna knows her mother loved her. She knows she would not leave her. And she will not rest until she finds the truth.
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Do You Know MS Dhoni?
Do You Knowseries brings the stories of some of the most famous and inspiring personalities of the world. Arguably the most successful captain of the Indian cricket team till date, MS Dhoni is a thriving example of hard work, dependable leadership and boundless passion. With this fun, illustrated biography, take a peek into MS Dhonis life and get inspired!