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Who Me?
Jane, a simple girl, is dumped by Arun, her fiancé, at the altar for an attractive rich heiress. Jane’s confidence is shaken, but she is not ready to give up. She is ready to undergo a complete makeover to win Arun back. She turns up at their school reunion looking completely glamorous and sexy, getting her share of attention, especially from her ex-fiancé. But Jane finds herself in a dangerous situation later and discovers secrets she had never known before. Will her transformation work for the better or for the worse?
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Still Alice
Alice Howland is a fifty-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics, with grown children and a satisfying marriage, when she starts to experience fleeting forgetfulness and disorientation. She initially attributes these episodes to normal aging or menopause. But as her symptoms worsen, she sees a neurologist and is given the diagnosis that will change her life forever-early-onset Alzheimers disease. With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning and pur-pose in her life as her sense of self is gradually stripped away, leaving her unable to continue in her profession, take care of herself, recognize her loved ones or even understand that she has a neuro-degenerative disease. Without memory or hope, Alice is forced to live in the moment, which is in turns beautiful, terrifying and mad-dening. About the Author Lisa Genova is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Love Anthony, Left Neglected and Still Alice. Her first novel, Still Alice, has been adapted into a film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. She travels worldwide speaking about Alzheimers disease, traumatic brain injury and autism.
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The Dead Will Tell
Innumerable ghost stories are woven about the Hochstetler farm in Painters Mill. But no one is aware of the reason for the passing of an Amish father and his four children and his wife disappearing. This was thirty-five years ago. Kate Burkholder, Chief of Police is now called to Painters Mill to investigate a new suicide case. Evidences soon point out that the man hanging from the rafters in his own barn was rather murdered. Kate, as she unravels the case, discovers that there is a tragic link between the murder and the thirty-five-year-old incident. And just when she thinks her personal life is going well with agent John Tomasetti and her moving in together, this case leads to more chaos in her life. Find out how Kate deals with her personal and professional life and strikes a balance between the two.
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The Rithmatist
Although Joel is spellbound by the magic of Rithmatics, he is not gifted, unlike others. Undeterred, he coaxes Professor Fitch to teach him magical theory. But he still can't infuse his shielding lines and circles with authority, or bring his chalk-drawn beings to life, but he's fast to master the fundamental geometric guidelines. His distinctive expertise will soon face an unexpected test when the best Rithmatist students are taken hostage from his Academy. Since he's not a magic worker, Joel seems to be safe, but he is adamant about investigating the case and proving his mettle. But people start dying and Joel gathers he will require the help of Rithmatist beginner, Melody. Can they stop the killer together before it is too late?
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Vedic Maths 2
Ancient India was known to have made some ground breaking discoveries and inventions in the field of Mathematics, Science, Medicine and others. This book focuses on the contribution of the Vedic times to the field of Mathematics. India, the land which gave the world Zero, had discovered much in Mathematics. It was not constrained by religion as it is presumed by many to be. The book asserts that the laws of the Universe were chronicled in those ancient works as precise mechanistic functions and principles. Most of the Vedic Math was conveyed as hymns, rhymes and verses. This book also conveys how fast calculations could be made using those principles mentally. It helps the readers in various examinations as well as enables them to discover the long lost treasure hidden in the Vedic Math chests.
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Vedic Maths
Vedic Maths - 1 compiles several simple sutras by H. K. Gupta, and with little practice, one can learn to perform mental calculations at a very high speed. An accidental meeting in 2001 inspired the author to explore the unfamiliar world of Vedic Mathematics. The content in the book includes Introduction, Multiplication of Single Digit Numbers, General Formula to Encompass All Multiplications, Multiplication of Two (or more) Digit Numbers, Special Method of Multiplication, Division of Numbers by Nikhilam Method, Finding Square of Numbers, Square Root of Numbers, General Formula for Divisions, and Answers. H. K. Gupta received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from NT, Mumbai. All through his meritorious career in the Indian Air Force, Gupta nurtured his interest in maths by teaching school children both physics and maths. He also coached aspirants for All India competitive examinations.
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Understanding Type 2 Diabetes
This title studies what diabetes is and how it comes about. It explains the practical changes you can make to your diet and physical activity that can be incorporated into your routine to maintain and improve your health. It also examines the medical aspects of diabetes care, the best ways to control your waistline, blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. The book also talks about the ways of avoiding possible major complications. Individual chapters explore the consequences of diabetes on the heart, vision, feet, kidneys, bladder, mind, mood, sleep, and sex, delving into the best ways that will help you lead a life with optimum health.
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Shotgun Lovesongs
Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny are born and raised in the same Wisconsin town - Little Wing. They are now growing up to be husbands and fathers, shouldering their own responsibilities, and building individual lives. One of the four siblings does not leave the town. He is still taking care of the family land that has been cultivated for generations. But the others leave, go to far off places to live different lives. They even achieve success in their own fields - one becomes a rock star, one, a commodities trader, and the other, a rodeo stud. And then there is Beth, whose presence has always kindled the kind of passion that either leads to the love songs and rivalries. Discover the further journeys of these characters that will remain with you long after you finish reading their story.
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Treasure Island..
Think of the high seas and of a buccaneer ship; of a wild seaman with a sea chest full of gold; of Long John Silver; of a buried treasure and of young Jim Hawkins, the boy with the treasure map the key to it all. This is the Treasure Island and if you dont think of all this, the pirates will hunt you down and when they find you, for find you they sure will, they will truss you and carry you back to their ship and just before they feed you to the sharks, as you walk the gangplank with a sword digging sharp and sure into your back, they will sing their one last song for you . . . Fifteen men on the dead mans chest Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! About the Author Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was born on the 13th of November, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Best known as the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson is probably one of the most widely translated and extensively read authors in the world. Though his work is often relegated to the genre of childrens literature, Stevenson was and is, a literary giant in his own right. He wrote everything plays, poems, essays on literary criticism and theory, travelogues, romances, adventure stories, fantasies, fables and short stories and he wrote in a manner which pulled the reader right into the world he strove hard to create.
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The Modi Effect
How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014. Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. Political parties in Britain, Australia and North America pride themselves on the sophistication 01 their election strategies. but Modi's campaign was a master-class in modern electioneering. His team created an election machine that broke new ground in the use of social media, the Internet. mobile phones and digital technologies. Modi took part in thousands of public events, but in such a vast country it was impossible to visit every town and village. The solution? A 'virtual Modi' - a life-size 3D hologram-beamed to parts he could not reach in person. These pioneering techniques brought millions of young people to the ballot box The holy grail of election strategists everywhere-as Modi trounced the governing Congress Party led by the Gandhi dynasty. Former BBC correspondent and Downing Street communications expert Lance Price has been granted exclusive access to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team of advisers. With complete freedom to tell it as he finds it, he details Modi's rise to power, the extraordinary election victory and its aftermath. The Modi effect inside Narendra Modi's campaign to transform India lifts the lid on a whole new box of tricks, where message-management and IT wizardry combined to create a vote-winning colossus of awesome potency. Political strategist Lance Price reveals the amazing story behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Indian election victory. Lance Price is the only author to have secured interviews with Narendra Modi and with several of his ministers and others closely involved in the campaign. Modi has never spoken in detail about his reflection on the election before. No other book will have these insights from the inside. It is also the only book written from the perspective of an impartial outside observer with no axe to grind. The author is also an expert on elections and has drawn on comparisons with elections in the west. He was director of communications for Tony Blair's labour party in the UK Modi's international profile continues to rise with extremely successful foreign tours and in India the economic mood is buoyant. How the victory was won-the detailed planning and strategy, the revolutionary use of IT and social media, meticulous mustering of grassroots party workers-is all detailed here with the right overview for the general reader. Without becoming either a management case study or a narrow view of one aspect Narendra Modi's official Facebook page has more than 21 million likes. And he has more than 6 million followers on Twitter. The book is timed right (Just about a year after the elections) and has many insights provided by Modi himself and his core team. This book will be the definitive book on the election campaign and will be the one book general readers, corporates and institutions will buy as a record of a watershed moment in Indian history. About the Author Lance Price is a political strategy consultant who worked at 10 Downing Street from 1998 to 2000 where he was a deputy to Alistair Campbell. He was the Labour Party's director of communications from 2000 until the general election of 2001, when Tony Blair secured his second landslide. Before joining Number ten he was a BBC Political Correspondent for many years.
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The Storyteller's Tale
Delhi has been plundered once again, this time by the forces of Ahmad Shah Abdali. Forced to evacuate as his house is destroyed, the Storyteller begins his journey away from the city when he encounters a haveli and is invited by its enigmatic Begum to narrate tales. In a mutual exchange of stories, the plot encapsulates various manifestations of love, friendship, loyalty, trust, hatred and jealousy. Tales of unconditional love between two brothers Taka (human) and Wara (wolf) to loyalty between two friends (Aresh and Barab), a bond that transcends death. The Storyteller and the Begum are questioning each other’s stance on love and embracing a deepening but unspoken desire for each other. Set in the 1700s, each story gives a new dimension to love, its manifestation complete as human bonds go through waves of loyalty, trust, hatred, desire, betrayal and jealousy.
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The Main Enemy
The last days of the Cold War were fraught with spies infiltrating either side, hankering after information. Still under the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, these spies rose through the ranks of the CIA and the KGB, and their missions took them from Moscow to Baghdad, Cairo to Prague. In the famous Year of the Spy, one by one, CIA began to lose its spies to counter-intelligence. Milt Bearden teams up with James Risen to tell his story, and the story of his comrades through hundreds of interviews and eye-witness accounts of the age of the spies. Culminating in the events of 1989, and that autumn in particular, this is a book for everyone who loves the thrill of real life spy stories.
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Honour Among Thieves
Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? the time, 1993. the place, Washington DC. of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate
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Tiger By The Tail
One night of midsummer madness… and Ken Holland, a respectable, married bank official, jeopardizes his happiness and his future. The sudden temptation to kick over the traces while his wife is away lands Holland up to his ears in a vortex of political intrigue and murder. Set against a background of gangster politicians, blackmailers, gunmen and hardboiled characters, the action of this explosive thriller takes place over a period of only thirty hours. But what hours they are!
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Worth Dying For
Worth Dying For follows up the story of 61 Hours. Reacher manages to escape from the dire situation he was caught in at the end of that book. In this novel, he is on his way to Virginia. He is on a quest to find the woman with whom he talked over the phone in 61 Hours. As he hitchhikes his way to Virginia, he is dropped off in a remote corner of Nebraska. He is in the middle of the farming country, a place that should be peaceful and idyllic, but is not. As usual, Reacher finds trouble in the most unlikely places. Jack Reacher helps a woman who obviously has been beaten up. Learning that it was her husband who did this to her, he finds the man and gives him a dose of his own medicine. Only, Reacher has unknowingly stirred up something evil that has its grip over that whole farming community. The Duncan family, to which the man he beat up belongs, don’t take kindly to anyone messing with them. The Duncans terrorize and control the farmers in the area so that they can use all the land around for their own activities. Only, they are just the bottom of the barrell. As the Duncans discover that Reacher is not so easy to intimidate or eliminate, they call their bosses. So, out-of-town toughs also join forces with the Duncan’s own hired help to face Reacher. But then, these too prove inadequate, and so the Duncans’ business partners call in their partners, who then have to call their other partners. Thus, what seems like a small town band of criminals, stretches into an international criminal network. And, Jack Reacher is caught right in the middle of it. But, Reacher is not the kind who backs down, no matter what the odds. As he tries to stay alive, he is also trying to solve a decades old mystery, the disappearance of a little girl, that happened twenty years ago.
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The Seventh Secret
Surprising information that “proves” Hitler did not die in World War II leads British historian Harrison Ashcroft on a journey to Berlin to investigate the truth. Once there, he is killed and his murder is made to look like an accident. The investigation of Ashcroft's death brings four other people to Berlin. However, they do not know what’s in store for them as they inch closer to The Seventh Secret. Summary Of The Book An informant tells Harrison Ashcroft, a British historian, something that supposedly "proves" that Hitler lived post the World War II and had not committed suicide as was believed. This prompts him to travel to Berlin and investigate. Once he reaches there, he is murdered. However, his killing is declared an accident. This unfortunate event draws four other people to investigate his death. Ashcroft’s daughter, Emily, visits Hitler's dentist who shows her a sketch of Hitler’s necklace and a dental chart. He says that the Russians never found the necklace nor the dental crown that he had placed on his teeth a few days before the war ended. A collector of Hitler’s art, Kirvov is in possession of a painting that is believed to be an original one by Hitler himself. The painting is that of a Nazi building and has in it a depiction of a remodeled building that had in 1952, an additional part constructed. If this is an original painting of Hitler, how does it depict something added to the building’s design close to seven years after he supposedly died? Mossad agent, Levine discovers that Hitler and his wife had body doubles who normally attended personal and official engagements on their behalf. Could these doubles be the ones who died and not Hitler and his wife? Californian architect Rex Foster finds out that Hitler had not six, but seven bunkers, and that the seventh unknown one was adjacent to the one in which Hitler was believed to have died in. As they put together the pieces of this puzzle, Emily along with Foster, Kirvov and Levine stumble upon a shocking truth. What could that be? About Irving Wallace Irving Wallace was an American author and screenwriter. He has penned novels like The Celestial Bed, The Golden Room, The Writing of One Novel, Significa, and The Sunday Gentleman. Wallace was famous for his well researched novels, many of which had sexual overtones and displayed his penchant for using the definitive article in the title of novels. He particularly liked writing the stories related to outsiders. Wallace was born in Chicago on March 19, 1916, to Jewish parents Alexander Wallace and Bessie Liss. He spent his childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and studied at Kenosha Central High School. As a teenager, he began writing short stories for newspapers and soon landed a job as a screenwriter in Hollywood. After that, he moved onto writing books full-time and published his first work in 1955. Irving Wallace was married to Sylvia Wallace and was the father of author Amy Wallace and Olympic historian David Wallechinsky.
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Hornet Flight
This title is from the master storyteller, a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance. It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their elderly parents. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Ger't - a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arne's relationship with Hermia Mount, an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics, putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces - and by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall. It is only a matter of time before the brothers' paths converge in a united effortto overcome the Nazis. A disused Hornet Moth biplane is their only means of getting a vital message to the British ...