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Missing You
It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fianc? Jeff, the man who shattered her heart eighteen years ago. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. As Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved-her former fiance? her mother and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there
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It Happens For A Reason
It Happens for a Reason is a one of a kind story about love, betrayal, true friendship and making unusual choices in life. Summary of the Book Vipasha is a young, beautiful and single 18-year-old, who gives up a promising career in modeling to have her baby. She ends up cutting ties with her family and the father of her child, Ankush. Sixteen years later, Vipasha is well settled in life with two unusual careers – she owns a dog boarding facility and is a gym trainer. Her son, Aryan, loves her and hopes for her to find a life partner. Vipasha had feelings for Saurabh, the vet and things were going well, when Ankush comes back into their lives all of a sudden. What will Vipasha do now and how will Aryan react to all this? Will she resume her ties with Ankush and repeat the mistakes she made in the past? It Happens for a Reason will make for an engaging and enthralling read for those who enjoy reading love stories. About Preeti Shenoy Preeti Shenoy is a bestselling Indian author. She is best known for her romantic novels including Life Is What You Make It, 34 Bubblegums and Candies and Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake. A sociology graduate, she has since figured on the Forbes List of the 100 most influential celebrities of India in 2013.
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Intrapreneurs @ Mjunction
Intrapreneurs @ Mjunction, a first-of-its kind book in India on intrapreneurship, documents the meteoric rise of mjunction services ltd, an E-commerce company whose visionary leader empowered his team to think and work like entrepreneurs. What followed is a growth story that is both unique and awe-inspiring. From humble beginnings-the company began as a 50:50 venture promoted by Tata Steel and SAIL-mjunction rose to become world's biggest e-marketplace for steel. The story of mjunction chronicles how the challenges of growing in a nascent business domain were overcome through specific innovations, how new opportunities were created, mostly with limited resources, how the business environment was shaped by helping clients to identify potential efficiencies by changing their mindsets, how the crippling monopolies in the trading of steel and coal were broken and how change-resistant public sector companies were persuaded to adopt new digital practices and processes in their selling and buying. And most vitally, how mjunction was run on solid business principles, where elements of social and economic sustainability were combined in their service offerings. Coming at a time when India urgently needs business leaders who can unleash the power of intrapreneurship to grow their organizations as well as the nations economy, this book is an essential read for organizations, strategy planners and CEOs. About the Author Dr. Rajeev Kumar 'ABC' is a specialist in organizational communication management. A PhD in Organizational Communication from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, he was a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellow at Texas A&M University, USA. Currently, he is General Manager, Learning and Development, at Tata Group Corporate Communication and is also the Vice Chair of the inaugural Global Communication Certification Council set up by the International Association of Business Communicators. ABC stands for Internationally Accredited Business Communicator
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Captivated By You
Gideon calls me his angel, but he's the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face his own. The vows we'd exchanged should have bound us tighter than blood and flesh. Instead they opened up old wounds, exposed pain and insecurities, and lured bitter enemies out of the shadows. I felt him slipping from my grasp; my greatest fears becoming my reality; my love tested in ways I wasn't sure I was strong enough to bear. At the brightest time in our lives, the darkness of his past encroached and threatened everything we'd worked so hard for. We faced a terrible choice: the familiar safety of the lives we'd had before each other or the fight for a future that suddenly seemed an impossible and hopeless dream . . . Sylvia Day is the number one Sunday Times and number one international bestselling author of over twenty award-winning novels sold in more than forty countries. She is a number one bestselling author in twenty-five countries, with tens of millions of copies of her books in print. Her Crossfire series has been optioned for television by Lionsgate.
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Halt Station India
Rajendra B. Aklekars research-and his scholarship which enables him to interpret his findings-throws new light on the way railways were built. - Sir Mark Tully, author of Non - Stop India Fascinating stuff. An enormous amount of really rigorous work. - Naresh Fernandes, author of City Adrift - A Short Biography of Bombay Halt Station India chronicles the dramatic rise of Indias original rail network, the arrival of the first train and the subsequent emergence of a pioneering electric line-all in the port city of Bombay. Trains that once provoked awe and fear-they were viewed as fire chariots, smoke-spewing demons-have today become a nations lifeblood. Taking a walk along Indias first rail lines, the author stumbles upon fragments of the past-a clock at Victoria Terminus that offers a rare view of a city, a cannon near Masjid Bunder Station that is worshipped as a god, a watchtower overlooking Sion Station, believed to have housed a witch. Each pit-stop comes with stories of desire and war, ambition and death-by Dockyard Road Station, for instance, author Laurence Sternes beloved, Eliza Draper, followed a sailor into the sea or close to Parel Station, the wife of Indias governor general, Lord Canning found a garden rich in tropical vegetation this, she replicated at Barrackpore. Drawing from journals, biographies, newspapers and railway archives-and with nostalgic, first-time accounts of those who travelled by Indias earliest trains-the book captures the economic and social revolutions spurred by the countrys first train line. In this, Halt Station India is not just about the railways-it is the story of the growth of Indias business capital and a rare study of a nation.
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The Way Things Were
When Skanda's father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda's mother and from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around the world and deep into the story of three generations of his family, whose factures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to elude. Both an intimate portrait of a marriage and its aftershocks and a panoramic vision of India in transition, The Way Things Were is a magisterial novel about the pressures of history upon the present moment. Set at flashpoints in 1975, 1984, 1992 and in modern Delhi, it has the epic reach and thrilling ambition and the potential to become a classic of its time. About the Author Aatish Taseer is the author of Stranger to History-a Son's Journey through Islamic Lands (2009) and a highly acclaimed translation Manto - Selected Stories (2008). His novel, The Temple-Goers (2010) was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa First Novel Award. His second novel, Noon was also critically acclaimed. His works have been translated into over ten languages. He lives between Delhi and London.
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The Escape
Military CID investigator John Puller has returned from his latest case to learn that his brother, Robert, once a major in the United States Air Force and an expert in nuclear weaponry and cyber - security, has escaped from the Army's most secure prison. Preliminary investigations show that Robert - convicted of treason - may have had help in his breakout. Now he's on the run and he's the military's number one target. John Puller has a dilemma. Which comes first - Loyalty to his country, or to his brother? Blood is thicker than water, but Robert has state secrets which certain people will kill for. John does not know for sure the true nature of Robert's crimes, nor if he's even guilty. It quickly becomes clear, however, that his brother's responsibilities were powerful and far - reaching. With the help of US intelligence officer Veronica Knox, both brothers move closer to the truth from their opposing directions. As the case begins to force John Puller into a place he thought he'd never be - on the other side of the law - even his skills as an investigator and his strength as a warrior, might not be enough to save him or his brother. About the Author David Baldacci is a worldwide bestselling novelist. With his books published in over 45 different languages and in more than 80 countries and with over 110 million copies in print, he is one of the worlds favourite storytellers. David is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a non - profit organization, dedicated to eliminating illiteracy across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia.
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Unlucky 13
When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn't the crash that killed these people. While Lindsay starts to piece this case together, she gets a call she wasn't expecting. Sightings of her ex-colleague-turned-ruthless-killer Mackie Morales have been reported. Wanted for three murders, Mackie has been in hiding since she escaped from custody. But now she's ready to return to San Francisco and pay a visit to some old friends.
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Hope To Die
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family - his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves? Widely praised by the greatest crime and thriller writers of our time, Cross My Heart set a jaw-dropping story in motion. Hope to Die propels Alex Cross's greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says "nobody does it better" than James Patterson.
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Flash Point
An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them. Zeeshan Haq, a handsome Kashmiri lad, is forced to relocate to Mumbai after losing his father in a mysterious fire that destroys their ancestral photo studio in Srinagar. With ambitions to become a successful photographer, Zeeshan joins his maternal uncle in the running of a small agency that supplies paparazzi pictures to Mumbais tabloids and newspapers. That is his introduction to the seductive, dazzling, often hedonistic world of Mumbai high society. Zeeshan is instantly smitten by Hazel Haroon, a model and aspiring Bollywood film star, and yearns to vault over the red velvet rope that separates the paparazzo from his glamorous subjects. Soon enough, he succeeds in becoming chief assistant to Kabir Kohli, Mumbais most celebrated fashion photographer. But just when things are looking up for him, Zeeshan gets unwittingly trapped in a web of crime and deceit, the consequences of which threaten his career and very existence. Set between Mumbai and Dubai, two cities where nothing is quite what it seems, Flash Point is a riveting tale of lust, greed and naked ambition.
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Anatomy Of My Life
A narrative that's shaped like a fable, but in which we recognize the various features of life in India today.' - Amit ChaudhuriAn unusual and readable chronicle of an abstract Poets journey, veering from the salacious to the sacred.-Romesh Gunesekera. The human self has come before religion, nations and boundaries -what is the self? This is the question.The poet, just sixteen, moves to a new city with his recently-divorced mother. It is a new beginning; there is the promise of a new life away from endless domestic squabbles. But ghosts of the past still linger The poet joins college, meets his first love, his sweetheart, makes new friends-through his relationships, separations and experiences we enter his world. Thoughtful, sensitive, observant, he is not one who shies away from life. He journeys into different spaces, both in the physical world and within the realm of thoughts. His relentless efforts are to know and to understand ideas-his own and those of the thinkers of the past. There are moments of confusion, contemplation, ennui, ecstasy, happiness and hidden amidst them lie little nuggets of truth and those rare moments of epiphany. But epiphany knows no time and place, it can come knocking anywhere, at any moment-be it on the balcony of a hotel in Benares or in the squalid room of a prostitute.Anatomy of Life is an engaging contemporary story of urban experience and a fascinating journey of discovery.
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Bloodline Bandra
David Cabral is a journalist, and also one of the original peepils: an East Indian from Pali Village. The village is a world unto itself, and the villagers such notables as Salt Peter, Freddy Fakir, Basco Big Stomach, Carla Four Eyes, Lorna Leg Spread, Spunkless Joe and Small Tree Big Fruit. It is a world relatively untroubled by the rapid changes around it, mostly because its inhabitants just ask themselves, 'My fadder wot going?' David, spurred by the sight of childhood friends who have made it big abroad, manages to shake off the stupor of his comfortable life and heads to New York for his piece of the American Dream pie. There, he finds himself a slave: unable to scrape together enough money to return to India, nor able to quit because it would render his stay illegal. There also, he meets and falls in love with Japanese cello student Hatsumi Nakamura - a difficult love, bound by culture and circumstances. All the while, Pali Village beckons David home. Bloodline Bandra captures with flair and wit the flavourful language of the East Indians, life in the tight-knit community of Pali Village and a way of life that's dying out. It is a riveting tale of love and loss, of home and homelessness that will linger on long after the book is read and put away.
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Sleigh Bells in Valentine Valley
Tony and Kate were high school sweethearts who went off to college together and accidentally got pregnant. They married, thinking their love would make everything work out, but Kate was very driven and focused on law school, while Tony tended bar at night and raised their son Ethan during the day. They realized they wanted different things in life, Kate a big law firm job in Denver, Tony the small town upbringing for Ethan in Valentine Valley. Shes driven and hes laid-back, she lives for the future, he lives in the present. They divorced and had joint custody.Now Kate is returning to Valentine Valley in disgrace, on a two-month sabbatical, uncertain of her big-city law career and Tony has a wall around his heart, not wanting to be hurt again. When shes at wits end, he offers her a temporary job at his tavern as a waitress and soon shes planning a local band festival for his parking lot, because shes always been way too ambitious. Through it all, they deal with their son not wanting them to get back together, the widows matchmaking (and one of the widows seeing Tonys dad!)and their feelings of mistrust in each other and fear that theyll fail once again if they try to get back together, that they really do want different things out of life.
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Edward Moor
This monograph focuses on the india connection of the remarkable british official,edward moor.he belonged to the early group of indologists who saw india in an unbiased manner.his vies on india are to be found in four works on which this monograph is based.moor,a participant in the british detachment which accompanied the maratha army in thier campaign against tipu sultan from 1790 to 1792,has not only describe the campaign but has left a delightful acccount of what he saw en routeto srirangapatna and back to bombay in a narrative of the operations of the captain little's Detachment and of the mahratta army commanded by purseram bhow.
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You're The Passward To My life
You’re the Password to My Life is a contemporary novel about true friendship, trust, and affection. It is the tale of two friends and how their friendship stands the test of time. Summary of the Book You’re the Password to My Life is the heartwarming story of Virat and Kavya. Although both of them do not share common interests and have starkly different personalities, Virat and Kavya are best friends. While Virat is reserved and shy, Kavya likes to live on the edge and take chances in life. But when they have to deal with an unforeseen incident, their friendship is put the ultimate test. Will Kavya and Virat continue to remain best pals or will this spell the end of an amazing relationship? About Sudeep Nagarkar Sudeep Nagarkar is an Indian author and a prolific speaker. Some of the other bestselling books written by him include Few Things Left Unsaid, That’s The Way We Met, It Started with A Friend Request and Sorry You’re Not My Type. Nagarkar has a degree in Electrical Engineering and is currently based out of Mumbai.