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Drama Queen
So bizarre its got to be true. Filmstar, writer, singer, painter, candlestick maker Suchitra Krishnamoorthi dips in and out of her life, taking us on a hormone driven period, five years post marriage, divorce, fame and everything that a girl could possibly want to the present. Now a single mother suffering the crippling effects of Aphallatosis a rare mental disorder arising from lack of sex in frantic search for the happy ever after of true love and twin babies, Suchitra finds herself being pushed in all the wrong directions by shrewd analysts, horny canines, pushy gal pals and men who are either unsuitable, unwilling or just plain terrified. How can she hold on to her sanity? How can she loosen up without becoming loose? How can she shake off the vice-like grip of her primly disapproving, South Indian, moral, middle class upbringing? Aiyyo, what will Amma say? Wicked, irrepressibly funny and over-the-top, yet also vulnerable and dark, Drama Queen is a fictionalized memoir that will make you laugh, cry and look at the modern Indian woman in a whole new light. About the Author Actor, singer, writer, painter, candlestick maker, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi had a successful debut Bollywood film with mega star Shah Rukh Khan and was married to internationally renowned film maker Shekhar Kapur. She also released a pop album with music by Andrew Lloyd Weber and has walked the red carpet at the Oscars. She lives in Bombay with her daughter Kaveri.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul : Find Your Happiness
This book is the follow-on to the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive. Read inspirational true stories about how real people used positive thinking, thankfulness and good old-fashioned common sense to find their own paths to happiness, pursuing their passions, finding their purpose and reclaiming the joy in their lives. Youll learn how to: Use positive thinking to change your attitude. Find the good in every day and count your blessings. Listen to your heart and pursue your true passions. Find your purpose at work, at play and through volunteering. Find joy in simple pleasures and everyday basics. Leave an unfulfilling job and find one with meaning. Experience the joy of giving. Stop and smell the flowers and get your carrot!
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Fundamentals Of Investing In EquitiesnAnd Assets
The art of investing in stocks lies in picking great companies not in predicting markets.” Investing is not difficult to learn, but it does take some effort to master. But once mastered, it is most rewarding. ‘Fundamentals of investing in equities and assets that create wealth’ is meant to acquaint a person starting out in the world of stock investing with all the information that is required to start the journey. What makes one investment good and the other dangerous? This ability to differentiate is the difference between a sophisticated investor and an average one. This book is about having you to develop the ability to think through an investment by understanding the difference between a good and a bad investment. The book contains brief primers on stock markets, equities, financial statements, and stock classifications we touch upon the art and science of picking stocks and building a portfolio. We also look at investment philosophies of some great investors of the world to enable you to learn from them and form your own investment philosophy. In short, the book provides all the required concepts needed for a beginner to get started with investing in equities to create valuable paper assets.
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Start Investing
Step By Step Guide To Start Investing is written for those people who are interested in making the right financial decisions by seeking correct financial advice. People who wish to to buy the best possible financial products, or make the best investments or follow the best possible plans, should read this book. Step By Step Guide To Start Investing will take it’s readers on the path to make the most favourable investments in any available avenues to ensure maximum profits. Similarly, it provides help to plan out the course of action when making any financial decisions. It guides them to figure out the amount of money that can be invested, keeping in mind their income and liabilities. Most of this is covered in the first chapter of the book, which has a total of fifteen chapters. This book ensures that no matter what one’s income or financial background is, it is possible to make more money through investments. Not only does it share the investment options, but helps readers decide which is best suited for them. Equity shares, Mutual Funds and it’s pros and cons, Life Insurance Policies, government securities. Bonds, debentures and corporate deposits, credit ratings, types of debentures, Post office saving certificates, provident funds and public provident funds, investments in real estate and commodities like gold, oil and steel, E-gold, Forward contracts, currency futures and currency options, Private equity and structured products have all been covered in this book. Infact, Step By Step Guide To Start Investing even discusses investments in art like paintings done by M.F.Husain and Picasso. Essentially, this is a guide to show readers how to make a financial plan, what amount to invest and where and how to select a financial advisor. All of this is broken down into simple and lucid language, making it easy and practical for readers to understand the world of financial investments.
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David & Goliath : Underdogs, Misfits and the Art o
Why do underdogs succeed so much more than they should? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey to uncover the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates how terribly we misunderstand the true meaning of advantage and disadvantage. When is a traumatic childhood a good thing? How can a disability leave someone better off? And do you really want your child to go to the best school he or she can get into? Drawing on the stories of remarkable underdogs, history, science, psychology and his unparalleled ability to make the connections other miss, David and Goliath is a brilliant, illuminating book that overturns conventional thinking and brings home the incredible leverage of the unexpected.
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I Married the Duke: The Prince Catchers
I Married the Duke begins the Prince Catchers series by Katharine Ashe, award-winning author of historical romance. Arabella Caulfield, one of three orphaned sisters, has clung to an ancient gypsy prophecy as the only way to save her family from endless heartbreak. Now she has twelve days to reach a remote French castle and fulfill her destiny: to marry a prince. Along the way, Arabella meets Lucien Westfall, decorated naval captain and the new Duke of Lycombe. She thought he was a pirate. He thought she was a governess. Two wrongs have never made such a scandalously perfect right. Readers of Regency romances and the works of Eloisa James and Lisa Kleypas will fall in love with the Prince Catchers books by Katharine Ashe.
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone and serendipity, coupled with sheer curiosity, has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead they simply borrow impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore.
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Destroyed by 'Ishq' : When Love Defies Your Very B
Its not just a cold February morning that freezes all activity at IIT. The topper of the Computer Science batch is found hanging inside his room locked from the outside. A day later, in a fit of anxiety, his best friend erases his suicide note from his laptop, thereby obliterating the only way that could have led to understanding the reason behind such a catastrophe. The smartest among the group of software experts asked to retrieve it finally gets hold of it, but silently gives up on finding it and withdraws with the stolen suicide letter. What is it about the letter that makes him hide it from the world? Why does he lose himself in the amaranthine ocean of agony and forgets all else on reading it? Love is life giving, but Destroyed by Ishq explores the other side of love. Are you ready to turn the page?
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An Unequal Harmony : The Discordant Melodies of Lo
02 April 2011: While the Indian cricket team fights on the Wankhede grounds to create history, two men engage in a game of words to determine the future of their lives. Reva a celebrated socialite journalist and Anshuman Mehra creative director of Indias most popular advertising agency are a happily married couple till a car accident relegates Reva to the ICU and reveals to Anshuman the biggest secret of their lives Siddharth Kashyap. A reputed fashion photographer, Siddharth had met Reva a year and a half after the Mehras got married. But what started off as a formal professional association soon morphed into a friendship that transformed into love. As Revas health swings between crisis and recovery, Anshuman and Siddharth retrospect their lives and associations with the woman who bound them together. It is through their reminiscence of the relationships and interaction with each other that we traverse through their meetings, their feelings, their heartbreaks, their dilemmas and their insecurities. However, what looms large is one pertinent question can Reva love two people at the same time?
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The Mountain of Light
By the time Queen Victoria slipped the kohinoor on her wrist, the gem had travelled around the world, changing hands over the centuries from one ruler to another in Persia, Afghanistan and India. The fascinating story of this 105 carat diamond opens in 1830, when the Indian Maharaja and founder of the Sikh empire, Ranjit Singh, takes possession of the massive jewel that has been passed from man to man, king to king and emperor to emperor, through blood shed and destruction, since the 1200s. When Ranjit Singh dies, four of his sons are slaughtered in wars with the British and the diamond is left to Prince Dalip Singh, a six year old child. The British governor general orders that the mountain of Light be secreted out of India in 1850 and the teenage king Dalip Singh follows the diamond to London to officially present it to the queen as a spoil of the Sikh War. He is feted and petted by the British monarchy for a long while until he realizes that all that Britain gives him cannot make up for the loss of his country and its celebrated diamond. Told in her inimitable trademark style, Indu Sundaresans The Mountain of Light is a wondrous and historically rich tale, as clear and as dazzling as a diamond itself.
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Tempting Fate
Lawyer Caine MacGregor had a reputation for being a demon in and out of the courtroom. The dashing barrister rarely met a case or a woman he couldnt win. But Diana Blade was no ordinary lady. Caine yearned to break down her icy wall of control and release the passionate woman within. He might be able to convince Diana to form a business partnership, but could he entice her to risk everything for the love of a MacGregor?
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The Long Shadow.
A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there was a third child - a teenage daughter - who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she'd envisioned, as she begins to piece together a terrifying story of violence, abuse and murder.
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Allegiant
What if a single revelation like a single choice changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The faction-based society that Tries Prior once believed in is shattered fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature and of her-self while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love. old from a riveting dual perspective, Allegiant, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the Divergent series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent. About the Author Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent and Insurgent, the first two books in the Divergent trilogy. Now a full-time writer, Ms. Roth and her husband live in Chicago. You can visit her online at Twitter, Tumblr, her blog and her website.
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The Creation Of Health
A collaboration between a traditionally trained physician and a medical intuitive, The Creation of Health illuminates the deep connection between emotional dysfunction and physical illness. It describes the role that emotional disturbances play in the most common diseases and ailments, from influenza, the common cold and arthritis to diabetes, heart disease and cancer.\nAfter providing an introduction to intuitive medicine and its history, method of diagnosis, and relationship to traditional medicine, Myss and Shealy detail the deeper emotional and physical reasons why illness develops in the body. Dr Shealy offers a traditional account of a particular disease or ailment, while Dr Myss sheds light on the deeper emotional and psychic causes through her corresponding energy analysis.\nConfirming the link between illness and emotion, The Creation of Health puts forth a groundbreaking vision of holistic healing.