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Singing Bird
The phone call comes out of the blue. It is the nun who, twenty-seven years earlier, set up the adoption of Lena Molloy's baby girl in Ireland. just tyng up loose ends, she says, nothing to worry about. But Lena is worried - and intrigued - and decides to go on a secret mission to the west of Ireland, with her best friend, to trace the birth parents of her daughter, now making her international debut as an opera singer. At first the trail seems to have gone cold, but at last a chance meeting sets Lena on a journey to an outcome which in her wildest dreams she could not have foreseen.
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Awakened
Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa’s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn’t it? And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim? The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship? Does he betray his father or his heart?
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Xcess Baggage
A young woman fighing for her identity and ready to sacrifice herself for a doomed love. An immortal group of vampires determined to get rid of their endless existence; even if it means butchering an innocent human. These are the key elements of the suspense romantic thriller, Xcess Baggage.
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Tender Hooks
After freeing her darling son, Jonkers, from the clutches of his low class, slutty secretary, Aunty Pussy has charged Butterfly with finding him a new wife—a rich, fair, beautiful, old family type. Quickly. But who wants to marry poor, plain, die-vorced Jonkers? As Butterfly schemes her way through shaadis, GTs (oho baba, Get Togethers!), and kitty parties trying to find a suitable girl from the right bagground, she discovers to her dismay that her hapless cousin has his own ideas about his perfect mate. And secretly she may even agree!Full of wit and wickedness, Tender Hooks is another delightful romp through Pakistani high society from the bestselling author of The Diary of a Social Butterfly.
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Christmas Fairy Tales
It’s the time of year for families and friends, romance and laughter…Daniel MacGregor will make sure that his beautiful granddaughters share it with someone special! Laura is up to all her meddling grandfather’s tricks. So when Royce Cameron arrives on her doorstep, Laura means to resist his charms… Gwen is convinced that she’ll escape the MacGregor’s trap. Until one kiss from Branson Maguire rocks her world… Julia thinks she’s safe – she’s busy with her career and has no time for love. But Callum Murdoch is hard at work changing her mind. As Christmas approaches, will Daniel’s granddaughters escape his schemes? Or will the magic of the festive season soften their stubborn hearts?
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Outlander
Unrivaled storytelling … unforgettable characters … rich historical detail … these are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured millions of readers. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages…. The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon — when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach — an “outlander” — in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of Our Lord … 1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues and dangers that may threaten her life … and shatter her heart. For here she meets James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, and becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire … and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Faith & Fire
Hailed as the Indian version of The Celestine Prophecy, this is the true story of a young couple’s yearning for a meaningful life. Madhu and Rajeev left the city to join a small community in the Himalayas. For seven years they lived under the tutelage of Aropa, an Englishman who had taken sanyas (renunciation). Madhu and Rajeev grew their own food, built their own mountain hut, and lived a truly simple life, all under Aropa’s spiritual leadership. The couple followed his philosophy, believing that every experience is viewed as an opportunity to grow. Over time, questions arose that made Madhu and Rajeev’s life perplexing; doors appeared to close on them, and their personal dilemmas peaked. But through it all, they never gave up hope. Their story speaks to the spirit as it lays bare a struggle to transcend suffering and discover what lies beyond it. By sharing the simple practices that intensified their search, as well as the powerful role of dreams, Madhu Tandan offers us her conviction that there are no dead ends in life; and gives us a glimpse of the mysterious, magical, uplifting support we can receive at every step of such a journey.
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Cold Mountain
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished America in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved three years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic American Odyssey: hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
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Did You See The Joker?
The girl whispered, “I love you.” It took a while for the words to sink in his consciousness. When they did, he broke into a brief silent smile. The trace of dismissive scorn did not miss the girl. She repeated, “I loved you . . . from the moment I saw you there at the corner table.” He watched her with an amused mocking glint and said in a slurred voice, “It's okay. I paid you already.” “You know, he looked exactly like you, calm, serene, simple, sitting at that corner hidden in the darkness watching me. He was the one who took my virginity.” He stopped for a moment and listened. In a stupor of inebriation, it sounded like a true account. “He said he loved me. He used to come every night. He bought me this gold chain you see.” The girl pointed at her neck. There was a scar at her neck and there was also a thin gold chain resting on her bare chest. Ceaseless flow of life swirls around the bends of tears and laughter, vengeance and passion, hatred and love. Yet it flows . . . nothing can stop it. Nothing can block it. The eternal flow holds the wavering reflection of the joker . . .
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Exclusive
Barrie Travis is not famous: she's just a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station. Then the First Lady calls her...and offers her the story of a lifetime. The president's wife, stunned by grief after the loss of her infant son, hints that her child may have been murdered. Blind to everything but finding the truth, Barrie's fight for an exclusive story will test her ethics, her patriotism, and her courage. Then, with the help of Gray Bondurant, a mysterious former presidential aide, she unearths White House secrets that, if exposed, could topple the presidency. Now, even as she falls in love, Barrie must fight powerful forces that want nothing more than to see the scandalous past - and a certain young reporter - dead and buried.
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Too Many Murders
One day, one city, twelve murders. The year is 1967 and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut, chief of detectives Carmine Delmonico walks into the prestigious Chubb University halls to be greeted by a limp corpse clamped in a bear trap, all traces of life drained from it. And this is just the beginning. Twelve murders have taken place in one day and suddenly Carmine has more pressing matters on his hands than finding a name for his newborn son. Supported by his detective sergeants, and new team member – the meticulous Delia Carstairs – Delmonico embarks on what look likes an unsolvable mystery. All the murders are different. Are they dealing with one killer or many? And if twelve murders were not enough, Carmine soon finds himself pitted against the mysterious spy, Ulysses – who is giving local arms giant Cornucopia’s military secrets to the Russians. Are the murders and espionage different cases, or are they somehow linked?
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Ohh Yes, I am Single..!
From a fat, ugly nerd who never had it in him to stand close to anyone from the opposite sex to someone who gets dumped form breakfast and asked out again by brunch this story traces the life and times of guy, who has time innate ability to fall in love.. as well as fall out of it. Even a fling is a duding short relationship for him as he goes on looking for the one who will make the stars in the sky shine a little brighter for him. So who's the girl of his dreams? The seven year old crush? The first girl he ever kissed> the first girl he ever slept with? The one who never really loved him? Or the one he never intended to dump? Which one to these always has him crawling back to her every time his heart lay broken in his palms? Which one of these faces will he never be able to push out his head? It's always been easy for him to decide who he doesn't love. Will he finally be able to decide who he really loves?
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Pratibha Devisingh Patil
The book, “An Inspirational Journey”: Pratibha Devisingh Patil – The First Woman President of India – is an attempt to understand the life and works of the First Citizen of India prior to her occupying the coveted position. In the late fifties and early sixties when the discouraging forces against women were predominant, Pratibhatai excelled in academics. It was her will power, conviction, purity of purpose and belief that sky is the limit which propelled her into politics and finally elected to be the First Woman President of India. Pratibhatai’s life is an inspirational story, her journey in life has been so eventful, her achievements are so many and diversified. She has had a political career which kept moving upwards, gradually and steadily, till she finally reached the pinnacle. She humbly attributes her success to the Almighty and to the People of India. The book is a progressive effort to illustrate her political participation as well as her attachment towards the family and she emerged a winner on both the fronts effectively. Simply her achievements are so large and varied that they need to be narrated as – ‘Those who do not speak about themselves need to be spoken about.’