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The Death Instinct
September 16, 1920. Under a clear blue September sky, a quarter ton of explosives is detonated in a deadly attack on Wall Street. Fear comes to the streets of New York. Witnessing the blast are war veteran Stratham Younger, his friend James Littlemore of the New York Police Department, and beautiful French radiochemist Colette Rousseau. A series of inexplicable attacks on Colette, a secret buried in her past, and a mysterious trail of evidence lead Younger, Littlemore, and Rousseau on a thrilling international and psychological journey from Paris to Prague, from the Vienna home of Dr Sigmund Freud to the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and ultimately to the hidden depths of our most savage instincts. As the seemingly disjointed pieces of Younger and Littlemore s investigations come together, the two uncover the shocking truth about the bombing a truth that threatens to shake their world to its foundations.
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Just Like In The Movies
Say hello to our three 20-something friends, AMIT -'All said and done, we must not destroy our enviromenent' -'Yes, I am frustrated with my job (Urban Planning)' -'My girlfriend is more beautiful and gorgeous then anyone else's.' -'And I think I still need to figure out what I want to do in life.' Would I ever get any kind of satisfaction in life? RISHIKA -'It's true what my friends say I am a strong and confident woman of today' -'Like many of you out there, I also want to write a novel -I have a boyfriend, and we are going very strong How would my parents react when I would tell them about my boyfriends? Would I ever get published? RIMA (call me RIMZ) I DON T REALLY CARE MUCH ABOUT THINGS AS LONG AS I AM HAVING FUN -I HANDLE MAJOR STAR STUDDED EVENTS.(Can you bat that?) -I have only one dream and would do anything to achieveit-to become a pop star-My only problem-my guy Would my love life ever improve? Would I ever become the queen of hearts?
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I'm Not Twenty Four...
I m not 24 is story of Saumaya, Malappa & Shubhro which should have been a love triangle but wasn't. The three of them,coming from different worlds, are thrown into a fourth world called Karnataka. But it is not virgin beaches or exotic dancers that await them. They are to be welcomed by blood, riots, violet bosses and cut limbs. Will Saumya survive her job in the middle of nowhere? Will Malappa s superiority help him survive or become the cause of his downfall? Will Shubhro prove that a heart of gold can survive through Marijuana smoke and Beer rich blood?
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It's All About Love ...
The book is a journey through the age of confusion and exploration – the late teens, a path through growing up adventures and trysts that must be secret, even in the relative permissiveness of post Gen-Y India. It is a battle on many fronts and the one that cannot be lost is the battle with a debilitating nerve condition – a battle aided by medicine, doctors and good wishes; and yet has to be fought all alone. When the mists clear there is Rupali, the object of a slight crush… and the vision blurs again. Tanveer Singh‘s debut novel is your visa to a world most of us have seen from a distance and none too clearly. Could you take the plunge?
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Kindred In Death
A phone call from up high interrupts Eve's plans to have a lazy day with Roarke: The teenage daughter of Captain Jonah McMasters, head of the NYPD drug squad, has been found raped and strangled. A terrifying video of Deena, bloody and beaten beyond recognition, hints at a link to a criminal in McMasters's own past, but searching through his cases leads Eve nowhere ? until another rape-murder, and another video, reveals the killer's deadly intent: merciless retribution in the cruellest way possible. Racing against the clock, Eve and her team must work fast to identify the next victim of a killer who will stop at nothing ...
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Fall Of Giants
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.
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Battle For Bittora
Twenty-five-year-old Jinni lives in Mumbai, works in a hip animation studio and is perfectly happy with her carefree and independent existence. Until her bossy grandmother shows up and announces that it is Jinni s 'duty' to drop everything and come and contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from their sleepy hometown, Bittora. Of course Jinni swears she won't. But she soon ends up swathed in cotton saris and frumpy blouses, battling prickly heat, corruption and accusations of nymphomania as candidate Sarojini Pande, a daughter of the illustrious Pande dynasty of Pavit Pradesh. And if life isn t fun enough already, her main opposition turns out to be Bittora ex-royal, Zain Altaf Khan an irritatingly idealistic though undeniably lustworthy individual with whom Jinni shares a complicated history... Enlivened by Chauhan s characteristic brand of wicked humour and sexy romanticism, this is a rollicking new tale of young India.
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The Immigrant
Nina is a thirty year old English lecturer, struggling to make ends meet fornherself and her widowed mother. She sees herself as increasingly off the shelf after allnwhat prospects would an impoverished girl have without a father to marry her off? Then,nunexpectedly, a proposal arrives. Ananda is a dentist in Halifax, Canada. He has spentnhis twenties painstakingly building his career, and has had no time to get married. Thentwo start to write to each other, then talk on the phone, and finally Ananda arrives in NewnDelhi to propose. At first uncertain, Nina eventually agrees. When the two marry, shenleaves her home and her country to build a new life with her husband. But there is alwaysnmore to marriage than courtship. And as Nina discovers truths about her husband - bothnsexual and emotional - her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel.nNo one writes about middle class family life with the nuance and tenderness of ManjunKapur. The Immigrant is another mesmerizing saga from this most beloved of novelists.
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Japanese Magnolia
Fusao is a teenage boy who has the unusual gift of writing. Lord Okimoto is the son of a samurai. Both have a nature of swinging the other way and soon there developes a forbidden love affair between the two who live during the Edo period, which breaks all rules of Japan's orthodox society. About four centuries later, an ancestor of Lord Okimoto finds a diary. As the diary is read by a historian, it unfolds the heartbreaking account of shattered dreams and tragic deaths. What happened after the two were caught red handed? Could the lovers get away with what they did? The story does not end with the Edo period. The spirit of the gay samurai carries on even in modern days. How does such a twist in situation come about?
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Japanese Orchid
Tetsuyo Akinicho is a wealthy Japanese industrial baron who moves in the most highly respected circles of New York. One day he receives an e-mail which he can not afford to ignore. Someone tries to blackmail him by threatening to reveal a family secret and to destroy his reputation. Seeking help from Akira Tanaka, his lawyer; Paul Griffin, a well known American private investigator; and his assistant, Japanese historian, Mayumi Onodera, Tetsuyo Akinicho decides to probe into the matter. The investigations lead to one shocking discovery after another. Does Tetsuyo Akinicho reach the blackmailer? Did he bow to the demands put in the blackmailer who said he would dig up the past? Are the ghosts of the past still haunting him?
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Crucial Conversations
"Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history."--Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
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Pursuit of Honour
The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friends or foes of the agents who stepped between the enemy's bullets and countless American lives regardless of the legal consequences. Not for the first time, Rapp finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to politicians whose view from the sidelines is inevitably obstructed. Meanwhile, three of the al Qaeda terrorists are still at large, and Rapp has been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary. No one knows the personal, physical, and emotional sacrifices required of the job better than Rapp. When he sees Nash cracking under the pressure of the mission and the memories of the horrors he witnessed during the terrorist attack, he makes a call he hopes will save his friend, assuage the naysayers on Capitol Hill, and get him one step closer to the enemy before it's too late. Once again, Rapp proves himself to be a hero unafraid "to walk the fine line between the moral high ground and violence" (The Salt Lake Tribune) for our country's safety, for the sake of freedom, for the pursuit of honor.
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Last Night At Chateau Marmont
Heartbreak, headlines and Hermes – welcome to Brooke's new world… Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York – she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success – and their life changes for ever. Soon they are moving in exclusive circles, dining at the glitziest restaurants, attending the most outrageous parties in town and jetting off to the trendiest hotspots in LA. But Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages, Brooke's world is turned upside down. Can her marriage survive the events of that fateful night at Chateau Marmont? It's time for Brooke to decide, once and for all, what it is she really wants. . .
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She Broke Up, I Didn't!
Is the story of Deb and Avantika, , two management students whose pretty as a picture life is is thrown off track, after Deb, drunk as a pig goes ahead and kisses a classmate. To forgive is divine? Especially when it is just a mistake! What will Avantika do? Will she be able to forgive him? And what if Deb does it again? What if Avantika goes ahead and does the same? This is the story of a group of friends who battle the questions of infidelity, loyalty and love as they step out of their colleges. Is lust different from love? Are girls more tolerant? What would hurt you more? Your partner writing a love song for someone else? Or sleeping with someone else? Is the answer any different for the two sexes?
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Shobhaa at Sixty
From India’s most widely read writer You’ve got nothing left to prove ... remember, life begins at 60! For most of us who have crossed the sixtieth milestone in the journey of life, there’s a tendency to consider oneself as ‘over the hill’, a ‘has-been’, or an ‘old fogey’. But for the irrepressible and exuberant Shobhaa Dé, that’s certainly not the case – life only begins at sixty! Declaring sixty the new forty, she comes up with a potent elixir to rejuvenate life, and provides practical tips on how to cope with the physical and emotional downslides commonly experienced by the post-sixty generation. Whether it’s the flagging levels of confidence or diminishing stamina, Shobhaa provides the perfect antidote. She lays great emphasis on family values and ties, and underlines the importance of a spiritual quest – all of which make each passing decade more meaningful and enriching. Drawing up a ‘road map’, which enables the reader to chalk out a future course, Shobhaa shows us how life is so very beautiful and just how much we have to look forward to!
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Ambani & Sons
"Ambani & Sons is the riveting story of one of the wealthiest families in the world. Dhirubhai Ambani was a rags-to-riches tycoon whose company Reliance, is now one of India’s major corporations. His sons Anil and Mukesh took over after his death in 2002 and their respective arms of the company are bigger than the parent ever was. However, a family feud of colossal proportions, that has had political reverberations, ensued. The Ambani tale contains a bigger story about modern India, not only as an economic powerhouse, but about the complicated links between government and big business."
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Super Power?
Raghav Bahl is the founder, controlling shareholder and editor of Network18, India network which is home to CNN and CNBC in the country. It also publishes Forbes India. He has been instrumental in crafting successful joint ventures with such media giants as NBC Universal Viacom, Time Warner and Forbes. In a short span of seventeen years, Network18 has achieved a market capitalization in excess of US$0.75 billion. Raghav Bahl has over twenty-two years of experience in television and journalism. He won the prestigious Sanskriti Award for journalism in 1994, and founded TV18 (now Network18 Group) in 1993. A widely admired entrepreneur, Bahl was hailed as a Global Leader of Tommorrow by the World Economic Forum and selected by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year for Business Transformation in 2007. This is his first book.