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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.
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The Cobra
The Cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. Its usage causes incalculable misery, poverty and death. Slowly, gradually, inexorably it is spreading...it is a blight which must be stopped. One man, Paul Devereaux, intellectual, dedicated, utterly ruthless and ex-CIA special ops, is given what seems like an impossible task. At his disposal, anything he wants - men, resources, money. He will not stop until he has completed his mission. Up to now the drug trade has been used to world governments attempting to prevent them plying their trade. But up to now, those governments have played by the rules. That is about to change. The rules no longer apply... and a dirty war is about to get a whole lot dirtier..
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True blue
Mason 'Mace' Perry was a maverick cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything - her career, her liberty - and spent two years in prison. Now back on the outside, Mace is trying to rebuild her life and track down the people who set her up. But even with her police chief sister at her side, she has to work in the shadows: there's a vindictive US attorney on her tail and he's just looking for a reason to send her back behind bars. Roy Kingman is a young lawyer, still getting used to his high-paid job at a law firm in Washington. When Roy discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm, his fate becomes entangled with Mace's, as the two team up to investigate. But as their enquiries gather pace, Roy and Mace soon find themselves in unexpected territory; drawn into both the private and public world of the nation's capital, as dark secrets begin to emerge. For what began as a fairly routine homicide investigation will quickly turn into something far more complex. And possibly lethal.
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Intervention
It's been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton's college graduation and almost as long since he'd been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jack's career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarried-to longtime colleague and fellow medical examiner Laurie Montgomery-and is the father of a young child. But his renegade, activist personality can't rest, and after performing a postmortem on a young college student who had recently been treated by a chiropractor, Jack decides to explore alternative medicine. What makes some people step outside the medical establishment to seek care from practitioners of Eastern philosophies and even faith healers? Jack's classmate Shawn Doherty is now a renowned archeologist and biblical scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose taste for good wine and generally deteriorating health are taking a toll on his career. He has recently obtained permission for a final dig beneath Saint Peter's, and despite his long-standing grudge against the Catholic Church, begins his research-which eventually takes him to Jerusalem and Venice -only to make a startling discovery with ecclesiastical and medical implications. And when James O'Rourke, now Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, gets wind of Shawn's findings, he's desperate to keep them from the public. James has strong political ambitions within the Church, but his association with Shawn threatens to undermine them. James turns to his old friend Jack to help protect an explosive secret-one with the power to change lives forever.
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Somewhere @ Nowhere
What would it be like taking a few weeks break and planning an unplanned travel across length and breadth of the country and explore the vastness and diversity of India? Aditya Khanna is a confused jobless ex-investment banker with an IIT - IIM lineage who does the same - except that nothing goes as he had expected. There were different kinds of people, each having a different tale to tell. From encounters ranging from meeting a know-it-all sadhu in the Himalayas to getting kidnapped by naxals to meeting a girl on the run whose only aim in life was to die. There were experiences of varied hues and shades in this roller coaster of a journey - experiences that could have made the trip a memorable one; and the experiences that had the power to break and change a person and in the process probably discover oneself. Will he take it all in his stride and move ahead and laugh at it when he looks back? Or will it leave him broken and shattered? Or will he discover his non confused self? Or will he be left stranded somewhere in the middle of nowhere? Or ...
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Far From Normal
Far From Normal A book by a teen for teenagers Jessica Baker is only sixteen years old when her older sister, Kim dies in a car accident. Two years later, she moves to the quiet town of Greengrass, New Jersey, USA and is shocked when she discovers that she can talk to the dead. She soon befriends Stella, another mediator who also can talk to the dead. The two are on a secret mission, to persuade a particular spirit to leave the world. But that’s not the only problem Jessica has! A dead sister, a freaky friend, a crazy sister, a mentally disturbed (as Jessica thinks) set of parents, a snobbish foe (at school), a girl who she thinks is her friend, a girl who is unable to make a decision and a gym teacher who has no sympathy aren’t making anything easy either. A very creative plot woven into an interesting storyline with captivating elements of paranormality, mystery, suspense, deception, friendship, betrayal, teen rivalry and lots more. An accomplishment that is Far From Normal indeed from a prodigious 13 yr old author.