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The Dwelling Place

Cholera had taken her parents and left Cissie Brodie with the upbringing of a family of nine. She was barelyfifteen herself when they were evicted..Cholera had taken her parents and left Cissie Brodie with the upbringing of a family of nine. She was barely fifteen herself when they were evicted from their cottage and forced out on to the fells. But even though they'd hardly a shilling between them, Cissie set to building a home for the Brodies with a will that would have shamed an adult. It was only a rough stone shelter, thatched as best they could, but to Cissie and her family it was enough to keep them fron the workhouse.They had friends, such as Matthew Turnbull the wheelwright and Watson the miller. But charity could not always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle, and the bitterness of those who bore them ill. Only love--when it came for Cissie Brodie--could ever teach her not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place...

N Is For Noose

Bound By A Baby

Their Secret Baby - Kate Walker: Caitlin has heard nothing good about her cousin's husband, Rhys Morgan. So whendying Amelie made Caitlin guardian to her baby by another man, she saw no reason to contact him. But tall, dark, irresistible Rhys believes that baby Fleur is his daughter, and he'll use all his power and dangerous charm to get her back..."The Baby Proposal" - Rebecca Winters: Andrea is about to lose her last chance to have a baby - and so is stunned when her sexy boss Gabe Corbin proposes marriage so he can help her become a mother!They have six months to conceive - and in that time Gabe plans to prove to Andrea that he means every word of his wedding vows..."The Brabanti Baby" - Catherine Spencer: Gabriel Brabanti wants to see the baby he's been told is his daughter - so Eve Caldwell takes her to his Maltese villa. Eve's beauty captivates him - until he discovers a plot to defraud him. As Eve leaves Gabriel's house, and his bed, her heart is breaking...she's pregnant with his true heir!

Coming Home

Years ago, David Crighton went missing. Deliberately, he'd walked away from his close-knit family, beautiful homeand a scandal of his own making.Since then he's met Honor Jessop. A spirited woman with more warmth and compassion than he's ever know. But he's told her nothing of his true identity - or his dark past. Now, though, it's time for Honor to find out the shocking truth. And for the Crighton family to be thrown into turmoil.

River Of Fire

He was known as the Demon Warrior. As rebel, soldier, hero, and spy, Kenneth Wilding has never known defeat, untilhe returns from the Napoleonic wars to an empty title and a ravaged estate. Then a stranger offers a devil's bargain: financial salvation in return for Kenneth's special subversive skills. Reluctantly, Kenneth enters the household of England's greatest artist to unmask a terrible crime. But he also discovers something infinitely more dangerous: a tantalizing new way of life and an irresistible woman.After scandal destroys her trust and her reputation, tempestuous Rebecca Seaton withdraws to her attic studio and buries herself in her work. Then Kenneth Wilding sweeps into her life, dazzling her senses with his pirate's face and poet's soul. Warily, they slide into a duel of desire that brings both searing risks and shattering fulfillment, and unleashes a danger that threatens Rebecca's life--even as passion sweeps them into a river of fire that transforms their very souls...

Kafka On The Shore

fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who neverrecovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle.

The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician Imran Khan

The definitive biography of Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain and all-rounder--the Oxbridge graduate and vociferous campaigner; the devout Muslim whose kaleidoscopic social life flooded the gossip columns; the man who raised $60 million for cancer research and who is now one of the most important political figures in Pakistan. On one thing, Imran Khan's friends and enemies agree: it all began with the leopard print satin trousers. In November 1974, the "Cricketer International" published an article about the new elite group of young talented players, "into concepts like fashion and pop music," and bent on challenging cricket's eternal stereotypes. Of the five featured stars on the cover, a superbly hirsute 21-year-old wearing a tight black shirt and gaudy trousers, with a facial expression of supreme self-confidence, stood out. Imran Khan has always been a controversial figure, a man who gives rise to hot debate on account of his strong conviction and hard line views. From his achievements on the cricket field as the Pakistan captain who captured the World Cup and the game's best all-rounder in history, through to his racy social life--the practicing Muslim boogieing on the dance floor of Annabel's; an "astonishing love maker," according to one overnight partner; praised by Diana Princess of Wales, close friend to his then wife Jemima Goldsmith, as a "devoted husband"--the Imran story is full of color and contradictions.

Cross Country

While investigating a massacre-style murder, Detective Alex Cross discovers a dangerous underwold right in the heart of Washington DC. Delving deeper, he is led on a life-threatening journey to the Niger Delta, where heroin dealing, slave trading and corruption are rifeAt the centre of this terrifying world, Cross finds the Tiger, the psychopathic leader of a fearsome gang of killers who are not what they seem.As Cross tracks the elusive Tiger through Africa, he must battle against conspiracy and untold violence.Alex Cross is in a heart-stopping chase that takes him across a vast and uncompromising landscape and finds him not only hunting for a horrific killer, but also fighting for his own survival.

Year Book 2010

Day's And Nights Of Shortly Gomes

The Fertility Factor

As a nurse at the city's busiest birth center, Lara Mancini knew all about delivering babies. But what she really wanted was a child of her own, and her secretBut her biological clock was nearing its final countdown. So Lara would have to light a fire under her reticent boss and do more than steal a passionate kiss in a trapped elevator. Because she didn't just want Derek's baby -- she wanted everything that went with it, including a march down the aisle with this sexy single dad.... crush - handsome, Dr Derek Cross was ideal father material. Didn't he have an adorable 5 yr old son to prove it?

Bodily Harm

A powerful and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine, she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.

On Death Row

The Brazilian's Blackmail Bargain

Six months ago Brazilian tycoon Caleb Cameron thought he’d uncovered Maggie Holland’s plot to ruin him – by seducing him to take his mind off business deals worth millions! In actual fact Maggie was being manipulated by her cruel stepfather. What was more, she fell in love with Caleb – but he said he never wanted to see her again. However, now her stepfather has died, leaving Maggie and her mother with nothing – Caleb Cameron is the new owner of all their assets! And, as the final piece of his revenge, he’s got an offer Maggie cannot refuse: to keep their precious family home, she must become his mistress for two months!

Sinfully Sweet

Mackenzie Bliss is pleased that her sister's life has turned out so well, if only she too could have some luck! Thanks to their best she has dumped her nice-but average boyfriend, cut her hair and opened up her very own sweet shop. Now if only she could show sexy bad boy Devlin Brandt just how she's changed... Devlin is in trouble and needs somewhere to hide-out for a while and Mackenzie's apartment seems to offer all the right ingredients for exactly what he needs. The pronlem is he is dangerously close to getting himself in more trouble...of the sinfully sweet kind!

Twanged

A Week in The Hamptons can be Murder Sleuth Regan Reilly is hired as a bodyguard for singer Brigid O'Neill, a rising country star who has been receiving threatening "love notes." Brigid also possesses a "magical" Irish fiddle said to be cursed-whoever takes it out of Ireland will have an accident or face death. Still, Brigid brings it to the Hamptons, where her band will perform at a Fourth of July concert. Chappy Tinka, heir to a thumbtack fortune, and his ditzy wife, Bettina, are their hosts. Regan joins them at "Chappy's Compound," an oceanfront estate where they encounter Bettina's guru Peace Man, Chappy's bumbling sidekick Duke, a feng shui specialist obsessed with rearranging furniture-and a party guest found floating face-down in the pool. Is the curse of the fiddle real? Is there a murderer in the house? As the concert nears, the menace to Brigid grows, and Regan must discover the truth before it's too late...

The Housekeeper's Daughter

They said he needed a wife....A wife of breeding and class. But Gabe Kendrick, the first son of the revered Kendricks of Camelot, Virginia, wanted none of that. His ambitions and sense of duty had led him to follow his father's footsteps into politics. But his heart guided him to the one woman he could never have.The daughter of Kendrick estate staff members, Addie Lowe had grown up loving Gabe from afar. Social boundaries hadn't kept them from becoming friends. But now, the press threatened to turn their friendship into something tawdry -- a scandalous affair between employer and employeeGabe urged Addie to ignore the tabloids. But how long could they ignore their awakening passion for each other?

Filming

Set primarily in India and spanning the twentieth century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one-time prostitute, Durga, who is persuaded to give away her young son, Ashok, and that of Saleem, the son of a prostitute and a star of the silver screen. As these More...stories intertwine and overlap, they combine to create a novel that is simultaneously about the small details and the bigger picture, weaving together major historical events (including Partition, the assassination of Gandhi, the rise of photography and the Bombay film industry, and the development of barbed wire) with the everyday moments that make up the main fabric of our lives.

The Unbearable Lightness Of Scones

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her small son Bertie harbours a highly unsuitable ambition; the gloriously vain Bruce discovers a wrinkle and confronts rejection; and Angus finds himself facing the grave consequences of unbridled bliss, not to mention a large Glaswegian gangster bearing gifts ..

Alone In The Valley Of The Gods

Once Upone A Time In The Soviet Union

Dominique Lapierre, aged 25 and Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini, 27, two star reporters of the prestigious French newsmagazine Paris Match, obtained from Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 the extraordinary authorization to cross the ironcurtain aboard their own automobile, and to travel 13,000 kilometers on the forbidden Soviet roads.Never before had any foreigner been able to live such an adventure. In the whole of Soviet Russia, there was only one petrol pump selling high octance gasoline and no Soviet citizen had ever seen an automobile painted in two colours.From Poland to the mountains of Ural, from the villages of White Russia to the beaches of the black sea, from the Kremlin to Stalin’s birth-place in Georgia, Lapiierre, Pedrazzini and their Parisian wives discover the secret faces alarming question: how has the Soviet regime managed to convince a nation deprived of freedom that it is the happiest one on earth?Beyond its unbelievable adventure, this trip is a dive into a world that explored the history of mankind.

Skin

One evening in a bar in California, Pagan Miranda Flores finds herself pointing a gun at a drunk who promises tokeep her happy the way women deserve to be—‘barefoot and pregnant from sixteen to sixty’. That is when she decides to take a break from America, from her job and her lover, and journeys to Goa, where her grandmother Dona Gabriela lies on her deathbed. As she reacquaints herself with her Indian family, Pagan revives old relationships—and disaffections—and is drawn back into the rhythm of life in the village that she knew as a child. Until her old ayah, Esperanca, begins to tell her about the history of her family...In Esperanca’s strange and haunting stories, reality and fantasy overlap in a grand narrative of greed, passion and memory. Pagan learns of an iron-willed matriarch who mainpulated her children and their lives to preserve appearances, a slave runner destroyed by his own ambition, and a family of powerful women who kept alive the magical tradition of the African goddess in the midst of degradation.An engrossing tapestry of tales that spans three continents and several generations, Skin is an exhilarating first novel that celebrates the art of storytelling.‘At heart, each human being is a culture-crossed mongrel of history. Margaret Mascarenhas’ novel re-aligns our breath and senses to stories of Goan history that exist beneath the surface.’—Ginu Kamani‘As a writer Margaret Mascarenhas lets her imagination soar to rarefied heights, and as a reader you have to soar right along... You have not read a novel like this one before. Enjoy!’—Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, author of Tivolem

Travel Within

New Nepal New Voices

The stories in New Nepal, New Voices illustrate that Nepali writing in English is not only alive but bursting withenergy. Gone are the days of tortured metaphors borrowed from Shelley and Keats, the days of believing that the only way we could write was by mimicking the literary giants of our southern neighour. The narratives in this book are distinctively Nepali, but they also move beyond the bounaries of the parochial, landlocked Nepal and reveal a country whose physical space is as fluid as its national identity.Ajit Baral is a writer based in Kathmandu. He has contributed to Biblio: A Review of Books, Tehelka, The book Review, The Daily Star, and to several other Nepali newspapers and journals. His collection of interviewa with international writers was published in 2007. He edits Read, a quarterly book magazine and runs a publishing house called Fine Print.