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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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 ..
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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.
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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
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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.
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Sepia Leaves
In the 1970s, India is reeling under Emergency and in Rourkela, a Nehruvian dream town in Orissa, a small boy isstruggling to deal with hos dysfunctional family. The arrival of a surrogate mother for Appu causes his mother's madness to take a furious turn. Years later, Appu's father dies on a summer evening in Bangalore. In the course of that night, Appu pores over letters, diaries and family albums to slowly come to terms with his mother's schizophrenia and its effect on those living under its shadow.Amandeep Sandhu was born in Rourkela and has lived in Orissa, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. He earned a Masters in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad and is currently settled in Bangalore. He has worked as a farm-hand, woollen-garment seller, shop assistant, tuition master, teacher and journalist with the Economic Times. He is currently a technical writer.
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The Story Of the World's Greatest Batsman
In the thirteen years that he has been in the public eye, Sachin Tendulkar has been explosive on the cricket fieldand Just as reticent off it. He was barely fifteen years old when he first wrote his name into the record books with a stupendous 664-run partnership with his childhood friend Vinod Kambli. Two year later, he struck his first century in first-class cricket. At eighteen, he became the second youngest man to make a hundred in international cricket, and after that there was no looking back. Records tumbled by the wayside as he captivated audiences first in his home city of Mumbai, then in the rest of India and all over the cricket-playing world. Today, Sachin is widely accepted as the world's finest batsman, with impeccable technique, an incredible array of strokes, and maturity far beyond his years. His teammates and friends swear by him, his fans worship him and there are few, if any, critics of his game or his temperamentIn this biography of the hero of Indian cricket, sports writer Gulu Ezekiel mines interviews, press reports and conversations over the last decade to create an accurate and sympathetic account of the man and his first passion: cricket. He tracks Sachin from his childhood when he first caught the bug of cricket, through his early performances in the Ranji Trophy and other domestic tournaments, and follows him on his meteoric rise to international stardom. With unfailing attention to detail, he reconstructs the crucial matches and events that marked Sachin's career and unravels for us the magic of the charismatic cricketer whom Wisden once dubbed 'bigger than Jesus'
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Rose
.When she danced, she could dream --Beautiful and talented, Rose was the apple of her father's eye. But when he is tragically taken from her, his carefully hidden secrets destroy the only life Rose has ever known -- and lead her into a world of luxury unlike any she has imagined. Rose is whisked off to a prestigious private school, while her mother falls into a hateful whirlwind of wealth and greed. But a most unlikely person will show Rose the true meaning of family -- and give her the courage to follow her dream...
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The Kouvaris Marriage
Wanted—to have his baby!Madeleine never dreamed she would marry a Greek billionaire—especially one as attractive as Dimitri Kouvaris. But after a whirlwind courtship and three passionate months of marriage, Maddie is devastated to learn that Dimitri only married her in order to conceive a child.Desperate to escape the humiliating charade of her marriage, Maddie asks for a divorce. But Dimitri is determined to keep Maddie at his side—and in his bed—until she bears the Kouvaris heir