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The Book of a Thousand Days
This is no ordinary fairytale. The prince isn't charming, the princess is spoilt, and you certainly won't guess the ending.When the princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen, her father is so furious he locks her in a tower. She has seven long years to think about her insolence.But the princess is not entirely alone - she can take her maid, Dashti. During their captivity, clever and resourceful Dashti discovers that there is something far more sinister behind her princess's fears of marrying the prince and when, finally, they break free from the tower, they find the land laid to waste and the kingdom destroyed.
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Names My Sisters Call Me
Courtney's boyfriend has just gone down on one knee and asked her to be his wife. She couldn't be happier. And with her super-organised sister, Norah, to help her plan the wedding, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, until Courtney decides their other sister, Raine, should be invited. No one has seen or heard from Raine for six years - since she ruined Norah's own wedding and ran off with the love of Courtney's life. Convinced they should all be able to move on after so much time, Courtney gets the sisters back together again only to find that family ghosts aren't easily vanquished - and neither are first loves. Reuniting her family is going to make Courtney reconsider every decision she's made for the last six years - right down to the man she's about to marry. It's going to be one long summer...
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Six Graves To Munich
In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligenceofficer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discoverthe secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, when he has recovered fromthe appalling injuries he suffered, and determined to revenge the death of his wife atthe hands of the same men, he begins a quest to track down and kill each one of histormentors. Dark, violent, and graphic, this is an addictive thriller about how far oneman will go to exact his own justice.Written a year before Puzo completed The Godfather, published under a pseudonymand only very recently brought to light, Six Graves to Munich bears all the hallmarksof a master storyteller.
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India and the Global Financial Crisis
This collection of essays provides insights into the making of public policies across a spectrum of areas between the years 2003 and 2008, a period of rapid growth of the Indian Economy as well as extraordinary challenges for the conduct of monetary policy. It was during this period that Dr Y.V. Reddy was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He has earned universal acclaim for managing, as Governor of RBI, India's calibrated financial integration with the global economy.Ever since the financial crisis erupted in the USA in 2007 and spread to the rest of the world, there has been an interest in India's management of a financial sector that has facilitated growth and has yet maintained stability.What contributed to this situation? What was the RBI
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Something To Tell You
amal Khan, a psychoanalyst in his fifties living in London, is haunted by memories of his teens: his first love, Ajita; the exhilaration of sex, drugs and politics; and a brutal act of violence which changed his life for ever. As he and his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, sometimes comic transition to their divorced middle age, balancing the conflicts of desire and dignity, Jamal's teenage traumas make a shocking return into his present life.
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Genuine Lies
Eve Benedict is the last of the movie goddesses, a smoky-voiced sex symbol with two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers to her name. There is no secret, no scandal she doesn't know. Now Eve has decided to write her memoirs--no holds barred. All Hollywood begs her not to. But Eve has her reasons....Julia Summers is the biographer Eve has handpicked to tell her story. Transported from her quiet life in Connecticut to glitzy Beverly Hills, Julia hates the limelight but loves her work--and the home it built for the ten-year-old son she's raising alone. How can she refuse this chance of a lifetime? But Eve's elegantly sexy stepson, Paul Winthrop, will challenge Eve's determination to tell her story--and Julia's resolve to guard her heart. And as Julia learns just how far Eve's enemies will go to keep her book from publication, she also discovers that Eve has one last, dark secret to share. It is one that will change Julia's life--and could cut it brutallyshort.
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A Thing Beyond forever
What happens when life plays a trick on two innocent lovers? What happens when your first love much against all possibilities comes back to you in the most bizarre and astounding manifestation ever? Dr. Radhika Sharma, for the world outside, is an aberrant and arrogant feminist. But inside, she resides in a far-away world like a vulnerable first sketch of an artist. One night an innocuous enquiry by a nine-year-old patient coaxes her to open someone
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Tatics
What does it take to succeed in today's competitive world? Is it luck? Talent? Why do some people emerge as successful while others - who seem to work just as hard - never make it? Are special skills required? This book is based upon 50 interviews with men and women - eg, Chris Bonington, Mark McCormack, Terence Conran, Malcolm Forbes, Hans Eysenck - who have been outstandingly successful in a variety of fields. With his usual perceptiveness, Edward de Bono analyses their different paths to success, revealing that underneath their different styles and their greatly different personal qualities are a few characteristics which are common to all successful people. De Bono provides the lessons for anyone seeking success in their lives.
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What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School
Mark McCormack, dubbed 'the most powerful man in sport', founded IMG (International Management Group) on a handshake. It was the first and is the most successful sports management company in the world, marketing the likes of Andre Agassi, Nick Faldo and Monica Seles, and becoming a multi-million dollar, world-wide corporation whose activities in the business and marketing spheres are so diverse as to defy classification. Now, Mark McCormack reveals the secret of his success in this straight-talking guide to key business issues like analyzing yourself and others, sales, negotiation, time management, decision-making and communication. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School fills the gaps between a business school education and the street knowledge that comes from the day-to-day experience of running a business and managing people. It shares the business skills, techniques and wisdom gleaned from twenty-five years of experience and is guaranteed to make anyone's professional life more successful.
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Malicious Medicine
It is both a cautionary report for couples seeking ART and a moving memoir of a young woman desperately seeking to be a mother.� �Anita Nair in the Foreword Married at twenty-three, Anitha Jayadevan was anxious and impatient when a year passed by and she had not conceived. Spurred by family, friends and her own sense of inadequacy and desire to have a child of her own flesh and blood, she decided to seek the help of medical science. In Malicious Medicine she recounts the story of the next eight harrowing years of her life, where words like endometriosis, spermatogenesis, varicocele, IUI and Beta HCG became part of her vocabulary, and visits to infertility clinics, blood tests and scanning in the name of assisted reproductive technology (ART) became part of her everyday existence. The treatment was painful, invasive and expensive, and the medical practitioners more often than not were callous, inefficient and unfeeling. The result was a twin pregnancy after seven long years. But the joy was short-lived as she lost both the foetuses and in the bargain nearly her life. Then, as the final act of betrayal, she discovered that all she had been was a surrogate mother. But Malicious Medicine is not just about the physical ordeal and the psychological trauma Anitha went through. It asks larger questions about the sanctity of life and the importance of ethics that separate the medical profession from an assembly line production. Anitha�s fight is not against medical science. Instead, she pleads for the institution of a code of laws to regulate the use of ART in India so that others are spared her anguish, betrayal and pain.