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Three Weddings And A Kiss
Everyone loves a wedding...Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction - and the bestselling author who started it all - escort you down the aisle to a place of honor at four glorious celebrations of everlasting love: Lisa Kleypas shows us how true love will always win in a romance about one stubborn lady - and the persistent suitor who opens her heart.
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Remember when
Alone on a moonlit balcony at Houston's White Orchid Charity Ball, Diana Foster had no inkling of the extraordinary journey that would begin that night. Recently jilted by her fiance for a blonde Italian heiress
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Jurassic park
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures extinct for eons now roam Jurassic Park, and all the world can visit them for a price--until something goes wrong
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Slow burn
An unpretentious beauty who radiates kindness. So why are bombs igniting everywhere she goes? The first explosion brings her face-to-face with a handsome Charleston police detective. The second one sends her into the arms of her best friend
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The Death of Ivan Iiyich and Master and Man
A new translation, with an introduction and notes, by Ann Pasternak Slater. This new edition brings together the very best of Tolstoy's great short stories. The death of Ivan Ilyich and equally brilliant master and Man. Both describe the subjective experience of death meticulously and uncompromisingly. In the snowstorm-inevitable death facing a rich landowner and his peasant employee, each tracing in extremity his own spiritual path. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of morality, redemption, and life's meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. Ann Pasternak Slater, fellow and tutor in English at St. anne's college, oxford, has written and lectured on her uncle Boris Pasternak's translations od Shakespeare, and is the translator of his brother Alexander Pasternak's memoris. A vanished Present. Her grandmother loenoid pasternak was tolstoy's friend and one of his first illustrators, working with him on war and peace,resurrection and the late short story"what men live by". Includes a modern library reading group guide Joinn our modern library newsletter by sending a blank e-mail to:
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That thing called love
A male chauvinist who derives a strange kick out of cheating on his wife; A dutiful husband who waits patiently for his wife to shed her emotional baggage from a past relationship; A coquettish office receptionist who is actually a call girl; An adventourous gay who is always on the prowl for soft targets... Such indeed are some of the characters around Mayank sahai, 29, the ad-sales manager of a leading matrimony website thematchmaker.com. Mayank thus lives in disillusionment, aspiring, with diminishing hope, to fall in love in all Utopian earnestness and with his'perfect woman'. The irony eventually arises when he identifies the image of his 'perfect woman' in an older happily married woman. The dreamer in him sets aside ground realities to flow with natural impulses, leading to a dangerously complicated relationship between the woman and him. That Mayank's relationship with Revathi unfolds during the course of one Mumbai monsoon, the first that an anticipating Mayank, experiences of the city, only makes this utopia an even more surreal experience. Will Mayank's romance ever strike a balance between chimera and actuality? that thing called love is Tuhin's first novel.It explores relatioships in the contemporary, urban set-up of mumbai, in the backdrop of changing moralities... www.tuhin.in
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The Old Man & His God
People often ask me how it is that so many interesting things happen only to me. To them I reply that in life
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Malgudi Days
Malgudi Days is amoung Narayan's collection of short stories. The stories written with Narayan's simple style and characteristic gentle irony portray the variety and colour of Indian life. Narayan, in his introduction says: "I have named this volume Malgudi Days in order to give it a plausibly geographical status. I am often asked, 'Where is Malgudi?' All I can say is that it is imaginary and not to be found on any map...If I explain that Malgudi is a small town in South India I shall only be expressing a half-truth, for the characteristics of Malgudi seem to me universal." Readers cannot agree more.
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A Loving Scoundrel
Johanna Lindsey brings to glorious life her beloved aristocratic family of adventurous rogues and spirited ladies as the Malorys confront the shocking news that Jeremy, the rakehell son of gentleman pirate James Malory, has fallen in love. When Jeremy Malory hires Danny, a young woman who grew up on London's streets disguised as a boy, as his upstairs maid, he secretly intends to make her his mistress. But Danny surprises him with her dreams of becoming a refined lady and a gentleman's wife. As she transforms from urchin to elegant beauty before Jeremy's eyes, she unwittingly captivates the charming scoundrel. Now high society tongues are wagging: Who is this mysterious newcomer, and what is the truth about her past? No matter that a life-long adversary will go to any lengths to ensure Danny's downfall, Jeremy, who vowed never to succumb to matrimony, finds his resolve weakening as he pursues a woman whose strong, passionate nature rivals his own and promises the kind of challenge a Malory man can't resist.
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A Guide To Confident Living
Dr. Peale is Himself the best testament to his own slogans and beliefs free your inner powers talk out" your troubles lose your inferiority complex achieve a calm center for your life practice the power of prayer find freedom from fear and sorrow attain marital, professional, and personal happiness
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By The Pricking Of My Thumbs
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew, and Mrs Lancaster talks about
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A Pocket Full Of Rye
Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his
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After The Funeral
When Cora is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she made the day of her brother
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Spider's Web
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming.
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The White Tiger
Meet Balram Halwai, the `White Tiger` servent, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story. born in village in the dark heart of india, the son of a rickshaw puller, balram is taken out of school by his family and put ot work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables he nurses a dream of escape - of breaking away from the banks of mother ganga, into whose murky depths have seeped remains of a hundred generations.
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P.S.I Love You
Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed 'PS, I Love You'.As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing
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The Notebook
North carolina, october 1946. Noah Calhoun as recently returned from war he tries to forget the horrors he has seen and experianced by restoring and old plantation home. But though his days are spent working his nights too often give way to dreams of his past
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The Sittaford Mystery
In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six figures huddle for a s
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Third Girl
Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast of 'Brioche' and 'Chocolat' insisting she is a murderer - and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumours surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family - and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent or insane.
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The Zoya Factor
Khoda said, his voice deceptively casual,'So you think the only reason we've been winning is because you've been gracing our breakfast table before the matches, do you?" I opened my eyes very wide. 'Well , obviously,'I repiled. 'Surely you weren't thinking it was because of you?' when the yonger palyers in india's cricket taem learn that mid-level advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the exact moment that india clinched the world cup, back in '83, they are intrigued; when eating breakfast with her is followed by vistories on the feild, they are impressed; and when not eating with her results in defeat, they are convinced she's their lucky charm. Between them and the eccentric IBCC president they coax Zoya to accompany the indian team to Australia for the 10th ICC world cup on an all-expenses- paid holiday, on the condition that she breakfast with them before every match...Worshipped by her indian fans, and vilified by the other competinh teams, Zoya struggles valiantly to do her bit for indian cricket in the thick of the world cup action. It doesn't help that she keeps clashing with the erretically brilliant new skipper Nikhil Khodawala tells her flatly that he doesn't believe in luck..
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Anything for you, ma' am an IItian's love story
…As a professor in IIT delhi is busy with his love, the biobull - a revolutionary bus that will run on human discharge and provide a somewhat funny, yet, inexhaustible alternate fuel…one of his students is buey with this love, a girl thanfully. Peaceful, eh? Yup, and just the peaceful playground for Mr.Fate to stick his bally foot in...
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Trust Me
Parvati has learnt her lesson late in lefe, but she has learn't it well all men are bastards. While working in an ad film company, she had met karan, her 'Mr. Right'. Unfortunately, he turnrd out to be wrong. Her boss, the fatherly Mr Bose, is the one shoulder she can cry on. He is also the one man she never expects a from. She stands corrected. All men are bastards. Her girlfreinds manage to keep their "I-told-you-so's to themselves. Parvati quits her job, and joins the unit of Jambuwant(call me Jumbol!') sinha, assisting him in the making of his latest hindi feature film. 'Jumbo' is a typical bombay film-maker. He believes in white shoes, black money and the casting couch. Manoj, the chief assistant, makes a pass at every woman he meets because he doesn't want anybody to feel unwanted. An rahul, an actor, claims to have fallen in love with her. But parvati is older now. And smarter. But apparently not smart enough because, very incoveniently, she finds herself liking rahul too much... 'A most enjoyable read' - Geordie Greig, Editor, Tatler former Literary Editor, Sunday Times (UK) ' Terrific story...Loved the humour'- Michele Roberts Author & Former booker judge Rajashree's been a hindi film buff since she was a kid - she once stood in a line for five hours to get tickets for sholay. She has been working in Bombay after studying direction at the film and television institute of india, poona. A film shre wrotw and directed, The Rebel, won a Nationla Award and was screened at many film festivals. Trust Me is her first novel.