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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.
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One Afternoon
Fiery, naïve, unconventional, silly-Ria rathore is one eighteen year-old who has strutted through her well-heeled life brimming with confidence. In a conservative city like Ahmedabad she oftern ran the risk of being branded 'improper'. With a father who spoils her silly, Ria alwaya got what she wanted until she comes across Radha Chatterjee, her English professor at Spencer college... A firebrand intellectual and free spirit, Radha Chatterje is just the person who is unaffected by Ria's many wiles and does not give her enigamatic professor, Ria loses interest in her freinds and college till fate rolls out the dice one afternoon and changes the course of her otherwise predictable life. As she heads out on this untrddeon path, she experiences the many facets of life - love, heartbreak and realisation. One afternoon is a poigant bildungsroman of a bratty teengaer's journey to womanhood. Roma Bansal majories in psychology and has been freelancing with the Times of India for the past three years. She is a former all india national champion in speed skating and enjoys sports of any kind.
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Death Of A Blue Movie Star
Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She plans to film it through the eyes of Shelly Lowe, the porn star whose movie was playing at the theater when it exploded. But just hours after Rune films a poignant Shelly reflecting on her dreams of becoming a serious actress, a second bomb silences the beautiful film star forever. Was Shelly in the wrong place at the wrong time--or was she the bomber's target all along? Rune vows to find out the truth behind the death of this blue movie star. But as she struggles to finish shooting her film, Rune's labor of love may be her final masterpiece--as a shooting of a more lethal kind threatens to write an ending to this story that no one wants to see...
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The Courtship
You met Heatherington in The Sherbrooke Bride and Helen Mayberry in Mad Jack. Now the two get together to track down a mystical treasure that Helen calls King Edward's Lamp. Helen is a big girl -- only two inches shorter than Heatherington -- a resolute taskmistress, owner of her own inn. She adores her father, Lord Prith, and wants to find the lamp more than anything. It is her only passion -- until she meets Heatherington. Spenser Heatherington, Lord Beecham, enjoys Helen's pursuit of him. He is a renowned womanizer, a resolute bachelor, and really enjoys his life. When she throws him to the ground and sits on him, and he finally admits that he will succumb to her, she informs him, to his chagrin, that she doesn't want a lover, she wants a partner. But things work out a bit differently than either of them expect. Indeed, Heatherington, unused to being thwarted, takes drastic steps to change his "big girl's" mind. Do they find Helen’s lam? Is there more to this treasure than either of them knows?
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The Innocent Man
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa.In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row.If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
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The Guest Of Honour
If He Had been just another married man, and she a beautifull women it would have been just a passionate affair. But he was the president.
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The Mimic Men
Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.