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The Getaway God

Sandman Slim must save himself and the entire world from the wrath of some enraged and vengeful ancient gods in this sixth high-octane adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. Being a half-human, half-angel nephilim with a bad rep and a worse attitude, not to mention temporarily playing Lucifer-James Stark aka Sandman Slim has made a few enemies. None, though, are as fearsome as the vindictive Angra Om Ya-the old gods. But their imminent invasion is only one of Starks problems right now. L.A. is descending into chaos, and a new evil-the Wildfire Ripper-is stalking the city. No ordinary killer, The Ripper takes Stark deep into a conspiracy that stretches from Earth to Heaven and Hell. Hes also the only person alive who may know how to keep the world from going extinct. The trouble is, hes also Starks worst enemy, the only man in existence Stark would enjoy killing twice.

Saint Odd

The carnival has returned to Pico Mundo, the same one that came to town when Odd was just sixteen. Odd is drawn to an arcade tent where he discovers Gypsy Mummy, the fortune-telling machine that told him that he and Stormy Llewellyn were destined to be together forever. But Stormy is dead and Pico Mundo is under threat once more. History seems to be repeating itself as Odd grapples with a satanic cult intent on bringing destruction to his town. An unseasonal storm is brewing and as the sky darkens and the sun turns blood-red, it seems that all of nature is complicit in their plans. Meanwhile Odd is having dreams of a drowned Pico Mundo, where the submerged streetlamps eerily light the streets. But theres no way Pico Mundo could wind up underwater, could it?

McCluskieganj

After living in Hong Kong upto the age of twenty, Robin McGowan undertakes a trip to India to the village his father always told him about. McKluskiegunj, an agricultural haven formed in the early 1940s for the Anglo-Indians to live in. But on his arrival, he witnesses that the village is no longer the idyllic home of his father's childhood, it is overrun by outlaws and riddled with politicking, land mafia and conflicts between the various tribes and Anglo-Indians who used to coexists peacefully in the past. A story about the search for home and beauty and the struggle repair life, Mckluskiegunj is an extraordinary novel about memory, displacement and the unflagging desire to belong.

Acharya Mahapragya A Journey to Wisdom

Acharya Mahapragya (1920-2010) -- the tenth acharya of the Jain Swetambar Terapanth -- was a divine presence. One of the most revered Jain thinkers, he was often hailed as a 'modern Vivekananda'. He delved deep into the inner world and devised Preksha Meditation, a scientifically tested system to know the self. He was also a scholar of Indian and Western philosophy and religion, a prolific writer and the brain behind the Jain Vishva Bharati University. Born in a village in Rajasthan, he became a monk at the age of ten and received his education under Acharya Tulsi, who launched the Anuvrat Movement in 1949 to rid the world of hatred. Acharya Mahapragya himself undertook the Ahimsa Yatra in 2001, traversing more than 1,00,000 km on foot. This remarkable feat at the age of eighty-one won him the Communal Harmony Award in 2004. Acharya Mahapragya: A Journey to Wisdom traces his growth from little Nathmal, who would fly into a rage and refuse to eat, to his asceticism, which earned him the name of Mahapragya -- the very embodiment of wisdom and inner peace. It offers insights into his thoughts on science and spirituality, and the philosophy of anekanta. It is a much-needed examination of a towering figure whose relevance is not confined to the faith he belonged to.

Best Indian Short Stories - Volume-2

This volume of short stories selected by Khushwant Singh is an excellent collection of stories written by several Indian authors who have made a name for themselves in their regional languages as well as in English. Khushwant has carefully selected some of the best told tales from across the country, stories that bring out the essence of our tradition and also express human emotions that are not confined by time and boundaries. Some of the titles chosen for this collection are written by people like Kamala Das, M. J. Akbar, Mulk Raj Anand, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Margaret Bhatty, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Suresh Chopra, Manoj Das, K. S. Duggal, Krishan Chander, Ismat Chugtai, Colleen Gantzer, Hugh Gantzer, Wendy Fernandes, and Balwant Gargi.

Hubris : Why Economists Failed To Predict The Cris

The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate the impact of the ensuing recession has spurred a public outcry. Economists are under fire, but questions concerning exactly how to redeem the discipline remain unanswered. In this provocative book, renowned economist Meghnad Desai investigates the evolution of economics and maps its trajectory against the occurrence of major political events to provide a definitive answer. Desai underscores the contribution of hubris to economists' calamitous lack of foresight and he makes a persuasive case for the profession to re-engage with the history of economic thought. He dismisses the notion that one over arching paradigm can resolve all economic eventualities while urging that an array of already available theories and approaches be considered anew for the insights they may provide toward preventing future economic catastrophes. With an accessible style and keen common sense, Desai offers a fresh perspective on some of the most important economic issues of our time.

In The Skin Of A Jihadist : Inside Islamic State's

Anna Erelle is the undercover journalist behind Melodie.Created to investigate the powerful propaganda weapons of Islamic State, Melodie is soon sucked in by Bilel, right-hand man of the infamous Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.An Iraqi for whose capture the US government has promised $10 million, al-Baghdadi is described by Time Magazine as the most dangerous man in the world and by himself as the caliph of Islamic State. Bilel shows off his jeep, his guns, his expensive watch. He boasts about the people he has just killed.With Bilel impatient for his future wife, Melodie embarks on her highly dangerous mission, which - at its ultimate stage - will go very wrong. Enticed into this lethal online world like hundreds of other young people, including many young British girls and boys, Erelles harrowing and gripping investigation helps us to understand the true face of terrorism.

To The Farthest Rock

In 1952, at the age of twenty-seven, Mohan Rakesh undertook a journey to south India, travelling by bus, train and steamer along the western coast from Bombay to Kanyakumari. Young and ardent, he dreamt of the wide expanse of sea that would make up for a childhood spent in Amritsar’s narrow lanes, and had visions of comely guides who would look kindly upon his wandering. But once he set out from Delhi on a train to Bombay, his visions slipped away and complex reality took over. To the Farthest Rock is a remarkable account of the hope and despair that characterized post-Independence India. Rakesh had only published a few short stories when he quit a teaching job in Shimla in order to travel, but readers who know his later work will recognize his skill with portraits of people and his exceptional ability to render fluctuations of feeling. Set against the verdant coastal landscape of Goa and Kerala, this absorbing travelogue is a fine introduction to the mind of one of Hindi’s greatest novelists and playwrights.

When The Moon Is Low

In Kabul we meet Fereiba, a schoolteacher and her husband, Mahmoud, a man whose love for her was greater than any love shed ever known. But Fereibas middle class world of education, work and comfortable family life implodes when the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new regime and is murdered by local henchmen. Forced to flee Taliban controlled Kabul with her three children,Fereiba has only one option - find a way to cross Europe and reach her sisters family in England, who have offered them asylum. With forged papers and help from kind strangers, they cross the mountains into Iran by night. Exhausted and brokenhearted but undefeated, Fereiba manages to smuggle them as far as Greecebut in a busy market square, their fate takes another turn for the worse when her teenage son Saleem becomes separated from the rest of the family. Faced with an almost unimaginable choice, Fereiba makes the desperate decision to continue on to London with her daughter and baby while Saleem falls into the shadowy underground network of undocumented Afghans who haunt the streets of Europe s capitals. From the refugee camps of Greece, through Rome and even Paris, Fereiba and Saleem struggle to reunite, to survive and to find a place where they can begin to reconstruct their lives. Like The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, this is a heartfelt revelation of a novel, extremely readable and thought-provoking, with characters who haunt the reader long after the last page is turned. And yes, like Pearl, this is a page-turner that ends happily.

The Show

Childhood Betrayed Child Abuse and Neglect in Ind

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child. No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent. Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child. Maria Montessori In India, where even stones and trees are worshipped, children are routinely beaten, neglected and abused. Daily news is rife with stories of abuse and neglect, often perpetrated in the name of discipline or protection. The Nithari case, female foeticide, instances of child marriage and the sexual abuse of minors the statistics are frightening. Lakhs of children are robbed of childhood and India is doing little to remedy that. While the government now acknowledges education and nutrition as the essential entitlements of children, there has been little legislation or initiative to safeguard their most fundamental rights. Child protection is still nowhere on the nations radar. Loveleen Kacker distilled several years of research to write this cogent and powerful volume on why child abuse and neglect happens and how it affects children in India. She examines physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as well as maltreatment, especially of the girl child. Bringing real-life instances and case studies together with Kackers own work on the rights of children, this is a guide for parents, policy makers, schoolteachers, paediatricians, childcare specialists indeed, anyone with a stake in the welfare of minors. A timely and much-needed addition to the literature on child rights, Childhood Betrayed is also a call for change nay a call to arms.

Rest In Peace Ravan & Eddie

The 3Rd Woman

She cant save her sister Journalist - Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her own sisters murder. She cant trust the police - Madison refuses to accept the official line that Abigails death was an isolated crime. She uncovers evidence that suggests that Abi was the third victim in a series of killings thats been hushed up as part of a major conspiracy. She can exposethe truth - In a United States that has yielded to the Peoples Republic of China, corruption is rife - the government dictates what the truth is. With her life on the line, Madison must give up the story or face the consequences.

The 6Th Extinction

A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command - Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated - every animal, plant and insect, even bacteria. The land is entirely sterile and the blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice. From millennia old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date - stopping the coming extinction of mankind. But is it already too late?

The English Spy

She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. When a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer - legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. Gabriels target is Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. Fortunately Gabriel does not pursue him alone, at his side is Christopher Keller, a British commando turned professional assassin who knows Quinns murderous handiwork all too well. And though Gabriel does not realize it, he is stalking an old enemy - a cabal of evil that wants nothing more than to see him dead. Gabriel will find it necessary to oblige them, for when a man is out for vengeance, death has its distinct advantages.

The Bone Tree

Former prosecutor Penn Cage faces the crisis of a lifetime. His family has been torn apart and his father made a fugitive after being accused of murdering an African-American nurse. Now, Penn has unwittingly started a war with the Double Eagles, a violent faction of the KKK who know more about Dr. Tom Cage than Penn ever did. Tracking his father through Natchez and beyond, Penn is targeted by criminals and corrupt police whose power reaches the top levels of state government - people who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from coming out. To clear Toms name, Penn must either make a deal with the devil or destroy him. But there are others pursuing a different mission - one which will lead them to the Bone Tree, a legendary killing site that conceals far more than the remains of the dead.

Gaata Rahe Mera Dil

Look behind the scenes of fifty celebrated songs, from an estimated repository of over one lakh! 'De de khuda ke naam pe' - When Wazir Mohammed Khan sang these words in India's first talkie, Alam Ara, he gave birth to a whole new industry of composers, lyricists and singers, as well as an entirely new genre of film-making that is quintessentially Indian: the song-and-dance film. In the eight decades and more since then, Hindi film songs have enraptured listeners all over the world. From 'Babul mora, naihar chhooto jaye' (Street Singer, 1938) to 'Dil hai chhota sa' (Roja, 1992), from the classical strains of 'Ketaki gulab' (Basant Bahar, 1956) featuring Bhimsen Joshi to the disco beats of Nazia Hassan's 'Aap jaisa koi' (Qurbani, 1981), from the pathos of 'Waqt ne kiya' (Kaagaz Ke Phool, 1959) to the exuberance of the back-to-back numbers in Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977), here is an extraordinary compilation, peppered with trivia, anecdotes and, of course, the sheer joy of music. Find out answers to questions like - With which unreleased film did Kishore Kumar turn composer? In which song picturization was dry ice first used? Which all-time classic musical was initially titled Full Boots? Where was the title song of An Evening in Paris shot? The idea for which song originated when the film-maker visited Tiffany's in London? Which major musical partnership resulted from the celebrations around an award function for a commercial jingle for Leo Coffee? How many of your favourites find mention here? Make your own list!

Unfinished Tales

Published posthumously by Tolkien's youngest son, The Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth tells the stories of how Gandalf found Bilbo and how he decided to send the Dwarves of Erebor to him. It also tells the story of Aldarion and Erendis, one of the most moving love stories to be found in Tolkien's fantasy setting. Illuminating on subjects hitherto untouched such as the identities of the five Istari who would later be known as Wizards, the Palantiri and their making, the legend of Amroth and the coming of the sea god Ulmo before Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, this is a collection any Tolkien fan would not want to miss.

Me, Mia, Multiple

Killing yourself should be easy, right? Pop a few sleeping pills, lie on a railway track and let the train do the rest of the work. Neat, swift, painless. Yet dramatic. What could possibly go wrong with Jeevan Raikar's plan? Well, this - a girls' night out happening at the graveyard next door, starring a vodka-swilling blackmailer and her dead mother. And so, Jeevan - who ought to be dead by now, mind you - is stuck with bubbly Mia, raging Tanya and sensuous Alisha. Which might seem like an enviable situation to be in, but for one tiny catch. They are all the same person. Me, Mia, Multiple is a debut that cares little for convention - a romance with a twist, a twisted romance, a romantic twister. Whatever you want to call it, you'll tear through it with sheer pleasure.

The Prince And The Guard (The Selection Stories)

Two captivating Selection stories - The Prince and The Guard plus an early sneak peek at The One, Q&A with Kiera Cass and moreThe Prince - Before America arrived at the palace to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxons life. A captivating view into the heart of Prince Maxon before he fights to win America Singers love.The Guard- Raised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would find himself living in the palace as a member of the royal guard.An inside look at Aspens life within the palace walls - and the truth about a guards world that America will never know.

The Heir (The Selection Series #4)

Kiera Casss #1 New York Times bestselling selection series has enchanted readers from the very first page. In this fourth romantic novel, follow Illeas royal family into a whole new Selection - and find out what happens after happily ever after. Eighteen years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxons heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a selection of her own. Eadlyn doesnt expect her selection to be anything like her parents fairy-tale love storybut as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isnt as impossible as shes always thought.

The One (The Selection Series #3)

For the four girls who remain at the palace, the friendships theyve formed, rivalries theyve struggled with and dangers theyve faced have bound them to each other for the rest of their lives. Now, the time has come for one winner to be chosen. America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown - or to Prince Maxons heart. But as the competition approaches its end and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realises just how much she stands to lose - and how hard shell have to fight for the future she wants. The breathtaking third title in the selection series will make you swoon!

The Elite (The Selection Series #2)

America Singer will leave her pre-destined life for a world of glamour and luxury, if she wins. But surviving The Selection is tough. Rivals are battling to become Prince Maxons bride as the threat of rebel violence just beyond the palace walls escalates into war. Only six girls are left and sworn friendships are tested to breaking point. Americas feelings for Maxon grow stronger, but she suspects darker mysteries in his royal past. With exlover Aspen waiting for her in the shadows, where do her loyalties truly lie?

The Selection (The Selection Series #1)

Its the chance of a lifetime and 17-year-old America Singer should feel lucky. She has been chosen for The Selection, a reality TV lottery in which the special few compete for gorgeous Prince Maxons love. Swept up in a world of elaborate gowns, glittering jewels and decadent feasts, America is living a new and glamorous life. And the prince takes a special interest in her, much to the outrage of the others. Rivalry within The Selection is fierce and not all of the girls are prepared to play by the rules. But what they dont know is that America has a secret - one which could throw the whole competition and change her life forever.