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Gods Without Men
In the Californian desert a small, autistic child goes missing. A British rock star goes quietly mad. An alien-worshipping cult is born. An Iraqi teenager takes part in a war game. In an odd, remote town, near a rock formation known as The Pinnacles, lives and experiences intertwine, stories entangle and echo, and the search for meaning, pattern and connection in a dying universe continues.
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Devil's Gate: A Novel from the Numa Files
Kurt Austin and NUMA are back on the case A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores - when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster - when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of NUMA's Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.
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Love Stories That Touched My Heart
An anthology of moving, inspirational, heartwarming or heartbreaking, love stories shortlisted in a nation wide contest by Penguin India! Love only a four letter word, yet its so powerful that it can conquer anything in this world! Weve all experienced the first flush of love and remember the lingering fragrance of it. For ages Love has remained one of the most cherished experiences that everyone wishes to live through at least once. Humanity, time and again, has coined many definitions to describe this beautiful emotion, but this small word is a feeling that cant simply be defined. It has to be narrated . . . in the form of stories love stories. Love Stories That Touched My Heart is a collection of such stories from readers who have a tale to tell, shortlisted from over 2000 entries that were submitted in a competition conducted by Penguin India. Selected and edited by Ravinder Singh, this anthology made up of the stories that touched Ravins heart the most will make you believe that someone, somewhere, is made for you.
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Arranged Love
Suhaani is enjoying her independent status in the US and her sexy Indian American boyfriend, when suddenly she loses her job to recession. And she's forced to move back to India where her father has selected a 'boy' for her from his guitar class. Suhaani doesn't know how to tell her Internet-savvy dad and Farmville-addict mother that she's not interested in an arranged match, especially to an IlTian. She decides to dislike the guy. Except that he's not too thrilled about her either. Even when they end up working together, Suhaani decides she will not fall for this guy. But before she can turn him down, he rejects her! Find out what happens next in this racy comedy of relationships that is Arranged Love!
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Who Let the Dork Out?
From the bestselling author of Dork and God Save the Dork, comes another potential blockbuster! With just 12 months to go before the 2010 Allied Victory Games in New Delhi, there is pandemonium at the Ministry for Urban Regeneration and Public Sculpture. Specially appointed by the prime minister to oversee preparations for the Games, the ministry now find themselves in the centre of a media shit storm. Preparations are months behind schedule they had completely forgotten about Takewondo and the minister Badrikedar Laxmanrao Dahake not only has to deal with an irate PM but also with, high intrigue in the Lok Sabha, fiendish investigative journalists, and a relentless BBC reporter who insists on interviewing him live in English. Dahake is about to resign when he runs into an unlikely saviour: master strategist, media expert, and international financial wizard Robin Einstein Varghese, currently running the Delhi Lederman office.
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In the Flesh: Fifty Shades meets Mr Darcy
Fifty Shades meets Mr Darcy. A Regency spin on the classic story of an innocent heroine discovering the truth depth of her desires. Regency society already believes she's a scarlet woman. Why not become one? Beatrice Weatherly's reputation is in tatters. With scandalous pictures of her being scrutinised by the ton and her brother running them into debt, Beatrice's only hope a respectable marriage is dashed. Then powerful, wealthy Edmund Ellsworth Ritchie offers an indecent proposal: for one month of hedonistic servitude, he'll pay off her brother's debts. But nothing can prepare Beatrice for the worst, for discovering that she enjoys her degradation and delights in the dark fantasies that Edmund has awakened. In fact, she's fast becoming addicted to a life and a man that can never wholly be hers...
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The Angel: More scorching than Fifty shades
The Angel is the second book in Tiffany's Original Sinners BDSM Romance trilogy. She wanted him... Nora Sutherlin is hiding. On paper, she's following her master's orders and her flesh is willing. More deeply, more strongly than she'd wanted anyone But her mind is wandering to a man from her past, whose hold on her heart is less bruising, but whose absence is no less painful. Instead of letting him make love to her, she'd let him go. This is the story of a summer that proves that love hurts.
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Red Sorghum
The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar?nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.
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The Lucifer Code
A secret scroll remains hidden deep in an ancient sanctuary. It is guarded by a sacred order who await to unleash its true powers and bring doomsday upon mankind. Only one man - Dr. Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of ancient languages, who we first met in the bestselling novel The Atlantis Code - can safely bring this secret scroll to its rightful place in history. Lourds soon becomes the focus of a deadly manhunt, taking him from Istanbul through Eastern Europe, right to the heart of the Vatican, where the forces of good and evil will collide…
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The Race: An Isaac Bell Adventure
1910, and America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged . . . Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost - the country's leading as well as most glamorous pilot - to win. Which is why he's hired Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Josephine saw her husband Harry Frost kill a man. Now he wants her dead. And with underworld contacts ready to help in every city en route, he'll do anything, go after anyone who gets in his way - including Whiteway and Bell. Packed with brilliant twists and turns, The Race sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a killer whose resources are only matched by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a life time . .
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Reflected in You
The sensual saga of Eva and Gideon continues in the hotly anticipated follow-up to Bared to You Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction . . . my every desire . . . mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work. It was too hard, too painful . . . except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity. We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession . . .
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Sethji
Sethji is the head of the ABSP, a crucial coalition partner in the government. Shrewd, ruthless and an inveterate fighter, he is a man who refuses to play by any moral codes or lose a single battle. Easing his way is Amrita, his ravishing and aloof daughter-in-law who guards her own secrets. But when two of the country's most powerful men team up to challenge Sethji, the wily old politician has to fight the deadliest battle of his life a battle in which he must stake everything. The one person he is forced to trust is Amrita, a woman who gives nothing away, not even to Sethji. Exposing the dark, venal heart of Indian politics, Sethji is a powerful novel about ambition, greed and above all trust. Gripping, revelatory and absolutely unputdownable, this is De at her dazzling best.
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Lovetorn
When you are a sixteen year old love can be a complicated word Dear sixteen year olds of the world, Im in a crisis right now and I need your help. So, I was engaged to the love of my life. You know how it is in small towns you meet a nice boy, especially if hes from a known family, and get fixed for life. You are waiting to be together and...Bam! Your father finds a dream job and youre forced to move with your family to the US. No questions asked. It was quite awkward at first, my clothes, my hair, my accent...even my scent. I stood out friendless, weird. But things didnt remain the same for very long. I was suddenly drawn into a charity organization and then to the cutest and sweetest boy in the entire school! Tell me, can you possibly be in love and out of love at the same time? Especially, when the guy you are engaged to is certain youre coming back.
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Mistakes Like Love and Sex
From the bestselling author of Losing My Virginity and Other Dumb Ideas comes this equally exciting sequel! Cheated by her young and handsome Spanish boyfriend, Kaveri is back in India to follow a career as an artist and to find her dream man. However, getting involved with an older man, making out with the hottest star in Bollywood, teaching a hot, upcoming actress Hindi . . . her goals seem nowhere in sight. Starting afresh seems to have thrown her off completely and she begins to see the superficial life that shes been leading. Its time to take some hard decisions. With fresh hope and a new philosophy, Kaveri begins to focus on her goals. Things begin to look up when there is a kindling of romance across Twitter and shes starts to understand her true calling. She might finally be moving in the right direction!
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Tamas
Tamas drove the point home that ordinary people want to live in peace’ —The Guardian Set in a small-town frontier province in 1947, just before Partition, Tamas tells the story of a sweeper named Nathu who is bribed and deceived by a local Muslim politician to kill a pig, ostensibly for a veterinarian. The following morning, the carcass is discovered on the steps of the mosque and the town, already tension-ridden, erupts. Enraged Muslims massacre scores of Hindus and Sikhs, who, in turn, kill every Muslim they can find. Finally, the area’s British administrators call out the army to prevent further violence. The killings stop but nothing can erase the awful memories from the minds of the survivors, nor will the various communities ever trust one another again. The events described in Tamas are based on true accounts of the riots of 1947 that Sahni was a witness to in Rawalpindi, and this new and sensitive translation by the author himself resurrects chilling memories of the consequences of communalism which are of immense relevance even today. About the Author Bhisham Sahni (1915–2003) was born into a devout Arya Samaj family in Rawalpindi. He earned a master’s degree in English literature from Government College, Lahore. Upon his return to Rawalpindi, he joined his father’s import business and also began teaching, staging plays, writing stories and becoming involved in the activities of the IndianNational Congress. He later earned a PhD from Punjab University. After Partition, he and his family settled in Delhi, where he was a lecturer at a Delhi University college and took to writing more earnestly. His first collection of short stories, Bhagya Rekha (Line of Fate), was published in 1953. In 1957 Sahni moved to Moscow, during which time he translated several Russian books into Hindi, notably some works of Leo Tolstoy. He returned to Delhi in 1963 to resume teaching. He edited the literary journal Nai Kahaniyan from 1965 to 1967. Sahni was a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Tamas in 1976. He also received the Distinguished Writer Award of the Punjab government, the Lotus Award from the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association and the Sovietland Nehru Award. His writings include seven novels, nine collections of short stories, six plays and a biography of his brother, the actor and writer Balraj Sahni. Many of his books have been translated into numerous foreign and most major Indian languages. In 1998 he was conferred an honorary doctorate by the Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad and the Padma Bhushan. In 1999 he received the Shlaka Award, the highest literary award from the Delhi government.
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River of Smoke
An absolute masterpiece of twenty-first century literature from the master storyteller In 1838, the Ibis, carrying a cargo of convicts and labourers, falls victim to a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. Among the survivors are Neel, a pampered raja charged with embezzlement; Paulette, a French orphan masquerading as a deck-hand; and Deeti, a widowed poppy grower fleeing India with her lover. Also caught in the storm is Anahita, owned by the wealthy Parsi merchant Bahram Modi, which holds the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India. And the Redruth, which carries Frederick Penrose, a horticulturist determined to track down China's rare and priceless plants. They will all converge in Canton, on the edge of China, as the Opium War begins to rage.
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The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a masterful theory of the novel. Drawing on Friedrich Schillers famous distinction between nave writers those who write spontaneously and sentimental writers those who are reflective and aware Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey and looks at the works of writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul to describe the singular experience of reading. Unique, nuanced, and passionate, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.
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The Alchemy of Well-Being
Reach your inherent potential, by attuning yourself to you Each one of us wants to achieve excellence in whatever we do, but the first resistance we face may come from within ourselves. We prevent ourselves from doing our best, reaching our intrinsic worth and feeling truly well within. The key to lasting well-being is finding our accordance with self, i.e, removing our internal resistance and acting in harmony with ourselves. But how? Only our original solution (originating from within us) can provide this accordance. This practical guide, based upon nine years of research, with more than four thousand client visits, shows: Why accordance with self is a must for lasting well-being W Why only your original solution provides this accordance for you W Wnd how you build your original solution easily, from inside out
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A River Sutra
‘A River Sutra is a seminal book.’ —The Illustrated Weekly of India ‘A River Sutra . . . is a lyrical series of interlocking stories that transport the reader to a contemporary India that is also the living present of myth.’ —Vanity Fair ‘Gita Mehta’s book . . . emphasizes even more the mysteries of the East that need no confirmation from the West. A self-contained chain of stories, complete, sparkling, romantic . . . the writer has clearly reached a higher level of conscious story-telling.’ —Sunday Observer '. . . the way they (the stories) are told—the seamless flow of the narrative mirroring the flow of the sacred Narmada, the variation of the tales reflecting the changing seasons—puts the book leagues ahead of any other.’ —India Today ‘Gita Mehta’s consummate novel reflects the depth and complexity of India’s spirituality like a diamond reflects light. . . Each bewitching tale is a rivulet pouring its truth into the long river of life. A quiet masterpiece.’
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
One Hundred Years Of Solitude presents the life and times of the members of the Buendia family. The story is narrated is a non-linear fashion, i.e., the time frames and events are not arranged in chronological order. It spans seven generations of the family. The book is set in the city of Macondo, which was founded by the patriarch of the family. It presents a metaphorical picture of Colombian history. The book begins with José Arcadio Buendia, who leaves his home in Riohacha, Colombia, with his wife Ursula. Together they set out in search of an improved life and a new place to call home. One night, while they are camping on the banks of a river, José dreams of a city full of mirrors that reflects the world outside and within it. He takes it as a good omen and decides to establish such a city on the riverbank. He names the city Macondo and gradually shapes it to match his perceptions. Macondo turns out to have a mythical, magical quality that brings unusual events in its wake. These extraordinary events have a profound influence on the following six generations of the Buendia family. The adventurous spirit of the Buendia clan places it right in the midst of several significant historical events of Colombia. Youth, love, lust, senility, wealth, poverty, war, passion—the book weaves a rich tapestry of emotions and experiences that span the length and breadth of every humans’ life. In keeping with Márquez’s trademark literary style, the story blurs the lines between the magical and the mundane. Solitude, incest, and the fluid nature of time are some of the prominent themes explored in the book. One Hundred Years Of Solitude was first published in Spanish in the year 1967. Since then, it has sold over twenty million copies, and has been translated into 37 languages. It has received global acclaim and won several awards. It even earned Márquez the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1982. The credit for the English translation goes to Gregory Rabassa. This particular edition of the book was published in 1996.
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The Absolutely True Fantasies of Daydreamer Dev: D
Forever daydreaming – that’s Dev. Sitting in class or watching the clouds from the roof of Kwality Carpets, he floats off to places all over the world and has wonderful, bizarre adventures. Read the fantasies of Daydreamer Dev as he steps into worlds where the totally incredible become totally credible– and more than a little Hilarious . . . Pht-pht-pht go the fans in the classroom. Chka-chka-chka go the helicopter’s blades above Dev’s head . . . Light snow falls. A cluster of tents is abuzz with satellite phones, as journalists rush back and forth. It’s base camp at the foot of Mount Everest – and for Dev the summit awaits! Joined by the ghost of a Sherpa woman and armed with only a chocolate bar, Dev tests his wits against the world’s highest mountain. To reach those dizzy heights, he will need to survive an avalanche, brave a blizzard and pass through the Valley of Silence. Will Dev go all the way? And will he get back in time to avoid trouble?
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The Absolutely True Fantasies of Daydreamer Dev: D
Forever daydreaming – that’s Dev. Sitting in class or watching the clouds from the roof of Kwality Carpets, he floats off to places all over the world and has wonderful, bizarre adventures. Read the fantasies of Daydreamer Dev as he steps into worlds where the totally incredible become totally credible– and more than a little Hilarious . . . It’s Sunday, the best day of the week. While the boys of the neighbourhood are playing cricket on the hard, flat riverbed, Dev makes himself comfortable in the dense shade of a tree. As leaves rustle around him, a brass band strikes up and Dev finds himself at the start of a mind-boggling journey. Dev may think that tracing the famous Amazon River will be easy-going, but alligators, tarantulas, piranhas and an enormous anaconda make his journey as terrifying as it is exciting. Perhaps only a legendary boto—a dolphin pretending to be a sharp-talking young man—can help him. But can an imaginary creature really save Dev? And can he get back to his lazy Sunday afternoon in one piece?
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Want to Play?
'Outrageously suspenseful ... the thriller debut of the year' Harlan Coben In this electrifying debut, the slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to stop a sickeningly inventive serial killer striking again in a city paralysed by fear. When the two separate investigations converge on an isolated catholic boarding school, decades old secrets begin to fall away. It seems an old killer has resurfaced. Yet still the killer's real identity remains dangerously out of reach...