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The Book Of fate.
The Book of Fate gives the readers a rare insight into the lives of the Iranian Society. It gives a view of several decades of turmoil that the society went through, from the 1979 revolution, during the time of the Islamic Republic, and to the present. The story revolves around a young girl named Massoumeh and the events in her life that decide her fate. Summary of the Book Massoumeh is an ordinary teenage girl from pre-revolutionary Iran, and is a passionate learner. One day, when she is returning from school, she meets a man in her locality with whom she falls in love. Unfortunately for her, her family gets to know about this through the letters that the boy sends her, and she is beaten up by her brother. She is troubled as she has to face a life without love or education, but is asked to submit to her destiny by a neighbour. She is eventually married off to a man of political dissident, and who is also a threat to the oppressive regime of the Shah’s. When he is arrested by the secret service, Massoumeh’s life takes a turn and is now tied to the ever-changing fortune of her country. About Parinoush Saniee Parinoush Saniee is a sociologist and psychologist. She has worked as the manager of the research department in Supreme Coordination Council for Technical and Vocational Education Ministry in Iran. She has authored many novels. Her first novel was Sahme Man, and the second was Pedar-E Aan Digari. Both of these books were appreciated and popular. Other books written by her are waiting for approval by the censorship board.
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The Quest
Mankind's greatest mystery lies in wait. Civil war rages in Ethiopia. A priest waits to die in a parched prison cell, he has not seen daylight for four decades. But then a mortar shell hits the compound and the prisoner and his secret are free. Two reporters and a beautiful photographer save this wounded man, who tells them something too incredible to believe-the location of the Holy Grail. Thus begins an impossible quest that will pit them against murderous tribes, deadly assassins, fanatical monks and ultimately, themselves. The Quest is a breakneck search for an ancient legend amid a dangerous jungle war-and no ones coming out unscathed.
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The Perfect Hope
The Montgomery brothers have been the talk of BoonsBoro, ever since they decided to renovate the old Inn into an intimate and handsome new Bed and Breakfast. Beckett and Owen have both found love in the process but what of Ryder, the third Montgomery brother? Can the Inn BoonsBoro weave its magic one more time? Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out with a tough-as-nails outside and possibly nothing too soft underneath. He's surly and unsociable but when he straps on a tool belt, no woman can resist his sexy swagger. Except, Apparently, Hope Beaumont, the innkeeper of his own Inn BoonsBoro. Hope may not be perfect but could she be the perfect match for Ryder? The Inn BoonsBoro trilogy comes to a triumphant and richly satisfying close in this warm, witty and captivating novel.
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The Panther
It's one of the most dangerous and volatile countries in the world: Yemen. A Middle Eastern hotbed of corruption and insurgency and the perfect training ground for Islamic terrorists. When Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield are assigned to overseas posts in Sana'a, Yemen's capital city, they are tasked with hunting down a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative. This man, known as Othman, is wanted for terrorist acts and multiple murders...and the CIA is convinced that he is planning a spectacular attack on the Americans stationed in Yemen. John and Kate quickly realize they are latecomers to a dangerous game that has been going on for years; they don't know the rules or what the score is. What they do know is that there is more to their assignment that meets the eye...and that the hunters are about to become the hunted. In an action-packed and terrifying race to take down one of the most ruthless men alive, Nelson DeMille reunites readers with his charismatic hero John Corey.
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The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan and fast to keep her café and customers safe. YAZMINA, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul's violent streets. CANDACE, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afghan lover, the enigmatic Wakil. ISABEL, a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life. And HALAJAN, the sixty year old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the rules. As these five women discover there's more to one another than meets the eye, they form a unique bond that will for ever change their lives and the lives of many others. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul is the heart warming and life-affirming fiction debut from the author of the bestselling memoir The Kabul Beauty School.
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Con Law
John Book man Book to his friends is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's thirty-five, handsome and unmarried. He teaches Constitutional Law, reduces senators to blithering fools on political talk shows, and is often mentioned as a future Supreme Court nominee. But Book is also famous for something more unusual. He likes to take on lost causes and win. Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from desperate Americans around the country seeking his help. Every now and then, one letter captures his attention and Book feels compelled to act. In the first of a thrilling new series from the author of international bestsellers THE COLOUR OF LAW and ACCUSED, Book investigates a murder in the corrupt world of deepest, darkest Texas.
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Wave
A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief - and of learning to live with grief - that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story - the loss of her two boys, her husband, and her parents - without artifice or sentimentality. In the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger, and guilt: she struggles through the first months following the tragedy - someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself, her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she can't face; and then reluctantly emerging and, over the ensuing years, slowly allowing her memory to function again. Then she goes back through the rich and joyous life she's mourning, from her family's home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo while learning the balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and her fundamental need to keep her family, somehow, still with her.
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Double Cross
From the man the Sunday Telegraph called the 'master of the suspense genre' comes the next high-velocity thriller in the Alex Cross series - James Patterson and Alex Cross fans cannot wait to read DOUBLE CROSS. Alex Cross rejoins the DC police force to confront two of the most diabolical killers he's ever encountered. Just when Alex's life is calming down, he is drawn back into the game to confront a criminal mastermind like no other. The elaborate murders that have stunned Washington, DC, are the wildest that Alex and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. This maniac adores an audience, and stages his killings as spectacles in public settings. Alex is pursuing a genius of terror who has the whole city on edge as it waits for his next move. And the killer loves the attention, no doubt – he even sets up his own website and live video feed to trumpet his madness. And in Colorado, another criminal mastermind is planning a triumphant return. From his supermaximum-security prison cell, Kyle Craig has plotted for years to have one chance at an impossible escape. If he has to join forces with DC’s Audience Killer to get back at the man who put him in that cell – Alex Cross – all the better.
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The Hope Factory
An international event: a remarkable first novel of modern India, weaving together a rich tapestry of social manners and mores, ambition, greed, and love, which will establish Lavanya Sankaran as one of the most gifted and original writers of fiction today. Bangalore: where innocence, deceit and love collide Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that's how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these is easy to find. Kamala, Anand's family's maid, lives perilously close to the edge of disaster. She and her clever teenage son have almost nothing, and their small hopes for self-betterment depend on the contentment of Anand's wife: a woman to whom whims come easily. But Kamala's son keeps bad company. Anand's marriage is in trouble. And the murky world where crime and land and politics meet is a dangerous place for a good man, particularly one on whom the wellbeing of so many depends.
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The Water Catchers
Someone from your bloodline, your village and water are all closely linked. Counting out his days through measured buckets of water in the overcrowded, water-deprived city of Mumbai, 11-year old Chintan aka Chintu leads a somewhat ordinary life. But all of that changes when his grandfather tells him about a strange prophecy foretold by a shadow-astrologer. This starts Chintu and his grandfather off on a quest for an unknown saviour from their family, who will rescue their ancestral water-deprived village called Tintodan. Time is running out for both as the quest must end before Mansukhbhais next birthday and there a darker part of the prophecy has not yet revealed. A trip to Tintodan makes Chintu realizes that some prophecies can come true after all. A meeting with the mysterious girl called Mahi changes everyones life and her strange powers can transform the destiny of a whole village. Back in Mumbai, Chintu has secrets of his own. A run-in with the dreaded Sholay Gang at school results in an impossible challenge and Chintu is catapulted into the thick of things as he finds himself leading an inter school conservation competition that could transform his school. Do these unlikely heroes fulfil the prophecy? Can Chintu, Maahi and Mansukhbhai find the mysterious member from the bloodline and save their parched village? Does Chintus school win the competition? Does he defeat the bullies of the Sholay Gang? Read about the magic in water and how it trickles through different lives, transforming everyone who catches a drop.
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The Prisoner of Heaven
Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco's dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love, and will ultimately transform their lives.
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Third Degree
aurel Fields, perfect wife of Dr Warren Fields, living in a perfect house in a beautiful town, is pregnant. But is the baby her husband\'s - or her lover\'s? One morning she returns home and finds Warren waiting for her. When she looks down from his unshaven face, she recognises the piece of paper lying on the coffee table - a letter from her lover Danny that she\'d hidden inside a book. Then she sees the gun in her husband\'s hand. It\'s going to be a long day: for the Fields family, for Danny, for the police. Because this is not the only secret in town.
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Durbar
A revealing account of our political past that holds crucial lessons for today's India In the summer of 1975 Tavleen Singh, not yet twenty-five, started working as a junior reporter in the Statesman in New Delhi. Within five weeks, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency, suspending fundamental rights and imposing press censorship, and soon reckless policies said to be authored by the prime minister's younger son were unleashed on India's citizens. As the country suffered under the iron fist of an elected icon and her chosen heir, Tavleen observed that a small, influential section of Delhi's society people she knew well remained strangely unaffected by the perilous state of the nation. Before long, members of this circle were entrenched in key positions in the Indian government. In 1984, following Indira Gandhi's assassination, Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister, fortified by a huge mandate from a nation desperate for change. But, belying its hopes, the young leader chose for himself a group of advisors, friends and acolytes from the drawing rooms of Delhi, as inexperienced as him and just as unaware of the ground realities of a complex nation. It was the beginning of a political culture of favouritism and ineptitude that would take hold at the highest levels of government, stunting India's ambitions and frustrating its people well into the next century. Seasoned reporter and distinguished newspaper columnist Tavleen Singh's Durbar is a sharp account of these turbulent years. Describing the Nehruvian era of her childhood, the Emergency of her youth and the political shifts that followed, Tavleen writes of the birth and evolution of insurgencies in Punjab and Kashmir, the blood spilt in assassinations and massacres, of crises internal and external and the clumsy attempts to set things right. A remarkable memoir, vivid with the colour of election campaigns and society dinners, low conspiracies and high corruption, Durbar rewards us with this truth: that if India is to achieve a better future the past can no longer be ignored or forgotten.