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The Miracle (द मिरॅकल)
लूर्द फ्रान्समधलं एक छोटसं गाव. खिश्चनधर्मीयांचं पवित्र श्रद्धास्थान. एक किसानकन्या; एपीआय् या वृत्तसंस्थेची, एक सुमार रूपाची, पण बुद्धिमान वार्ताहर; एक रूपसंपन्न, निष्णात मानसशास्त्रज्ञ आणि तिचा गुणसंपन्न,देखणा प्रियकर; रशियन पंतप्रधानकीची महत्त्वाकांक्षा बाळगणारा एक रशियन परराष्ट्रमंत्री; साधी-सरळ, निष्कपट, नोकरदार ब्रिटिश महिला नि तिचा अनेक ‘उद्योग’ करणारा नवरा; एक अंध, पण रूपवान इटालियन तरुण अभिनेत्री नि तिचा क्रांतिकारक प्रियकर. वेगवेगळ्या स्वभावांच्या,व्यक्तिमत्त्वांच्या; वेगवेगळ्या थरांतल्या या व्यक्ती लूर्दला गोळा होतात आणि सुरू होतं एक उत्कंठापूर्ण , काहीशी रहस्याची छटा असणारं नाट्य. श्रद्धा, अंधश्रद्धा यांच्यांतील द्वंद्वाच्या आधारे उलगडत जाणारी कहाणी. श्रद्धेचा आणि धर्माचा ‘वापर’ आणि ‘व्यापार’ करुन घेण्याची वृत्ती सार्वत्रिकच असते. म्हणूनच ‘द मिरॅकल’ वाचून विसाव्या शतकाच्या अखेरीस मराठी वाचक आपले विचार, आपला धर्म आणि आपलं राष्ट्र यांबाबत अंतर्मुख होऊन पुन्हा एकदा नव्यानं मांडणी करील, असं वाटतं.
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The Seventh Secret
Surprising information that “proves” Hitler did not die in World War II leads British historian Harrison Ashcroft on a journey to Berlin to investigate the truth. Once there, he is killed and his murder is made to look like an accident. The investigation of Ashcroft's death brings four other people to Berlin. However, they do not know what’s in store for them as they inch closer to The Seventh Secret. Summary Of The Book An informant tells Harrison Ashcroft, a British historian, something that supposedly "proves" that Hitler lived post the World War II and had not committed suicide as was believed. This prompts him to travel to Berlin and investigate. Once he reaches there, he is murdered. However, his killing is declared an accident. This unfortunate event draws four other people to investigate his death. Ashcroft’s daughter, Emily, visits Hitler's dentist who shows her a sketch of Hitler’s necklace and a dental chart. He says that the Russians never found the necklace nor the dental crown that he had placed on his teeth a few days before the war ended. A collector of Hitler’s art, Kirvov is in possession of a painting that is believed to be an original one by Hitler himself. The painting is that of a Nazi building and has in it a depiction of a remodeled building that had in 1952, an additional part constructed. If this is an original painting of Hitler, how does it depict something added to the building’s design close to seven years after he supposedly died? Mossad agent, Levine discovers that Hitler and his wife had body doubles who normally attended personal and official engagements on their behalf. Could these doubles be the ones who died and not Hitler and his wife? Californian architect Rex Foster finds out that Hitler had not six, but seven bunkers, and that the seventh unknown one was adjacent to the one in which Hitler was believed to have died in. As they put together the pieces of this puzzle, Emily along with Foster, Kirvov and Levine stumble upon a shocking truth. What could that be? About Irving Wallace Irving Wallace was an American author and screenwriter. He has penned novels like The Celestial Bed, The Golden Room, The Writing of One Novel, Significa, and The Sunday Gentleman. Wallace was famous for his well researched novels, many of which had sexual overtones and displayed his penchant for using the definitive article in the title of novels. He particularly liked writing the stories related to outsiders. Wallace was born in Chicago on March 19, 1916, to Jewish parents Alexander Wallace and Bessie Liss. He spent his childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and studied at Kenosha Central High School. As a teenager, he began writing short stories for newspapers and soon landed a job as a screenwriter in Hollywood. After that, he moved onto writing books full-time and published his first work in 1955. Irving Wallace was married to Sylvia Wallace and was the father of author Amy Wallace and Olympic historian David Wallechinsky.
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The Seventh Secret ( द सेव्हन्थ सिक्रेट)
पावलांचा अजिबात आवाज होऊ न देता रेक्स फोस्टर त्या दारापाशी पोहोचला. दाराचं हँडल पकडून त्यानं ते हळूच फिरवलं त्याला कुलूप नव्हतं ! दाराला हलकेच फट पाडून त्यानं पलिकडे नजर टाकली. त्या दारापलीकडे खाली उतरत जाणारा एक जिना त्याला दिसला. आपण एका गुंतागुंतीच्या भुयारी तळघरापाशी येउन पोहोचलो आहोत, असंच त्याला प्रथम वाटलं पण..... दुसर्‍याच क्षणी त्याचं तोंड आश्‍चर्यानं वासलं गेलं! त्या जिन्याच्या तळाशी त्याला दुसरा एक फ्युरर बंकर दिसला ! आणि..... आपल्याला काय आढळलंय याची त्याला अकस्मात जाणीव झाली ! ज्याच्या शोधासाठी त्यानं आत्तापर्यंत जिवाचं रान केलं होतं तोच हा जगाला अज्ञात असलेला हिटलरचा गुप्त बंकर होता ! हिटलरच्या भूमिगत साम्राज्यात नेणारी जबरदस्त रहस्यमय कादंबरी ! आयर्विंग वॅलेस यांची प्रचंड लोकप्रिय ठरलेली, 'उत्कृष्ट अनुवाद' म्हणून नावाजल्या गेलेल्या कादंबरीची द्वितीय आवृत्ती.
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The Plot
f you were in a position of authority and these five came to you at the summit Conference in Paris with the details of THE PLOT, would you believe any one of them? MATT BRENNAN, once a trusted member of the state Department until his wife was shattered by accusation of treason... MEDORA HART, young, ravishing, beautiful whose involvement in a Profuma like scandal had all but toppled an English government... JAY THOMAS DOYLE, once a renowned and respected columnist, now struggling desperately to recapture his lost fame by a most dangerous expose...HAZEL SMITH, an embittered American foreign correspondent and the mistress of a man high in the inner circles of the kremlin...EMMETT A. EARNSHAW, an ex-President of the United states, fighting an all but hopeless battle against a ruthless German munitions tycoon to retain an honorable place in history...
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The Seven Minutes
A bookstore owner is arrested for selling a copy of the most obscene piece of pornography ever written." The notorious work- telling a woman's thoughts during seven minutes of sexual intercourse -is condemned not only for obscenity, but for having driven a respectable college boy to brutal rape and murder. Overnight, the trial becomes a battleground where censors and anti-censors meet in open combat. At the center of the storm is Michael Barrett, lawyer for the defense. In his struggle to save the book, the trial, and his own future, Barrett encounters a gallery of unforgettable characters -the leering producers of filthy stag films, a sexually permissive society girl, a ruthless electronics tycoon... All are caught up in this dramatic conflict over sexual freedom, perversion, nudity, obscenity, and human rights.
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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.