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The Road to Rangoon
In 1980s Burma, the British ambassador's son goes missing.Discovered in the north of the country, Michael Atwood is in imminent danger, trapped between sides fighting a bitter civil war and with no way of getting back to Rangoon. His best hope of salvation is to trust Thuza, a ruby smuggler who offers to help him escape.Beautiful and deeply scarred, Thuza has spent her entire life in a frontier town between rebel and government forces, never choosing a side but trying to make a living from both. For Thuza, the ambassador's son is her ticket out of poverty. For Than, an ambitious military officer, exploiting those caught up in the war offers an opportunity for promotion and distinction.But as all three learn to their cost, in this exotic, enigmatic and savage country, everyone has a price.This is a tale of ambition, salvation and hope that confirms Lucy Cruickshanks as a master storyteller.
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Like a Love Song
Love is a many - flavoured thing: it can go from vanilla to rainbow sprinkles in the blink of an eye. Four years ago, Maahi�s heart was broken into so many pieces that it looked like she might never put it back together again. Yet time has healed her wounds, and she has found her true calling - and even a dash or romance. But when the past comes knocking on her door, threatening to shatter a life she has carefully rebuilt, her world is turned upside-down. What will Maahi do when she is torn between her head and her heart? Emotionally charged and vivid, Like a Love Song is about the sort of love that consumes and sears you and the healing powers of true passion.
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Flawed
The gorgeous, thought-provoking first YA novel from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern. FLAWED is set in a powerfully realised society where perfection is valued above humanity,with an intense love story at its centre. Good-girl Celestine has always agreed with the system but following an act of kindness towards one of the Flawed is herself excluded and soon she is fighting for her own survival � and for love. Hugely accessible, emotionally resonant and with a character who will seize the hearts of anyone who meets her, this is the ideal book for anyone who has ever felt the pressure to be perfect.
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Breaking Free
After Noya calls off her wedding on the big day, she decides to travel. Alone. That's when she notices Ranbir, who is insistently and coincidently touring the same places that are on her itinerary. She tries her best to avoid him - thinking him to be either someone sent by her parents or a stalker - but whenever she falls into trouble during the journey, he is always there for her. When they meet at her NGO opening ceremony in Goa, she realizes he isn't a stalker after all. With time, friendship blossoms and she learns he is about to get married. She also gets to know that his bridetobe is a moneyloving imposter and wants to reveal her true intentions. Ranbir is drawn towards Noya and confesses his feelings, but she has other plans. As Ranbir invites Noya for a trek to the Himalayas, he wonders if this could be a journey to their hearts. Breaking Free is a cocktail of emotions, with the tanginess of love, care and friendship.
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Ambling Indian
This book, a fun trip through India—with all the peculiar experiences of the country, has the ingredients to intrigue, the spice to savour, and the nuggets of reflection to delight! Meet the characters of Chand TV and Changa Times—Madam Chandni, Mr. Chatu, Mr. Raja Chata, voluptuous Ms. Kitry Kat; and the others—the boyfriend Runny Singh, Tinuji, swashbuckling Mr. Anal Manbee, Jamal and the Mangoman. Watch their lives intertwining with the young and lively Ambling Indian’s, as they navigate through the lanes, bylanes, gallis, and mohallas that make up much of India. Coast through Bollywood, the elite Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institutes of Management—hallowed Oxbridges of the East; weddings, politics, and modern offices. Duck and dive as you avoid the cows, potholes, and street dogs. Celebrate the functions and everything else that is the substance of modern India; chaotic yet captivating. Sit back, brace yourself for a quirky, rollicking auto rickshaw ride, and lose yourself in time as you travel with the aam aadmi (the common man). Discover an India like you have never seen before— through the mirror of the Ambling Indian, Aina; who discovers an unknown side of herself too.
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Love Forever @ Rajpath
True love can blossom anywhere, in a government set-up too and can be as permanent as the job itself. Shalini, a government employee, strongly feels that there is no point in getting married and joining the brigade of abused wives. Till she is swept off her feet by Kartik, a dynamic colleague from Bihar. Just when her faith in the system of love and marriage is rekindled and at its peak, Kartik goes missing. Her search for him reveals some dark secrets about Zabaria Shaadi still existing in Bihar, where eligible boys are abducted or forced for marriage. A love story at its core, Love Forever @ Rajpath highlights the predicaments of a girl on the verge of losing her most precious relationship. It also reflects the inner turmoil of a young boy sandwiched between age-old traditions and his own liberated opinions. Will Shalini be able to save her relationship? Will Kartik acknowledge her efforts or will he abandon her for the sake of his family?
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You Are Not Alone In This
When life takes a difficult turn, will your friends help? Daksh is a successful author. He has a loving wife, money, status - everything except a child. So when he meets his childhood friend Mahesh and his daughter, he is overjoyed. But his happiness is short-lived - he learns that Mahesh�s follies have thrown his family apart. Daksh wants to help his friend, more so for the sake of his little daughter. However, soon they are sucked into a racket of cheating, lies and deceit. And things are not as easy to sort as they first thought. You Are Not Alone in This is the story of the true test of friendship.
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Lady Midnight
The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The dark artifices, a sequel to the Internationally bestselling mortal instruments series. Lady midnight is a shadowhunters novel. It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions Making things even more complicated, Julian's brother Mark-who was cap-tured by the faeries five years ago-has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind-and they need the Shadowhunters' help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn't recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it? Glitz, glamours and Shadow hunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare's Dark Artifices series .
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Mossad
The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service For decades, Israel's renowned security arm, the Mossad, has been widely recognized as the best intelligence service in the world. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's 60-year history. These are real, true Mission: Impossible stories brimming with high-octane action - right from the breath-taking capture of Nazi executioner Adolph Eichmann to the recent elimination of key Iranian nuclear scientists. If you are fascinated by the world of international espionage, intelligence, and covert "Black-Ops" warfare, then you will definitely find that the Mossad makes for some electrifying reading. Michael Bar-Zohar has fought in four Israeli-Arab wars, spent nine years beside David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founder, become a fervent supporter of peace between Israel and her neighbours and served two terms in Parliament. He has written over 30 books and also won several major awards for his screenplays. Nissim Mishal is one of the foremost TV personalities in Israel and the Director-General of Israeli state television. Apart from writing best-selling books about the history of Israel he has also co-authored a book on two thousand years of Judaism.
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Cometh The Hour
#1 number series on the Sunday Times bestseller list showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves,from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him,or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Nadira, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. Harry's wife Emma convinces her new friend Margaret Thatcher to raise the subject with the Russian President when she visits Moscow. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.
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The Revenant
The book that inspired the movie The novel that inspired Alejandro Gonzalez I��rritu�s epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Blood lost. Life found. Hugh Glass isn't afraid to die. He's done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823 When expert tracker Glass is viciously mauled by a bear, death seems inevitable. The two men ordered to remain with him until he dies flee, stripping him of his rifle and hatchet and leaving him to die alone. But soon a grim, horribly scarred figure is seen wandering, asking after two men, one with a gun that seems too good for him the revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.
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The PCOD-Thyroid Book
Don't blame it on the hormones. As women, it has always been up to us to leave behind the heritage of health, just like your grandmother did for your mother and everyone in the family. But it's not easy to leave behind a legacy of health and harmony - we must first create that in our lives. That requires making time for ourselves, be it for exercise, to eat right, or simply to nap. This book is about taking charge of ourselves, thanking our bodies and making peace with the fact that it's not the hormones, it's us. What can we do about our food, sleep, exercise and relationships that will make us feel good, help us overcome the conditions of PCOD and Hypothyroid and most importantly get off drugs and stay off them for good.
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Mistletoe Brides
talian Doctor, Sleigh-Bell Bride Gorgeous single mum Liv Winchester has avoided men since her ex left her - and consultant Stefano wants to change that. Showering Liv with diamonds won�t be enough but Stefano is determined to make Liv his Christmas bride! Christmas angel for the billionaire lady roseanne napier needs a break from being innocent for just one week, so she�s trading places with a lookalike! Who is the real lady rose? Only brooding billionaire George Saxon can find out His Vienna Christmas Bride The only woman Adam Thorne has ever loved has proposed marriage to pacify her dying father� and Adam finally has the chance to take revenge on Jasmine Cooper. But the tycoon�s ruthless plan soon falters in the heat of holiday passion.