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Malicious Medicine
It is both a cautionary report for couples seeking ART and a moving memoir of a young woman desperately seeking to be a mother.� �Anita Nair in the Foreword Married at twenty-three, Anitha Jayadevan was anxious and impatient when a year passed by and she had not conceived. Spurred by family, friends and her own sense of inadequacy and desire to have a child of her own flesh and blood, she decided to seek the help of medical science. In Malicious Medicine she recounts the story of the next eight harrowing years of her life, where words like endometriosis, spermatogenesis, varicocele, IUI and Beta HCG became part of her vocabulary, and visits to infertility clinics, blood tests and scanning in the name of assisted reproductive technology (ART) became part of her everyday existence. The treatment was painful, invasive and expensive, and the medical practitioners more often than not were callous, inefficient and unfeeling. The result was a twin pregnancy after seven long years. But the joy was short-lived as she lost both the foetuses and in the bargain nearly her life. Then, as the final act of betrayal, she discovered that all she had been was a surrogate mother. But Malicious Medicine is not just about the physical ordeal and the psychological trauma Anitha went through. It asks larger questions about the sanctity of life and the importance of ethics that separate the medical profession from an assembly line production. Anitha�s fight is not against medical science. Instead, she pleads for the institution of a code of laws to regulate the use of ART in India so that others are spared her anguish, betrayal and pain.
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Judy Moody Predicts The Future
Judy Moody has a mood for every occasion and now she has a mood ring to prove it! Judy's mood ring has Extra Special Powers, which have put Judy in a predicting mood. But when Judy wrongly predicts a 110% result in her spelling test she begins to think that all her predictions are fictions. She has one last chance to prove her psychic abilities. Is her teacher, Mr Todd, really in love? All signs point to yes.
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Avenger
SOLDIER : Many years ago, Cal Dexter was a Vietnam tunnel rat recruited to ferret out the jungle lairs of the enemy. Today, he's a small-time attorney in a sleepy New Jersey town. But Dexter's life is anything but ordinary. VIGILANTE : The beast Dexter's been hired to hunt is Zilic, a Serbian warlord cocooned in a South American compound with the best security blood money can buy. But one of the gangster's victims is an innocent American aid worker - and the grandson of a business tycoon who can afford the best revenge. AVENGER: And so the chase is on. Slowly Dexter begins to draw a net around the killer. But CIA agent Paul Devereaux must find a way to stop him before his quest for revenge throws the world into chaos...
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The Fourth Protocol
Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan that is a plan that in its spine-chilling ingenuity breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation. MI5 investigator John Preston, working against the most urgent of deadlines, leads an operation to prevent the act of murderous destruction aimed at tumbling Britain into revolution. . . .
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Paper Money
Three seemingly unrelated events occur on a single morning in London. An MP wakes up after spending the night with a beautiful young woman. A tycoon meets a leading Bank of England official for breakfast. And an underworld gang boss briefs his crew. Nothing so far to keep the tabloid editors awake. Until ambitious young reporter Kevin Hart uncovers his first promising link...'
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Judy Moody Declares Independence !
Here ye! Hear ye! Judy Moody is about to wage her own war for independence! After hearing about the American Revolution, Judy Moody's in the mood for LIBERTY and FREEDOM - freedom from her parents' rules and her pesky little "bother", that is. But Judy's plans to declare independence wind up getting her into hot water, for sure and absolute positive. Will Judy be able to prove, once and for all, that she's ready for a bit more independence? No matter who wins, readers will be cheering Huzzah! for Judy Moody.
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Doctor Judy Moody
Judy has got the Moody Monday blues - until she gets to school and finds out that her new class project is on the Amazing Human Body. That means skeletons and skulls, a trip to the hospital to see a real-life doctor, and a cloning experiment that could just create some double trouble for Judy and her friends!
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Judy Moody Saves The World !
Where would the world be without Judy Moody? This time she
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Judy Moody Get Famous !
Judy's in the mood to get famous! Good moods, bad moods, can't-stand-Jessica-Finch moods - Judy has a mood for every occasion! Right now she's in a jealous mood - jealous of Jessica Finch, who has got her picture on the front page of the newspaper. So Judy sets off in pursuit of her own fame and fortune. But all her efforts could just end up making her more infamous than ever! The latest adventures of Judy Moody are sure to put you in a very Judy Moody mood!
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Judy Moody
Get into the Judy Moody mood! Bad moods, good moods, even back-to-school moods - Judy has them all! Meet Judy, her little "bother" Stink, her best friend Rocky and her "pest" friend Frank Pearl. Reading about their madcap adventures - from putting together a "me" collage for their new teacher, to setting off in pursuit of fame and fortune - is sure to put you in a very Judy Moody mood!
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Where Rainbows End
Since childhood Rosie and alex have stuck by each other through thick and thin. But theyre suddenly seperated when Alex and his family move from Dublin to America. Rosie is lost without him. Then, just as she is about to join Alex in Boston, she gets life changing news- news that will keep her at home in ireland. Their magical connection remains but can their friendship survive the years and miles- as well as new relationships? And always at the back of rosies mind is whether they were meant to be more than just good friends all along. Misunderstandings circumstances and sheer bad luck have kept them apart- until now. But will they gamble everything- including their friendship- on true love? And what twists and surprises does fate have in store for them this time?"
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Who Will Cry When You Die?
When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice. - Ancient Sanskrit Saying Does the gem of wisdom quoted above strike a chord deep within you? Do you feel that life is slipping by so fast that you might never get the chance to live with the meaning, happiness and joy you know you deserve? If so, then this very special book by leadership guru Robin S.Sharma, the author whose The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari series has transformed the lives of thousands, will be the guiding light that leads you to a brilliant new way of living. In this easy-to read yet wisdom-rich manual, Robin S.Sharma offers 101 simple solutions to life's most complex problems, ranging from a little-known method for beating stress and worry to a powerful way to enjoy the journey while you create a legacy that lasts.
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The MODIGLIANI SCANDAL
Modigliani. Unarguably one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Modigliani's women. Those elongated, haunting figures, as eternally provocative as the Mona Lisa. And Modigliani's missing masterpiece. A priceless lost treasure - or a chillingly dangerous game?
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Faking it
Newly Returned Indian, Tara Malhotra, forced to quit her job as a finance expert and tamely follow her husband to Mumbai on a job promotion and transfer back from the States, hates every minute of it. She decides to bring some excitement into her new, bejewelled but empty, high-society life by indulging her taste for contemporary Indian art and setting up her own gallery. So when the charismatic Roy Jordan tells her about a recently-stumbled-upon work by the legendary artist Amrita Sher-Gil, she sets her heart
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Tribute
Janet Hardy was a screen legend - glamorous, brilliant and deeply troubled - and she died in mysterious circumstances at the farm. As Cilla settles in, she finds herself dreaming of the grandmother she never really knew and wondering exactly what happened to her. But someone else in the community wants Cilla to leave the past alone, and soon she becomes the target of several brutal acts. Together with her neighbour, Ford Sawyer, she must find out who is threatening her and why ...