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Lilacs Bloom in my backyard
Thirty-year-old success interior desighner Ramona Falls in love with the sauve Amit while on a holiday in the US. After their whirlwind romance and a hurrie engagement, Ramona calls the whole thing off just days before the wedding, shocking her orthodox parents. Misha is a painter by profession and her lively face never betrays that she's living in an abusive relationship. when things go out of hand, she confides in her good friend Ramona, who finds herself getting drawn towards Misha. They become quite close through the last stages of Misha's marriage And Ramona develops a strong fondness for misha's twelve-year-old daughter Aastha. One scared and the other scarred by the rough tides of marriage, the two Women discover each other anew and foster a bond to last a lifetime. Written in simple and touching prose, Lilacs Bloom in My backyard is a coming-of-age novel for the urban, professional woman. It traces the self-discovery of a women caought in the middle of tradition and modern life. New possibilities and new scents beckom her and she wants to, needs to give them a chance. the age-old ways of loving might just prove more fulfilling if she can choose who to love. Meenu mehrotra has been associate with writing for the last eighteen years. Her work has appeared in national magazines and newspaper and she has won a special mention in the Gentlemen Public service Advertising Award 1993 for her camaign on AIDS awareness. Lilacs Bloom in My Backyard in her first Novel. She Lives in Muscat.
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The Eldest
Darkness falls...Despair abounds...Evil reigns...Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the vital skills of the Dragon Rider. It is the journey of a lifetime, filled with awe-inspiring new places and people, each day a fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn. Eragon isn't sure whom he can trust. Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle back home in Carvahall - one that puts Eragon in even graver danger. Will the king's dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life...
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If success is a game these are the rules
If Success Is A Game,these Are The Rules "Another winner for Cherie Carter-Scott! Filled with wonderful stories and enlightening examples, this book effectively teaches sensible yet empowering rules for success". -STEPHEN COVEY,author,The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People "I wish I had a copy of this book when I was beginning my own company.Read and enjoy...and learn!" -JIM MCCANN,CEO,1-800-FLOWERS.COM "Success is a game and Cherie Carter-Scott has deciphered its rules.This profound yet simple handbook will tell you what you need to succeed in life". -JACK CANFIELD,coauthor,Chicken Soup for the Soul "This third installment of Carter-Scott's Rules will tell you every-thing you need to know about getting what you want.Having someone lay it out clearly is often just the little push we need to get us back on track and working toward our goals". -JOHN GRAY,author,How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have "You will find a real path to success by reading this book.If Success Is a Game,These Are the Rules tells you everything you need to know to find fulfillment in your life". -HOWARD PUTNAM,speaker,author,former CEO of Southwest Airlines
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18 best stories by Edgar allan poe
The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms. Found in a Bottle - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - The Sphinx - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Tell-Tale Heart - The Gold-Bug - The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether - The Man That Was Used Up - The Balloon Hoax - A Descent Into the Maelstrom - The Purloined Letter - The Pit and The Pendulum - The Cask of Amontillado
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Three Weddings And A Kiss
Everyone loves a wedding...Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction - and the bestselling author who started it all - escort you down the aisle to a place of honor at four glorious celebrations of everlasting love: Lisa Kleypas shows us how true love will always win in a romance about one stubborn lady - and the persistent suitor who opens her heart.
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Remember when
Alone on a moonlit balcony at Houston's White Orchid Charity Ball, Diana Foster had no inkling of the extraordinary journey that would begin that night. Recently jilted by her fiance for a blonde Italian heiress
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Jurassic park
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures extinct for eons now roam Jurassic Park, and all the world can visit them for a price--until something goes wrong
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Slow burn
An unpretentious beauty who radiates kindness. So why are bombs igniting everywhere she goes? The first explosion brings her face-to-face with a handsome Charleston police detective. The second one sends her into the arms of her best friend
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The Death of Ivan Iiyich and Master and Man
A new translation, with an introduction and notes, by Ann Pasternak Slater. This new edition brings together the very best of Tolstoy's great short stories. The death of Ivan Ilyich and equally brilliant master and Man. Both describe the subjective experience of death meticulously and uncompromisingly. In the snowstorm-inevitable death facing a rich landowner and his peasant employee, each tracing in extremity his own spiritual path. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of morality, redemption, and life's meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. Ann Pasternak Slater, fellow and tutor in English at St. anne's college, oxford, has written and lectured on her uncle Boris Pasternak's translations od Shakespeare, and is the translator of his brother Alexander Pasternak's memoris. A vanished Present. Her grandmother loenoid pasternak was tolstoy's friend and one of his first illustrators, working with him on war and peace,resurrection and the late short story"what men live by". Includes a modern library reading group guide Joinn our modern library newsletter by sending a blank e-mail to:
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That thing called love
A male chauvinist who derives a strange kick out of cheating on his wife; A dutiful husband who waits patiently for his wife to shed her emotional baggage from a past relationship; A coquettish office receptionist who is actually a call girl; An adventourous gay who is always on the prowl for soft targets... Such indeed are some of the characters around Mayank sahai, 29, the ad-sales manager of a leading matrimony website thematchmaker.com. Mayank thus lives in disillusionment, aspiring, with diminishing hope, to fall in love in all Utopian earnestness and with his'perfect woman'. The irony eventually arises when he identifies the image of his 'perfect woman' in an older happily married woman. The dreamer in him sets aside ground realities to flow with natural impulses, leading to a dangerously complicated relationship between the woman and him. That Mayank's relationship with Revathi unfolds during the course of one Mumbai monsoon, the first that an anticipating Mayank, experiences of the city, only makes this utopia an even more surreal experience. Will Mayank's romance ever strike a balance between chimera and actuality? that thing called love is Tuhin's first novel.It explores relatioships in the contemporary, urban set-up of mumbai, in the backdrop of changing moralities... www.tuhin.in
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The Old Man & His God
People often ask me how it is that so many interesting things happen only to me. To them I reply that in life
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Malgudi Days
Malgudi Days is amoung Narayan's collection of short stories. The stories written with Narayan's simple style and characteristic gentle irony portray the variety and colour of Indian life. Narayan, in his introduction says: "I have named this volume Malgudi Days in order to give it a plausibly geographical status. I am often asked, 'Where is Malgudi?' All I can say is that it is imaginary and not to be found on any map...If I explain that Malgudi is a small town in South India I shall only be expressing a half-truth, for the characteristics of Malgudi seem to me universal." Readers cannot agree more.
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A Loving Scoundrel
Johanna Lindsey brings to glorious life her beloved aristocratic family of adventurous rogues and spirited ladies as the Malorys confront the shocking news that Jeremy, the rakehell son of gentleman pirate James Malory, has fallen in love. When Jeremy Malory hires Danny, a young woman who grew up on London's streets disguised as a boy, as his upstairs maid, he secretly intends to make her his mistress. But Danny surprises him with her dreams of becoming a refined lady and a gentleman's wife. As she transforms from urchin to elegant beauty before Jeremy's eyes, she unwittingly captivates the charming scoundrel. Now high society tongues are wagging: Who is this mysterious newcomer, and what is the truth about her past? No matter that a life-long adversary will go to any lengths to ensure Danny's downfall, Jeremy, who vowed never to succumb to matrimony, finds his resolve weakening as he pursues a woman whose strong, passionate nature rivals his own and promises the kind of challenge a Malory man can't resist.
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A Guide To Confident Living
Dr. Peale is Himself the best testament to his own slogans and beliefs free your inner powers talk out" your troubles lose your inferiority complex achieve a calm center for your life practice the power of prayer find freedom from fear and sorrow attain marital, professional, and personal happiness
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By The Pricking Of My Thumbs
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew, and Mrs Lancaster talks about
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A Pocket Full Of Rye
Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his
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After The Funeral
When Cora is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she made the day of her brother
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Spider's Web
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming.
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The White Tiger
Meet Balram Halwai, the `White Tiger` servent, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story. born in village in the dark heart of india, the son of a rickshaw puller, balram is taken out of school by his family and put ot work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables he nurses a dream of escape - of breaking away from the banks of mother ganga, into whose murky depths have seeped remains of a hundred generations.
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P.S.I Love You
Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed 'PS, I Love You'.As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing
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The Notebook
North carolina, october 1946. Noah Calhoun as recently returned from war he tries to forget the horrors he has seen and experianced by restoring and old plantation home. But though his days are spent working his nights too often give way to dreams of his past
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The Sittaford Mystery
In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six figures huddle for a s
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Third Girl
Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast of 'Brioche' and 'Chocolat' insisting she is a murderer - and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumours surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family - and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent or insane.