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The Zoya Factor
Khoda said, his voice deceptively casual,'So you think the only reason we've been winning is because you've been gracing our breakfast table before the matches, do you?" I opened my eyes very wide. 'Well , obviously,'I repiled. 'Surely you weren't thinking it was because of you?' when the yonger palyers in india's cricket taem learn that mid-level advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the exact moment that india clinched the world cup, back in '83, they are intrigued; when eating breakfast with her is followed by vistories on the feild, they are impressed; and when not eating with her results in defeat, they are convinced she's their lucky charm. Between them and the eccentric IBCC president they coax Zoya to accompany the indian team to Australia for the 10th ICC world cup on an all-expenses- paid holiday, on the condition that she breakfast with them before every match...Worshipped by her indian fans, and vilified by the other competinh teams, Zoya struggles valiantly to do her bit for indian cricket in the thick of the world cup action. It doesn't help that she keeps clashing with the erretically brilliant new skipper Nikhil Khodawala tells her flatly that he doesn't believe in luck..
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Anything for you, ma' am an IItian's love story
…As a professor in IIT delhi is busy with his love, the biobull - a revolutionary bus that will run on human discharge and provide a somewhat funny, yet, inexhaustible alternate fuel…one of his students is buey with this love, a girl thanfully. Peaceful, eh? Yup, and just the peaceful playground for Mr.Fate to stick his bally foot in...
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Trust Me
Parvati has learnt her lesson late in lefe, but she has learn't it well all men are bastards. While working in an ad film company, she had met karan, her 'Mr. Right'. Unfortunately, he turnrd out to be wrong. Her boss, the fatherly Mr Bose, is the one shoulder she can cry on. He is also the one man she never expects a from. She stands corrected. All men are bastards. Her girlfreinds manage to keep their "I-told-you-so's to themselves. Parvati quits her job, and joins the unit of Jambuwant(call me Jumbol!') sinha, assisting him in the making of his latest hindi feature film. 'Jumbo' is a typical bombay film-maker. He believes in white shoes, black money and the casting couch. Manoj, the chief assistant, makes a pass at every woman he meets because he doesn't want anybody to feel unwanted. An rahul, an actor, claims to have fallen in love with her. But parvati is older now. And smarter. But apparently not smart enough because, very incoveniently, she finds herself liking rahul too much... 'A most enjoyable read' - Geordie Greig, Editor, Tatler former Literary Editor, Sunday Times (UK) ' Terrific story...Loved the humour'- Michele Roberts Author & Former booker judge Rajashree's been a hindi film buff since she was a kid - she once stood in a line for five hours to get tickets for sholay. She has been working in Bombay after studying direction at the film and television institute of india, poona. A film shre wrotw and directed, The Rebel, won a Nationla Award and was screened at many film festivals. Trust Me is her first novel.
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One Afternoon
Fiery, naïve, unconventional, silly-Ria rathore is one eighteen year-old who has strutted through her well-heeled life brimming with confidence. In a conservative city like Ahmedabad she oftern ran the risk of being branded 'improper'. With a father who spoils her silly, Ria alwaya got what she wanted until she comes across Radha Chatterjee, her English professor at Spencer college... A firebrand intellectual and free spirit, Radha Chatterje is just the person who is unaffected by Ria's many wiles and does not give her enigamatic professor, Ria loses interest in her freinds and college till fate rolls out the dice one afternoon and changes the course of her otherwise predictable life. As she heads out on this untrddeon path, she experiences the many facets of life - love, heartbreak and realisation. One afternoon is a poigant bildungsroman of a bratty teengaer's journey to womanhood. Roma Bansal majories in psychology and has been freelancing with the Times of India for the past three years. She is a former all india national champion in speed skating and enjoys sports of any kind.
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Death Of A Blue Movie Star
Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She plans to film it through the eyes of Shelly Lowe, the porn star whose movie was playing at the theater when it exploded. But just hours after Rune films a poignant Shelly reflecting on her dreams of becoming a serious actress, a second bomb silences the beautiful film star forever. Was Shelly in the wrong place at the wrong time--or was she the bomber's target all along? Rune vows to find out the truth behind the death of this blue movie star. But as she struggles to finish shooting her film, Rune's labor of love may be her final masterpiece--as a shooting of a more lethal kind threatens to write an ending to this story that no one wants to see...
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The Courtship
You met Heatherington in The Sherbrooke Bride and Helen Mayberry in Mad Jack. Now the two get together to track down a mystical treasure that Helen calls King Edward's Lamp. Helen is a big girl -- only two inches shorter than Heatherington -- a resolute taskmistress, owner of her own inn. She adores her father, Lord Prith, and wants to find the lamp more than anything. It is her only passion -- until she meets Heatherington. Spenser Heatherington, Lord Beecham, enjoys Helen's pursuit of him. He is a renowned womanizer, a resolute bachelor, and really enjoys his life. When she throws him to the ground and sits on him, and he finally admits that he will succumb to her, she informs him, to his chagrin, that she doesn't want a lover, she wants a partner. But things work out a bit differently than either of them expect. Indeed, Heatherington, unused to being thwarted, takes drastic steps to change his "big girl's" mind. Do they find Helen’s lam? Is there more to this treasure than either of them knows?
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The Innocent Man
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa.In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row.If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
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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.
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The Mimic Men
Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.
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Blithe Images
Beneath her sophisticated beauty, fashion model Hillary Baxter was still just a small-town girl from Kansas. How could she be expected to resist the devastating charm of her new employer, mesmerizing magazine mogul Bret Bardoff? Bret knew all the moves, all the right things to say to leave a woman defenseless. But as he discovered the alluring innocence behind Hillary's world-famous face, it was Bret who was left defenseless...against the pull of his own heart
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The Search
He strikes without warning.He kills without mercy.He's only just begun. As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is not like the others. This time Sarah is being forced to take part in a deadly mission ... by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation. Billionaire John Logan's top-secret venture has been sabotaged, its facilities destroyed, and its handpicked staff massacred. The sole survivor is being held for ransom. Logan knows that the only way to save the man -- and the secrets he holds -- is to find him as soon as possible. Sarah is furious when she is strong-armed into joining Logan on his search. And once she takes the perilous assignment, not even Logan's promises that she and Monty will be safe may be enough to protect them. Because a killer is devising a sadistic vengeance ... and he may soon find use for Sarah.
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Final Target
Melissa Riley arrives at her sister’s isolated Virginia country home to find herself plunged into a deadly drama. There the renowned Dr. Jessica Riley is attempting to draw the daughter of the President of the United States out of a severe catatonic trauma. The last thing young Cassie Andreas saw was an organized team ruthlessly murder her nanny and the Secret Service agents sworn to protect her. But to free Cassie, Melissa and Jessica must trust a mysterious, charismatic man.Michael Travis made his fortune in the international underworld. He risked everything to save Cassie during that terrible night of bloodshed. And he has entered into a secret bargain with the President. But is his show of concern all a treacherous charade? Melissa and Jessica have no choice but to accept Travis as their ally—and to follow a dangerous plan that will lead them into the world of a killer who’ll destroy anyone standing between him and the...Final Target.
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A Certain Justice
Although A Certain Justice begins with news of a murder, the victim isn't set to die for another four weeks. Publicly respected but privately loathed, Venetia Aldridge has far more enemies than a brilliant London criminal lawyer should--and at least one of them is determined to do her in. Venetia plies her superior trade in courts that harbor "the illusion that the passions of men were susceptible to order and control," but her past and private life are exceedingly unruly. Her married lover is intent on giving her up; her daughter loathes her; her fellow barristers are determined that she not become the next head of chambers. Even the cleaning women seems to have something on her.
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McNally's Luck
Sex, suspense, sheer entertainment--McNally's Luck is Lawrence Sanders' most seductive game of cat arid mouse (and murder) since McNally's Secret. Playboy/lover/sleuth Archy McNally is back--and the secrets of the filthy rich have never been filthier... What begins with a kidnapped cat leads to ransom and homicide. And if a sensuous psychic makes a believer out of McNally, he'll learn that humans don't have nine lives ... but scandals do.
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Stillwatch
Pat Traymore, a brilliant investigative repoter, is drawn to Washington to discover the truth about enigmatic and ambitous Senator Abigail Jennings. The Senator is tipped to be the first female vice-president, and her reputation intrigues Pat - but she also has an ulterior motive for coming to the city. Years earlier, as a child, Pat was present during the violent deaths of her parents. Left damaged, both mentally and physically, she is seeking solace by returning to the house where the events took place. However, somebody has learned her plans - and is hellbent on stopping her. As the storm gathers, Pat begins to suspect everyone around her - even handsome congressman Samuel Kingsley, with whom she is madly in love. But who would want to hurt her? And how are these new events connected to the deaths of her mother and father? As the storm gathers, Pat begins to suspect everyone around her - even handsome congressman Samuel Kingsley, with whom she is madly in love. But who would want to hurt her? And how are these new events connected to the deaths of her mother and father?
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You Belong To Me
Regina Clausen was forty-three, successful in her career but insecure and unfulfilled in her personal life. Travelling alone on the luxury liner Gabrielle, she disembarked in Hong Kong saying she would rejoin the ship when it docked in Japan. She was never seen again... Three years later, radio presenter Susan Chandler does a series about vanishing women on her radio talk show. When a caller, who refuses to identify herself, tells of meeting a man on a cruise who gave her a ring inscribed 'You Belong to Me', but then disappeared when she refused to leave the ship with him, she thinks little of it. But then Regina's mother appears at Susan's office with a ring bearing the same inscription which was found amongst her daughter's belongings, and Susan begins to suspect that they are on the trail of something dangerously sinister... As she Looks deeper susan finds herself confronted with the horrifying possibility that she may know the killer and that she may even be his next victim.
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Where are the children?
Nancy Harmon has a new home, a loving husband and two beautiful children.The thing is, she's had all this before...Seven years ago she escaped from a volatile marriage and the devastating deaths of her first two children. Now, she's trying to start afresh. The accusations. The newspaper stories. The blame. That's all behind her.Or so she thinks.For someone has not forgotten. Someone who is determined to bring the terror and the pain hurtling back. One cold morning, Nancy leaves her children to play outside - but when she returns, they have disappeared. With growing terror, she realises it has begun again...
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A cry in the night
Divorcee Jenny MacPartland's struggle to support herself and her two small daughters is not helped by her irresponsible ex-husband. But suddenly a new man steps into her life. Rich, handsome Erich Krueger sweeps her off her feet and off to his mansion in the country. Everything seems to be perfect, and Jenny feels like a fairy-tale princess. But gradually the fairy-tale turns into a nightmare. Something is very wrong in the great house that has become her prison. Something that threatens her marriage, her life - and her children.
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time is my time
A high-powered Hollywood agent is found drowned in her swimming pool. Jane Sheridan, a former classmate of the deceased, believes this new death - the fifth from her graduate year - is related to the forthcoming twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy. She is there to be honoured during a ceremony, but slowly realises someone is out to stop her. And when she recieves a mysterious, taunting fax about her daughter Lily - a daughter she secretly gave up for adoption twenty years before - Jean understands that whoever it is knows far more about her life than she first thought. With the deaths and the message haunting her, Jean attends the reunion - but events begin to spiral out of control. As she draws closer to the truth, Jean is unaware that a vicious killer is among the guests; a killer who works under the cover of darkness, and who will stop at nothing to complete his mission...
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The Bone Collector
New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes and ears young police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose - around Lincoln Rhyme.
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Hannibal
You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he's been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world. But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter's sanctuary, piercing his new identity, sensing the evil that surrounds him. For the multimillionaire Hannibal left maimed, for a corrupt Italian policeman, and for FBI agent Clarice Starling, who once stood before Lecter and who has never been the same, the hunt for Hannibal Lecter has begun. All of them, in their separate ways, want to find Dr. Lecter. And all three will get their wish. But only one will live long enough to savor the reward....
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The Main Chance
Bella Main, Regal Owner of the main Chance, the worlds largest private bank, invites tweed and paula To visit her at Hengistbury manor, the banks hq. Located in a massive elizabethan mansion, hidden Away In the forest in the deep south of britain, the atmosphere is eerie and oppressive.Bella tells Tweed and Paula Grey, his assistant, that she has refused an enormous offer from Calouste Gubenkian, the most ruthless and villainous man in Europe. Within days of their visit Bella is murdered. Tweed and Paula return to investigate the atrocious act. The bank's HQ is based in a huge Elizabethan manor hidden in The Forest, a vast area in the deep south of England. Tweed has already met members of the two families, run by their forefathers for generations. Was Bella murdered by one of them - or is it the work of the vicious Calouste? The movement never stops, changing to Calouste's Chateau Les Rochers in the Belgian Ardennes. A ferocious battle takes place. Two more murders are committed at the manor. Tweed and Paula race to tiny Seacove on the rugged Cornish coast to prevent another murder. Finally, Tweed proves the Bank, founded in 1912, was based on a brutal crime all those years ago.
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Moonlight Becomes You
Oh, God! She was burried alive! She pounded her fists on the lid of the casket, but even inside, the thick satin muffled the sound. Finally She Screamed.a Manhattan party, fashion photographer Maggie Holloway is reunited unexpectedly with her former stepmother, Nuala, and their friendship is resumed. But when Maggie arrives for dinner one evening at Nuala's home, she finds her dead. Stranger still, she learns that only days before her death Nuala had changed her will, leaving everything to Maggie ...The only condition is that Maggie occasionally visits an old friend, Greta Shipley. It is when she accompanies Greta to visit Nuala's grave that she discovers something is badly wrong. When Greta also dies suddenly, of supposedly natural causes, Maggie's suspicions are confirmed. But what Maggie doesn't realize is that she, too, has become a target for the killer, and that each clue she uncovers brings her closer to a terrifying fate ...