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A House Without Windows
If Zeba had been a woman less ordinary, Kamal might have seen it coming � a gnawing feeling or at least a few hairs standing on end. But she gave him no warning, no reason to believe that she would be anything more than she had been for the last two decades. She was a loving wife, a patient mother, a peaceful villager. She did nothing to draw to attention to herself. But now, nothing would be ordinary again. Zeba, an ordinary Afghan housewife and mother of four, has been arrested for murder after her husband, Kamal is found brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts when he met his end. Her children swear their mother couldn't have done it. Kamal's family is sure she did and demand justice. Barely escaping a vengeful mob, the ordinary Afghan housewife winds up in a women's prison awaiting trial. There she meets a group of other women whose paths have led them to the same bleak cells - 18 Year old Nafisa, caught sharing a meal with a teenage boy,imprisoned to protect her from the ""honor killing"" her father demands, 25 year old Latifa, a teen runaway in a leather jacket who first landed in prison for vagrancy but has stayed because it offers better shelter than the world outside, 20 year old Mezghan, pregnant with her lover's child, awaiting a court order that will force him to marry her. The younger women all wonder if Zeba really is a cold - blooded killer, or if her husband somehow deserved his fate, or if, like them, she's been imprisoned for transgressing some rule of society without actually breaking a law. For them, prison is as much a haven as a punishment and the sisterhood they form inside is as lively and unexpected as the world outside is harsh and unforgiving. Yusuf is the lawyer assigned to represent Zeba. Born in Kabul, his family fled Afghanistan when he was 11, eventually landing in Queens, where he worked his way through college and then law school. A passion for human rights and a desire to help his beloved homeland, sends him back to Afghanistan, hoping to help patch together a functioning legal system after the fall of the Taliban. Now the fate of an accused murderer - A seemingly ordinary housewife is in his hands and Yusuf is discovering that, like the Afghanistan he thought he knew, Zeba and her story may not be at all what he expected.
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A Forgotten Affair
Sagarika Mehta walks out of her nine - year - old marriage, meets with a near - fatal accident and goes into a deep coma all on the same day. After six months, she wakes up with no memory of her past. When she is discharged from hospital a year later, Rishab, her husband, whisks her away to an unfamiliar address in Gurgaon to convalesce. There, in that plush apartment, with people waiting on her hand and foot, Sagarika can�t shake off the feeling that something is wrong. Why does the scent of a particular cologne unsettle her? Why does the innocuous word Cheeni bother her? and why is Rishab so evasive in response to her queries about her past? A Forgotten Affair is a gripping story of a woman caught between two worlds.
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It Is All In The Planets
Meet Aniket. Twenty-seven, techie, Mr. Average. His best friend is Subbu, a nerd who breathes, thinks and lives code. Aniket cannot believe his luck when he starts dating Trish - a stunning, sexy model, who is totally out of his league. But Trish has a list of things she wants him to work on, beginning with his pot belly and his geekiness. Then there's Nidhi, thirty-four, who has quit her corporate job to follow her passion. She is engaged to Manoj, Mr. Perfect - except for one aspect. Aniket and Nidhi meet on a train, a chance encounter, and she agrees to become his 'relationship coach'. It's a decision that sets into motion a chain of events that will have a profound impact on the lives of all involved. One man, two women, and the trap called Destiny. Some things, they say, are all in the planets.
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Daddy Is Girl
What could be worse than a daughter's death?' Ask the Nalwas, whose nuclear family imploded one night as they became India's no.1 story. Along comes the fiery and feisty investigative reporter Meera - unable to stop herself from following the story, whatever the consequences. She wants justice for Ambika, the young daughter of the Nalwas, because this murder had shaken all her certainties and made her question the sanity of her middle-class life. As she dives into Delhi's dirty, scandalous society, she's confronted with rich, connected lawyers, manipulative politicians and a crash course on how the levers of power are misused. What she unmasks is a shocking conclusion to the country's most scandalous murder.
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Digital God
He is the Cyber-Age Krishna, Destroyer of the Evil Kamsa A runaway kid from the most powerful family in Hyderabad, Kanu is a 22-year-old hacker. His mission in life is to destroy his uncle, Rana, and take control of Sathyamev Computers, a billion-dollar company originally started by his father. Together with the beautiful Darshu, a journalist crusading against corruption, Kanu sets out to expose a mega financial scam at Sathyamev. His only weapon: ingenious computing skills.
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Into the Whirlwind
A bodyguard, a bounty hunter, a private investigator, no one can handle the heat like the men of BOSS, Inc. Megan O'Brien is at her wit's end. Her three-year-old son has been kidnapped. No police, says the ransom demand. Fearing for her son's life, Meg has no choice but to turn to her former bodyguard, Dirk Reynolds. Dirk's never forgiven Meg for the way she left him after their brief affair. But with bounty hunter Luke Brodie on his side, Dirk knows he's got to help Meg rescue her son. The few clues they've gathered send them spiraling into a murky world of high-stakes gambling and international crime. Meg may be way out of her depths, but she's seeing a side of Dirk she never suspected-one no woman could possibly resist.
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Into the Fury
A bodyguard, a bounty hunter, a P.I.-the men of Brodie Operations Security Service, Inc. are down for the job... Sinners, whores, and sluts beware-your time is at hand: a faceless menace is threatening lingerie models on a cross country tour, and Ethan Brodie is there to defend and protect. Ethan's learned the hard way that beauty is no substitute for character. So even though Valentine Hart is one of the most breathtaking women he's ever seen, he's keeping his hands off and his eyes open. Or that's what he tells himself. Then one of the models is murdered, and the closer Ethan gets to the answers, the closer he finds himself to Valentine-and the hotter the pressure feels. There's more to Val-more to the other girls-than he could have guessed. But one is keeping a secret that could kill them all.
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Brotherhood In Death
Justice is served. Edward Mira is a powerful man, with a lot of enemies. But when the former senator is violently abducted, Lieutenant Eve Dallas suspects his kidnap is more personal than political. Someone is seeking justice, the bloodier the better. Edward's cousin Dennis was injured during the abduction � and that makes things very personal for Eve and her husband Roarke. Dennis is a beloved friend, married to NYPSD's top profiler Charlotte Mira. But as Eve delves deeper into the case, dark secrets emerge that could tear the family apart. Edward Mira has friends in high places - and they all seem to be hiding something. As her investigation takes a shocking turn, Eve finds that not all victims are innocent and that some bonds are forged not in friendship, but in blood.
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Closed Casket
The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his 'little grey cells'. What I intend to say to you will come as a shock. Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will - one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live... Among Lady Playford's guests are two men she has never met - the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been invited until Poirot starts to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murderer to strike. But why does she seem so determined to provoke, in the presence of a possible killer? When the crime is committed in spite of Poirot�s best efforts to stop it, and the victim is not who he expected it to be, will he be able to find the culprit and solve the mystery? Following the phenomenal global success of The Monogram Murders, which was published to critical acclaim following a co-ordinated international launch in September 2014, international best-selling crime writer Sophie Hannah has been commissioned by Agatha Christie Limited to pen a second fully-authorised Poirot novel. The new book marks the centenary of the creation of Christie's world-famous detective Hercule Poirot, introduced in her first book The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
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AB The Autobiography
AB has become the most valuable cricketer on the planet - Adam Gilchrist AB de Villiers is one of the finest batsmen ever to play cricket, and yet his achievement extends beyond his outrageous armoury of drives, pulls, paddles, scoops and flicks. Whether he is delighting home crowds at the Wanderers or Newlands or setting new records in Bengaluru or Sydney, he plays the game in a whole-hearted manner that projects a positive image of his country around the world, and also makes millions of South Africans feel good about themselves. This is AB's story, in his own words. The story of the youngest of three talented, sports-mad brothers growing up in Warmbaths, of a boy who excelled at tennis, rugby and cricket, of a youngster who made his international debut at the age of twenty and was then selected in every single test played by South Africa for the next eleven seasons, of a batsman who has started to redefine the art, being ranked among the world's very best in test, ODI and T20. Through all the pyrotechnics and consistency, AB has remained a true sportsman - quick to deflect praise, swift to praise opponents, eager to work hard, to embrace the team's next challenge and to relish what he still regards as the huge privilege of representing his country. This is the story of a modern sporting phenomenon. The statistics tell barely half the story but, so far, AB de Villiers has scored more than 8 000 runs in Test cricket, more than 8 000 runs in one-day internationals and more than 40 000 runs in his professional career. Admired as a true entertainer wherever the game is played, he is distinguished not only by his brilliant stroke play in all formats of the game, but also by his humble and determined captaincy of the South African national team in Tests and one-day internationals.
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I Have A Dream
It is inspiring to hear the words of people who knew what to say when to say it and how to phrase it often in language so powerful that we remember their words centuries after they were first spoken. Here is a collection of the greatest speeches that have been delivered throughout history prefaced by historical and biographical introductions.