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City Of Jasmine

Set against the lush, exotic European colonial outposts of the 1920s, New York imesbestselling author Deanna Raybourn delivers the captivating tale of one woman who embarks upon a journey to see the worldand ends up finding intrigue, danger and a love beyond all reason. Famed aviatrix Evangeline Starke never expected to see her husband, adventurer Gabriel Starke, ever again. They had been a golden couple, enjoying a whirlwind courtship amid the backdrop of a glittering social set in prewar London until his sudden death with the sinking of the Lusitania. Five years later, beginning to embrace life again, Evie embarks upon a flight around the world, collecting fame and admirers along the way. In the midst of her triumphant tour, she is shocked to receive a mysteriousand recentphotograph of Gabriel, which brings her ambitious stunt to a screeching halt. With her eccentric aunt Dove in tow, Evie tracks the source of the photo to the ancient City of Jasmine, Damascus. There she discovers that nothing is as it seems. Danger lurks at every turn, and at stake is a priceless relic, an artifact once lost to time and so valuable that criminals will stop at nothing to acquire iteven murder. Leaving the jewelled city behind, Evie sets off across the punishing sands of the desert to unearth the truth of Gabriel's disappearance and retrieve a relic straight from the pages of history. Along the way, Evie must come to terms with the deception that parted her from Gabriel and the passion that will change her destiny forever

Monsoon Memories

English rain smelt and tasted of nothing at all. It had none of the fury, the passion of the monsoons. Instead, it was weak half-hearted. Exiled from her family in India for more than a decade, Shirin and her husband lead a comfortable but empty life in London. Memories of her childhood exotic fragrances, colors, stifling heat and tropical storms fill Shirin with a familiar and growing ache for the land and the people that she loves. With the recollections though, come dark clouds of scandal and secrets. Secrets that forced her to flee her old life and keep her from ever returning. Thousands of miles away, in Bangalore, the daughter of Shirins brother discovers a lost, forgotten photograph. One that has escaped the flames. Determined to solve the mystery of an aunt she never knew, Reenas efforts will set in place a chain of events that expose the painful trauma of the past and irrevocably change the path of the future. An unforgettable journey through a mesmerizing, passionate land of contrasts and a family whose story will touch your heart.

When Hari Met His Saali

Her idea of romance comes from movies and magazines. His idea of romance is that it is unnecessary. Tia was in love with her career and her lifestyle in America. And she was madly in love with Hari. But where was the romance she craved? Simi was the young girl left behind in a small town in India who hadn't seen her sister for years. She was a dreamer. But what did she really want out of life? And then there was Hari. Straight-forward and uncomplicated, it felt like nothing he did was ever good enough for Tia. But didn't every man want an ambitious and successful wife no matter how demanding they were? Theirs was a love story that was never going to be conventional. But what happened to Hari and Tia was something that nobody would have predicted. Mix two sisters with bad history between them and one clueless man, to form one whacky triangle, and you get a cautionary lesson in how you should be careful of what you wish for in the name of love? Set in Los Angeles and Nagpur, India, 'When Hari Met His Saali' is a funny, fresh, and outrageous look at young people and their dreams, longings, aches and heartbreaks. It is a fascinating take on the grand idea of love and the reality of romance. In a breezy, humorous narrative anchored around a magical twist, the story of Tia, Simi and Hari unfolds from romantic comedy into a climax full of suspense.

Hot-Blooded Affairs

Secrets Of A Gentleman Escort

Hes the talk of the town-for all the wrong reasons. Societys most outrageous and popular-escort Nicholas DArcy is renowned for his utmost discretion. So when he suddenly finds himself named and shamed by a jealous husband, he reluctantly accepts a summons to the countryside, a fate worse than death. Annorah Price - Ellis isnt what Nick is used to-innocent, feisty and decidedly uncomfortable with the spontaneous heat between them! Suddenly, Londons most audacious lover is out of his depth and in danger of revealing the real man behind the polished facade. Rakes Who Make Husbands Jealous only Londons best lovers need apply.

Portrait Of A Scandal

He has taken her to heaven, hell and back again. Her heart and hope long since shattered, methyst Dalby is content with her life as an independent woman. With wealth of her own and no one to answer to, she is free to live as she pleases. Until a trip to Paris throws her into contact with the one man who still has a hold over herthe bitter but still devastatingly sensual Nathan Harcourt. Living as an artist, this highborn gentleman has been brought low by scandal and he is determined to show Amethyst that life is much more fun if you walk on the dark side. 'A beautiful, poignant, sensual story.' - RT book reviews on a countess by Christmas

Innocence Betrayed

Her Guilty Secret When Kate had taken a job with Alex Kellerman, she'd planned to find out more about the mystery in his past, not to be so attracted to him that she couldn't deny she wanted him desperately-even wanted to help in his battle for custody of his young daughter... Innocent Sins One long-ago summer young, provocative Laura Meill discovered love and an all-too-brief happiness in her step-brother's arms. Then his apparent betrayal set her running. Now she\'s coming home, is it to confess her true feelings or reveal the secret she's never told?

Marriage Vows

The Marriage Truce Jenna is her cousin’s bridesmaid and the best man is dynamic Ross Grantham – the man she once exchanged marriage vows with! It’s two years since she saw him – two years since Ross betrayed her. Can they call a truce for the bride’s sake? And what about their own marriage and their bewitching sexual desire? The Token Wife Alex Fabian is a high-flying city banker who’s been given an ultimatum to marry within three months or lose his inheritance, so he’s forced to find a bride… Louise Trentham is instantly wary when gorgeous, dynamic Alex proposes. He’s way out of her league, but the chemistry between them is irresistible…

Her Lover, Her Husband

1.) Back in the Marriage Bed Annie can’t believe Dominic Carlyle’s claim to be her husband. Why would she have walked out on him and forgotten all about their marriage? Dominic insists they move in together. And Annie is haunted by the memory of a dream in which a man makes love to her… a man like Dominic… 2.) The Marriage Demand Millionaire Nash Connaught was holding a dark secret over Faith’s head. But he never meant to blackmail her into bed! The temptation they both felt was simply too strong… Nash’s reaction to Faith’s virginity was to insist on marriage. But was he marrying Faith for honour or revenge for what happened between them years ago?

Claiming His Wife And Child

One Night with His Wife Luc Sarrazin's marriage to Star had been intensely passionate but brief. They'd separated almost immediately and Star had disappeared, but Luc had never filled for divorce. Eighteen months later, Luc tracks Star down, but then he discovers that Star if the mother of twins! Duarte's Child Only days before she was about to give birth, Emily left her husband, Duarte de Monteiro. Now he has traced her and their baby son, and he wants to bring them back to Portugal. This proud man can still make her knees weak with his slighest touch...but why does he want her back?

Tycoon Lovers

Winter Roses: Handsome eligible ranch owner Stuart York was not one to mince words. Ivy Conley, his younger sister's best friend found out the hard way. During the night stay at his Jacobsville ranch, Ivy wound up in Stuart's arms. The resulting fireworks singed them both and knowing she was too young, Stuart closed his heart to her. Now years later, Ivy is determined not to be treated like a little girl anymore. Although still an innocent Ivy knows she has to fight her own battles, but for some reason, Stuart is always fighting them for her and keeping her from harm. And safe in his arms, Ivy feels like a woman, woman who belongs to him. Diamond in the rough: He's rugged, rich and ready to claim her hand! Sassy Peale is desperate to help her family but her meagre salary doesnt stretch far. Then she meets John Callister and she thinks her new friend is honest-to-god cowboy-rugged and trustworthy. But John isn't a ranch hand! He's a millionaire from on of Montana's most powerful families and when Sassy finds out who he really is, she's certain that the arrogant millionaire is just playing with her. John has to convince Sassy that he's the man she first thought he was- a diamond in the rough.

Baluta

Nehru-A Troubled Legacy

Nehru - A Troubled Legacy raises a fundamental question. Have we yet made an honest assessment of Nehru and in effect, an honest assessment of Indias contemporary history? To investigate this significant gap, the author digs deep into historical records and in turn, raises several pertinent questions. Was Nehru truly a 'great democrat' as many of his acolytes suggest or was he just cleverly grooming his daughter for the top job and dislodging her potential challengers from key positions in the party and government? Was he really a 'secular' person or was secularism a mask for his disdain, nay, hatred for Hinduism? Was he a man of principles or did he adopt double standards whenever it suited him? Did he ever have a proper measure of Indias defense needs or was he foolhardy when it came to defense matters? Did he take a strong, principled stand against corruption or did he go out of his way to protect and promote cronies and some of his favorites who faced serious charges of corruption? Was he the great leader of the Congress and India as he has thus far been made out to be or was he a person given to human frailties like being petty and manipulative? A scholarly and dispassionate analysis of these and many other ignored or hidden questions sheds new light on Nehrus handling of the nation and its long-term impact on Indias national character. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complex relationship Nehru had with our nation-builders like Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Dr Rajendra Prasad, as also in unraveling the true state of Indian affairs pre-Independence and in the decades after Independence beyond what the propaganda machines have fed us over the years. 'Why is it that with all the will in the world, I cannot understand what is obvious to you? I am not as far as I know suffering from intellectual decay. Should you not then set your heart on at least making me understand what you are after?' - Mahatma Gandhi to Nehru You are in habit of proclaiming that you stand by yourself and represent nobody else. At the same time, you call yourself a socialist sometimes, a full-blooded socialist. How a socialist can be an individualist as you regard yourself beats me. The one is anti-thesis of the other.

Transcendence-My Spiritual Experiences With Pramu

Pramukh Swamiji Maharaj, one of the most inspiring spiritual figures of modern times and the fifth spiritual successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan, is the inheritor of a legacy of Gunatit gurus hearkening to the early nineteenth century. Pramukh Swamiji became a friend of the eleventh president of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Together they created an unparalleled spirituality-science fellowship.In Transcendence, Dr Kalam and Arun Tiwari map a journey of self-realization reflected in the eyes of Pramukh Swamiji, painting a delightful fusion of spirituality, science and leadership.His candid vignettes from life on the centre stage of Indian technology and societal missions,Indian politics and world affairs are interwoven with revelations of a profound connection with Swamiji.Through the life of Pramukh Swamiji and the history of the Swaminarayan mission, Dr Kalam traces the great rise of the Indian diaspora across the world. Drawing from the lives of great scientists and creative leaders, Transcendence captures the spiritual essence of all religions and is as much a fountain of inspiration and a treasury of wisdom as it is a tribute to the multi-faith Indian society.

Gideon's Spies

Created in 1951, Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counter terrosrism and assassination ever ventured. Drawing on closed door interviews with Mossad agents, informants and spy masters as well as classified documents and top secret sources Gideon's spies reveals previously unrevealed secrets about a brilliant, ruthless but flawed Israeli intelligence service.

The Janson Equation

To prevent a war in Asia - one that could quickly spread to the rest of the world - Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid must learn the truth behind a young woman's murder Prominent U. S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. Gregory's girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent, suggesting that Lynell, who was a translator, may have been murdered because of something she overheard at a recent international conference. And when Janson and Kincaid realize they're being hunted by an assassin, they suspect that this crime - and the cover-up - were orchestrated by a shadowy unit of the U.S. State Department as part of a larger plot to provoke violence between North and South Korea.

Ashtanga Yoga

John Scott's Ashtanga Yoga draws on his expertise as a teacher of this most energetic form of yoga. An easy-to-use guide, it features color photographs and a series of step-by-step exercise sessions -- starting with a simple sequence designed for beginners that, once mastered, provides the foundation for moving to the next cycle.

Shopaholic To The Stars

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) has stars in her eyes. She and her daughter Minnie have joined husband Luke in LA-city of herbal smoothies and multimillion-dollar yoga retreats and the lure of celebrity.

Grey-Fifty Shades Of Grey As Told By Christian

In Christians own words and through his thoughts, reflections and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of reader around the world. CHRISTIAN GREY exercises control in all things, his world is neat, disciplined and utterly empty until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christians cold, wounded heart. Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?'

The Firebird

Affecting and stirring, A book that is abundant of life, of darkness, of things lost and things regained. The characters, bustle with life, with a sort of rage at being confined to page, they'd much rather be wandering down the street, in a black mood, in mirth, with curiosity. - Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi This is an exceptional novel, I haven't read anything quite like it. It arises from and hovers, bird-like, over different languages and worlds - Bengali, English, north and south Calcutta, theatre, the magic of dysfunctional middle-class life. - Amit Chaudhuri. For ten year old Ori, his mothers life as a theatre actor holds as much fascination as it does fear. Approaching adolescence in an unstable home, he is haunted by her nightly stage appearances and the suspicion and resentment her profession evokes in people around her, at home and among their neighbours. Increasingly consumed by an obsessive hatred of the stage, Ori is irrevocably drawn into a pattern of behaviour that can only have catastrophic consequences. Political bullies, actor, hairdressers, set boys and backstage crew make up the world of The Firebird, a visceral exploration of a young boy stumbling into adulthood, far ahead of his years.

Finders Keepers

Wake up, genius. So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the non-conformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the notebooks and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Sauberg finds the treasure and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he's released from prison after thirty-five years. Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life for good, for bad, forever.

Richard Hittleman's Yoga-28 Day Exercise Plan

This short time is all it takes to master the 38 simple exercises in this book. You will quickly grasp the ancient Yoga secrets of breathing, concentration, nutrition and muscle control -- in just minutes of your spare time and without any discomfort. Day by day you will notice astonishing results -- loss of weight, greater firmness, more energy, relief from pain, freedom from stress and an overall feeling of youthfulness and well-being. This Yoga regimen will become a lifetime program to keep your whole organism radiant with a natural beauty and health. This Yoga regimen will become a lifetime program to keep your whole organsim radiant with natural beauty and health!

Light On Life

The world’s most venerated yoga teacher sheds light on life through the prism of yoga ‘Yoga allows you to achieve a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit the broken pieces together. Yoga allows you to find and inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life. Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known existed.’ Here, B. K. S. Iyengar, founder of the style of yoga teaching known as Iyengar yoga, invites both those new to yoga and those who are experienced practitioners on an inward journey designed to increase their physical stability, emotional vitality, mental clarity, intellectual wisdom and spiritual bliss. In this warm, witty, lucid and helpful book he addresses the role that yoga postures and breathing techniques play in our search for wholeness, the external and internal obstacles that keep us from progressing along the path, and how yoga can help us life in harmony with the world around us. He uses stories from his own life, humour and examples from modern culture to illustrate that the awareness that yoga offers can improve our lives in many practical and profound ways.

Poser

Witty and heartfelt clear-sighted and irreverent Poser is the book that sane sensible and intelligent mothers around the world have been waiting for