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The Tournament
A young princess, Elizabeth, and her mentor travel to the Ottoman Capital for a chess tournament. This is done in order to protect her from the uncertainty that surrounds her. Upon reaching there, they realize that they are in for more trouble than they left behind. Summary of the Book It is the year 1546, and young princess Elizabeth of England has been facing problems. She may not be in line for the throne, but she is still seen as a threat to her older sister and brother. During this time, there comes an extraordinary invitation from the Sultan in Constantinople. He wants the finest chess players from the civilized world to pit against each other. He teacher and mentor, Roger Ascham, takes her with him when he travels to the Ottoman Capital for the tournament. However, they find that there is more danger there than there was in England. It is reported that there is a killer on the loose and the Sultan asks Ascham to investigate a murder. He and Elizabeth find out about a lot of dark secrets and terrible crimes that could scar the princess and define the queen that she will become. About Matthew Reilly Matthew Reilly is an Australian action thriller writer. His novels are known to have fast pace, twisted plots and intense action. The first book he wrote was Contest when he was just 19 years old. It was self-published in 1996. He has sold more than 7 million copies of his books worldwide and in over 20 languages.
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Kingdom Of The Soap Queen:The Story Of Balaji Tele
The early 1990s - Doordarshan has had a monopoly over the air waves for a decade with epic programmes like Ramayan, Mahabharat and Hum Log. The government has passed a series of economic and social reforms, allowing private and foreign broadcasters to begin operations in India. With the entry of cable television in 1992, the industry is poised for a gigantic leap. All that it needs is a fairy godmother to wave the magic wand. And it finds one in Ekta Kapoor and Balaji Telefilms. Kingdom of the Soap Queen is the enchanting narrative of Balaji Telefilms. It is the fairy tale of how a laid-back seventeen-year-old metamorphosed into one of the most powerful women in global media, how a teenage project kicks tarted by her mother in her fathers garage turned into the biggest entertainment provider across India. And like every fairy tale, this too has its share of magic, curses, spells, potions and pixie dust. An epic tale that is even more juicy and suspense-ridden than any of the production houses 100-odd soap operas, Kingdom of the Soap Queen showcases the journey that is Balaji.
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Ten Kings
3400 B.C.E - A tribal chief and his small valiant clan defended their land of five rivers, which we now call Punjab, against a huge invading force. The invaders were ten kings of neighbouring regions such a Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and the Europrean steppes. The battle lasted a single day. It was brutal. swift and cuded in a complete massacre - of the invaders. How did the King Sudas and his outmatched tribe win this impossible battle? Ten Kings unlocks the historic secret. The internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Ramayana Series recreates this legendary battle in vivid unforgettable style in his first historical novel.
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Malala
Written in collaboration with critically acclaimed national book award finalist Patty McCormick, this is Malala's story, written for her peers. Meet the girl behind the icon-a girl who loves cricket, has spats with her best friend and on the day of the shooting, nearly overslept and missed an exam. A girl who saw women suddenly banned from public, schools blown up and Taliban opponents whipped in public. A girl whose homeland descended into a state of fear and repression and who found herself transformed from being some what shy and bookish into a fearless opponent of a murderous regime. This is the story of her passionate belief in every child's right to education, her determination to make that a reality throughout the world and her hope to inspire other children around the world to stand up for their rights alongside her. Includes brand new material about Malala's life after the shooting-adapting to life in a strange country, rehabilitation and her thoughts on the continued threats she faces, as well as new photos and illustrations. About the Author Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. In her short lifetime, she has already experienced devastating changes in her country, which has been transformed from a once peaceful land to a hot bed of terrorism. Malala, who now lives in Birmingham, England, says she has been given a second life, which she intends to devote to the good of the people and her belief that all girls everywhere deserve an education. The fund she started can be found at MalalaFund.org.
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Home Remedies
Home Remedies is an informative book that provides an exhaustive list of common ailments and natural cures for treating them. From aches and pains to childrens ailments, digestive problems, womens health issues and skin care, Home Remedies offers simple, natural and effective solutions for a variety of health problems.
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Just For You
When you love someone, whats there to prove? Everything! It looks like life is teaching Rohit a lesson. His publishing deals, his relationships, even his job-nothing seems to be working out. To make matters worse, Karun is still trying his best to ruin his reputation as a writer. But when Nisha leaves him, its the ultimate blow. To win her back Rohit must prove he loves her enough to do things that matter to her-like helping Tara find a publisher. As Rohit takes control of his life, he begins to find things slowly changing for the better for him too. But will Nisha be happy with that? Will she come back to him? Just for You is an adorable, bittersweet story about love and its responsibilities. About the Author Rahul Saini is the bestselling author of four hugely popular novels - Those Small Lil Things, Just Like in the Movies, The Orange Hangover and Paperback Dreams. Formerly an architect, he has a keen interest in photography, film making and fine arts. Currently, he serves as a visiting faculty member for an art and design programme at a prestigious university in India. He takes an active interest in the welfare of his students. From the small Punjabi town of Jalandhar, he is a high-spirited young man who spends much of his time traveling, mostly to parts of Himachal Pradesh. He loves spending time with his family and friend.
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The darker side of Pleasure
A trio of erotic novellas to tantalise fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and explore the darker side of pleasure Prepare to enter a provocative, scintillating world where three women are about to take ecstasy to the limit and beyond. In The Bonds of Love a struggling couple will do anything to save their marriage, even if it means experimenting with a little bondage. But once their research moves beyond the bedroom, how will they know if they’ve gone too far?... In The Lair a woman answers an ad for a female submissive, ready to surrender to her body’s deepest yearnings. Finding love is the last thing she anticipates... And in Love and Discipline a journalist expects her interview with a sensual extremist to be business as usual. Instead she finds herself submitting to the dominant desires of a handsome stranger - and discovering more about herself than she ever dreamed possible. Sensual and mysterious, this captivating collection is sure to seduce you, page after page.... About the Author Best-selling and award-winning author Eden Bradley writes dark, edgy erotic fiction. Her work has been called ‘elegant, intelligent and sensual’. She lives in L.A.
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Scandalous Housewives
Scandalous Housewives: Mumbai, by Madhuri Banerjee, is a brave and honest story of housewives in Mumbai, who long for love and break from monotony and are not afraid to follow what their heart longs for. Summary of the Book Meet women from Sapphire Towers, a residential high-rise Mumbai where life is lost to a clockwork routine. Although everything appears calm on the outside, there are those housewives who yearn for change and joys in their mundane life. One gets into a forbidden relationship following an irresistible lust, another gets addicted to kinky sex and ends up in misery, yet another woman falls in love with a young man, a friend of her own son and one more lady is holding within a secret that could probably put an end to her marriage. One ominous day, an anonymous email comes in to the inboxes of all Sapphire Towers residents and leads to unimaginable consequences! Discover what happens to the dilemmas of these women in this unputdownable novel. About Madhuri Banerjee Madhuri Banerjee is an Indian bestselling author and writer. She is blogger at CNN - IBN, a columnist with The Asian Age, an Ad film director, a screenplay writer for Bollywood films, and a mother. She owns a production house called Gray Matter Solution and is into making ad films and TV shows. Madhuri has won a National Award for her poignant and realistic documentary on the issues that women face, Between Dualities. Currently, she is associated with Revlon as their relationship expert. More than 12,000 people follow love her relationship advice on Twitter. Madhuri is keenly interested in traveling, reading, and photography.
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Secret Lives
Disillusioned actress Eden Riley leaves a life of Hollywood glamour and a broken marriage to return to her mothers childhood home in rural Virginia. In search of answers about her mother, a famous childrens author who died when she was very young, she meets the handsome yet mysterious Ben Alexander, an archaeologist and friend of her Uncle. But Ben has his own demons and a secret that threatens to destroy their newfound happiness. Now Eden must make a heart breaking decision as she struggles to lay the ghosts of the past to rest and come to terms with her own future.
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Kamadeva : The God of Desire
deally, Kama should have been happy. But what he felt was apprehension and there was no shaking the feeling that he had been tempered with fire to prepare him solely for what lay ahead. Kamadeva, the charming wielder of the sugarcane bow and the flower-tipped arrows, born out of the wellspring of Brahmas latent passion, has for long remained an enigma. This enthralling story of the God of Desire explores his many wondrous adventures, as well as his heady romance with Rati, his chief consort. Best friends with Indra, the King of the Gods, tutor to the Apsaras in the art of lovemaking, Kamadeva lives a dream life in the magnificent Kingdom of Amaravathi - until danger strikes when he incurs the wrath of Shiva because of a preordained curse. Follow Kama as he hurtles towards his destiny and the Destroyers dreaded third eye. Find out if he will rise from the ashes to reign supreme as the King of Hearts or if he will be doomed to spend an eternity as Ananga - The bodiless one. In Kamadeva - The God of Desire, the author masterfully marries imagination with stellar research to bring to vivid life one of the most intriguing Gods of the Hindu pantheon. Laced with wit and narrated in contemporary flavour, Kamadeva will take you on a rollicking ride into the heart of desire and its tantalizing dark side. About the Author Anuja Chandramouli graduated from Womens Christian College, Chennai and was the college topper in Abnormal Psychology. She also holds a Masters degree in English. She is studying classical dance and working on her next book. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Arjuna - Saga of a Pandava Warrior - Prince, was named in a poll conducted by Amazon India as one of the top 5 books in the Indian Writing category for the year 2013. She is the mother of two little girls and lives in Sivakasi.
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Leadership:The Gandhi Way
What can we learn from Mahatma Gandhi as far as leadership is concerned? Mahatma Gandhi needs no introduction. An icon revered by millions across the world, he led a country to freedom through methods and principles never used before. What was it about Gandhi that made him an icon? How did a frail, ordinary man bring about a revolution? And how did he manage to rope in the poor, the working class, the elite and the intelligentsia to work together? In this one-of-a-kind self-help book, Virender Kapoor analyses Gandhis methods and derives leadership lessons from his life, explaining how readers can successfully employ these in their own lives. He reveals how Gandhi carefully analysed situations-the precursor of SWOT analyses-before formulating the best way to deal with them. It was thus that he formulated the idea of Satyagraha. He also shows that Gandhi understood the power of emotional appeal and used sincerity rather than empty rhetoric to maximise on this. In other words, he walked the talk. These and other strategies by Gandhi provide important lessons for leaders of any era, in any capacity. The key, he reveals, is to adapt, rather than adopt, Gandhis philosophy in action. Inspirational yet relatable, leadership-the Gandhi way is a unique take on the Mahatma. About the Author Virender Kapoor is a thinker, an educationist and an inspirational guru. An alumnus of IIT Bombay and the former director of a prestigious management institute under the symbiosis umbrella, he is currently the founder-director, president and chief mentor of Management Institute for Leadership and Excellence (MILE), Pune. His books on emotional intelligence, leadership and self-help have been translated into several regional and foreign languages.
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Adultery
Linda is in her thirties and is facing a crisis mentally and emotionally. She begins to question the void that was growing in her, the mundane, predictable days of her life. Although her life seemed perfect in everybody’s eyes – a contented marriage, adorable children and a successful career - she feels a keen sense of emptiness and displeasure. But it all drastically changes when she meets a prosperous politician who happens to be her high-school boyfriend from years ago. As Linda revives the passion that was absent in her life, she would have to make a life-altering choice. About Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947. He had previously worked as a composer, journalist and as an author and director for the theatre, all of which happened before he dedicated his life to writing books. His works have been published in over 168 countries and have been translated into more than 80 other languages. Coelho’s major success, The Alchemist, remains to be the highest selling book ever written by a Brazilian. Paulo was chosen to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in the year 2002. In the year 2007, he was named as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Some his other notable works are Eleven Minutes, Veronika Decides to Die, Like the Flowing River, Manuscript Found in Accra, and Brida.
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Strictly personal:Manmohan & Gursharan
A daughter’s account, Strictly Personal - Manmohan and Gursharan by Daman Singh, is the untold story of Manmohan Singh, India’s thirteenth Prime Minister, and his wife. Summary of the Book The book is not about Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister but about Manmohan Singh, the family man whose life and loved ones were caught up in the maelstrom of history. The author reiterates the fact that other than Jawaharlal Nehru, no other Prime Minister has had such an influence on India and her economic policies as Manmohan Singh. She also tries to reconcile the intellectual picture she has of her father with his portrayal in the media and comes with a picture of great complexity. Daman Singh enlightens her readers about the life and struggle of her father – as a young boy, he lost his mother to eternity, and his family to the partition. He was brought up by his grandfather and was not very close to his father. She talks of an intellectual man who, after completing his studies at the Cambridge University, decided to return to his country. He then sacrifices everything to work for the government and eventually joined Indian politics. Pages have been devoted to bringing out the importance of his wife, Gursharan Kaur, in his life - she was from a similar background as him and she brought the concept of family and togetherness to his life. She supported him in every endeavour of his and is described as a beautiful and vivacious lady who lends her strength to contribute to her husband’s success. What Manmohan never got to experience as a child, Gursharan brought into the marriage - a family - and they had three little girls, Upinder, Daman and Amrit, to complete the family unit. The book also paints the picture of the life the author had with her two passionate sisters, a talented mother and a father who stepped into the limelight for the country, despite his aversion to it. Enthralling yet honest, this book reveals a never-before-seen side of Manmohan Singh.
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The Brave
Rachna Bisht Rawat takes us to the heart of war, chronicling the tales of twenty-one of Indias bravest soldiers. Talking to parents, siblings, children and comrades-in-arms to paint the most vivid character-portraits of these men and their conduct in battle and getting unprecedented access to the Indian Army, Rawat has written the ultimate book on the Param Vir Chakra. About the Author Rachna Bisht Rawat is a journalist, writer, mom to a precocious 12-year old and gypsy wife to an Army officer whose work has taken the Rawats to some of the quirkiest places in India. Rachna is a 2005 Harry Brittain fellow and winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Press Quarterlys Rolls Royce Award. Her first story, Munni Mausi, was a winner in the 200809 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. This is her first book.
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The Fall Of The Kingdom of The Punjab
A forgotten classic from Indias favourite storyteller. This riveting historical narrative is more full of drama than any fiction. With the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the great Punjab empire he had built was riven by intrigues, betrayals, assassinations and wars until the British finally annexed it, seizing the Kohinoor diamond and sending the young Maharaja Duleep Singh into exile in Britain. Khushwant Singh brings this turbulent period to vivid life in this page-turning account of the collapse of a once-mighty kingdom.
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Power Of A Common Man-Connecting Consumers The Srk
Power of a Common Man - Connecting with Consumers the SRK Way chronicles the journey and the rise to fame of one of the biggest celebrities of India has ever seen. Summary of the Book In Power of the Common Man, the author writes about Shah Rukh Khan and his extraordinary achievements as an actor, businessman, brand ambassador and cricket-team owner. The author chronicles his journey from being a boy-next-door to becoming a phenomenon, not only in India but also around the world. In this exhaustive work, author Koral Dasgupta takes the readers behind the scenes of Shah Rukh Khan’s life and career. She analyzes and examines the reasons for behind his success, his business moves and strategies and lauds his amazing connection with his audience. About Koral Dasgupta Koral Dasgupta is Indian author, management consultant and an editor. Her research papers have been published in leading journals of India. Koral is also a freelance painter and draws inspiration from Indian mythology.
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Subramaniyapuram : The Tamil Film In English Trans
A gritty tale of love, betrayal, and violence set in the South Indian temple city of Madurai in the early 1980s, Subramaniyapuram (2008) was one of the first in a wave of realist Tamil films that have caught the attention of filmmakers from around the world. This collectors volume contains the English translation of the screenplay, a gallery of stills and posters, essays by Baradwaj Rangan, Anand Pandian, Constantine Nakassis and Preminda Jacob on the film, its context in Tamil film history and the innovative publicity campaign that accompanied its release; and an exclusive interview with director M. Sasikumar about the making of the film.
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Chicken Soup For the soul : Just For Preteens
Youre growing up, your friends are changing, homework is harder and your life has more ups and downs than it used to. This support group in a group is just for you. You are not alone and youll find out why when you read these 101 stories about: feeling good about yourself True friends and new friends Embarrassing moments Mean girls and boys Bullies and bully payback Crushes Family issues Learning to do whats right And lots more stories about your preteen life
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India Uninc.
India Uninc. is a book on Indian Economic Development which examines the grown of the nation in relation with the smaller firms, shops and stores as opposed to large corporations. Summary of the Book Prof. R. Vaidyanathan examines how media and public perception of national growth is skewed in favor of large firms with higher capital and seemingly greater returns. Smaller firms, shops by the corner of streets selling groceries and bare necessities, he says, enjoy lesser attention. However they form the bulk of India's progress, catering to a larger bandwidth of the population. The common man's needs are fulfilled by smaller firms, which in turn give rise to the smaller jobs and roles. This book is a researched examination of Indian Economy. About R. Vaidyanathan R. Vaidyanathan is a Professor of Finance & Control at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He has also written: Indian Pension Systems Facing the Future and Pensions in Asia besides contributing to various other books. A graduate of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, Prof. Vaidyanathan completed his Fellowship at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His research interests lie in: Corporate Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management, Risk Management and Pensions.
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Post Haste: Quintessential India
Post Haste: Quintessential India provides a definitive account of India penned down by B. G. Verghese, one of the foremost journalists of India. This book not only unfolds the country’s glorious history but also focuses on what is integral and significant to modern and post-independent India. Summary of the Book Post Haste: Quintessential India provides an incisive look into the rich cultural and ancient heritage of India. The author writes about things which are quintessentially Indian from the classical story chronicling the love of Shakuntala and Dushyanta and Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who brought the Ganpati Puja out on the streets to the time when J R D Tata flew a single engine plane from Karachi to Bombay. In this book, the author provides a deep insight into India’s diverse customs and faith. This book will make for an interesting read for those interested in re-visiting the events that constitute India’s glorious past. About B. G. Verghese Boobli George Verghese is a senior Indian journalist and was the editor of the leading newspapers–The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express. Verghese started his career with The Times of India. He was honored with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for outstanding contribution to journalism in 1975. Verghese studied Economics at St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and pursued a Mater’s degree from Trinity College in Cambridge. He has authored several books including Waters of hope and Winning the future, among others.