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Face Reading Quick & Easy
Based on ancient Chinese wisdom similar to palmistry and acupuncture, face reading teaches us to really see the faces we look at every day. Learn how the zones of the face reveal personality characteristics and how meaning is hidden in our features. Read the fortune written on your own face and those of friends, family, colleagues and business contacts. Also included are helpful tips for reading emotional cues during important meetings like job interviews, as well as tips for recognizing when a person is lying. Better relationships and a more successful life can be yours when you learn to read faces.
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Halfway Up the Mountain
A simple and gripping story of a village girl who tries to find out whether happiness is accessible to the ordinary too. Being born in a traditional Indian family, she fights her fate and faces immense hardships and heartbreaks with courage and conviction. Abandoned and undone by the men closest to her, this is the story of Maya, who still manages to emerge as an independent, successful and good human being in a society that places no value on a woman who is on her own. The narrative is simple and full of beautiful imagery. What stands out in this novel is that the author, a man, tells the story of the coming of age of a young woman. In the process of telling Mayas story, the novel throws light on issues like homosexuality and how it is treated in India, sexual politics, the world of poetry, painting and music etc. The story captures the essence of modern India that is still trying to get rid of its traditional shackles.
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Poison Roots
Poison Roots is the story of a young man, Kesavan, who is a college student studying in pre-independent India. Critical of traditional religious practices, he scorns symbols of his high caste roots, especially the rather orthodox, autocratic attitude of his father. To overcome the shackles of his orthodox Brahmin background, he seeks intellectual interaction with erudite elders as well as a group of young Communists in his college. National award winning author Indira Parthasarathy has traced the journey of Kesavan, from being a disillusioned adolescent in a nascent nation, to one who accepts his destiny as a member of the educated upper caste. Etched with an idiom of everyday language along with shades of superior word-craft, this novel has a universal taste of the process of growing up.
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Wedding Night
Lottie is tired of long term boyfriends who dont want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no dates and no engagement just a straight wedding march to the altar! Next comes the honeymoon on the Greek island where they first met. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Bens rushed marriage and family and friends are determined to intervene. Will Lottie and Ben have a wedding night to remember or one to forget?
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Rabindranath Tagore for the 21st Century Reader
Rabindranath Tagore is the second most popular literature laureate of all time (after John Steinbeck) according to the official website of the Nobel Prize. Writers ranked below him on the popularity chart include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda and Ernest Hemingway. Tagore won the prize in 1913, but a hundred years later readers continue to flock to his work because it possesses all the qualities essential to keep it fresh and relevant despite the passage of time big ideas, complex themes, stylistic brilliance, a deep engagement with nature, beauty, family, love, passion and above all, a profound timelessness. Keeping the 21st century reader firmly in mind, this volume brings together some of Tagores most celebrated works. In The Home and the World, perhaps his most popular novel, intricate issues of devotion to the motherland and to the family are explored through a story of two friends and a woman coming into her own. The Monk-king, with its devious priest and marauding armies, is also about the power of sacrifice and loyalty. In The Laboratory, Tagores last short story, he creates a world that is materialistic and amoral with a light yet ruthless touch. In poems like Camilla and An Ordinary Girl he describes the sadness of unrequited love, his drama. Chandalika, is about the angst and helplessness of being in love with an unattainable ideal. Brilliantly translated by Arunava Sinha, this selection of Rabindranath Tagores fiction, poetry, lyrics and drama is evidence of his position as one of the worlds greatest writers and reinforces the enduring nature of his words, emotions and beliefs.
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Rearview : My Roadies Journey
The story of a man who is equally hated and respected is one to be told. How is it that a boy, scrawny, weak and easily intimidated by society's darkness, becomes a singer, producer, editor, camera-man, singer and jammer? This is the story of Raghu Ram, notorious for his screen presence on MTV Roadies. The book takes readers through Raghu's life, and tells us the story of a man famous for the way he intimidates people by walking on stage.
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Stalin's Ghost
Once the Chief Investigator of the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko is now a pariah of the Prosecutor's Office and has been reduced to investigating reports of late-night subway riders seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin. Part political hocus-pocus, part wishful thinking - even the illusion of the bloody dictator has a higher approval rating than Renko. After being left by his lover for a more popular and successful detective, Renko's investigation becomes a jealousy-fuelled quest leading to the barren fields of Tver, where millions of soldiers fought, and lost their lives. Here, scavengers collect bones, weapons and paraphernalia off the remains of those slain, but there's more to be found than bullets and boots.
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Confessions of a Wild Child : Lucky - The Early Ye
Lucky Santangelo is a powerful and charismatic woman. But how did she become the woman she is today? Many people have asked and in Confessions of a Wild Child we discover the teenage Lucky and follow her on her trip to discover boys, love and how she fought her father, the infamous Gino Santangelo, to forget her own individual and strong road to success. Confessions of a Wild Child takes you on trip and navigates the teenage years of a wild child who will eventually rule an empire. Even at 15 Lucky follows her own path and it's a crazy ride taking the reader from a strict girls school in Switzerland to idyllic Greek island, a Bel Air estate, a New York penthouse and a shuttered villa in the South of France.
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A Dirge for the Dammed
It begins with a familiar story of displacement. The people of Jambhli have been ousted from their homes with promises of rehabilitation and compensation in cash and land, to make way for an irrigation project and the construction of a large dam. The Jambhlikars anguish at leaving behind everything they have known and resettling among hostile strangers - the beneficiaries of the dam project and their desperate search for alternative employment, for which they are neither trained nor qualified, are just the beginning of their troubles. In their search for a place to call their own, they must battle petty local politicians, scheming government officials strengthened by exploitative laws and self-serving social workers and face the ultimate betrayal at the hands of trusted leaders. Yet, even as the fabric of their social structure disintegrates, their courage, faith and innate goodness shine through in the face of unspeakable hardship. Heartbreaking, humane and utterly relevant to our time, this remarkable Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel stands apart in giving a voice to those who pay the price for progress and development and in vividly encapsulating the struggles of the impoverished against a ruthlessly corporatized world.
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14 - Stories that Inspired Satyajit Ray
A wonderful way to introduce readers not only to some superb stories, but also to the genius of Satyajit Ray, who, from these very stories, created great cinema. Sharmila Tagore A rich zamindar dreams that his daughter-in-law is an incarnation of goddess Kali; a housewife steps out of her lower middle-class household into the big city to work as a salesgirl; Goopy and Bagha fight the evil plans of the king of Shundi to rescue the kingdom of Halla; a group of friends runs into a self-proclaimed sage who claims to have been friends with Plato, Jesus and Buddha. Nobles at the court of Awadh, the chess-addicts Mir and Mirza, move to an undisclosed location to play undisturbed as their kingdom falls aroundthem. Shorts stories were the inspiration for fourteen of master filmmaker Satyajit Rays movies, every one of them a classic Devi, Jalsaghar and Shatranj Ke Khiladi, among them. Fourteen brings together all of those stories in one volume. These tales, by the likes of Rabindranath Tagore, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Rajshekhar Basu and premchand, are milestones in Indian literature quite apart from their cinematic glory. The anthology also contains two stories by Ray himselfAtithi and Pikoor Diarythat illustrate his own craft as a writer.From the dramatic to the starkly real, the humorous to the dark, the lyrical to the prosaic, Fourteen sparkles with narrative brilliance. Read together, these stories also provide us with the context for a new insight into the mind of one of Indias most loved and revered filmmakers.
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Prisoner, Jailor, Prime Minister
Siddhartha Tagore’s life is a result of conflict. He has worn many faces, been different men. He finds himself named the Prime Minister of India after explosive events put India on the verge of another terror assault and its very constitution stands to face revolt. A musical genius, and a prodigal son, Tagore’s views on China and Pakistan make him a very dangerous candidate for the job. But before his own inner conflicts can be resolved, he begins to find skeletons in the proverbial closet as terrible secrets unfold before him. This is a story of deceit, lust and politics of the very worst sort.
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After the Deluge
Meticulously researched, this fictionalized account of one of the most intriguing and mysterious periods of the nineteenth century is an un- put- detonable mix of adventure, mystery and suspense. Daniel, a French architect and Nora, his artist girlfriend, enter the world of Nikolai Roerich, the Russian artist who made the Himalayan foothills in India his home. While a painter of note, Roerich is also suspected to have been a double agent for the Americans and the Russians in India. Nora and Daniel meticulously reconstruct the many expeditions undertaken by the Roerich family in Central Asia and uncover astonishing details of the rivalry between the Russian and British Empires for the control of Central Asia and Tibet. Unfolding in the historical climes of the Great Game, After the Deluge throws up startling questions. What role did Nikolai Roerich, a Russian who was friends with both F.D. Roosevelt and Jawaharlal Nehru, have to play in the Great Game? And why does he remain such an important figure for numerous fringe groups and the government of the Russian Federation?
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The Avatari
A Mythical Kingdom: Legend has it that only those chosen by destiny can gain entry into Shambhala, the mythical kingdom believed to hold the ancient wisdom that humanity will need to resurrect itself from the inevitable apocalypse. They are the Avatari. An Ancient Artefact: When Henry Ashton, a retired British Army officer settled in the Yorkshire dales, receives a letter from a monk entreating him to prevent a hidden treasure stolen from a Laotian monastery from being misused, he finds himself honour-bound to respond. Assisted by a retired Gurkha Sergeant, a high-strung mathematician from Oxford with a Shambhala fixation of her own and an American mercenary on the CIAs hit list, Ashtons mission leads to an ancient map that dates back to the time of the great Mongol, Kublai Khan. A Secret that Must Not be Revealed: The group follows the trail, risking the perils of the inhospitable deserts of Ladakh, turmoil in Pakistan and the rugged mountains of Northern Afghanistan, where the Afghan War is at its height. But they are up against a deadly adversary with seemingly unlimited resources, who will stop at nothing to get possession of the anicent secret a secret that, if revealed, could threaten the very fabric of human civilization.
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On The Street Where You Live
MARY HIGGINS CLARK is the author of twenty-nine suspense novels; three collections of short stories; a historical novel, and a memoir. She is the co-author with her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, of five holiday suspense novels.
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The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living
The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living is a passionate and funny account of how to bring the deliciously soulful into modern life. In a world overrun by rampant egos, consumerism and celebrity, Alice Grist demonstrates how you can spiritualize your sanity and revamp your life, all with a side dish of feisty feminine panache! She discloses fabulous spiritual secrets with warmth and buckets of love, whilst revealing how to manifest a multitude of mysteries into your everyday reality. A definitive guide for anyone who desires a fabulously spiritual life. Intimately written with warmth, intelligence and humor, it guides the reader through the chaos of everyday life. A real candle in the darkness. Jacky Newcomb, Best-selling author of An Angel Saved My Life A fiery book covering many areas of human experience. If you’re ready to ignite your inner spark this is the book for you. Gabrielle Bernstein, Author of Add More Ing to Your Life
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Salt Water
Rish returns home to Mumbai, halfway through his college in the US, unable to deal with the suicide of his friend Sahil a manic depressive with an uncontrollable drug habit. He touches down in a world of careless money and no rules. As he struggles to repair old friendships and rekindle old love, hes quickly sucked into the same old pattern of magic pills, endless parties and random sex. Rishs quest for redemption quickly degenerates into an unstoppable roller coaster into the nights of south Mumbai, tearing through exclusive nightclubs and sea facing penthouses. When it crashes no one will be left standing. Saltwater is the raw, uncut footage of an entire generation losing it, together, one shiny party at a time.
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Indis's Biggest Cover Up
India’s Biggest Cover Up is a sequel to Dhar’s previous book, Back From Dead: Inside The Subhas Bose Mystery, which was released in 2005. Following that, Dhar and his colleagues had begun their research to find out the reason behind Subhash Chandra Bose’s death, and requested extra information from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Indian Prime Minister’s Office, and the Ministry of External Affairs. They also sought information from foreign governments through the Freedom of Information Act and the Right to Information Act. This book comprises 13 chapters along with six appendices. It also has over 200 photographs, and 90 top-secret documents that provide a whole new perspective on the death of Netaji. Dhar presents the readers with insights into why he believes Pranab Mukherjee played a role in Bose’s mysterious death. Dhar explains that how Mukherjee allegedly flew to Germany, and attempted to bribe Bose’s wife into giving a written approval to take the ashes from Renkoji Temple, Japan, to India as Bose’s ashes. India’s Biggest Cover Up also provides the readers with an original copy of the document in which the Indian government states that Bose’s death occurred due to a plane crash. It also presents information about former IB Director B. N. Mullik, who lied under oath that the IB had never snooped on Shaulmari baba, who was considered Netaji by many. However, this book comprises certain top secret records of the Intelligence Bureau that Mullik had personally spoken to Jawaharlal Nehru about, concerning certain trivial matters about Shaulmari baba. He also throws light on the treasure of the Indian National Army, which includes diamonds, jewellery, and other valuables that were given by expatriate Indians. There were four men behind the looting, and Jawaharlal Nehru hired one of them even after knowing about his corrupt activities. Dhar explains that it can be regarded as the first scam that took place in Independent India. This book was greatly appreciated by its readers, and newspapers across the country.