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Almost Heaven
Almost Heaven is a delightful story of two young lovers Elizabeth Cameron, the Countess of Havenhurst, and Ian Thornton, a very wealthy man and a gambler. An adventurous story of love, betrayal, and deceit, the story of Almost Heaven unveils around distrust and devotion of the two lovers, in the backdrop of posh London and the strange highlands of Scotland. Elizabeth Cameron and Ian Thornton are made for each other, yet they are cautious about each other’s intentions. Elizabeth’s fame is in stake as she owes lots of debts. Her only chance to get back her lost fame is to repay the debt. What is her plan to pay off? What is Ian Thornton’s motive behind wooing Elizabeth? Or, is there any motive at all? Are they really destined to be with each other? This beautiful novel by the renowned writer Judith McNaught will answer all these questions that a reader might have.
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Until You
New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught sweeps readers from the wilds of America to elegant 1820s London in this unforgettable romantic adventure. A teacher in a school for wealthy young ladies, Sheridan, Bromleigh is hired to accompany one of her students, heiress Charise Lancaster, to England to meet her fiancé. When her charge elopes with a stranger, Sheridan wonders how she will ever explain it to Charise's intended, Lord Burleton. Standing on the pier, Stephen Westmoreland, the Earl of Langford, assumes the young woman coming toward him is Charise Lancaster -- and informs her of his inadvertent role in a fatal accident involving Lord Burleton the night before. And just as Sheridan is about to speak, she steps into the path of a cargo net loaded with crates! Sheridan awakens in Westmoreland's mansion with no memory of who she is; the only hint of her past is the puzzling fact that everyone calls her Miss Lancaster. All she truly knows is that she is falling in love with a handsome English earl, and that the life unfolding before her seems full of wondrous possibilities...
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A Kingdom of Dreams
Jennifer Merrick, a headstrong Scottish woman, is abducted from her convent school by the English warrior Royce Westmoreland, but her disdain and impatience with her captor give way to her growing attraction
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Something Wonderful
Bestselling author Judith McNaught masterfully portrays a remarkable heroine, and an unforgettable passion, in this powerfully moving love story -- one of her most beloved novels of all time! The tempestuous marriage of Alexandra Lawrence, an innocent country girl, and Jordan Townsende, the rich and powerful Duke of Hawthorne, is about to face its ultimate test of tender loyalty. Swept into the endlessly fascinating world of London society, free-spirited Alexandra becomes ensnared in a tangled web of jealousy and revenge, stormy pride and overwhelming passion. But behind her husband's cold, arrogant mask, there lives a tender, vital, sensual man...the man Alexandra married. Now, she will fight for his very life...and the rapturous bond they alone can share.
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Perfect
A rootless foster child, Julie Mathison had blossomed under the love showered upon her by her adoptive family. Now a lovely and vivacious young woman, she was a respected teacher in her small Texas town, and she passionately lived her ideals. Julie was determined to give back all the kindness she'd received; nothing and no one would ever shatter the perfect life she had fashioned. Zachary Benedict was an actor/director whose Academy Award-winning career had been shattered when he was wrongly convicted of murdering his wife. After the tall, ruggedly handsome Zack escaped from a Texas prison, he abducted Julie and forced her to drive him to his Colorado mountain hideout. She was outraged, cautious, and unable to ignore the instincts that whispered of his innocence. He was cynical, wary, and increasingly attracted to her. Passion was about to capture them both in its fierce embrace...but the journey to trust, true commitment, and proving Zack's innocence was just beginning....
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Whitney, My Love
Whitney, My Love has been written by Judith McNaught and is a bestselling novel that has captivated millions of readers worldwide. The special edition of this famous bestseller comes with an extended conclusion and the author has provided deep insight into the lives of the main characters of the story. The story revolves around the life of Whitney Stone, who grows up to be a very sensual woman. She travels from Paris to England with the intention of winning the affections of her childhood love, Paul. However, her bankrupt father soon sells her to the arrogant Duke. The Duke tries his best to seduce Whitney and is successful in doing so. However, she cannot give up on her dream of true love.
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The Hanging of Afzal Guru
On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers. Both the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India have noted that the police violated legal safeguards, fabricated evidence and extracted false confessions. Yet, on 9 February 2013, one man, Mohammad Afzal Guru, was hanged to ‘satisfy’ the ‘collective conscience’ of society. This updated reader brings together essays by lawyers, academics, journalists and writers who have looked closely at the available facts and who have raised serious questions about the investigations and the trial. This new version examines the implications of Mohammad Afzal Guru’s hanging, and what it says about the Indian government’s relationship with Kashmir. The writers show how there is hardly a single piece of evidence that stands up to scrutiny and emphasize the urgent need for an impartial, transparent inquiry into the Parliament attack and its aftermath.
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The Test of My Life from Cricket to Cancer and Bac
A personal account of Yuvraj Singh’s journey through cancer with the 2011 World Cup victory in the background‘ That day I cried like a baby not because I feared what cancer would do but because I didn’t want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could not be.’ For the first time Yuvraj Singh tells the real story behind the 2011 World Cup when on-the-field triumph hid his increasingly puzzling health problems and worrying illnesses. In his debut book The test of my life, he reveals how—plagued with insomnia, coughing fits that left him vomiting blood, and an inability to eat—he made a deal with God. On the night before the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup final, Yuvraj prayed for the World Cup in return for anything God wanted. In this book, he lays bare his fears, doubts, and the lows he experienced during chemotherapy— when he lost his energy, his appetite, and his hair—and his battle to find the will to survive. Poignant, personal, and moving—The test of my life—is about cancer and cricket; but more importantly, it is about the human will to fight adversity and triumph despite all odds.
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Ask Me No Questions
The author of \"Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers\" pens a moving story about two teenage sisters, originally from Bangladesh, whose family lives illegally in New York City. After 9/11, immigration regulations change, forcing the family to seek asylum. \"You forget. You forget you don\'t really exist here, that this isn\'t your home.\" Since emigrating from Bangladesh, fourteen-year-old Nadira and her family have been living in New York City on expired visas, hoping to realize their dream of becoming legal U.S. citizens. But after 9/11, everything changes. Suddenly being Muslim means you are dangerous -- a suspected terrorist. When Nadira\'s father is arrested and detained at the U.S.-Canadian border, Nadira and her older sister, Aisha, are told to carry on as if everything is the same. The teachers at Flushing High don\'t ask any questions, but Aisha falls apart. Nothing matters to her anymore -- not even college. It\'s up to Nadira to be the strong one and bring her family back together again.
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Dancing to the Flute
A richly textured debut novel about an Indian boy whose life takes an unexpected. Turn when he is sent to live with a reclusive but renowned musician. Abandoned as a young child, Kalu, a cheeky street-kid, has against all odds carved out a life for himself in rural India. In the quiet village of Hastinapore, Kalu has also found friends: Bal, the solitary boy who tends to the local buffalos, and Malti, a gentle servant girl, who, with her mistress, Ganga Ba, has watched out for Kalu from the first day he wandered into the small town. One day, perched high in the branches of a banyan tree, Kalu chooses a leaf, rolls it tightly and, as he's done for as long as he can remember, blows through it. His pure, simple notes dance through the air and attract a traveling healer whose interest will change Kalu's life forever, setting him on a path he would never have dreamt possible, testing his belief in himself, his sense of identity, and his friendships. With all the energy and colour of India and its people, Dancing to the Flute is a magical, heart-warming story of a community's joys and sorrows, the transformative powers of music, the many faces of friendship and a boys journey, against all odds, to become a man.
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Bad Mother United
The long-awaited sequel to the number one bestselling The Bad Mother's Handbook Before Yummy Mummies and Slummy Mummies, before the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, before we wondered How She Does It, there was The Bad Mother's Handbook. Hundreds of thousands of readers lived a year in the life of Charlotte, Karen and Nan as they struggled with becoming mothers for the first time. And now they are back. Certainly older, probably not wiser, and definitely as hilariously catastrophic as before. For all those who have asked How to Be a Woman, here is How To Be... A Bad Mother
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Dirt Tracks
When turning your back is not an option Meet Shiva, the unquestioned king of street fighting. Cold, calculating and methodical, he is unbeatable, until Jacob beats him completelywith kindness. This is the beginning of their deep and lasting friendship that seemingly changes Shiva for the better. But like tracks baked into dirt, the debt of violence owed to the streets doesnt wash away easily. Enter Shravan, a dark reminder of Shivas past. Hate is a strong word but not strong enough for him. Its when life starts taking an ugly turn that Shiva realizes that Shravan needs to be stopped. Its something Jacob would never approve of. But Shiva knows that certain debts cannot be repaid with kindness. They have to be paid in kind.
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Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure
A welcome return to the village in rural France that was the setting for Joanne Harris's remarkable and much-loved number one bestseller Chocolat It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But Vianne is completely unprepared for what she finds there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea, and there, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the square little tower of the church of Saint-Jerôme like a piece on a chessboard – slender, bone-white and crowned with a silver crescent moon - a minaret. Nor is it only the incomers from North Africa that have brought big changes to the community. Father Reynaud, Vianne's erstwhile adversary, is now disgraced and under threat. Could it be that Vianne is the only one who can save him?
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The Return of Rafe Mackade
Welcome home. Youre the first one whos said it. Then again, you dont know any Better. The bad boy of the MacKade brothers had returned home and has the whole Maryland town buzzing. Attractive and charismatic as he ever was not even reserved antiques dealer, Reagan Jones, could be completely immune to Rafe MacKade. The lovely newcomer was intrigued by the businessman with a reputation for trouble but her plans didnt include a relationship with a rebel.
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In One Person
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love tormented, funny, and affecting and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a ‘sexual suspect’, a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of ‘terminal cases’, The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving’s In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself ‘worthwhile’.
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11th Hour: A Time to Die...
The eleventh novel in James Patterson's number one bestselling Women's Murder Club series Is one of Detective Lindsay Boxers colleagues a vicious killer? She won't know until the 11th hour... A notorious drug dealer is gunned down using a weapon taken from the evidence locker in Lindsays own department! Lindsay must investigate her closest colleagues. But who can she trust? And is she placing herself, and her unborn baby, in a deadly situation?
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The Red House
The most keenly awaited book of the year - the superb new novel by the author of A Spot of Bother and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children, a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours. And watching over all of them from high on the dark hill, Karen, Angela's stillborn daughter. The Red House is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary, weaving the words and thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter, stranger voices - of books and letters and music, of the dead who once inhabited these rooms, of the ageing house itself and the landscape in which it sits. Once again Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and A Spot of Bother, has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives.
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Ecological and Environmental Reporting in India: T
'Ecological and Environmental Reporting in India - A Handbook for the Media,NGOs & People' aims to empower constituents of the Indian media, NGOs and the general public; through building awareness about stark realities of critical Nature and Environment issues in India. It is a pioneering capacity building tool. For mainstream journalists and reporters it will be as handy reference volume. An inalienable part of their work table. Many NGOs with their own publications, activists and people who enjoy a presence in alternative media will also find it useful. Fresh students of all media and communication streams all across the country is yet another segment this handbook aims to reach. It will introduce them to the fundamentals of Environmental Journalism with emphasis on the Indian context - from code of ethics for environmental journalists to investigative methods. It will also offer them the right perspective and information about topics like reporting on Biodiversity, Wild life Journalism and True Sustainability. Carefully worked graphics, authentic photographs and detailed illustrations intensify the researched content presented in this volume.