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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.
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The Armageddon Rag
Magic, music, drugs and rock'n'roll in an early novel from George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones. Onetime underground journalist Sandy Blair has travelled far from his radical roots in the 1960s - until the bizarre and brutal murder of a millionaire rock promoter draws him back. As Sandy sets out to investigate the crime, he finds himself on a magical mystery tour of the pent-up passions of his generation. For a new messiah has resurrected the once legendary rock band Nazgul - but with an apocalyptic new beat that is a requiem of demonism, mind control and death which only Sandy may be able to change in time.
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Low Pressure
Relentless domestic thriller from numerous Number One New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Bellamy Lyston Price was only 12 years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene as well as her memory of one vital fact that still eludes her... Now, 18 years later, Bellamy has written a novel based on Susan's murder. It's her first book, and it's an instant sensation. But because the novel is based on the most traumatic event of her life, she's published it under a pseudonym to protect herself and her family. But when a sleazy reporter for a tabloid newspaper discovers that the book is based on a real crime, Bellamy's identity - and dark family secrets - are exposed. Suddenly, she finds herself embroiled in a personal conflict and at the mercy of her sister's killer, who for almost two decades has gotten away with murder and will stop at nothing to keep it that way.
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Seed of Genius: Nurture Your Natural Multiple
You are unique, special and different with a high potential to succeed and do well in your life, profession, business or career. For this you need to know your true strengths and capabilities so that you can focus on them to get the best. You need to get to know your hidden potential fast so that you do not waste your time, energy and resources on inherent weaknesses and problems. Believe in yourself...Take Charge of Your Life Taking charge comes from within, so you need to be proactive in being the boss of your own mind. Being proactive means looking ahead and planning to the extent that you can. Taking charge of yourself may be the fuel you need to make everything in your life a success. Appo Deepa Bhavah Be your own lamp Buddhas last words to his foremost disciple Ananda, as he fell silent to embrace his approaching death.
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Doing what is right: The CRISIL Story
This book tells the unique story of an intrepid company that made it big against all odds, relying on nothing other than its intellectual capital and the power of its vision. Founded in the regulated and stagnant Indian economy of the late 1980s, offering a credit rating service that had no takers, and without any real assets or capital, CRISIL seemed destined to fail. Instead, it became one of Indias most respected companies, redefining its vision from being India- focused to playing a quiet but critical role in global markets. This is a story of razor-sharp analytics, unshakeable values and sheer grit. It is also a story of leaders with very different styles, who brought it all together over a quarter of a century. A narrative that, above all, shows that doing well can go hand in hand with doing what is right.
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Silenced
A true Scandinavian page-turner, Kristina Ohlsson's new novel is packed full of suspence, authentic police procedure and psychological depth Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl is assaulted and raped as she picks flowers for a Midsummer's Eve ritual. Cut to the present, and a man is killed in a hit and run. He has no identification on him, he is not reported missing nor wanted by the police. At the same time, a priest and his wife are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman, along with Alex Recht's federal investigation unit, is assigned to the seemingly unconnected cases. The investigations lead to a clandestine people- smuggling network: a new player on the international human smuggling market operating out of Bangkok. As the police slowly uncover the shocking hypocrisy behind the network, they begin to find a trail that runs all the way back to the 1980s, to a crime that went unreported, but whose consequences will reach further and deeper than anyoneever expected.
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Fatherland
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth - a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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One and a Half Wife
Unlike most Indian immigrants, Amara Malhotra is not destined to achieve the American Dream. Much to the anxiety of her parents - the spirited Biji and the doting Baba - Amara leads an unremarkable life. That is, until she marries Harvard-educated millionaire, Prashant Roy. However, this fairy-tale isn’t meant to last, and even as Amara’s marriage collapses, she finds herself returning to the land of her birth, to the small city of Shimla. Here, in a borough grappling with questions of modernity, Amara is caught in a tug-of-war between old beliefs and new ones, between parents who favour obedience and new friends who encourage independent thought. With powerful insights, One and a Half Wife traces the coming-of-age of multiple characters, while re-defining family, relationships and love in contemporary India.
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Archangel
When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel, and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past.