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Scripting Destiny: Life Lessons
Dr. K.H. Sancheti is an orthopaedic surgeon with a difference. Founder of the Sancheti Institute of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (SIOR), Pune – one of the largest single speciality hospitals in South East Asia. He is the Director and Chief Orthopaedic surgeon of SIOR. Recognised for his exceptional service in the field of Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Medical Education and Research, the Government of India awarded him with the Padmashree in 1991 and Padmabhushan in 1993. Dr. Sancheti, or KHS, as he is endearingly called, is an innovator – designer of affordable orthopaedic prosthesis for the Indian masses. INDUS – the indigenous total knee transplant prosthesis, the first of its kind in the country, is a result of his research. Dr. Sancheti is an Honorary Orthopaedic Surgeon to His Excellency the Governor of Maharashtra and the Indian Armed Forces. He holds several distinguished positions in medical and academic institutions. Dr. Sancheti is also a self-taught hospital designer and has offered his expertise to several hospitals across the nation. Even at the age of 75 years, KHS continues to be a practicing orthopaedic surgeon and relentlessly pursues his research to innovate, design and manufacture. His Charitable work in healthcare continues unabated. Scripting Destiny inspires and tells how one can reach out for the skies!
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Ilandas Story
This book tells, in assorted episodes, the story of a hardy mother's struggle to make sure that her son got a decent education. The book is based against the background of a world where an untouchable woman lives a life few would be familiar with. Uttam Kamble, a prolific writer himself, talks about his own mother in a style that veers from the conventional. Ilanda Maruti Kamble is the protagonist of the book, a strong willed woman who believes that destiny is after all what one does with life by going against societal norms, if need be. Because of this alone, the book is actually a tribute to millions of other women to undergo a daily struggle so that their children may do well. The original Marathi book has been translated into English by Dr. V.V.Badwe.
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Colony
Siddharth Pardhe struggled against circumstances and financial problems to complete his education up to M Com. While studying, he worked and helped his family. I admire his and his family's attitude, for they continued on the right path. I hope young people born in similar circumstances as Siddharth and others will be inspired from his autobiography.
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Dude, Where's My Country?
Well, now the world's Bushwhacked. It's time for the good ol' boy to head for the hills, and Mike's on a mission to smoke him out at the next election - and help ordinary people get their country back. What's more, he's going to use his share of the tax cut to do it.
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The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw
Sheila Hancock's moving and utterly compelling account of her marriage to John Thaw
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Trowel and Error
Alan Titchmarsh has had a passion for gardening for as long as he can remember. Aged eight, he announced to friends that he was going to be the next Percy Thrower, although he thought it was no more than a dream. Here, he tells his own story from Ilkley Moor to Pebble Mill and to the final realizing of his dream of becoming TV's favourite gardener. Along the way, the cast of characters includes everyone from Auntie Ethel to Nelson Mandela and the Queen.
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Down Under
‘It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can’t tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle, but with a slightly British bent — a sort of Baywatch with cricket...’ Of course, what greeted Bill Bryson was something rather different. Australia is a country that exists on a vast scale. It is the world’s sixth largest country and its largest island. It is the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still it teems with life — a large proportion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes go for you. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. Ignoring such dangers—yet curiously obsessed by them—Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging; their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn’t get much better than this. In the late afternoon, I stopped at a roadhouse for petrol and coffee. I studied my book of maps and determined that I would stop for the night in Hay, a modest splat in the desert a little off the highway a couple of hours down the road. As it was the only community in a space of 200 miles, this was not a particularly taxing decision. Then, having nothing better to do, I leafed through the index and amused myself, in a very low-key way, by looking for ridiculous names, of which Australia has a respectable plenitude. I am thus able to report that the following are all real places: Wee Waa, Poowong, Burrumbuttock, Suggan Buggan, Boomahnoomoonah, Waaia, Mullumbimby, Ewylamartup, Jiggalong and the supremely satisfying Tittybong. As I paid, the man asked me where I was headed. "Hay," I replied, and was struck by a sudden droll thought. "And I’d better hurry. Do you know why?" He gave me a blank look. "Because I want to make Hay while the sun shines." The man’s expression did not change. "I want to make Hay while the sun shines," I repeated with a slight alteration of emphasis and a more encouraging expression. The blank look, I realized after a moment, was probably permanent. "Aw, you won’t have any trouble with that," the man said after a minute’s considered thought. "It’ll be light for hours yet." top
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Kerry: Story of a Survivor
Kerry Katona is one of Britain's most talked about celebrities. Her celebrity lifestyle and tales of her turbulent romances have intrigued the nation and gained her a dedicated fan base. She was one of the founding members of Atomic Kitten, but in 2001, gave up her lifestyle of fame to start a family. After a spell away from the limelight, Kerry appeared on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here," but Kerry's route to fame hasn't always been so glamourous. She never knew her father and her mother suffered from manic depression, and Kerry was raised by several sets of foster parents and spent years apart from the mother she is now so close to. Just when it seemed that Kerry had her life firmly on track, news broke that her marriage to Westife's Bryan McFadden was over. This is an in-depth look at an extraordinary woman who has battled the odds to win the hearts of the public.
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Long Way Down
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman travel down through Africa in a gripping and wildly entertaining new biking adventure
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Fifty Shades Of Grey
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, Fifty Shades of Grey is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind – until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view ...
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Fifty Shades Freed
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, The Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you and stay with you for ever. When Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably. Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy, and being together poses challenges neither of them had anticipated. Ana must learn to share Grey's opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own integrity or independence; and Grey must overcome his compulsion to control and lay to rest the horrors that still haunt him. Now, finally together, they have love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of infinite possibilities. But just when it seems that they really do have it all, tragedy and fate combine to make Ana's worst nightmares come true ...
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Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision
When a U.S. Special Forces team is wiped out by a group of normally peaceful farmers in Uganda, Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to investigate. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries. Smith finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. And as Smith and his team are cut off from all outside support, they begin to suspect that forces much closer to home are in play...
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Crazy in Alabama
Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of Southern justice, and what that means about the stories he's heard and the people he knows. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A FEATURED ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD
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As Far as You Can Go
When Cassie sees a job advertised for a couple to run a remote Australian farm, she thinks it will be the perfect escape for her and Graham. But trapped under the baking sun of the outback, paranoia sets in. There's no radio and they send but never receive any letters. Their enigmatic and unusually forgiving boss Larry and his wife Mara have secrets, sedatives, and some very odd habits: a result of their isolated lifestyle or something more sinister? And there's always the sensation, in the stark brush of the red desert, that eyes are watching them
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Plainsong
Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround, transport, and lift the reader off the ground." -FROM THE CITATION FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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Rebecca Notebook
An investigation of the creation of one of the most famous novels of all time.