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When Only Love Remains
I’ve imagined this in my head so many times. I’ve always thought about what I would say; What I would do and how it would all turn out to be. And every time I would remove some detail … She’s a flight attendant—young, bright and living her dream. He’s a heartbroken singer on his way to becoming big. She’s an ardent fan of his. He can’t imagine why and yet seems to find comfort in her words. It’s the first time they are together and in their hearts both are wishing, hoping and praying that the night would never end. That the time they are spending together lasts and lasts … In the world of imperfection, there is always someone just right for you. Durjoy Datta was born in New Delhi, India, and completed a degree in engineering and business management before embarking on a writing career. His first book—Of Course I Love You!—was published when he was twenty-one years old and was an instant bestseller. His successive novels—Now That You’re Rich!; She Broke Up, I Didn’t!; Ohh Yes, I Am Single!; If It’s Not Forever; Till the Last Breath; Someone Like You; Hold My Hand—have also found prominence on various bestseller lists, making him one of the highest-selling authors in India.
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Quantum Siege
This is the endgame. The terror group Lashkar has directly threatened the prime minister of India with never before consequences, if referendum is not declared in Kashmir immediately. The UN Security Council has called for an emergency session scheduled to meet within two days to discuss the Kashmir crisis. Rudra Pratap Singh and his team at the Anti - Terror cell face their toughest challenge yet. Millions of innocent lives are at stake while India readies itself for war. Time is running out and the terrorists threat is about to actualize. Will they be able to neutralize it, trace the perpetrators and avert war? Set in the heart of a metropolis, this diabolical thriller will consume you in its labyrinthine madness.
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The Striker
1902, and Isaac Bell is investigating sabotage in a West Virginia coal mine. But when he stops a runway train, saving countless lives, Bell discovers that it is part of a conspiracy to frame striking miners. From West Virginia to Pittsburgh, New York City and Cincinnati, Bell is now on the hunt for clues to discover who is behind this murderous scheme. It puts him up against a ruthless agent provocateur allied to a cabal of staggering ambition and cold-bloodedness. Bell must prevent them starting a war which could bring the nation to its knees. Introducing us to Isaac Bell early in his career, The Striker is a pulse-pounding adventure from the world’s favourite writer of non-stop thrillers.
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Love Among the Bookshelves
Ruskin Bond's stories have amazed and inspired. But what are the stories which amazed and inspired him? In this anthology, he presents the stories he grew up on, and the inspiration that he drew from them. In stories by authors such as P. G. Wodehouse, whose Love Among The Chickens is the inspiration for this book's title, H. E. Bates, W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Dickens and Richard Jeffries, learn how young Ruskin Bond became the writer we all know and love. Including immortal stories such as selections from the Pickwick Papers, From Cakes And Ale, Schooldays, Rule Days, and From The Story of My Heart, this collection takes readers back to a time where stories where the sole escape a little boy could afford. In doing so perhaps, we can understand where the muse hides, and where to find her. Ruskin Bond speaks out in this part-memoir, part anthology, and tells readers that his tryst with reading didn't begin in a library or a bookshop or even an old aunt's collection of romance novels. He tells them that it began with a week he spent at a forest rest house in the Rajaji sanctuary, and there he discovered something which set the course for the rest of his life: a wall cupboard with a couple of shelves full of books. In these anecdotes, he draws readers into his past and reveals a process hidden in plain sight, yet one every non-writer wishes to understand. How does a person become a writer? The answer Bond gives is simple. By reading, of course. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is a British-Indian writer. He is known best for his children's stories. Some of his works are: The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, The Sensualist, The Blue Umbrella, Angry River, The Parrot Who Wouldn't Talk and The Blue Umbrella. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian literature and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He now lives in in Landour, near Mussoorie with his adopted family.
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The Fallen-The Enemy Is Closer Than You Think
When the Holloway crew arrives at the Natural History Museum they find anew group of survivors.These kids are different,though.Rather than fighting,they're looking for a cure.All they need are medical supplies.But to get them means a journey down unknown roads - and hiding in the shadows is something they never could have imagined.
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Spot Girl
Jia is living her greatest dream. Shes the manager cum girl Friday of the countrys hottest film star Shezad Khan, She loves her job and she loves her boss. However, her wonderfully stressful life hits a low when Shezad gets romantically involved with an upcoming actress. She soon finds her picture perfect existence clouded with self-doubt, heartbreak, questionable career choices and total disillusionment. In a place where everyone pays a price, how far will she go for her love? From Mumbai to Cannes, Spot Girl is the journey of an ordinary girl who ends up finding something real in this fascinating world of make belief. About the Author Komal Mehta used to be a spot girl-however, she is now an author, story and screenwriter. She discovered she could write at the age of sixteen and went on to write for newspapers, magazines, DVD covers, websites, blogs, etc. She now writes books and scripts for movies and serials. She has an engineering degree in IT and is a postgraduate in management. Her previous work experience includes working for Reliance Big Entertainment, EURO RSCG and Pradeep Guhas Culture Company (Culture Brandz) in the field of film marketing.
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Popular a Memoir : Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Gee
Maya is a fifteen year old girl who feels out of place in school. The social life is strangely vague to her. The volley ball girls, the band children, the jocks, and the outcasts appear to be dwelling in an utterly chaotic world. This makes Maya claim to be a geek herself. On a fateful day, she meets Betty from the 1952 edition of Betty Cornell’s Guide to Teenage Popularity and ventures out on a social experiment. She compiles one chapter at time, with titles like Personality, Hair, Poise and such headers. She recounts all kinds of emotions – poignancy and hilarious – all ending in the grand plan, the prom. About Maya Van Wagenen Maya Van Wagenen was eleven when her family moved to Texas, which served as the backdrop for her book Popular. Apart from writing, Maya is passionate about reading, chocolate and British television. She has two siblings and currently lives with her parents in the rural part of Georgia.
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Eighteen and Wiser (Not Quite!)
Join Rinki and the walf pack in the most exciting year of their lives She has dreamed of it, longed for it, cried for it. And now, she’s it. Rinki Tripathi is finally eighteen! But, as she realizes, being eighteen comes with its own set of troubles: parental expectations (they seem to be obsessed with the ‘F’ word: Future), romantic complications (in the form of the so-gorgeous-it-isn’t-fair Tejas), professional tribulations (don’t even ask). Rinki can’t understand why her male friends prefer her female friends to her. Her college teachers can’t understand why her attendance is so poor. And her parents, poor folks, don’t understand her at all! Rinki has hit the magic number but her life is far from magical. Will the eighteenth year of her life make her feel wiser? Read the last instalment in the Rinki series and find out.
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Alice in Corporate Land : Career Lessons from a Fa
A book is more than complete if it evokes wonder, emotions and provokes thought. If it births new ideas, by sharing its own fresh ones, that book accounts for an engaging read. Alice in Corporate Land attempts to look at the career growth of a young girl in the corporate world, keeping the Alice in Wonderland fairy fable as the fabric or the frame of narration. Just like Alice meets strangers in her journey, this book introduces us to strange but insightful ideas and thoughts about our professional life. The young girl in the book could be any fresher who is looking for some help, advice and a friendly guidance in the corporate world. A must read for focussed professionals who aspire to scale greater heights. About Tulika Tripathi Tulika Tripathi is an Indian writer and author. She is the managing Director of the Asian Operations for an international talent solutions company. She has been into recruitment for the past ten years and has a vast experience in corporate. Alice in Corporate Land holds more gravity as a book, as it is written by an achiever herself.
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Right Here Right Now
Seventeen-year-old Kalindi wakes up in a hospital, little more than a clean slate. She has forgotten everything about her past, and no one knows how this happened. When she meets her parents, her friends and her boyfriend, it feels like she's meeting them for the first time. She doesn't like what she hears about the old life they tell her about, it doesn't feel right. She has no past in her mind, and struggles to come to terms with being a completely new person. Adding to the fire is her fast-approaching final examination, and she remembers nothing of what she studied at school. If she does not regain her memories, she will lose the reward of all her hard work. Even if she does, will she be happy with who she used to be? About Nikita Singh Nikita Singh is a writer. Her books: Love @ Facebook and Accidentally in Love are best-sellers. Nikita has also co-authored two books with Durjoy Datta and has contributed to the The Backbenchers series. A graduate in Pharmacy, she was born in Patna and grew up in Indore. She currently works at a leading publishing house in New Delhi as publishing manager. A voracious reader, she is the recipient of Live India Young Achievers Award in 2013.
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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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The Joy of Achievement : Conversation with J. R. D
An entertaining, intimate and deeply moving portrait of the legendary industrialist. For six decades J.R.D. Tata headed India’s largest industrial conglomerate with uncommon success. This was only one aspect of his life. He was also a man of great sensitivity who suffered at the loss of friends and was pained by the poverty he saw around him: a philanthropist who wanted India to be ‘a happy country’ and did all that he could to make it so: a man with a passion for literature, fast cars, skiing and, of course, flying. This book, by the author of the best-selling The Last Blue Mountain, records JRD’s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In these pages he speaks of the House of Tatas and his style of management, about how he nearly joined the freedom struggle in the early 1940s, about the ‘thrill of living a little dangerously’, his love of music and wine, and the writers he likes to read. He speaks also, with striking candour and insight, about the failures of socialism, the future of India and his association with stalwarts like Jawaharlal Nehru. Jayaprakash Narayan, Vallabbhai Patel, Indira Gandhi and Henry Kissinger. Towards the end of the book, in the final year of his life, we see him come to terms with death, God and the afterlife
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The Inspiring Journey of a Hero
O. P. Munjal started Hero Cycles in 1956, fuelled by meagre resources and an insatiable ambition. His vision was to create an inexpensive and effective mode of transportation for a post-Independence nation on the move. The rest, as they say, is history - Hero Cycles went on to become the worlds largest bicycle manufacturer. This book chronicles the life of O. P. Munjal through anecdotes from his professional and personal life. He proved that a people-focused management style could be superior to the process driven systems of the West. The book is a result of extensive conversations with O. P. Munjal, Hero employees, dealers and family members. Join bestselling author Priya Kumar as she takes you on a roller coaster ride seen through the lens of a visionary with the soul of a poet.
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Lost City of the Templars
Retired Army Ranger turned historian John Holiday has thwarted the plots of Rex Deus, the twenty-first-century incarnation of the Templars, all over the world. Now,the lost journal of explorer Percy Fawcett leads Holiday deep into the South American jungles on a quest to uncover the greatest mystery of the middle Ages... Trailed by an infamous tomb raider and menaced by a tribe of hostile natives, Holiday and his crew uncover a five-hundred-year-old society hidden in the cauldron of the Amazon. Descendants of the Templar Knights, they exist for one reason: to hide and project the holy artefact taken from the original Temple of Jerusalem by the legendary Ark of the Covenant.But,will Holiday's obsession with truth finally kill him?
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An Uncertain Glory : India and its Contradictions
When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial subjugation, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech and extensive political rights. The famines that had been so common in the colonial era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the almost complete stagnation characteristic of the long rule of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy, which has quickened over the last three decades, became the second fastest in the world. Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest among nations. Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth is an important and achieveable goal for India. In AN UNCERTAIN GLORY, two of India's leading economists argue that the country's main problems lie elsewhere, particularly in the lack of attention paid to the essential needs of the people, especially the poor. The deep inequalities in Indian society tend to constrict public discussion in India's vibrant media to the lives and concerns of the relatively affluent.One of the biggest failures has been the very inadequate use of the public resources generated by economic growth to expand India's lagging physical and social infrastructure (in sharp contrast, for example, to what China has done): there is a continued inadequacy both of social services such as schooling, medical care and immunization, and of physical services such as the provision of safe water, electricity, drainage and sanitation. Even as India has overtaken a large number of other countries in the rate of economic growth, it has, because of these inadequacies, fallen behind many of the same countries - often very poor ones - in the progress of quality of life. Because of the importance of democracy in India, addressing these failures will require not only significant policy rethinking by the government, but also a better public understanding of the abysmal extent of social and economic deprivations. The deep inequalities in Indian society tend to constrict public discussion in India's vibrant media to the lives and concerns of the relatively affluent. Dreze and Sen argue that if there is to be more effective democratic practice, there has to be a clearer understanding of the severity of human deprivations in India. This book makes a powerful contribution to that understanding.
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Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology
Hinduism can be a puzzle or even an enigma to the uninitiated. There are so many different beliefs, so many rituals and so many myths and legends, it can be hard to follow. Myth = Mithya: A Handbook Of Hindu Mythology is an attempt by the author to shed light on this seeming tangle, to show the deeper meanings of the different stories. He explains about the Hindu Trinity and their Divine Consorts. He also goes into the puzzle of why Hindus believe in one Supreme Reality and yet claim the existence of 330 million Gods. The book explains concepts like the Pitr, Jiva, and about the Devas and the Asuras. He explains the significance of various rituals. He discusses how the warrior-like Kali and the benign Gauri are different forms of the same Goddess. He also compares the roles and the powers of the Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. He goes into the idea behind the various avatars or incarnations of the Preserver, Vishnu. He examines why the Rama and Krishna avatars have assumed such significance. Myth = Mithya: A Handbook Of Hindu Mythology also compares the two major epics, The Ramayana and The Mahabharata. It analyzes why the two avatars in the epics, Rama and Krishna, were so different. It shows that the age that these epics were set in demanded different perspectives to handle similar situations. This book is not a continuous narrative, it does not read like a novel. Instead, it is a source of reference for those who want to gain a deeper understanding of the stories and rituals and symbols that permeate the Hindu faith. The book is not aimed just at those who are non-Hindus. Even those who have been brought up in the Hindu faith can gain some deeper insights into their customs and beliefs through this book. Myth = Mithya: A Handbook Of Hindu Mythology also includes illustrations which are drawn by the author.
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Scandalous Liaisons
In Lucien's Gamble Lucien Remington, a debauched libertine, finds the untouchable Lady Julienne La Coeur dressed as a man in his gentleman's club. In Stolen Pleasures, Olivia Merrick, a merchant's daughter, finds out that her new husband, Sebastian Blake, is actually high-seas pirate Captain Phoenix and in her Mad Grace Hugh La Coeur, the Earl of Montrose, shelters from a snowstorm in an eerie mansion owned by a mad duchess. But her companion, fiercely independent Charlotte, might just keep him warm in the night.
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Spellbound
Max Westin, Sex incarnate everything about him was a little rough, a little gritty. A primitive creature, just like she was. He held her hand a little too long, his thickly lashed gaze clearly stating his intentions to have her, to tame her.Victoria, her name, just one word but spoken with such possession she could almost feel the collar around her neck. It's in your nature, he murmured, the desire to be taken. In this game of cat and mouse, everything is an illusion but the passion is as real as it gets.
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Paperback Dreams
Jeet Roy, a college Casanova, has published a book by unfair means. All he wants is to earn loads of money and have hot girls chase after him wherever he goes. Rohit Sehdev, a one book old popular fiction writer is furious when he finds out that his publisher has cheated him out of his royalties. Karun Ahuja is a highly ambitious schoolboy who wants to win the heart his lady love by writing a novel about it and he doesnt mind playing dirty to get to the top. Ruthlessly exploiting these ambitious young men is their unscrupulous publisher. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, Paperback Dreams is the story of a new breed of young writers who will do anything to get famous, fast.
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What a Loser!
Pandey Anil Kumar Sinha (PAKS) comes to Delhi with precisely three things: One, his jaded old trunk full of sattu and achaa, two, a borrowed dream of becoming an IAS officer from his clerk father and three to sleep with a milky white Punjabi girl. However, PAKSs goals begin to change when he falls in love, enrolls for English classes and finds cool friends. Then suddenly he is pushed to the forefront of college elections and he becomes a hero! PAKS is living his ultimate dream or is he? What will happen next? Will he ever get what he really wants? Find out in this laughathon full of cliches straight from the cow belt of India.
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A Convenient Culprit
Ace crime journalist Joy Dutta is killed and his arch rival, Jagruti Verma is accused of using her alleged connection with the dreaded don Chikna Ramu to commit the murder. Their mentor and ex-boss, Ammar Aney, whose exposes had earned him the respect of his fraternity and whose enemies had conspired to destroy his personal and professional life is forced out of retirement to get justice for both Joy and Jagruti. As he delves deeper, Aney realizes that the culprits and their motives are more dangerous than he could have ever imagined.
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Teatime for the Firefly
Layla Roy has defied the fates. Despite being born under an inauspicious horoscope, she is raised to be educated and independent by her eccentric grandfather, Dadamoshai. And, by cleverly manipulating the hand fortune has dealt her, she has even found love with Manik Deb - a man betrothed to another. All were minor miracles in India that spring of 1943, when young women's lives were redetermined - if not by the stars, then by centuries of family tradition and social order. Layla's life as a newly married woman takes her away from home and into the jungles of Assam, where the world's finest tea thrives on plantations run by native labor and British efficiency. Fascinated by this culture of whiskey-soaked expats who seem fazed by neither earthquakes nor man-eating leopards, she struggles to find her place among the prickly English wives with whom she is expected to socialize and the peculiar servants she now finds under her charge. But navigating the tea-garden set will hardly be her biggest challenge. Layla's remote home is not safe from the powerful changes sweeping India on the heels of the Second World War. Their colonial society is at a tipping point and Layla and Manik find themselves caught in a perilous racial divide that threatens their very lives. Debut author Patel offers a stunning, panoramic view of a virtually unknown time and place-the colonial British tea plantations of Assam-while bringing them to life through a unique character's perspective.
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Zen Garden : Conversations with Pathmakers
For the immensely popular column Zen Garden, which he published in Forbes India for over three years, bestselling business author Subroto Bagchi spoke to some very interesting people. Many, though not all, of the visitors to Zen Garden were, like Subroto himself high performance entrepreneurs. But the one thing that was common to every guest was that they were pathmakers rather than choosing to follow the well trodden path, they had charted new paths that others could tread on. This book features the very best conversations from Zen Garden, including those with the Dalai Lama, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Nandan Nilekani, Aamir Khan, Dr. Devi Shetty, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Ekta Kapoor, social entrepreneur Harish Hande, Sanjeev Bikhchandani of Naukri.com, Deep Kalra of MakeMyTrip.com, Cafe Coffee Days V. G. Siddhartha, Vikram Bakshi (the man who brought McDonalds to India) and Indias top wine-maker, Rajeev Samant. In their own words, these game changers reveal what it was that made them think differently, what gave them the courage to step off the beaten track and how they sustained their vision in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.