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Red Templar
Army Ranger and historian John Holiday has spent his life crossing the globe uncovering the truth behind the ancient Templar Order. Returning home, he is intercepted at by a mysterious Russian, Genrikhovich, with an astonishing secret...
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Time Riders: The Pirate Kings
Relocated to Victorian London, the TimeRiders joy ride back to 1666 to witness the Great Fire of London. In the ensuing chaos, Liam and their newest recruit, Rashim, find themselves trapped between the fire and the Thames. They escape on board a river
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You Stole My Song
Nitin is thrilled to join the No. 1 Bollywood music composer Sunil Kumar. And it looks as though the love of his life, Aditi, has feelings for him too. He is feeling on top of the world. But all his dreams come crashing down one after another. Aditi breaks up with him. Sunil steals Nitins song Zero fikar and passes it off as his own. It goes viraltwo million hits in two days! At this point, the only person who is willing to help Nitin is his friend Govinda, whose aim in life is to win Baddies on YTV and get a girlfriend of his own. Things certainly dont look good for Nitin! WILL HE BE ABLE TO GET BACK AT SUNIL? CAN HE EXPOSE THE PLAGIARISM RAMPANT IN THE BOLLYWOOD MUSIC SCENE? WILL HE BE ABLE TO WIN BACK THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS?
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Rukmini Devi: A Life
On 30 December 1935, thirty-one year old Rukmini Devi created history with her performance of Sadir, later known as Bharata Natyam, which had until then been confined to temple precincts and was the preserve of devadasis. A celebrated artiste and dancer, she was also a Theosophist, a composer of acclaimed dance-dramas, an educationist, an animal welfare and child rights activist, and a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. This rich biography illuminates her many lives. Rukmini???s early life was in the districts of Madras presidency where her father, an engineer, was posted, and it took many dramatic turns: her marriage in 1920 to George Arundale, a Theosophist and family friend, caused public outrage, particularly among the Madras brahmins. She was closely associated with Annie Besant, who became her mentor, and her meeting with Anna Pavlova inspired her to learn dance. Rukmini went on to establish Kalakshetra, an academy of arts, in 1936, which grew and flourished, and is renowned to this day for its classicism in dance training and performance???a tribute to her skill as an institution builder.
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Leela:A Patchwork Life
Leela Naidu was listed as one of the five most beautiful women in the world by Vogue magazine. But she was much more. She was the fine- boned, haunting face in Hrishikesh Mukherjee???s Anuradha; she was the woman who refused to sign Raj Kapoor???s films four times; she was Dom Moraes???s muse, his unpaid secretary, his best friend. Jean Renoir taught her acting and Salvador Dali used her as a model for a Madonna. Leela is a memoir that is charming, idiosyncratic and a window to Leela???s intriguing life. Everyone who met her has a Leela Naidu story. This is her version.
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Gabriel's Inferno
One man's salvation, one woman's sensual awakening . . . Gabriel Emerson is a man tortured by his dark past. A highly respected university professor, Gabriel uses his notorious good looks and charm to lead a secret life of pleasure where nothing is out of bounds. Sweet and innocent, Julia Mitchell enrols as Gabriel's graduate student and his immediate attraction to her, and their powerful and strange connection, threatens to derail his career. Wildly passionate and sinful, Gabriel's Inferno is an exploration of the intense power of forbidden love.
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Gabriel's Rapture
Two lovers bound by their darkest desires... Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate but clandestine love affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell and is teaching her the sensual delights of the body, and the raptures of sex. But their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics and jealous ex-lovers. Can their love survive against all odds and will Gabriel fight to keep Julia?
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The Fault in Our Stars
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
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Someone Like You
The hum of a motorbike. The uproar of the crowd in the stadium. The cheering and clapping. All fell silent Just the thumping of their hearts remained and a questionwere they going to lose him? Thanks to the makeover by her sisters friends, the nerdy Niharika entered college more confident, more attractive. She meets the sweet, shy Tanmay, and the spoilt but lovely Pia and they become best friends. And when Akshat and she began dating, life finally seemed to be falling in place. Except that it wasnt Tanmays success in football had begun to change him. Akshats perfection seemed like a front for something dark and sinister. And their college senior Karthik? His aggressiveness was a cover for his mysterious past. Someone Like You is a powerful and touching story of friendship, love and betrayal.
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Priya: In Incredible Indyaa
Set in Delhis toxic waste of power, money and greed; Priya is the voyeuristic diarist from Namita Gokhales cult novel Paro India is shining, and Suresh Kaushal, stout lawyer of sober habits, has propelled himself up the political ladder to become Minister of State for Food Processing, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Canneries. His wife Priya cant believe their luck. Determined to ensure it doesnt run out, she struggles valiantly with social vertigo, infidelity and menopause. Along the way she also learns vital lessons of survival, as she watches her glamorous new friend Pooonam chase status, sex and Jimmy Choo shoes, and her radical old friend Lenin ride a donkey and lose his bearings. In this wickedly funny and occasionally tender book, Namita Gokhale resurrects some unforgettable characters from her 1984 cult bestseller Paro, and plunges them neck deep into Delhis toxic waste of power, money and greed.
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Green Rose
An intense but not angsty take on being caught up in a non accepting world To be a lesbian is to be different. It’s to be like the green rose amongst the red. Growing in the posh confines of south Delhi, the beautiful and accomplished Charu is a coveted match. However, all the matchmaking seems to fail when no dream marriage with a ‘foreign-posted’ groom seems to materialize—much to the amazement of speculating, fat Punjabi aunties of her neighbourhood and of her middle-class Bengali parents. Only Charu knows the reason. A reason which till now she’s hidden from everyone, even herself—that she’s a lesbian. But one lesson in love from the lady in the neighbourhood, and Charu knows there is no turning back on the truth. Not even when she wishes things were different, for her parents’ sake.
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Cold Feet
Honest, touching and sensitive portrait of five young women trying to find their life in the city of Mumbai Sometimes, you have to run away to find yourself. Sometimes, you find yourself where you aren’t looking. Sometimes, you find yourself only after you lose yourself. Amisha has found her perfect man and is going to marry him, but suddenly feels the need to push the boundaries of their relationship. Akshara is in love with her best friend, but while he will give her benefits, he won’t give her his love. Ladli has had her heart broken, so she runs away, only to find it waiting for her at the other side. Shayna knows what she wants in a man, but the man she wants is nothing like that. And finally, the girl who wants Shayna, actually just needs a friend. Cold Feet is the story of the strangely entwined lives of five women who live in Mumbai and deal differently with the same thing—love.
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Gods Without Men
In the Californian desert a small, autistic child goes missing. A British rock star goes quietly mad. An alien-worshipping cult is born. An Iraqi teenager takes part in a war game. In an odd, remote town, near a rock formation known as The Pinnacles, lives and experiences intertwine, stories entangle and echo, and the search for meaning, pattern and connection in a dying universe continues.
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Devil's Gate: A Novel from the Numa Files
Kurt Austin and NUMA are back on the case A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores - when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster - when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of NUMA's Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.
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Love Stories That Touched My Heart
An anthology of moving, inspirational, heartwarming or heartbreaking, love stories shortlisted in a nation wide contest by Penguin India! Love only a four letter word, yet its so powerful that it can conquer anything in this world! Weve all experienced the first flush of love and remember the lingering fragrance of it. For ages Love has remained one of the most cherished experiences that everyone wishes to live through at least once. Humanity, time and again, has coined many definitions to describe this beautiful emotion, but this small word is a feeling that cant simply be defined. It has to be narrated . . . in the form of stories love stories. Love Stories That Touched My Heart is a collection of such stories from readers who have a tale to tell, shortlisted from over 2000 entries that were submitted in a competition conducted by Penguin India. Selected and edited by Ravinder Singh, this anthology made up of the stories that touched Ravins heart the most will make you believe that someone, somewhere, is made for you.
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Arranged Love
Suhaani is enjoying her independent status in the US and her sexy Indian American boyfriend, when suddenly she loses her job to recession. And she's forced to move back to India where her father has selected a 'boy' for her from his guitar class. Suhaani doesn't know how to tell her Internet-savvy dad and Farmville-addict mother that she's not interested in an arranged match, especially to an IlTian. She decides to dislike the guy. Except that he's not too thrilled about her either. Even when they end up working together, Suhaani decides she will not fall for this guy. But before she can turn him down, he rejects her! Find out what happens next in this racy comedy of relationships that is Arranged Love!
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Who Let the Dork Out?
From the bestselling author of Dork and God Save the Dork, comes another potential blockbuster! With just 12 months to go before the 2010 Allied Victory Games in New Delhi, there is pandemonium at the Ministry for Urban Regeneration and Public Sculpture. Specially appointed by the prime minister to oversee preparations for the Games, the ministry now find themselves in the centre of a media shit storm. Preparations are months behind schedule they had completely forgotten about Takewondo and the minister Badrikedar Laxmanrao Dahake not only has to deal with an irate PM but also with, high intrigue in the Lok Sabha, fiendish investigative journalists, and a relentless BBC reporter who insists on interviewing him live in English. Dahake is about to resign when he runs into an unlikely saviour: master strategist, media expert, and international financial wizard Robin Einstein Varghese, currently running the Delhi Lederman office.
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In the Flesh: Fifty Shades meets Mr Darcy
Fifty Shades meets Mr Darcy. A Regency spin on the classic story of an innocent heroine discovering the truth depth of her desires. Regency society already believes she's a scarlet woman. Why not become one? Beatrice Weatherly's reputation is in tatters. With scandalous pictures of her being scrutinised by the ton and her brother running them into debt, Beatrice's only hope a respectable marriage is dashed. Then powerful, wealthy Edmund Ellsworth Ritchie offers an indecent proposal: for one month of hedonistic servitude, he'll pay off her brother's debts. But nothing can prepare Beatrice for the worst, for discovering that she enjoys her degradation and delights in the dark fantasies that Edmund has awakened. In fact, she's fast becoming addicted to a life and a man that can never wholly be hers...
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The Angel: More scorching than Fifty shades
The Angel is the second book in Tiffany's Original Sinners BDSM Romance trilogy. She wanted him... Nora Sutherlin is hiding. On paper, she's following her master's orders and her flesh is willing. More deeply, more strongly than she'd wanted anyone But her mind is wandering to a man from her past, whose hold on her heart is less bruising, but whose absence is no less painful. Instead of letting him make love to her, she'd let him go. This is the story of a summer that proves that love hurts.
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Red Sorghum
The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar?nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.
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The Lucifer Code
A secret scroll remains hidden deep in an ancient sanctuary. It is guarded by a sacred order who await to unleash its true powers and bring doomsday upon mankind. Only one man - Dr. Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of ancient languages, who we first met in the bestselling novel The Atlantis Code - can safely bring this secret scroll to its rightful place in history. Lourds soon becomes the focus of a deadly manhunt, taking him from Istanbul through Eastern Europe, right to the heart of the Vatican, where the forces of good and evil will collide…
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The Race: An Isaac Bell Adventure
1910, and America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged . . . Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost - the country's leading as well as most glamorous pilot - to win. Which is why he's hired Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Josephine saw her husband Harry Frost kill a man. Now he wants her dead. And with underworld contacts ready to help in every city en route, he'll do anything, go after anyone who gets in his way - including Whiteway and Bell. Packed with brilliant twists and turns, The Race sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a killer whose resources are only matched by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a life time . .