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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead |
| Author: Jeffrey
Eugenides |
| Price: Rs.
295/- |
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"When
it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain
it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler.
A love story can never be about full possession. Love
stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and
feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least
one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception,
give love a bad name…. It is perhaps only in reading
a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously
partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without
paying a crippling emotional price. I offer this book,
then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery.
Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed.
Let everybody else suffer." -Jeffrey Eugenides, from
the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
All proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead will go
directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered
by 826 Chicago. 826 Chicago is part of the network of
seven writing centers across the United States affiliated
with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated
to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative
and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers
inspire their students to write.
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Past Continuous |
| Author: Neel
Mukherjee |
| Price: Rs.
495/- |
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'The past is
a cruel country; it never renounces its claim on you.
Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds
a chance to start his life all over again when he arrives
in England to study. But to do that, he must not only
relive his entire past but also try and understand it,
naming things, making connections, unravelling the thread
of a narrative he can only now bring himself to read.
Above all, he must make sense of his relationship with
his mother - scarred, abusive and all-consuming. But Oxford
holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for and
as he loses himself in London and takes up residence with
the old Anne Cameron he drops out of official existence
into a shadowy hinterland of aliens. Meanwhile, the story
that Ritwik writes to stave off his utter and complete
loneliness - a Miss Gilby who teaches English, music and
Western manners to Bimala, wife of educated zamindar,
Nikhilesh - begins to find ghostly echoes in his life
with Anne Cameron. Subtly, almost imperceptibly, the two
stories across time, the stories of Miss Gilby in Raj
India at a critical time in its domestic politics, and
of Anne Cameron, whose South London garden starts being
visited inexplicably by rare tropical birds, start converging.
Which one is Ritwik making up? And then, one night, in
the badlands of King's Cross, Ritwik runs into Zafar bin
Hashm, suave, impossibly rich, unfathomable, possible
arms dealer. What does the drive to redemption hold for
lost Ritwik? Set in 1970s and 80s India, 90s England and
in the first decade of twentieth-century Bengal, on the
eve of Lord Curzon's infamous Bengal Partition of 1905,
Past Continuous is a scalding book about dislocations
and alienations, about outsiders and losers, about the
tenuous and unconscious intersections of lives and histories
and about the consolations of storytelling. It is also
a book about the impossibilities of love.
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A Quiet
Belief In Angels |
| Author: R J
Ellory |
| Price: Rs.
350/- |
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Joseph Vaughan's
life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s,
he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls
in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted
and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself,
Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community
and classmates from the predations of the killer. Despite
banding together with his friends as ' The Guardians',
he was powerless to prevent more murders - and no one
was ever caught. Only after a full ten years did the nightmare
end when the one of his neighbours is found hanging from
a rope, with articles from the dead girls around him.
Thankfully, the killings finally ceased. But the past
won't stay buried - for it seems that the real murderer
still lives and is killing again. And the secret of his
identity lies in Joseph's own history...
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Change of
Heart |
| Author: Jodi
Picoult |
| Price: Rs.
560/- |
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Author
presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss
and one man's last chance at gaining salvation.
Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it?
Is what we believe always the truth?
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to
years full of laughter and adventure with her family,
and the next, she was staring into a future that was as
empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting
for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short,
waiting for a miracle to happen.
For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world
has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the
world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens that
changes everything for him. Now, he has one last chance
for salvation, and it lies with June's eleven-year-old
daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches
an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes, and the rage
of a mother who has lost her child.
Would
you give up your vengeance against someone you hate
if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want
your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's
dying wish?
Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerizes and enthralls readers
with this story of redemption, justice, and love.
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Airman |
| Author: Eoin
Colfer |
| Price: Rs.
270/- |
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Conor
Broekhart was born to fly. Or more accurately, he was
born flying. Little wonder he became what he became.
In an age of discovery and invention, many dreamed of
flying, but for Conor flight was more than just a dream,
it was his destiny.
In one dark night on the island of Great Saltee, a cruel
and cunning betrayal destroyed his life and stole his
future. Now Conor must win the race for flight, to save
his family and right a terrible wrong...
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Eating India |
| Author: Chitrita
Banerji |
| Price: Rs.
350/- |
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| In
Eating India, award-winning food writer Chitrita Banerji
takes us on an extraordinary journey through a national
cuisine formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations
and conquests. Traveling across the length and breadth
of the country-from Bengal to Goa and Karnataka, via the
Grand Trunk Road, then northwards to Amritsar, Lucknow
and Varanasi, on to Bombay and Kerala-Banerji discovers
a civilization with an insatiable curiosity, one that
consumes the old and the new with eager voracity.
Weaving
together myths and folklore associated with food, the
people and their culture, the author narrates captivating
accounts of life in the subcontinent: the legend behind
the weeklong harvest festival of Onam; the strictly
observed rules of kosher in the Jewish households of
Cochin; the best Benarasi thandai that has a dollop
of bhang in it; and the food and culture of the indigenous
people who hover on the edges of mainstream consciousness,
among others.
Eating
India is also peppered with fascinating titbits from
India's history: the use of 'shali' rice to make pilafs
during the Mughal period; the advent of chillies with
the arrival of the Portuguese; British, apart from Goan,
influence on Parsi society that prompted the Parsis
to open the first girls' school in India in 1849; and
the medieval movable feast that unfolded on the travellers'
platter as they moved from east to west on Sher Shah
Suri's Sarak-i-Azam. At different points in her journey,
Banerji shows us how restructuring old customs and making
innovations is what India is all about: food in India
has always been and still is fusion-one that is forever
evolving.
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Why Mars & Venus
Collide |
| Author: John Gray |
| Price: Rs.295/-
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From
John Gray, author of the phenomenal 'Men Are From Mars,
Women Are From Venus', comes an outstanding new book for
men and women seeking lasting love in the face of modern
pressures. With 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus'
John Gray changed the lives and relationships of millions
people around the world. He helped men and women accept
just how different from each other they really are - and,
more importantly, how to work with these differences to
enjoy closer, lasting and more fulfilling relationships.
In 'Mars and Venus Collide' Gray looks at how the pressures
of our modern work-oriented lifestyles are putting added
stress on our relationships and making it harder and harder
for th em to work out long term. Men and women deal with
stress in different ways and their different needs often
lead to misunderstandings; miscommunication and resentment
- in short, Mars and Venus collide.
Bringing Mars and Venus into the 21st century, Gray explores
the different ways men and women approach their problems
and offer a clear, easy-to-understand programme to bridge
the gap. For example, a man's reticence when he is under
pressure is actually a natural way for him to rebuild
much needed stress-reducing testosterone from his depleted
system. Equally, a woman's need for conversation and support
when she is overwhelmed stems from a hardwired need for
cooperative activities to rebuild her own stress-reducing
hormone, oxytocin. It's not that he's just not into you
- he needs to fulfil a biological need. And it's not that
she means to pester you - she is also biologically driven.
Written with his signature insight and humour, Gray's
classically unconventional approach will empower men and
women alike to adapt to their new roles in our modern
work-driven society without compromising the intimacy
and lasting love everybody craves and needs.
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Billions of entrepreneurs |
| Author: Tarun Khanna |
| Price: Rs. 595/- |
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In
Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna uses on-the-ground
stories and thorough research to show how China and
India are embracing the world on their own distinct
terms. Entrepreneurs are powering change through new
business models and bringing hope to countless people.
Through intriguing, often provocative comparisons of
triumphs and travails in both countries, the author
illuminates such critical areas as:
1. The challenges of governing 2.4 billion people with
entrepreneurial tendencies
2. The need for information accessibility, transparency,
and reliability
3. The balance between private property rights and public
interests
4. The need to encourage and fund indigenous enterprise
5. The role of overseas Chinese and Indians in development
back home
6. The rise of medical tourism and the inequality of
health care
This book reveals how such differences will influence
China's and India's future development as well as what
the two countries can-and must-learn from each other
today. A compelling account, Billions of Entrepreneurs
paints a vivid picture of how China and India are reshaping
business, politics, and society around the world.
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