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AFTER AN EPIC AND INTERRUPTED JOURNEY ALL THE WAY FROM THE SNOWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, JACK REACHER HAS FINALLY MADE IT TO VIRGINIA. HIS DESTINATION: A STURDY STONE BUILDING A SHORT BUS RIDE FROM WASHINGTON D.C., THE HEADQUARTERS OF HIS OLD UNIT, THE 110TH MP. IT WAS THE CLOSEST THING TO A HOME HE EVER HAD.WHY? HE WANTS TO MEET THE NEW COMMANDING OFFICER, MAJOR SUSAN TURNER. HE LIKED HER VOICE ON THE PHONE. BUT THE OFFICER SITTING BEHIND REACHERS O...

BILLY BUD IS SELECTED AS THE SAILOR FOR THE WARSHIP 'INDOMITABLE'. THE COMMANDING FORCES OF THE SHIP ARE WARY AND WORRIED AS THE SAILORS ALL OVER THE WARSHIPS HAVE GONE BERSERK. REVOLT IS THE ONLY WORD THAT THEY SEEM TO UNDERSTAND. NATURALLY, TO MAINTAIN DISCIPLINE, THE OFFICERS HAVE TO TAKE HARSH ACTIONS. JOHN KLAGART IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 'FLAG' DEPARTMENT. VAGABOND BY NATURE, HE HAS A KEEN EYE ON THE FELLOW SAILORS. IT IS HIS DOUBT THAT BI...

VARUL' THE NOVEL BY BABARAO MUSALE DEPICTS THE LIFE OF OPPRESSED AND DOWNTRODDEN MASSES FROM RURAL AREAS. SPLIT IN TWO PARTS, THE NOVEL PORTRAYS THE DAY TO DAY LIFE OF THREE GENERATIONS (ESPECIALLY TWO GENERATIONS ). IT TALKS ABOUT THEIR SURVIVAL, CLASHES TRIGGERED BY THE MULTI-LAYERED CAST SYSTEM, TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS, POVERTY, LACK OF EDUCATION AND THE LONG TERM EFFECTS THEREOF UPON THE SOCIAL STRATA. IT ALSO GIVES US A WELL NARRATED COMME...

MMA RAMOTSWE, WHO BECAME ENGAGED TO MR J.L.B. MATEKONI AT THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK, IS STILL ENGAGED. SHE WONDERS WHEN A DAY FOR THE WEDDING WILL BE NAMED, BUT SHE IS ANXIOUS TO AVOID PUTTING TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON HER FIANCE. FOR INDEED HE HAS OTHER THINGS ON HIS MIND - NOTABLY A FRIGHTENING REQUEST MADE OF HIM BY MMA POTOKWANI, PUSHY MATRON OF THE ORPHAN FARM.MMA RAMOTSWE HERSELF HAS WEIGHTY MATTERS ON HER MIND. SHE HAS BEEN APPROACHED BY A W...

ONE AMAZING STORY. TWO DIFFERENT ENDINGS. AT THE END OF PERUMAL MURUGAN'S TRAILBLAZING NOVEL ONE PART WOMAN, READERS ARE LEFT ON A CLIFFHANGER AS KALI AND PONNA'S INTENSE LOVE FOR EACH OTHER IS TORN TO SHREDS. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT TO THIS BELOVED COUPLE? IN TRIAL BY SILENCE-ONE OF TWO INVENTIVE SEQUELS THAT PICKS UP THE STORY RIGHT WHERE ONE PART WOMAN ENDS-KALI IS DETERMINED TO PUNISH PONNA FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES IS AN ABSOLUTE BETRAYAL...

George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc.

INDIA, 1939. GIAN, A GANDHIAN PACIFIST, COMMITS A MURDER, DEBI-DAYAL, AN ARDENT REVOLUTIONARY, IS CAUGHT WHILE SETTING FIRE TO A BRITISH PLANE. BOTH MEN ARE SENT TO THE ANDAMANS PENAL COLONY. IN THE BEEHIVE LIFE OF THE PRISON, THEY WORK IN OPPOSITE CAMPS-PRO-BRITISH AND ANTI-BRITISH. DURING WORLD WAR II, WHEN THE JAPANESE TAKE OVER THE ISLANDS, ALL THE CONVICTS SUDDENLY FIND THEMSELVES FREE. GIAN AND DEBI MANAGE TO RETURN TO INDIA ONLY TO GET ...

THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SELECTED SPEECHES OF LAXMAN MANE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. SOME ISSUES RELATED TO NOMADIC CASTES-TRIBES, RESERVATIONS, COMMUNALISM, ASHRAM SCHOOLS, CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, HEALTH, NAME CHANGE, BUREAUCRACY, INDUSTRY, BABRI MASJID, EMPLOYMENT, DEVDASI, MARATHI AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE, WOMEN ETC. ARE COVERED THROUGH HIS SPEECHES. HE THROWS LIGHT ON EXPLOITATION OF NOMADIC TRIBES BY THE SOCIETY AND THEIR NEGLECT BY THE GOVERN...

WANTED IS THE NEW THRILLER FROM ROBERT CRAIS, AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WHEN SINGLE MOTHER DEVON CONNOR HIRES PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR ELVIS COLE, IT'S BECAUSE HER TROUBLED TEENAGE SON TYSON IS FLASHING CASH AND SHE'S AFRAID HE'S DEALING DRUGS. BUT THE TRUTH IS DEVASTATINGLY DIFFERENT. WITH TWO OTHER PARTNERS IN CRIME, HE'S BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR A STRING OF HIGH-END BURGLARIES, A CRIME SPREE THAT TAKES A DEADLY TURN WHEN CHAIN OF MURDERS STA...

ONE AMAZING STORY. TWO DIFFERENT ENDINGS. AT THE END OF PERUMAL MURUGAN'S TRAILBLAZING NOVEL ONE PART WOMAN, READERS ARE LEFT ON A CLIFFHANGER AS KALI AND PONNA'S INTENSE LOVE FOR EACH OTHER IS TORN TO SHREDS. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT TO THIS BELOVED COUPLE? IN A LONELY HARVEST-ONE OF TWO INVENTIVE SEQUELS THAT PICK UP THE STORY RIGHT WHERE ONE PART WOMAN ENDS-PONNA RETURNS FROM THE TEMPLE FESTIVAL TO FIND THAT KALI HAS KILLED HIMSELF IN D...

GILLIAN FLYNN IS THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GONE GIRL, FOR WHICH SHE WROTE THE GOLDEN GLOBE-NOMINATED SCREENPLAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS DARK PLACES AND SHARP OBJECTS, AND A NOVELLA, THE GROWNUP. A FORMER CRITIC FOR ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, SHE LIVES IN CHICAGO WITH HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN.

THIS WAS A MAN CONTINUES THE STORY OF THE CLIFTON FAMILY. IT STARTS WITH THE READERS TO BELIEVE KARIN HAS BEEN EXECUTED BY HER RUSSIAN HANDLER AFTER BEING FOUND OUT AS A DOUBLE AGENT. HARRY SETS OUT TO WRITE HIS LITERARY MASTERPIECE. THE BARRINGTON SHIPPING EMPIRE IS SOLD AND EMMA ENDS UP HELPING THE GOVERNMENT OF MARGARET THATCHER AND JOINS GILES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. SEBASTIAN GETS PROMOTED TO RUN THE BANKING BUSINESS IN WHICH HE HAS WORKED...

APOORVA , ALAUKIK , EKMEV IS ALL ABOUT THE POWER OF NOSTALGIA WHERE ITS AUTHOR YASHODHARA REMINISCES ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS KEEPING THE LEGACY LEFT BEHIND BY THE PEOPLE IN HER LIFE AT THE CENTER OF THE NARRATIVE . AS SHE WAS INDEED BLESSED TO BE BORN IN A FAMILY OF STALWARTS LIKE HER GRANDPARENTS DADASAHEB PHALKE AWARD WINNER BHALJI PENDHARKAR , ACTOR-PRODUCER FROM THE SILENT- TALKIE ERA LEELABAI PENDHARKAR , FATHER FIGURES LIKE NARENDRA KATK...

IN KHAKI FILES, NEERAJ KUMAR, A FORMER DELHI POLICE COMMISSIONER REVISITS MANY SUCH HIGH PROFILE POLICE CASES OF HIS CAREER -FROM INVESTIGATION OF ONE OF THE BIGGEST LOTTERY FRAUDS IN THE COUNTRY TO FOILED ISI ATTEMPT TO KILL TARUN TEJPAL AND ANIRUDH BEHAL OF TEHALKA-BRINGING TO LIGHT NUMEROUS ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE COUNTRY S POLICE FORCE, OTHERWISE LARGELY REVILED AND RIDICULED.

ROBERT LANGDON HARVARD PROFESSOR OF SYMBOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS ICONOLOGY ARRIVES AT THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO TO ATTEND THE UNVEILING OF AN ASTONISHING SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH. THE EVENING'S HOST IS BILLIONAIRE EDMOND KIRSCH A FUTURIST WHOSE DAZZLING HIGH-TECH INVENTIONS AND AUDACIOUS PREDICTIONS HAVE MADE HIM A CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE AROUND THE WORLD. BUT LANGDON AND SEVERAL HUNDRED GUESTS ARE LEFT REELING WHEN THE METICULOUSLY ORCHESTRATED EVE...

THE NOVEL, KASHEER EXPLORES THE DETAILS OF WHY KASHMIR, ONCE A RICH PLACE OF INDIAN CULTURE, HAS BECOME DULL AND SURRENDERED TO THE RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS TODAY. KASHEER, HAVING KASHMIR AS ITS THEME, INVOLVED INTENSE RESEARCH AND TRAVEL. IT HAS BEEN WIDELY ACCLAIMED SINCE ITS RELEASE AND HAS SEEN 6 PRINTS TILL DATE. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿. ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿...

EIGHT DAYS BEFORE THE SUMMER SOLSTICE, A MAN IS BUTCHERED IN A BLOOD-FREEZING SACRIFICE ON THE ANCIENT SITE OF STONEHENGE BEFORE A CONGREGATION OF ROBED WORSHIPPERS. WITHIN HOURS, ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST TREASURE HUNTERS HAS SHOT HIMSELF IN HIS COUNTRY MANSION. AND TO HIS ESTRANGED SON, YOUNG ARCHAEOLOGIST GIDEON CHASE, HE LEAVES A CRYPTIC LETTER . . . TEAMING UP WITH AN INTREPID WILTSHIRE POLICEWOMAN, GIDEON SOON EXPOSES A SECRET SOCIETY ...

VISHWANATH ANAND IS THE KING OF 64 HOUSES. THE UNCROWNED EMPEROR ON THE CHESSBOARD. A FIVE-TIME WORLD CHAMPION. IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HE UNFOLDS MANY STAGES IN THE FORMATION OF A WORLD CHAMPION FROM A YOUNG AGE. THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS AS ENGAGING AS THE MASTER OF CHESS. THIS JOURNEY OF VISHWANATH ANAND'S, WHICH BEGAN AT THE AGE OF SIX, TOUCHES ON A NUMBER OF THINGS, INCLUDING DOMINATING THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, HIS TRAVELS TO THE CORNERS OF THE...

SAANGATI IS A JOURNEY WHICH PUTS LIGHT ON SOME GREAT PERSONALITIES FROM THE FIELD OF THE ART & LITERATURE. HE LINEARIZES THE ARTISTRY OF THESE ARTISTS. AS MANY STORIES, EVENTS AND MEMORIES UNFOLD, THIS BOOK INTRODUCES US TO MANY TALENTED PEOPLE. FROM GO.NI.DANDEKAR, KUSUMAGRAJ, VINDA, RANJEET DESAI, VAPU, SUSHI, KHEBUDKAR, EVERYONE'S INTIMACY COMES DOWN TO WORDS. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿. ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿...

DAMIEN BROWN, A YOUNG DOCTOR, THINKS HE`S READY WHEN HE ARRIVES FOR HIS FIRST POSTING WITH MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES IN AFRICA. BUT THE TOWN HE`S SENT TO IS AN ISOLATED OUTPOST OF MUD HUTS, SURROUNDED BY LANDMINES, THE HOSPITAL, FOR WHICH HE`S TO BE THE ONLY DOCTOR, IS FILLED WITH MALNOURISHED CHILDREN AND CONDITIONS HE`S NEVER SEEN, AND THE HEALTH WORKERS-ANGOLAN WAR VETERANS TWICE HIS AGE WHO SPEAK NO ENGLISH-WALK OUT ON HIM FOLLOWING AN ALTE...