Frostbite

It''s winter break at St Vladimir''s, and a massive Strigoi vampire attack has put the school on high alert. This year''s trip away from the academy to the wintery peaks of Idaho has suddenly become mandatory. But Rose''s troubles seem to follow her wherever she goes - dealing with the pain of knowing that her relationship with her tutor Dimitri can never be, things get even more complicated when one her closest friends admits his feelings for her. The glittering winter landscape may create the illusion of safety but Rose - and her heart - are in more danger than she ever could have imagined...

ISBN: 9780141328546
Author: Richelle Mead
Published by: Penguin Books India
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A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape and Other Essays

Charles Correa is a major figure in contemporary architecture around the world. With his extraordinary and inspiring designs, he has played a pivotal role in the creation of an architecture for post-Independence India —from the serene Mahatma Gandhi Museum at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to the unique Kanchanjunga apartment tower in Mumbai, the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, and most recently, MIT’s elegant Brain and Cognitive Sciences Centre in Boston.

A pioneer in addressing issues of habitat and urbanization in the developing world, he has designed townships in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and other Indian cities. In 1970 he was appointed Chief Architect for Navi Mumbai and in 1985 Chairman of the first National Commission on Urbanization. From 2005 to 2008 he was Chairman of the Delhi Urban Arts Commission. He has taught at several universities in India and abroad, including Cambridge (UK), Berkeley and Harvard. He is currently the Bemis Professor at MIT. Correa has a wide spectrum of interests,including film-making, toy trains and music. He has received the highest honours of his profession, including the RIBA Gold Medal (1984), the UIA Gold Medal (1990), the Praemium Imperiale of Japan (1994) and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1998). He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2007.

Indian cities are mechanisms for social engineering—more powerful than anything we have seen before. They will transform this country.

A Place in the Shade explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with our often hostile climate, to the metaphysical role of architecture as a Model of the Cosmos.

This reflective, provocative and consistently readable collection of essays argues that our habitat must respond to the overriding parameters of climate, culture and financial resources and that our physical environment should accommodate notions of inclusion and diversity, and that priceless quality of synergy which characterizes a city.

Charles Correa identifies the defining issues of the urbanization process that is so rapidly transforming India. He writes, ‘You cannot look at cities without wandering into architecture on the one hand and politics on the other.’ Tragically, over the last few decades, urban real estate has become the primary source of financing for political parties and the politicians who run them. But our towns and cities are assets too precious to be squandered in this manner. Like the wheat fields of Punjab and the coal fields of Bihar, cities are a crucial part of our national wealth. Their success—or their failure—will determine our future.

ISBN: 9780143068785
Published by: Penguin Books India
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There Was No One at the Bus Stop

‘Love was one thing, sin was another—and although it was difficult to tell love from sin, Trina had learnt to identify some of the signs.’

Set in Calcutta in the 1970s, There Was No One at the Bus Stop is a powerful exploration of adultery and its overwhelming consequences.

Trina, a married woman, impulsively decides one day to stop living a lie and walks out on her husband, daughter and son, in whose lives she no longer plays a role. But will she be able to sever the bonds and join the man she loves in his home? The man, Debashish, is haunted by his wife’s recent suicide and is tormented by the possibility that his young son would rather live away from him.

Through spare prose and searing dialogue, this novel unfolds over twelve hours on a single day. It reveals the often complex reasons that hold human relationships together and the motives that break them apart.

ISBN: 9780143067733
Author: Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay & Arunava Sinha
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A Clear Blue Sky: Stories and Poems on Conflict and Hope

Asha Nehemiah, Bulbul Sharma, Paro Anand, Gulzar, Rohini Chowdhury, Adithi Rao, Komail Aijazuddin, Poile Sengupta, Manjula Padmanabhan, Ranjit Lal, Subhadra Sen Gupta, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Elmo Jayawardena, Anasuya Sengupta

26/11, 9/11, 7/7—dates that have changed the way we see ourselves and those around us. Dates that have changed the world, and not for the better.

Why is the world getting increasingly fragmented? Is there a way for us to understand different viewpoints better?

In this collection, writers from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan—Gulzar, Elmo Jayawardena, Manjula Padmanabhan, Poile Sengupta, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Subhadra Sen Gupta and others—write about various kinds of conflict in our society and history. Some stories are dark, others full of light and hope, and some outright funny as they portray mindless bigots for what they are.

When a church burns in Bangalore, the altar cloth ends up in the hands of Mubina, whose grandmother can clean and repair it like no one else; years after the Partition tore a friendship apart, two people try to find the happiness that was once within their reach; and while chasing away courting couples from the Delhi Ridge, a young thug learns a lesson about what really makes Indian ‘culture’.

Interspersed with poems that articulate pleas for peace and understanding, this collection is sure to start a conversation on religion, race, caste, and mindsets that divide us.

ISBN: 9780143331414
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Illicit

Ashim didn’t attract her anymore. She had not realized that she had lost interest in this wooden, mechanical and tedious relationship. Until she met Partha.

Eight years into her marriage to Ashim, responsible and conscientious to a fault, Jeena, an attractive housewife, finds herself drawn to Partha Mukherjee. Stolen glances and clandestine meetings lead to a weekend trip to Puri while Ashim is away on business. At Puri, however, after a night of passion turns violent, Jeena is besieged with doubts about her illicit relationship.

This first-ever translation of Dibyendu Palit’s intimate novel explores Jeena’s turmoil and brilliantly captures the subtle textures of the original

ISBN: 9780143067726
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography

A revelatory, comprehensive and perceptive autobiography – candid, compelling and authoritative

Starting with his formative years, when he had the good fortune to interact with many eminent judges and advocates, Fali S. Nariman moves on to deal with a wide variety of important subjects, such as:

q The sanctity of the Indian Constitution and attempts to tamper with it.

q Crucial cases that have made a decisive impact on the nation, especially on the interpretation of the law.

q The relationship between the political class and the judiciary.

q The cancer of corruption and how to combat this menace.

The author outlines measures to restore the now-low credibility of the legal profession.

He also delineates his role in several high-profile cases. In recognition of his track record, the Government of India nominated him to the Rajya Sabha. He describes the highlights of his tenure there. Both members of the legal profession and the lay reader will find the contents informative and useful.

ISBN: 9788189988227
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Tiger Hills: A Novel

Sarita Mandanna was born and brought up in India and worked in Hong Kong before moving to the US. She is a private equity professional with a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management and an MBA from Wharton Business School.

‘Muthavva gazed at her daughter’s face in the lamplight and felt a strange chill down her spine. She tightened the amulet on Devi’s arm, trying to stay her sense of disquiet. Devi stared through the window into the clear, starlit night. Beneath the blanket, her fists were curled into little balls, her nails pressing into the skin. She thought again of the tiger wedding, and of the bridegroom. “Only him,” she repeated to herself. “I will marry only Machu.”’

Coorg,1878. Devi is born on the day of the herons, and Muthavva knows that her daughter will be special. Beautiful and spirited, the little girl quickly becomes the object of adoration of her entire family. She befriends Devanna, a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances, and they soon become inseparable. But the course of their lives changes forever when Devi meets Machu the tiger-killer, a hunter of great repute and a man of immense honour and pride.

Blind to Devanna’s devotion, Devi vows that she will marry Machu some day. This creates a rift between her and Devanna who leaves the village to study medicine in the hope that when he comes back Devi will return his love. But a catastrophic twist of fate changes the destinies of all three, with consequences that affect generations to come.

Rich with powerfully realized characters and intensely vivid imagery, Sarita Mandanna weaves an unforgettable story in her debut novel.

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ISBN: 9780670084845
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Cadbury Bournvita Book Of Knowledge Vol. 7

Since 1993, the Cadbury Bournvita Quiz Show, hosted by the inimitable Derek OÆBrien, has been a regular feature on television. Now, for the first time, the fully revised and updated Bournvita Book of Knowledge Volumes 1-11 are brought to you by Puffin in a brand new format, with over a hundred bonus questions. Bournvita Book of Knowledge Volume 12 is the latest addition to the series..

ISBN: 014333526X
Author: O`Brien, Derek
Published by: Penguin Books India/Puffin
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Dance Like A Man

A brilliant study of human relationships and weaknesses framed by the age-old battle between tradition and youthful rebellion, Dance Like a Man has been hailed as one of the best works of the dramatic imagination in recent times.

ISBN: 0143062085
Author: Dattani, Mahesh
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Captive Imagination: Letters from Prison

Varavara Rao is a well-known Telugu poet and an ideologue of Maoist politics. He is one of the founders of VIRASAM – Revolutionary Writers’ Association, the first of its kind in India, directly inspired by the Naxalbari and Srikakulam adivasi peasant struggles. He has published ten volumes of poetry and his work has been translated into a number of Indian languages. He was also one of the spokespersons in the first ever talks held between the Maoists and the Andhra Pradesh government in 2000.

Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of THE RIVER BETWEEN, A GRAIN OF WHEAT and PETALS OF BLOOD all available as Modern Classics. Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.

Poet, Marxist critic and activist, Varavara Rao (VV) has been continually persecuted by the state and intermittently imprisoned since 1973, but he never stopped writing during all these decades, even from within prison. When he was subjected to ‘one thousand days of solitary confinement’ during 1985­–89 in Secunderabad Jail, a leading national daily invited him to write about his prison experiences.

While prison writing is a hoary tradition, no writer has had the opportunity to publish his writings from jail. VV, however, did meet the demands placed on him as a writer, despite constraints of censorship by jail authorities and the Intelligence section. He decided to test his creative powers in jail on the touchstone of his readers’ response and expressed himself in a series of thirteen remarkable essays on imprisonment, from prison.

ISBN: 9780670082575
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