Young Samurai: The Ring of Earth

JACK FLETCHER IS ON THE RUN

With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home...

But the Shogun''s samurai are hot on his trail. Barely escaping their clutches, Jack runs headlong into a trap. Kidnapped by ninja and led to their village deep in the mountains, Jack has no means of escape.

The only question is who will kill him first - the ninja or samurai?

ISBN: 9780141332536
Author: Chris Bradford
Published by: Penguin Books India
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The Postmaster

For Sale In : All Countries Short Description:-The author''s quaint and charming prose traces a man''s journey from the alleyways of Old Delhi of the early 1900s to post-Partition Pakistan, seamlessly weaving into the text a series of memorable vignettes and characters: Ghulam Rasool''s first infatuation; his lifelong friendship with Ahmad, the son of the Imam, who falls in love with a courtesan and distinguishes himself in the First World War; his marriage to Sara which leaves him intellectually unfulfilled; and, finally, his one magnificent obsession - Kiran, the Hindu wife of his subordinate - which threatens to undo everything that he has achieved in his lifetime...

ISBN: 014303152X
Author: Ashraf, Saad
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The Long Road to Siachen The Question Why

Kunal Verma A filmmaker and a writer, he has been professionally associated with the Armed Forces for over two decades. Having flown in every fighter type, sailed on virtually every warship and operated with the Army in every nook and corner of the country, he has had an amazing ringside view of some of the most dramatic events.

Rajiv Williams As a company commander in 8 Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry, he participated in the most famous battle that was fought on the Siachen Glacier. He subsequently went on to commond the same battalion after which he was a part of the Indian Army’s Liaison Cell that coordinated with the media during and after the Kargil conflict.

This extensively researched book, amazing in both its scope and style, breaks just about every existing mould as it races through unexplored and uncharted areas to weave together a fascinating story that needed to be told. Superbly illustrated with breathtaking photographs, it''s almost like watching a film in the form of a book.

ISBN: 9788129116468
Author: Kunal Verma & Rajiv Williams
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Shobhaa at Sixty: Secrets of Getting It Right

The obsessive-compulsive writer of fifteen books, Shobhaa De has spent the last three years in the pursuit of her first vocation, journalism. Her columns are ubiquitous, appearing in nearly every newspaper and magazine of note. They carry her customarily edgy observations on matters of politics, the economy, business and commerce, the heart and the hearth.

Best-selling author, jet-setting commentator and honest critic, she is most at home in Mumbai--a city which is also a recurrent ‘character’ in much of her work—living there with her husband Dilip and (when they’re around) their six children

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From India’s most widely read writer You’ve got nothing left to prove ... remember, life begins at 60! For most of us who have crossed the sixtieth milestone in the journey of life, there’s a tendency to consider oneself as ‘over the hill’, a ‘has-been’, or an ‘old fogey’. But for the irrepressible and exuberant Shobhaa Dé, that’s certainly not the case – life only begins at sixty!

Declaring sixty the new forty, she comes up with a potent elixir to rejuvenate life, and provides practical tips on how to cope with the physical and emotional downslides commonly experienced by the post-sixty generation. Whether it’s the flagging levels of confidence or diminishing stamina, Shobhaa provides the perfect antidote.

She lays great emphasis on family values and ties, and underlines the importance of a spiritual quest – all of which make each passing decade more meaningful and enriching. Drawing up a ‘road map’, which enables the reader to chalk out a future course, Shobhaa shows us how life is so very beautiful and just how much we have to look forward to!

ISBN: 9789380480497
Author: De Shobhaa
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Road to Commonwealth Games

Sunil Yash Kalra has served Indian sports in different capacities for over a decade. As a sports filmmaker, he created India’s first docudrama on women’s cricket, Poor Cousins of Million Dollar Babies. He is also the author of a coffee table book, Commonwealth Journey from Melbourne to New Delhi.

The Commonwealth Games hold out many promises—they will firmly establish Delhi’s identity as a global city, promote sports among Indians, create job opportunities, increase tourism . . . But what is the reality behind these claims?

Come October, when India hosts the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi, the country will unite in celebrating the biggest sports extravaganza in its history. The whole nation will share the emotions of sportspersons in their moments of triumph and failure during these twelve exciting days. The Games will impact on many different aspects of our lives, and the buzz has already begun.

The book lays bare Delhi’s level of preparedness for the Commonwealth Games 2010 by analyzing important indicators including the physical infrastructure, tourism, security arrangements, the creation of employment and the impact on the environment. Extensively researched, it provides readers with an interpretative and insightful account of the various aspects related to the Games—from sports legacy to corporate sponsorship; from the socio-cultural impact of the Games to their effect on employment. The book also includes a survey of over 5,000 employers across the country on the long- and short-term impact that the Games will have on work opportunities in India.

ISBN: 9780143415251
Author: Sunil Yash Kalra
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Eat Pray Love: Film tie-in edition

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the Pen/Hemmingway Award) and a book of non fiction, The Last American Man (nominated for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book for 2002). She is a writer-at-large for American GQ where she has received two National Magazine Award nominations for feature writing. Her most recent book, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India & Indonesia is an international bestseller. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in New Jersey. The audio edition, published in November 2008, is read by the author.

The Last American Man, published by Bloomsbury in January 2009, and rereleased in paperback in August 2009, is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressible life lived to the extreme. Stern Men, re-issued by Bloomsbury in March 2009, is her debut novel and Pilgrims, also re-issued in March 2009, is a collection of short stories of memorable individuals pursuing their own American pilgrimage

A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman''s search for happiness - now a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem.

It’s 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She’s in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they’re trying for a baby – and she doesn’t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

ISBN: 9781408809365
Author: Gilbert Elizabeth
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Beautiful from this Angle

Maha Khan Phillips was born in Karachi in 1976, and attended the Karachi American School. She moved to London in 1994 where she works as a financial journalist. She has a BA in politics and international relations and an MA in international conflict analysis from the University of Kent at Canterbury. In 2006, she graduated with a first class degree from City University London’s inaugural MA in creative writing programme. The novel was written on that course. Maha is arried and has one son. She divides her time between London and Karachi, and is the author of The Mystery of the Aagnee Ruby.

Dishing up the dirt on the bold, the beautiful and the downright ugly from Karachi’s hottest page 3 parties!

Amynah Farooqui writes ‘Party Queen on the Scene’, a weekly anonymous gossip column for a Karachi magazine. Amynah, who makes no apologies for her life of casual sex and recreational drugs, is the polar opposite of her best friends, Mumtaz and Henna, whom she wishes would lighten up—especially Mumtaz, who is too uptight to be the daughter of a drug baron.

When party regular Monty Mohsin starts raking in the moolah producing a reality TV show called Who Wants to Be a Terrorist? Mumtaz decides to cash in on the trend by making a documentary on violence against women in Pakistan. And the ever-resourceful Amynah finds the perfect subject in Nilofer, Henna’s childhood friend from the village. As filming begins, it becomes obvious that each of them has their own agenda—including Nilofer, who’s not as helpless and innocent as she seems. The stress of the project, along with pressure from Henna’s politician father, draws the friends apart. Then tragedy strikes and changes their lives forever.

Maha Khan Phillips’s Beautiful from This Angle is a sensational debut that serves up a cocktail of Chanel and cocaine, fundoos and feudalism, while on the search for love and happiness among Pakistan’s swish set.

ISBN: 9780143068761
Author: Maha Khan
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Bengal Divided

In Bengal Divided, the author brings alive the personalities that dominated politics in the years that followed, throwing new light on historical facts and events in the turbulent pre-independence period. He dissects the process by which two separate identities were forged, culminating in the creation of East Pakistan in 1947 and Bangladesh in 1971. As the tale unfolds, so do the roles of personalities such as Chittaranjan Das, Subhas Chandra Bose, Nazrul Islam, Fazlul Huq, H.S. Suhrawardy and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. The underlying sentiment of the book is a desire to see—even if political separation continues—much greater interaction in terms of common culture, shared history and geography and economic complementarity.

ISBN: 067099913X
Author: Sengupta, Nitish
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Blue Heaven

The award-winning, adreneline-fueled follow-up to C.J. Box''s breakout bestseller THREE WEEKS TO SAY GOODBYE: A 12-year-old girl and her younger brother run for their lives in the deep woods of North Idaho

THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, NOW THEY''RE RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES

If twelve-year-old Annie hadn''t been angry with her mother, she would never have taken her younger brother William on a secret fishing trip deep into the North Idaho woods and they would never have witnessed the execution nor looked straight into the eyes of the four executioners.

Now they''re running for their lives.

They can''t go home: the killers know exactly who they are. And where they live.
They can''t turn to the law: the killers are four respected Los Angeles policemen.
There''s nowhere for William and Annie to hide. And no one they can trust.

Until they meet Jess Rawlins.

Rawlins, an old-school rancher, knows something is wrong with the law in Blue Heaven. But he is only one against four men who will stop at nothing to silence their

ISBN: 9781848874749
Author: C.J. Box
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Dark Goddess

Sarwat Chadda is a qualified engineer and lives in London. He won an Undiscovered Voices writing competition in 2007, which brought him to the attention of several publishers and resulted in a hotly contested auction for Devil’s Kiss – which Puffin won.

After the death of her soulmate Kay by her very own sword, Billi SanGreal has thrown herself into the brutal regime of Templar duties with utter abandon. There is no room for feelings any more - her life is now about hunting down the Unholy.

But when Billi and another Knight Templar are caught at the heart of a savage werewolf attack, only Billi survives - except for a young girl at the scene who Billi unthinkingly drags away with her as they escape. But Vasalisa is no ordinary girl. She is an avatar with an uncontrollable power - and it''s not only the werewolves who want her.

Billi has to flee to the frosty climes of Russia, with a human timebomb who, it seems, could destroy the world . . .

ISBN: 9780141325880
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Trees Of Delhi : A Field Guide

ISBN: 9780144000708
Author: Pradip Krishen
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Flavours Of Delhi

Just as each ruler left his architectural mark on Delhi, so each bequeathed to it a culinary legacy.

Flavours of Delhi: A Food Lover’s Guide tells the story of Delhi through its food. It explores the city’s culinary history beginning with Indraprastha, taking us through the Sultanate period, Mughal rule and the British raj, and bringing us right up to the present.

Professional chef and food writer Charmaine O’Brien’s love for Delhi and its culinary delights is evident. She tells us not only what to eat, but also where to eat it. From paranthas in the galis of Chandni Chowk to kakori kababs at the fancy Dum Pukht, from chaat at a roadside stall to appams at Keraleeyam, from fresh fruit and vegetables at INA Market to fish at Chittaranjan Park, O’Brien takes us on a guided tour through the capital, encouraging us to sample and savour as we see.

History comes alive as the recipes in this book allow us to recreate the varied flavours of the city in our kitchens. The result of extensive travel and research, and lavishly illustrated with photographs taken by Kirsten Grant, Flavours of Delhi is a fascinating read that whets the reader’s interest and appetite.

ISBN: 9780143029366
Author: Brien, Charmaine O
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A Vengeful Longing

Born in Manchester in 1960, R.N. Morris now lives in North London with his wife and two young children. A Vengeful Longing follows A Gentle Axe in a series of St. Petersburg novels revolving around the character of Porfiry Petrovich. Taking Comfort was published by Macmillan under the name Roger Morris in 2006.

A Vengeful Longing is the sequel to R. N. Morris''s highly acclaimed A Gentle Axe, once again featuring the brilliant detective Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky''s Crime and Punishment in another gripping, atmospheric murder story.

It is the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor''s wife and son die suddenly - and in excruciating pain. The doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. As investigator Porfiry Petrovich concedes, in such cases the obvious solution often turns out to be the correct one. And in the city''s stifling, stinking atmosphere, even he lacks the energy to look any deeper. But when further (and apparently unconnected) murders occur, something like a pattern seems to emerge. Porfiry is forced to reassess his assumptions and follow a tenuous, uncertain trail that takes him into the hidden, squalid heart of the city and brings him face to face with incomprehensible horror and cruelty.

ISBN: 9780571239559
Author: R.N. Morris
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A Variety Of Absences

ISBN: 0143030167
Author: Moraes, Dom
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A User's Guide To The Brain

ISBN: 0349112967
Author: Ratey, John
Published by: Penguin & Other Pub
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A Touch Of Greatness

ISBN: 014100519X
Author: Lala, R M
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A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi to the 21st Century

Mani Shankar Aiyar looks back to the changes that have taken place during the ‘Time of Transition’ —the two decades since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left office after the Lok Sabha elections of November 1989.

Rajiv Gandhi was the fourth prime minister of India in four decades of independence, but the last twenty years have seen as many as eight prime ministers and several more governments. Accompanying the change from single-party governance to the instability of coalition politics are major transformations in the pace, trajectory and even the goals of nation-building. It is these contentious transitions that are reflected in the five major themes of this volume: Democracy, Secularism, Socialism, Nonalignment, and Neighbourhood Policy.
Mani Shankar Aiyar was both a witness to, and a reluctant participant in, these processes of change: as joint secretary in Rajiv Gandhi’s prime minister’s office, as an MP since 1991, and today as a cabinet minister in the United Progressive Alliance government. His columns for the Indian Express are analytical and vivid commentaries on their times, written in the author’s inimitable style. This collection sheds light on a critically significant era in contemporary India.

ISBN: 9780670082759
Author: Mani Shankar Aiyar
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A Time Elsewhere

J.P. (Jagannath Prasad) Das is an eminent poet, playwright, fiction writer and critic.

His books have been widely translated into Hindi, English and other Indian languages and his plays have been performed in many languages in different parts of India. A Ph.D.
in Art History, he has authored several books on Oriya art. He was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, but left it to devote himself to full-time research and writing. He is a recpient of the Sahitya Akademi award and the Saraswati Samman. Born in 1936 in Orissa, he lives and works in New Delhi.

‘[J.P. Das is] the quintessential raconteur with an instinctive mastery of form’—The Hindu

In A Time Elsewhere, fiction and history come together in a sweeping narrative spanning fifty years to create a minutely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century Orissa.

The novel revolves around the fortunes of the ruling family of Puri. It traces Divyasingh Dev’s career as he inherits the throne, becomes a debauch and, ultimately, a murderer who is banished to the Andaman Islands for life. As Divyasingh spirals out of control, his mother Suryamani, the rani of Puri, emerges from behind her veil as the real ruler, shrewdly and gracefully negotiating the pressures brought to bear by the Empire.

The book is also an engaging portrayal of the great intellectual and cultural ferment that marked the clash of the east and the west as figures from Oriya history who played crucial roles in culture and politics during that tumultuous time are brought to life. Fakir Mohan Senapati and Radhanath Ray, educationists and writers, lead the charge against the hegemony of the English and Bengali languages. Gourishankar Ray, who helped set up the first Oriya printing press, publishes the Utkal Dipika, a periodical which quickly becomes the conscience keeper for Orissa, and Pyari Mohan Acharya, expelled from school for defying the British authorities, writes Orissa Itihas, a history of Orissa.

Lucidly translated from the original Oriya best-seller Desh Kaal Patra, A Time Elsewhere is a riveting account of a half century in the life of a people. It will fascinate both the student of history and the general reader.

ISBN: 9780143065593
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