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Quiet: 

The Power of Introverts in a World 

That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favour working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts--from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

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Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games Trilogy

The thrilling trilogy expertly described by Suzanne Collins. You enter a future world where every year two tributes from each district are thrown into an arena expected to fight to the death or get knocked out by other means. Only one can survive.

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The Hunger Games

(The Hunger Games #1)

Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before - and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.

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Catching Fire

(The Hunger Games #2)

Sparks are igniting.

Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel in the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before...and surprising readers at every turn.

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Mockingjay

(The Hunger Games #3)

My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.

It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans--except Katniss.

The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay--no matter what the personal cost.

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ANAND NEELAKANTAN WORKS

Anand Neelakantan. Arguably, the author who invented a new genre in Indian writing- The counter telling of mythology. Anand’s books are subaltern and thought provoking and deal with logically viewing the well known stories through a new prism. Anand’s debut work Asura Tale of the Vanquished was a surprise bestseller of 2012, breaking into the top seller charts within a week of its launch. Asura, tale of the Vanquished became the number one best seller of 2012 as per Crossword list and CNN IBN. Anand Neelakantan was chosen as one of the six most remarkable writers of 2012 by DNA. Anand Neelakantan has written columns for Deccan chronicle, Asian Age, The New Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, Speaking Tree etc. His interviews have been published in The *****, The Indian Express, Malayala Manorama, Mathrubhumi, The Telegraph, The New Indian Express, Afternoon DC etc. A prolific writer, Anand Neelakantan is also a story consultant for STAR TV’s upcoming serial SIYA KE RAM. Anand has currently signed up for script writing of a horror film based on mythology with a prominent director in Bollywood.

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Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished

The epic tale of victory and defeat… The story of the Ramayana had been told innumerable times. The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravana, the evil demon of darkness, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors that lives on. The voice of the vanquished remains lost in silence. 

But what if Ravana and his people had a different story to tell? The story of the Ravanayana has never been told. Asura is the epic tale of the vanquished Asura people, a story that has been cherished by the oppressed castes of India for 3000 years. Until now, no Asura has dared to tell the tale. But perhaps the time has come for the dead and the defeated to speak. 

“For thousands of years, I have been vilified and my death is celebrated year after year in every corner of India. Why? Was it because I challenged the Gods for the sake of my daughter? Was it because I freed a race from the yoke of caste-based Deva rule? You have heard the victor’s tale, the Ramayana. Now hear the Ravanayana, for I am Ravana, the Asura, and my story is the tale of the vanquished.” 

“I am a non-entity – invisible, powerless and negligible. No epics will ever be written about me. I have suffered both Ravana and Rama – the hero and the villain or the villain and the hero. When the stories of great men are told, my voice maybe too feeble to be heard. Yet, spare me a moment and hear my story, for I am Bhadra, the Asura, and my life is the tale of the loser.” 

The ancient Asura empire lay shattered into many warring petty kingdoms reeling under the heel of the Devas. In desperation, the Asuras look up to a young saviour – Ravana. Believing that a better world awaits them under Ravana, common men like Bhadra decide to follow the young leader. With a will of iron and a fiery ambition to succeed, Ravana leads his people from victory to victory and carves out a vast empire from the Devas. But even when Ravana succeeds spectacularly, the poor Asuras find that nothing much has changed from them. It is then that Ravana, by one action, changes the history of the world.

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Epic of the Kaurava Clan

Ajaya: 

Roll of the Dice 

(Part 1)

THE MAHABHARATA ENDURES AS THE GREAT EPIC OF INDIA. But while Jaya is the story of the Pandavas, told from the perspective of the victors of Kurukshetra; Ajaya is the narrative of the ‘unconquerable’ Kauravas, who were decimated to the last man.

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At the heart of India’s most powerful empire, a revolution is brewing. Bhishma, the noble patriarch of Hastinapura, is struggling to maintain the unity of his empire. On the throne sits Dhritarashtra, the blind King, and his foreign-born Queen – Gandhari. In the shadow of the throne stands Kunti, the Dowager-Queen, burning with ambition to see her firstborn become the ruler, acknowledged by all.

And in the wings:

•  Parashurama, the enigmatic Guru of the powerful Southern Confederate, bides his time to take over and impose his will from mountains to ocean. 
  
•  Ekalavya, a young Nishada, yearns to break free of caste restrictions and become a warrior.
  
•  Karna, son of a humble charioteer, travels to the South to study under the foremost Guru of the day and become the greatest archer in the land. 
  
•  Balarama, the charismatic leader of the Yadavas, dreams of building the perfect city by the sea and seeing his people prosperous and proud once more. 
  
•  Takshaka, guerilla leader of the Nagas, foments a revolution by the downtrodden as he lies in wait in the jungles of India, where survival is the only dharma.
  
•  Jara, the beggar, and his blind dog Dharma, walk the dusty streets of India, witness to people and events far greater than they, as the Pandavas and the Kauravas confront their searing destinies.
  

Amidst the chaos, Prince Suyodhana, heir of Hastinapura, stands tall, determined to claim his birthright and act according to his conscience. He is the maker of his own destiny – or so he believes. While in the corridors of the Hastinapura palace, a foreign Prince plots to destroy India. And the dice falls…

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Rise of Kali: 

Duryodhana's Mahabharata

(Book 2)

THE MAHABHARATA ENDURES AS THE GREAT EPIC OF INDIA. While Jaya is the story of the Pandavas, told from the perspective of the victors of Kurukshetra, Ajaya is the tale of the Kauravas, who were decimated to the last man. 

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From the pen of the author who gave voice to Ravana in the national bestseller, ASURA, comes the riveting narrative which compels us to question the truth behind the Mahabharata. 

THE DARK AGE OF KALI IS RISING and every man and woman must choose between duty and conscience, honour and shame, life and death… 

The Pandavas, banished to the forest following the disastrous games of dice, return to Hastinapura. 

Draupadi has vowed not to bind her hair till she washes it in the blood of the Kauravas. 

Karna must choose between loyalty and gratitude, friend and Guru. 

Aswathama undertakes a perilous mission to the mountains of Gandhara, in search of the Evil One. 

Kunti must decide between her firstborn and her other sons. 

Guru Drona has to stand with either his favourite disciple or his beloved son. 

Balarama, having failed to convince his brother about the adharma of violence, walks the streets of Bharatavarsha, spreading the message of peace. 

Ekalavya is called to make the ultimate sacrifice to uphold a woman’s honour. 

Jara, the beggar, sings of Krishna’s love while his blind dog, Dharma, follows. 

Shakuni can almost see the realization of his dream to destroy India. 

As the Pandavas stake their claim to the Hastinapura throne, the Kaurava Crown Prince, Suyodhana, rises to challenge Krishna. As great minds debate dharma and adharma, power hungry men prepare for an apocalyptic war. The women, highborn and humble, helplessly watch the unfolding disaster with deep foreboding. And greedy merchants and unscrupulous priests lie in wait like vultures. Both sides know that beyond the agony and carnage the winner will take all. But even as gods conspire and men’s destinies unfold, a far greater truth awaits.

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The Rise of Sivagami
(Baahubali: Before the Beginning #1)

Blessed by the sacred Gauriparvat, Mahishmathi is an empire of abundance. The powerful kingdom is flourishing under its king, who enjoys the support and loyalty of his subjects, down to his lowly slaves. But is everything really as it appears, or is the empire hiding its own dirty secret?

Orphaned at a young age and wrenched away from her foster family, Sivagami is waiting for the day she can avenge the death of her beloved father, cruelly branded a traitor. Her enemy? None other than the king of Mahishmathi. With unflinching belief in her father’s innocence, the fiery young orphan is driven to clear his name and destroy the empire of Mahishmathi against all odds. How far can she go in her audacious journey?

From the pen of masterful storyteller and bestselling author Anand Neelakantan, comes The Rise of Sivagami, the first book in the series Baahubali: Before the Beginning. A tale of intrigue and power, revenge and betrayal, the revelations in The Rise of Sivagami will grip the reader and not let go.

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"కవి సమ్రాట్"  విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ

విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ (సెప్టెంబర్ 10, 1895 - అక్టోబరు 18, 1976) "కవి సమ్రాట్" బిరుదాంకితుడు. తెలుగు సాహిత్యంలో తొలి జ్ఞానపీఠ అవార్డు గ్రహీత.

20 వ శతాబ్దములోని ఆంధ్ర సాహిత్యమునకు, ప్రత్యేకించి సంప్రదాయ సాహిత్యమునకు పెద్ద దిక్కు. ఆయన చేపట్టని సాహిత్య ప్రక్రియ లేదు - కావ్యములు, కవితలు, నవలలు, నాటకములు, పద్యకావ్యములు, ప్రయోగములు, విమర్శలు, వ్యాసములు, కథలు, చరిత్రలు - ఆయన పాండిత్యము, ప్రతిభలు జగమెరిగినవి. ఆయన మాటలలోనే "నేను వ్రాసిన పద్యముల సంఖ్య , ప్రకటింపబడిన సంఖ్య, సుమారు ఇరువది వేలుండ వచ్చును. నేను చింపివేసినవి ఏబది వేలుండవచ్చును " . ఆయన వ్రాసిన రచనలన్నీ కలిపితే లక్ష పుటలు ఉండవచ్చును.

విశ్వనాథ మాట్లాడే వెన్నెముక అని శ్రీశ్రీ వర్ణించారు. జి.వి. సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం ఇలా చెప్పారు - "ఆధునికాంధ్ర జగత్తులో విశ్వనాథ ఒక విరాణ్మూర్తి. వచన కవిత్వం వినా ఆయన చేపట్టని సాహితీ ప్రక్రియ లేదు. పట్టింది బంగారం చేయని పట్టూ లేదు. గేయం వ్రాసినా, పద్యం రచించినా, ముక్తం వ్రాసినా, మహా కావ్యాన్ని రచించినా విశ్వనాథ కృతిలో ఆయనదైన ఒక వ్యక్తిత్వం ప్రతిబింబిస్తుంది. వాక్కులో, వాక్యంలో, శబ్దంలో, సమాసంలో, భావంలో, భావనలో, దర్శనంలో, విమర్శనంలో, భాషణంలో, భూషణంలో ఒక వైలక్షణ్యం వెల్లివిరుస్తుంది. మహాకవిగా మనుగడ సాగించడానికి ఉండవలసిన మొదటి లక్షణం - ఈ వ్యక్తిత్వం."

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విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ వారి పుస్తకాలు

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1. అల్లసానివారి అల్లిక జిగిబిగి - Download

2. ఆంధ్ర ప్రశస్తి - Download

3. అశ్వమేధము (పురాణవైర గ్రంధమాల) - Download

4. భగవంతునిమీద పగ - Download

5. దేవతల యుద్ధం - Download

6. ధన్య కైలాసము (నాటకం) - Download

7. ధర్మచక్రము - Download

8. ధూమరేఖ (పురాణవైర గ్రంధమాల) - Download

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విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ వారి పుస్తకాలు

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9. ఏకవీర (నవల) - Download

10. గిరికుమారుని ప్రేమగీతాలు - Download

11. హాహా హూహూ - Download

12. ఝాన్సిరాణి - Download

13. కావ్యపరీమళము - Download

14. కావ్య-వేద హరిశ్చంద్ర నాటకములు - Download

15. కిన్నెరసాని పాటలు ~ కోకిలమ్మ పెళ్ళి - Download

16. శ్రీ కుమారాభ్యుదయము - Download

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విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ వారి పుస్తకాలు

(17-24)

17. లలితాపట్టణపు రాణి - Download

18. నందోరాజాభవిష్యతి (పురాణవైర గ్రంధమాల) - Download

19. నర్తనశాల (కీచక వధ నాటకము) - Download

20. కడిమి చెట్టు - Download

21. శాకుంతలము యొక్క అభిజ్ఞానత - Download

22. శశిదూతము - Download

23. శృంగార వీధి - Download

24. త్రిశూలము (చరిత్రాత్మక [b]నాటకము) - Download[/b]

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విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ వారి పుస్తకాలు

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25. వల్లభమంత్రి - Download

26. వరలక్ష్మి త్రిశతి (వియోగ కావ్యము) - Download

27. వేనరాజు - Download

28. విష్ణురావు ఇంగ్లీషు చదువు - Download

29. విశ్వనాథ పంచశతి - Download

30. వేదవతి (పురాణవైర గ్రంథమాల) - Download

31. వేయి పడగలు - Download

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NICHOLAS SPARKS

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 105 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 75 million copies in the United States alone.

Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), and Two by Two (2016) as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His twentieth novel, Every Breath, was published on October 16, 2018. 

Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars.

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NICHOLAS SPARKS WORKS

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A Bend in the Road

“If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, A Bend in the Road

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A Walk to Remember

“First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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At First Sight

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

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Dear John

“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

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Every Breath

“Falling in love is the easy part; making that love last amid life’s varied challenges is an elusive dream for many.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, Every Breath

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Message in a Bottle

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

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Nights in Rodanthe

“I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe

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NICHOLAS SPARKS WORKS

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Safe Haven

“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

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See Me

“See me just as I see you.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, See Me

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The Guardian

“You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Guardian

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The Best of Me

“Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me

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The Choice

“There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

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The Last Song

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

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The Longest Ride

“Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

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NICHOLAS SPARKS WORKS

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The Lucky One

“She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

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The Notebook

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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The Rescue

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

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The Wedding

“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

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Three Weeks with my Brother

“When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.” 

― Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks With My Brother

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CONTENTS 

FOR THE PAGES 

16 - 20

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Page 16 (15 Books)

üThe Kabuliwala & Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore [Audiobook & PDF files]

 
üRamachandra Guha's Notable Works
·       India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
·       Mahatma Gandhi's Biography (Two Vols)
ØGandhi Before India
ØGandhi: The Years That Changed the World 1914-1948

 
üAravind Adiga Works
a) The White Tiger
b) Between the Assassinations
c) Last Man in the Tower
d) Selection Day
 
üరామానుజన్ నుండి ఇటూ, అటూ - వేమూరి వేంకటేశ్వరరావు (Ramanujan Nunchi Atoo, Itoo) 
üThe Man who knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
 
ü CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI WORKS
Ø The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Ø Arranged Marriage Stories
Ø One Amazing Thing
 
ü BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health: The Definitive Step-by-Step Guide by B.K.S. Iyengar
 
ü Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
 
Page 17 (16 Books)

üGilian Flynn's Books
Ø Gone Girl
Ø Dark Places
Ø Sharp Objects
 
ü అమీనా (Ameena) - చలం (Chalam) 
ü I Am legend by Richard Matheson
 
ü When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
 
ü Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged By Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev
 
ü Bhagavad Gītā and Leadership: A Catalyst for Organizational Transformation (Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment) by Satinder Dhiman
 
ü The Chronicles of Narnia By C. S. Lewis (Reading Order)
                      i.       The Magician's Nephew
                    ii.       The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
                  iii.       The Horse and His Boy
                  iv.       Prince Caspian
                    v.       The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
                  vi.       The Silver Chair
                vii.       The Last Battle
 
ü England: The Biography The Story of English Cricket 1877 - 2018 by Simon Wilde
 
Page 18 (6 Books)

üThe Bhagavata Purana (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Bibek Debroy (Translator)
 
üDongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia by S. Hussain Zaidi,  Vikram Chandra (Foreword)

 
üసౌదామిని (Saudamini) by వి.ఎస్.పి. తెన్నేటి (V.S.P. Tenneti) 
üThe Story of World War II  (Audiobook – Unabridged) by Donald L. Miller (Author), Henry Steele Commager (Author) & Michael Kramer (Narrator)
 
Page 19 (9 Books)

üMy Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man. By Kevin Powell
 
üThe Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story by Joy-Ann Reid 
 
üEmotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
 
üLeonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
 
üBill Clinton's — My Life
 
üవంశీ కథలు — ఆకుపచ్చని జ్ఞాపకం (Aakupachani Gnaapakam Short Stories by Vamsy) 
üJavier Moro's The Red Sari: A Dramatised Biography of Sonia Gandhi
 
üదర్గామిట్ట కతలు (Dargamitta Kathalu – Khadeer babu) మహమ్మద్ ఖాదిర్ బాబు

ü Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost collegegirls of Boko Haram by Isha Sesay
 
Page 20 (8 Books)
 
üIf: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years by Christopher E.G. Benfey
 
ü100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever by Steve Chandler
 
üThe Prosperous Coach: Increase Income and Impact for You and Your Clients by Steve Chandler
 
üTime Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and Chaos by Steve Chandler

 
üకాలాతీత వ్యక్తులు (Kalaateeta Vyaktulu) By డా. పి. శ్రీదేవి (Dr. P. Sridevi) 
üNot Just an Accountant: The Diary of the Nation's Conscience Keeper by Vinod Rai
 
üఅమృతం కురిసిన రాత్రి (Amrutham Kurisina Raatri) by దేవరకొండ బాలగంగాధర తిలక్
ü17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-Up in History by Andrew Morton

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic structures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

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THE KABULIWALA & OTHER SHORT STORIES

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Rabindranath Tagore, India’s foremost writer and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literature, is perhaps best known for his tender and passionate tales about human yearning and longing. Here then is a collection of eighteen short stories that highlight Tagore’s profound vision. The collection begins with The Kabuliw,.', a heartwarming story about the relationship between a father and daughter. In The Postmaster, a young man from Calcutta finds himself adjusting to life in a remote village, and The Hungry Stones recounts an unlikely encounter at a railway station. 

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RAMACHANDRA GUHA

Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history. He is also a columnist for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times. A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for The Caravan and Outlook magazines. For the year 2011–12, he held a visiting position at the London college of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. His notable work, India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (2007), which was chosen as the Book of the Year by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Outlook, among others. The book won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for English. His latest book is Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018), the second part of the planned two-volume biography of M. K. Gandhi. It is a follow up to the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India (2013). His large body of work, covering a wide range of fields and yielding a number of rational insights has made him a significant figure in Indian historical studies, and Guha is valued as one of the major historians of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries.

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RAMACHANDRA GUHA's NOTABLE WORKS

India After Gandhi: 

The History of 

the World's Largest Democracy

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-than-life characters, it is the work of a major scholar at the peak of his abilities...

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RAMACHANDRA GUHA's NOTABLE WORKS

Gandhi Before India

(Mahatma Gandhi's Biography Vol-1)

The first volume of a magisterial biography: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in modern history.
    Here is a revelatory work of biography that takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his 2 years as a student in London, and his 2 decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Ramachandra Guha has uncovered a myriad of previously untapped documents, including: private papers of Gandhi's contemporaries and co-workers; contemporary newspapers and court documents; the writings of Gandhi's children; secret files kept by British Empire functionaries. Using this wealth of material in a brilliantly nuanced narrative, Guha describes the social, political and personal worlds in which Gandhi began his journey to become the modern era's most important and influential political actor. And Guha makes clear that Gandhi's work in South Africa--far from being a mere prelude to his accomplishments in India--was profoundly influential on his evolution as a political thinker, social reformer and beloved leader.

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Gandhi:

The Years

That Changed the World

1914-1948

(Mahatma Gandhi's Biography Vol-2)

Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to destroy, using revolutionary and inspirational tactics. In a world defined by violence on a scale never imagined before and by ferocious Fascist and Communist dictatorship, he was armed with nothing more than his arguments and example.

This magnificent book tells the story of Gandhi's life, from his departure from South Africa to his assassination in 1948. It is a book with a Tolstoyan sweep, both allowing us to see Gandhi as he was understood by his contemporaries and the vast, unbelievably varied Indian societies and landscapes which he travelled through and changed beyond measure. Drawing on many new sources and animated by its author's wonderful sense of drama and politics, the publication of Gandhi is a major event.

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ARAVIND ADIGA

ARAVIND ADIGA (b. 1974) is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist.

Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now called Chennai) and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of India. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2008. Its release was followed by a collection of short stories in the book titled Between the Assassinations. His second novel, Last Man in the Tower, was published in 2011. His newest novel, Selection Day, was published in 2016.

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ARAVIND ADIGA WORKS

The White Tiger

Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along.

Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City car, Balram's new world is a revelation. While his peers flip through the pages of Murder Weekly ("Love -- bang -- Revenge!"), barter for girls, drink liquor (Thunderbolt), and perpetuate the Great Rooster Coop of Indian society, Balram watches his employers bribe foreign ministers for tax breaks, barter for girls, drink liquor (single-malt whiskey), and play their own role in the Rooster Coop. Balram learns how to siphon gas, deal with corrupt mechanics, and refill and resell Johnnie Walker Black Label bottles (all but one). He also finds a way out of the Coop that no one else inside it can perceive.

Balram's eyes penetrate India as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and Internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create virtue, and money doesn't solve every problem -- but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations.

The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative genius, with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation —and a startling, provocative debut.

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Between the Assassinations

Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Kaliamma River to the south and east. It's blessed with rich soil and scenic beauty, and it's been around for centuries. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and the poets and the prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed.

A twelve-year-old boy named Ziauddin, a gofer at a tea shop near the railway station, is enticed into wrongdoing because a fair-skinned stranger treats him with dignity and warmth. George D'Souza, a mosquito-repellent sprayer, elevates himself to gardener and then chauffeur to the lovely, young Mrs. Gomes, and then loses it all when he attempts to be something more. A little girl's first act of love for her father is to beg on the street for money to support his drug habit. A factory owner is forced to choose between buying into underworld economics and blinding his staff or closing up shop. A privileged collegeboy, using his own ties to the Kittur underworld, sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-college classroom in protest against casteism. A childless couple takes refuge in a rapidly diminishing forest on the outskirts of town, feeding a group of "intimates" who visit only to mock them. And the loneliest member of the Marxist-Maoist Party of India falls in love with the one young woman, in the poorest part of town, whom he cannot afford to wed.

Between the Assassinations showcases the most beloved aspects of Adiga's writing to brilliant effect: the class struggle rendered personal; the fury of the underdog and the fire of the iconoclast; and the prodigiously ambitious narrative talent that has earned Adiga acclaim around the world and comparisons to Gogol, Ellison, Kipling, and Palahniuk. In the words of The Guardian (London), "Between the Assassinations shows that Adiga...is one of the most important voices to emerge from India in recent years."

A blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, Between the Assassinations, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of The White Tiger, enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today.

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Last Man in Tower

A tale of one man refusing to leave his home in the face of property development. Tower A is a relic from a co-operative housing society established in the 1950s. When a property developer offers to buy out the residents for eye-watering sums, the principled yet arrogant teacher is the only one to refuse the offer, determined not to surrender his sentimental attachment to his home and his right to live in it, in the name of greed. His neighbours gradually relinquish any similar qualms they might have and, in a typically blunt satirical premise take matters into their own hands, determined to seize their slice of the new Mumbai as it transforms from stinky slum to silvery skyscbangrs at dizzying, almost gravity-defying speed.

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Selection Day

Manju is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket -- if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented brother and is fascinated by CSI and curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn't know . . . Everyone around him, it seems, has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself.

But when Manju begins to get to know Radha's great rival, a boy as privileged and confident as Manju is not, everything in Manju's world begins to change and he is faced by decisions that will challenge both his sense of self and of the world around him.

As sensitively observed as The White Tiger -- Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- was brilliantly furious, Selection Day reveals another facet of Aravind Adiga's remarkable talent.

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రామానుజన్ నుండి ఇటూ, అటూ

ఈ పుస్తకం అంకెల గురించి, సంఖ్యల గురించి. సంఖ్యా జ్ఞానం, సంఖ్యా గణితం నలుగురికీ అందుబాటులోకి తీసుకురావాలని చేసిన ప్రయత్నం ఇది. అంకెలతోను, సంఖ్యలతోను ఆడుకోవడమే ఈ పుస్తకం ముఖ్యోద్దేశం. గణితంతో కొద్దిపాటి పరిచయం ఉన్న వారికి కూడ అందుబాటులో ఉండాలనే గమ్యంతో చేసిన ప్రయత్నం ఇది. గణితంలో నిష్ణాతుల ఆక్షేపణలకి గురి కాకూడదనేది కూడ ఒక గమ్యమే.

ఇలా సంఖ్యలతో చెలగాటాలు ఆడిన వారిలో అగ్రగణ్యుడు శ్రీ శ్రీనివాస రామానుజన్! ఈయన మన అదృష్టం కొద్దీ భారతదేశంలో పుట్టేడు; మన దురదృష్టం కొద్దీ అతి చిన్న వయస్సులోనే స్వర్గస్తుడయాడు. అయన ప్రతిభకి ప్రపంచంలో గుర్తింపు వచ్చిన తరువాత పట్టుమని అయిదేళ్లయినా బతకలేదు. ఈ అత్యల్పకాలంలో ఆయన మహోన్నతమైన శిఖరాగ్రాలని చేరుకున్నాడన్న విషయం ఆయన మరణించి దశాబ్దాలు గడచిన తరువాత కాని పండితులకే అవగాహన కాలేదు - పామరుల సంగతి సరేసరి! రామానుజన్ ప్రతిభని మొట్టమొదట గుర్తించిన హార్డీ అంటారు: “ఒక కొలమానం మీద నా ప్రతిభ 25 అయితే, అదే కొలమానం మీద నా సహాధ్యాయి లిటిల్వుడ్ ప్రతిభ 30 ఉండొచ్చు. అదే కొలమానం మీద డేవిడ్ హిల్బర్ట్ ప్రతిభ 50 ఉంటుంది, రామానుజన్ ప్రతిభ100 ఉంటుంది.” ఈ జాబితాలో పేర్కొన్న నలుగురు వ్యక్తులూ గణిత ప్రపంచంలో హేమాహేమీలే!

ఈ పుస్తకం రామానుజన్ జీవిత చరిత్ర కాదు - అది చాల చోట్ల ఉంది. కొంతవరకు ఇది అయన గణితం గురించి. కొమ్ములు తిరిగిన వారు కూడ ఏళ్ల తరబడి శ్రమిస్తేకాని అయన “నోటు పుస్తకాలు” లో రాసుకున్న “ఫార్ములాలు” అర్థం చేసుకోలేకపోతున్నారు. అయన చేసిన పని మనకి అర్థం కాదని ఎన్నాళ్ళిలా ఊరుకుంటాం? అందుకని నాకు తోచిన ప్రయత్నం నేను చేసేను. ఎలా చేసేను? గణితశాస్త్రంలో తారసపడే కొన్ని అంశాలు - నాకు అర్థం అయినవి - తీసుకుని వాటిల్లో రామానుజన్ పాత్ర ఏమిటో సందర్భం దొరికినప్పుడల్లా స్థూలంగా పరిశీలించేను. ఈ పుస్తకంలో ఉన్న ప్రతి అధ్యాయం లోనూ రామానుజన్ కనిపించకపోవచ్చు. కొన్ని అంశాలు రామానుజన్ ముందు కాలంలో జరిగినవి, కొన్ని తరువాత కాలంలో జరిగినవి. అందుకనే పుస్తకానికి “రామానుజన్ నుండి ఇటూ, అటూ” అని పేరు పెట్టేను.

- వేమూరి వేంకటేశ్వరరావు

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The Man Who Knew Infinity: 

A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

by Robert Kanigel

In 1913, a young uncollegeed Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled.

With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout ***** Ramanujan, 'the Prince of Intuition,' tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, 'the Apostle of Proof.' In time, Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of thirty-two and left behind a magical and inspired legacy that is still being plumbed for its secrets today.

The tale of a relationship between a young Indian mathematics genius, Ramanujan, and his tutor at Cambridge University, G.H. Hardy, in the years before World War I. Through their eyes the reader is taken on a journey through numbers theory. Ramanujan would regularly telescope 12 steps of logic into two - the effect is said to be like Dr Watson in the train of some argument by Sherlock Holmes. The language of symbols and infinitely large (and small) regions of mathematics should be rendered with clarity for the general reader.

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CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage won an American Book Award in 1995, and two of her novels (The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart) as well as a short story The Word Love were adapted into films. Mistress of Spices was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Currently, Sister of My Heart, Oleander Girl, Palace of Illusions, and One Amazing Thing have all been optioned to be made into movies or TV serials.

Divakaruni's works are largely set in India and the United States, and often focus on the experiences of South Asian immigrants. She writes for children as well as adults and has published novels in multiple genres, including realistic fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, myth and fantasy.

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The Unknown Errors of Our Lives

A collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. The tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with Divakaruni's unique understanding of the human spirit.

From acclaimed and beloved author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni comes a new collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. With the rich prose and keen insight that made Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart national bestsellers, these tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with her unique understanding of the human spirit.

"Don't we all have to pay, no matter what we choose?" a young woman asks in "The Love of a Good Man," one of the unforgettable stories in Chitra Divakaruni's beautifully crafted exploration of the tensions between new lives and old. In tales set in India and the United States, she illuminates the transformations of personal landscapes, real and imagined, brought about by the choices men and women make at every stage of their lives.

"The Love of a Good Man" tells of an Indian woman happily settled in the United States who must confront the past when her long-estranged father begs to meet his only grandson. In the acclaimed "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter", a widow, inadvertently eavesdropping, discovers that her cherished, old-fashioned ways are an embarrassment to her daughter-in-law. A young American woman joins a pilgrimage of women in Kashmir and, in the land of her ancestors, comes to view herself and her family in a new light in "The Lives of Strangers." Two women, uprooted from their native land by violence and deception, find unexpected comfort and hope in each other in "The Blooming Season for Cacti." And in the title story, a young woman turns to her painting and the wisdom of her grandmother for the strength to accept her fiance's past when it arrives on her doorstep.

Whether writing about the adjustments of immigrants to a foreign land or the accommodations families make to the disruptive differences between generations, Divakaruni poignantly portrays the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.

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Arranged Marriage Stories

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Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her prose that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Marriage, her first collection of stories, spent five weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and garnered critical acclaim that would have been extraordinary for even a more established author. For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise as the ocean that separates them from their homes in India. From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create eleven devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation.

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One Amazing Thing

An acclaimed novel by the author of The Mistress of Spices, and Before We Visit the Goddess. Jhumpa Lahiri praises: "One Amazing Thing collapses the walls dividing characters and cultures; what endures is a chorus of voices in one single room."

Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young '.-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair.

When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival--and about the reasons to survive.

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BKS Iyengar Yoga

 The Path to Holistic Health: 

The Definitive Step-by-Step Guide

by B.K.S. Iyengar

From globally recognised yoga authority B.K.S Iyengar, an accessible illustrated guide to Iyengar Yoga

BKS Iyengar Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health makes Iyengar Yoga accessible to all, while celebrating the life and work of the world-renowned B.K.S Iyengar. B.K.S Iyengar is a world-leading authority on hatha yoga and is globally respected for his holistic approach and technical accuracy. He has been practising yoga every day for over 75 years and at 94 is surely proof of holistic health.

This is the only yoga book featuring full-colour step-by-step photographs of yoga poses demonstrating Iyengar Yoga and this new edition also includes a new chapter celebrating B.K.S Iyengar's life and work. Over 60 step-by-step sequences of asanas, pranayamas and chakras were supervised by B.K.S Iyengar himself and over 20 include unique 360-degree images of classic Iyengar asanas, it's like having a yoga class with your own personal yogi. Yoga is made accessible to everyone with a special 20-week yoga course for beginners to yoga sequences specifically designed to treat over 80 ailments, from asthma and arthritis to varicose veins.

BKS Iyengar Yoga:The Path to Holistic Health is suitable for every age and ability, allowing everyone to enjoy the benefits to mind, body and spirit that are drawn from Iyengar Yoga.

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Roots: 

The Saga of 

an American Family

by Alex Haley

When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.

Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.

Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.

But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.

About the Author

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the latter of which he wrote in collaboration with Malcolm X.

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