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The blockbuster new love story by Chetan Bhagat. He's 33. She's 21. He's a struggling stand-up comic. She's a rising star in private equity. He's divorced. She's never had a boyfriend. He's Punjabi. She's from a conservative Jain family. They shouldn't be together. But they can't stay apart...

Suffused with warmth and passion, the stories in Falling in Love Again showcase the myriad variations of romantic love - fleeting, intimate, joyous, heartbreaking. Featuring classic stories by Ruskin Bond, such as 'The Eyes Have It' and 'The Girl from Copenhagen', this stirring collection captures the range of feelings that are indubitably part of the infinite spectrum of love.

On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur.

Rohan’s dreams come crashing down when his beloved breaks up with him. Unable to endure the trauma of separation, he decides to end his life. An unexpected phone call gives his story a twist and takes him on a journey to diverse places, where he discovers life-altering truths. Who is the mysterious call from? Is he able to overcome his grief and make a fresh start?

Mattie Thorne has been on the run from her parents for almost two years. She's being chased by a ruthless mercenary named Ghost, but somehow, she always manages to escape his capture attempts. Until one day, her time is finally up. Mattie "The Bunny" Thorne ends up well and truly captured by the enigmatic, blue-eyed Ghost, and it seems like her freedom might be lost. But then she glimpses something unexpected in her handsome captor—empathy. Taking a chance, Mattie offers him a deal: Help her ruin her billionaire parents, and she will pay him four million dollars.

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

अलीबाबा और चालीस चोर - : यह द बुक ऑफ़ वन थौज़ंड एंड वन नाईट (द अरेबियन नाइट्स) की कई कथाओं में से एक है और सबसे अधिक विख्यात है! यह बात अफगानिस्तान की है जहाँ कासिम और अलीबाबा नाम के दो भाई रहते थे। उन्हें अपने माता पिता से बहुत कम धन मिला था । पर कासिम का विवाह एक धनी-मानी व्यक्ति की पुत्री से हुआ था। उसे अपने ससुर के मरने पर उसकी बड़ी दुकान का उत्तराधिकार और धन मिला । इसलिए वह बड़ा समृद्ध व्यापारी बन गया। अलीबाबा और उसकी पत्नी निर्धन गरीब ही रह गए । वह अपने तीन गधे ले कर रोजाना जंगल में जाता और वहाँ लकड़ियाँ काट कर गधों पर लाद कर शहर लाता और उन्हें बेच कर पेट पालता।एक दिन उससे एक डाकुओं की गुफा का राज़ मालूम पड़ता है जो ख़ज़ाने से भरी थी उसी दिन से अलीबाबा की ज़िन्दगी एक नया रुख लेती हैं. यह रोमांचक कहानी हमें खुद पे भरोसा करना सिखाती है, अच्छे और बुरे दोस्तों मे परख. इस कहानी को पेश किया है खूबसूरत अंदाज़ मैं म्यूजिक और इफेक्ट्स के साथ जो हर उम्र के बच्चों को लुभाएगी

Plan A : l'éliminer discrètement. Plan B : tomber amoureux. Spoiler : il a raté le plan A. Entre une rupture et un scandale au tabloïd, Tillie ne s'attendait pas à ajouter « témoin d'un meurtre » à sa to-do list ni à frôler la mort dans la foulée. Sauvetage héroïque ? Plutôt enlèvement express par un type canon et franchement louche nommé Ash. La voilà embarquée au fin fond du Wyoming, dans un chalet paumé, avec un inconnu qui semble avoir oublié de lui confier un petit détail : c'est lui le criminel qu'elle cherche à fuir.

More than 500 years after the Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi wrote his epic poem Padmavat, the story of Padmavati, princess of Simhal, and her lover and husband, Ratansen, the king of Chittor, continues to capture the imagination of listeners everywhere. In Padmavat, we meet Padmavati’s friend, philosopher and guide - Hiraman - a parrot, as well as Nagmati - Ratansen’s first wife, and the brave Rajput warriors Gora and Badal.

Yarima Lalo believes he has been murdered twice before. The cause? Love. To make sense of these vivid memories he cannot shake, he travels from Abuja to Kano with his new friend and love interest Aziza to meet an old woman who he might have known in a past life. She is skeptical at first - and hesitant to revisit painful memories of her own - but together, they dig deeper and deeper into the past, piecing together a shared history with ripple effects that could shape Lalo’s future.

Audible presents Love Columbus, an Audible original, with Hind Yugm, written by Ashish Chaudhary. This is the life story of Raghu and his two close buddies, Poorva and Pintu. One day, 30-year-old Raghu realizes that he is all alone and has no one to call his own. Raghu has not had a girlfriend 'til now. Pintu and Poorva, the college love birds, are married but their marriage is on the verge of a divorce.

gentle romance begins innocently enough in the stalls of a London theatre where Catherine is enjoying her ninth and Christopher his thirty-sixth visit to the same play. He is a magnificent young man with flame-coloured hair. She is the sweetest little thing in a hat. There is just one complication: Christopher is 25, while Catherine is just a little bit older. Flattered by the passionate attentions of youth, Catherine, with marriage and motherhood behind her, is at first circumspect, but finally succumbs to her lover's charms.

Acclaimed across the world, prescribed in over 100 universities and colleges, and included in part in The Century's Greatest Reportage (Ordfront, 2000), alongside the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Studs Terkel and John Reed, Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the established classic on rural...

Listen to Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love reviewed on NPR In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when...

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections.

Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story. Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.

Magic has been outlawed for almost a century, and anyone caught wielding it or bearing its mark is executed. Which is why I know every day could be my last. I'm marked for death. My skin bears the branding of the moon. I just thank the stars that it's not somewhere visible. For one night, I willingly put myself in danger, picking a stranger to lose myself in before I begin my life of servitude to the crown as a member of the King's Guard. But the man I thought was a stranger turns out to be the Blade of the King, Thorn, my new boss.

At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them, it will be a dark journey into his past, reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida.

In a bizarre case of murder, strange strands of history begin to emerge slowly. Manav, Sarita, and Sandhya are drawn into a universe of intrigue, suspense, and delusion as they navigate a new world. This new system, in which they exist, is an upturned world where womankind is supreme. History has been challenged, subverted, and rewritten. But for those born in this epoch, what is the relationship with the past? Why has history been hidden from this generation, and what are the ancestors whispering into their ears? Rahul reveals these subtle secrets to Manu, nudging him to slant his paradigm.

Immerse yourself in a collection of timeless romantic tales with "Love Stories." This podcast brings together enchanting stories from various authors, capturing the essence of love in its many forms. From heartwarming to tragic, these stories offer a rich exploration of romance and human connection.