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When everyone is watching, survival will be her greatest performance ... A gripping, utterly absorbing novel about survival and art as defiance on the 1930s Berlin stage, from the bestselling author of The Woman from Saint Germain Berlin 1932: With Germany in chaos, Monika Varády, a young...

Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg. Lucy finds in her secret relationship with Captain Gregg a comfort and blossoming love she never could have predicted.

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the...

Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the 20th century’s most acclaimed popular author.

A Hindi translation of R.K. Narayan’s The World of Nagaraj by Rama Tiwari, the novel delves into the seemingly mundane yet secretly lively musings of a middle-aged man, Nagaraj. Residing in a small town, he lives by the conviction that there is some unfulfilled purpose in his life and is devoted to working towards this. But first, he must discover what his true calling is.

Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, was deeply opposed to Beren, and imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. Undaunted by Lord Thingol’s challenge, Beren and Lúthien embark on the supremely heroic attempt to rob Morgoth, the greatest of all evil beings, of a Silmaril, one of the hallowed jewels that adorn the Black Enemy’s crown.

With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world.

ಅವಸ್ಥೆ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯೋತ್ತರ ಭಾರತದ ಸ್ಥೂಲ ರಾಜಕಾರಣದ ಒಂದು ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ಮಾದರಿಯನ್ನು ಕಟ್ಟಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಜನಪರ...

Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there...the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young man - a poet, a lover, and an adventurer - known only as the Kid.

ಶತ್ರುಗಳು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಕೊಲ್ಲುತ್ತಾರೋ ಅಥವಾ ಹಿಂಸಿಸುತ್ತಾರೋ, ನಾನು ನನ್ನ ರಹಸ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಹೇಳುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ... ' ಅದು ಸಿಬಿಐ ಕಚೇರಿಯ...

The Doones are a clan of murdering thieves, and among their victims is John Ridd's father. The strong, noble Ridd determines to avenge his father's death; but his plans are complicated when he falls in love with one of the hated family - the beautiful Lorna. Lorna is promised against her will to another; and that other will not let her go lightly. Set amid the political turmoils of the late 17th century, Lorna Doone brings West Country history and legends alive with wonderfully imaginative fiction.

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Common knowledge isn't an axiom, it's a force of nature. What the masses believe is. But insanity is a weapon; conviction a shield. Delusions give birth to foul new gods. Violent and dark, the world is filled with the Geisteskranken - men and women whose delusions manifest, twisting reality. High Priest Konig seeks to create order from chaos. He defines the beliefs of his followers, leading their faith to one end: a young boy, Morgen, must Ascend to become a god. A god they can control. But there are many who would see this would-be-god in their thrall....

When Tulsi first meets Madhav, she is irrevocably drawn to his chiselled good looks and charm. Although wary of his many dalliances and the string of broken hearts left in his wake, she is surprised by the intense desire that Madhav arouses in her. And before long, she forsakes her family, her...

കാഴ്ചയുടെ കേവലാര്‍ത്ഥത്തില്‍നിന്നു മാറി അന്ധതയെ അറിവും തിരിച്ചറിവും ഇല്ലായ്മയായി അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന...

Novel ini menceritakan tentang serangkaian kasus pembunuhan dengan modus dan jejak tertinggal yang sama: mayat termutilasi menjadi 13 bagian! Detektif paling bodoh pun akan merangkum analisa yang sama: ya, ini pembunuhan berantai...

The Wisdom Keeper’s Guide to Functional Living is a heart centered journey of self-help in fiction-form. The book is a mix of Eat, Pray, Love meets the magic of Harry Potter with a female lead. The book honestly addresses themes of cancer, pain, and death. Painful experiences become catalysts that transform Aurora into the Wisdom Keeper. The Wisdom Keeper’s Guide to Functional Living will touch your heart.

Composed almost entirely of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a heartbreaking narrative about a doomed love. Werther, a young artist driven more by the heart than by reason, is already enraptured with the elusive Charlotte when she marries another man better suited to her class. To keep Charlotte near, Werther befriends her husband - a bid that becomes a torturous reminder of all he's lost.

Aku sudah menunggu saat seperti ini. Saat di mana aku dapat menghukum mereka. Atas perbuatan mereka menodai malam suci Jumat Kliwon. Hari ketika aku dilahirkan harus bersih dari jiwa yang tersesat. Jejak-jejak telapak tangan berdarah berukuran mungil mengecap di sandaran jok kursi yang terbuat...

The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of Earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are "different" must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world....