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यह कहानी प्रमुखतः एक लड़का (छोटू) और एक महिला को ध्यान में रखकर लिखी गई है। यह कहानी मूलतः एक स्त्री को सामाजिक दृष्टि से मिलने वाली अवहेलना और एक नवयुवक के उस स्त्री के ओर आकर्षित होने की कहानी है।

Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own past, and after doing a DNA test, she discovers that she has a relative she didn't know about. But her newfound family causes a bit of a rift between her and her flatmate, Antonia Collie. Bertie's dream of moving to the promised land – the Dear Green Place – comes crashing down as he learns that he is to move to the far northeast – Peterhead, near Aberdeen, leaving poor Ranald Braveheart Macpherson a little heartbroken and lost.

उपन्यास ‘इश्क़ एक्सप्रेस’ की कहानी सत्य घटनाओं पर आधारित है। लेखक की क़लम से काग़ज़ पर कहानी उतर जाने तक का सफ़र आसान नहीं होता। कुछ की तो ज़िंदगी गुज़र जाती है और फिर भी सफ़र अधूरा ही रह जाता है।

Lucy, staying in a beautiful home overlooking Venice Beach, can find no peace from her misery - not in therapy, not in Tinder hookups, not in her sister's dog's unquestioning devotion, not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks....

Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Now all three are recently widowed, in their own way, and spend sweetly painful evenings...

One day Meera's husband fails to come home after a party, and she becomes responsible not just for her children but for her mother and grandmother and the running of Lilac House, their rambling old family home in Bangalore. Enter professor J. A. Krishnamurthy, or Jak, a renowned cyclone studies expert on a very different trajectory in life. In a bedroom in his house lies his 19-year-old daughter Smriti, left comatose after a vicious attack on her while she was on holiday at a beachside town.

जीवन के खुरदरे यथार्थ से जूझते हुए विपरीत परिवेश में भी नियति के विरुद्ध संघर्षरत नायक और नायिका के पल्लवित हुए सरस प्रेम की अद्भुत गाथा। पने जीवन-संघर्ष, ज़िम्मेदारियों और दुर्भाग्य से लड़ते हुए प्रेम की कोमल ऊर्जा किस प्रकार इस लड़ाई की ताक़त बन सकती है, यही ‘अलकनंदा’ उपन्यास का केंद्रीय कथ्य है।

तीन (Teen), जिसका अर्थ है "तीन," अमित श्रीवास्तव द्वारा लिखा गया एक हिंदी उपन्यास है।यह उपन्यास आत्मकथात्मक कथा-साहित्य की एक समृद्ध और बहुस्तरीय कृति है, जिसकी पृष्ठभूमि उत्तर भारत के एक छोटे-से क़स्बे में है।

बनारस के एक छोटे से मोहल्ले में बड़ा होता एक लड़का घर के माहौल से ऊब कर संतों की संगति में बैठने लगता है और दुनिया देखने का उसका नज़रिया बदलने लगता है। वो बड़ा होकर लेखक बनना चाहता है और इस सपने को जीते हुए वह बचपन की दोस्तियों और जवानी के प्यार से रूबरू होता है।

「人が死ぬのって、素敵よね」彼女は僕のすぐ耳もとでしゃべっていたので、その言葉はあたたかい湿った息と一緒に僕の体内にそっともぐりこんできた。

「君はこれから世界でいちばんタフな15歳の少年になる」――15歳の誕生日がやってきたとき、僕は家を出て遠くの知らない街に行き、小さな図書館の片隅で暮らすようになった。

「恋愛なんて、ただの確率のゲーム。正しい方法論があるんだ」。恋人に捨てられ、気になる女性には見向きもされない二十七歳の弁理士、渡辺正樹は、クライアントの永沢にそう告げられる。

出会いのトライアスロン、会話のルーティン、セックスへのＡＣＳモデル。テクニックを学び非モテから脱した渡辺だが――。恋に不器用な男女を救う戦略的恋愛小説。

Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world...

It is summer in Edinburgh, and Isabel Dalhousie is once again caught between ‘gossip’ and significant rumour. It is none of her business that Patricia, the mother of her son Charlie’s little friend Basil, is estranged from Basil’s father or that the woman has a somewhat brazen attitude to childcare. And yet, it is curious. Isabel, however, has much else on her mind as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. Along with the work involved for its impending next issue, she really needs to get her house in order and tend to the demands of her niece, Cat.

As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and the outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend, Jemma, and every so often he stumbles upon something really big.

Eleanor Oliphant ist anders als andere Menschen. Eine Pizza bestellen, mit Freunden einen schönen Tag verbringen, einfach so in den Pub gehen? Für Eleanor undenkbar! Und das macht ihr Leben auf Dauer unerträglich einsam. Erst als sie sich verliebt, wagt sie sich zaghaft aus ihrem Schneckenhaus - und lernt dabei nicht nur die Welt, sondern auch sich selbst noch einmal neu kennen.

Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely devoted herself to her three sons all their lives, and continues to do so even now they are all grown up. They are, of course, devoted to her – she and Anthony, their father, hold the family together at their big, beautiful, ramshackle house near the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk. But when Luke, her youngest, gets married, Rachel finds that control is slipping away.

It’s seven years after the events of Sideways. Miles has written a novel that has been made into a wildly successful movie, and the movie has changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles’ mom, has suffered a stroke that’s left her wheelchair-bound and wasting away in assisted living. She desperately wants to live with her sister in Wisconsin. When Miles gets invited to be master of ceremonies at the International Pinot Festival in Oregon, he hatches a harebrained road trip.

Glorious short stories from international bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, in a collection written especially for World Book Day There are times when ladies must use all their wisdom and good sense to face life's problems and mysteries. Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective...

"Powerful, relatable and crazily addictive, Bye, Baby takes an unflinching look at the battling forces of toxicity and love which define so many female friendships. I couldn't put it down." —Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted and The Love of My Life "Narrators Helen...