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Chandrakanta: Devaki Nandan Khatri, published it in 1888, it was the first modern Hindi novel.

Diwan-e-Ghalib is the famous collection of poetic works of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

What would you do if the perfect life you have is torn asunder? Set across two cities in India in the early '80s, Life Is What You Make It is a gripping account of the years that change young Ankita Sharma's life. Pretty and intelligent, Ankita has everything she wants: friends, boys in hot pursuit, and admission into a premier management school for her MBA. But six months later, she finds herself a patient in a mental health hospital. How did she get here, and will she ever get back her life again?

The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. ‘Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer…’ So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her...

Told in Ruskin Bond's simple yet poignant style, the stories and poems in No Man Is an Island thoughtfully explore the many shades of friendship and camaraderie. Featuring classic tales such as 'The Woman on Platform No. 8', in which a mysterious stranger befriends a young boy, and 'The Crooked Tree', in which a writer and a hawker form an unlikely bond, this heartwarming collection is a must-listen.

Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily, finding the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new.

Mara was the demon who tried to distract Lord Buddha with the help of his three daughters—Raga, Arati and Tanha. Paroosh believes Mara’s three daughters have been strayed in this world wearing skins of teenage girls. And he seeks to deliver to Mara, by sacrificing the girls against the peepal tree, for he wants the father to reunite with his daughter.

This is the story of a toy that everyone yearned for. A toy that was found, caught, and caged. This is the story Mohit, the beloved of God. A love story you ask? Well, it could have been. But some stories are best left incomplete. This is a story of how a small spark led to the biggest fire ever. A story about love, passion, and obsession taken to the greatest heights possible. A story of a man’s love for a girl.

Four women know nothing about each other and live cocooned in their individual worlds. Until one day they're forced to reckon with shocking truths they never imagined! Their desires haunt them, provoke them and make them fight to choose new paths in their lives. Will these women survive their stories of passion, betrayal and pain? Best-selling author and film writer Madhuri Banerjee brings to you a new romantic thriller that interweaves varied stories of women and their passions, to show us how all relationships ultimately crash into each other.

Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife, Mamta, spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters. Anjini, married but an incorrigible flirt; Binodini, very worried about her children's hissa in the family property; Chandrakanta, who eloped with a foreigner on the eve of her wedding; Eshwari, who is just a little too popular at Modern School, Barakhamba Road; and the judge's favourite (though fathers shouldn t have favourites): the quietly fiery Debjani.

Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed you, Doctor August,' she says.

A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend . . . a profoundly moving experience' ANN PATCHETT 'Deeply human . . . a beautifully quiet and devastating book' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'Funny, wise and...

The late Binodini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hissa in her Bauji's big old house on Hailey Road. And her daughter, Bonu, is determined to honor her mothers wishes. But what to do about her four pushy aunts who are insisting she sell?

दो डायरी; एक अज्ञात शराबी की, जो न सिर्फ भगवान के साथ मदिरा सेवन करता है अपितु भगवान के साथ समाज के हर पहलू पर बातचीत भी करता है। दूसरी डायरी ख़ुदकुशी कर चुके कृष्ण नामक व्यक्ति की है जो एक मुस्लिम लड़की से प्रेम करता था।

The trajectories of Arvind and Arbaaz, both businessmen of a kind whose lives are unwillingly intertwined, ricochet off one another while they play out their sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, all the while breaking every rule in the book. Both are unaware that what they seek and fight over is the very obstacle in realising an ancient secret that dates back to a time long forgotten. And yet, at the heart of it all, there lies tenderness...and pathos...and blood...and rare moments of an almost exalted happiness.

योगेश कुमार द्वारा लिखा उपन्यास ‘एक उलझी सी कहानी’ की कहानी दिल्ली के उन गाँवों की है जो दो-तीन दशकों के दौरान शहरीकृत गाँव बने हैं। कहानी तीन किरदारों के आस-पास घूमती है। प्रिया, जो एक किरायेदार है और गार्गी कोलेज में पढ़ रही है।

तेलुगु भाषा में प्रकाशित होने के बाद बहुत ही कम समय में बेस्टसेलर साबित हुई। इतना ही नहीं बल्कि यह किताब आज भी बेस्टसेलर की श्रेणी में बनी हुई है। अब यह किताब आपके सामने हिंदी भाषा में उपलब्ध है। जिस तरीके से दक्षिण के लोगों ने इस किताब को और इसकी कहानी को पसंद किया है, हमें पूरा यकीन है कि पूरे भारतभर के हिंदी पाठक इस कथा को भरपूर प्रेम देंगे। यह एक ऐसी प्रेम कहानी है, जो हर एक को अपने अंदर झांकने के लिए प्रेरित करेगी।

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Captivating and suspenseful, Best Kept Secret is the third novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s outstanding Clifton Chronicles. It sees our hero Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington, brother of Harry’s beloved wife Emma, become entwined in the fate of the Barrington family...

Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? “Destined to be a...