Poor Ellen. Her boyfriend is cheating on her … with her best friend. Her other (male) best friend is in love with her when he really shouldnt be. Her beauty queen sister is on a rampage. And her mom is having an affair with one of her teachers. At first, Ellen wants to climb into […]
On 31 August 2008, sister Jesme left the congregation of Mother of Carmel. The authorities repeated attempts to have her declared insane, she says, left her no other option. This book, a first of its kind in India, is an outpouring of her experiences as a nun for thirty three years. Searing, sincere and sensitive, […]
One of the most charismatic movie stars of all time, Cary Grant left an indelible mark on the film industry and on the culture at large. His sense of style–so integral to who he was both onscreen and off–has been admired, copied, emulated, and lauded, but never fully examined, until now. With rare and never-before-published […]
As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca is Islams most sacred city […]
Science writer Matt Ridley has found a way to tell someone elses story without being accused of plagiarism. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters delves deep within your body (and, to be fair, Ridleys too) looking for dirt dug up by the Human Genome Project. Each chapter pries one gene out of […]
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire. They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain??s most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas […]
Michelle Obama – In Her Own Words. The Speeches 2008. Our Nations new First Lady: Michelle LaVaughn Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and the wife of the elected President Barack Obama. Michelle is the first African-American to become the First Lady of the United States. Michelle was born and grew up […]
Abandoned by her mother, beaten by her father, and hurriedly married off at twelve to an abusive man twice her age, Baby Halders early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak. Exhausted and desperate, the young mother finally fled with her three children in 1999 to Delhi, where she found work as a maid […]
Few lives have been more eventful and controversial than Protima Bedis, and this book, derived from her unfinished autobiography, journals and her letters to family, friends and lovers, is a startlingly frank and passionate memoir. Illustrated with over fifty photographs, this is the story of a remarkable woman who had the spirit, the courage and […]
This is the authorized biography of one of the most magnetic men in the world. He is a man whose presence and grace have touched and transformed millions of followers all over the world??from Bangalore to Bosnia, Surinam to South Africa, Tamil Nadu to Trinidad. A tireless traveler, he has addressed the United Nations, the […]
This is the captivating story behind Schindler??s List, the Booker Prize??winning book and the Academy Award??winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world. ?ÿ Thomas Keneally met Leopold ??Poldek? Pfefferberg, the […]
This book is the first comprehensive, critical study of Jagadis Chandra Boses science and philosophy of science in the context of Western scientific culture. Drawing mainly on primary scientific literature and unpublished archival material, it describes Boses precise contribution to physics, radio, and biology.
Written over five months when Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned in the Ahmadnagar Fort, The Discovery of India has acquired the status of a classic since it was first published in 1946. In this work of prodigious scope and scholarship, one of the greatest figures of Indian history unfolds the panorama of the countrys rich and […]
The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africas apartheid regime. Among the books interesting revelations is Mandelas ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. […]
Stephen Fry is not making this up! Fry started out as a dishonorable schoolboy inclined to lies, pranks, bringing decaying moles to school as a science exhibit, theft, suicide attempts, the illicit pursuit of candy and lads, a genius for mischief, and a neurotic life of crime that sent him straight to Pucklechurch Prison and […]