In this book, the authors, who consider themselves fans and analysts in equal measure, follow the career of the cricketing demigod – his advent, his peak, his fall, and his resurrection. Armed with irrefutable statistical data, which they contextualize and analyse with rigour, the authors seek to end all debate on Tendulkars status as the […]
The book, written by an IITian, is awesome. Beautifully written sober love story of an IITian guy with a girl whom he meets in a party. The best part is the concept of being an IITian is not so exaggerated in the novel as Ive seen in other IITian books. It makes you smile as […]
Sir Damian Cray is a philanthropist, peace activist, and the worlds most famous pop star. But still its not enough. He needs more if he is to save the world. Trouble is, only Alex Rider recognizes that its the world that needs saving from Sir Damian Cray. Underneath the luster of glamour and fame lies […]
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider??s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; […]
Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds mans life–the life proper to a rational being–as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with mans nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.
With Bleachers John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.
When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider, fourteen-year-old reluctant spy, to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is hanging out with the sons of the rich and powerful, and something feels wrong. Very wrong. These former juvenile delinquents […]
An explosion rips through New York Citys Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedmans husband, a successful hedge fund manager, is riding in to work. Days later, with many bodies still unidentifiable, Karen resigns herself to the awful truth: her husband of eighteen years is dead. On that same day, a suspicious […]
Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers?? Association Gold Dagger for 1976??s best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, The New Girl Friend; a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was […]
Nobody has a better ear for the whine of the unloved and underappreciated than Ruth Rendell. Early in this Inspector Wexford adventure, a young woman who was bound and gagged during a robbery demands victim counseling; not long after, families of some people taken hostage quickly cluster themselves into a support group. The titular “road […]
Some books improve with age–the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullmans heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up […]