O. Henrys Selected Short Stories are known for their wit, wordplay, and surprise endings. Most of the stories are set New York City in the early years of the twentieth century and deal with the common people. The Gift of the Magi deals with the working-class and unselfish love. The collection also contains stories as […]
“Moonfleet” (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? How can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohunes treasure? As the book progresses these […]
The Great PBI – Indian Love Story is set in a PBI – World where appearances mean everything and nothing is as it seems. There??s no time for love in a PBI – World that revolves around the latest Ferraris, the hottest nightclubs, diamonds, single malts, cocaine and ecstasy. In this whirl of wild parties, […]
Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick OConnell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can […]
Marshall Mcluhans prophetic insights in the 1960s foreshadowed the post-modern conflagration of message and meaning which became the dominant concern of social theorists and media intellectuals throughout the 1990s. while many saw the rise and rise of technology as alienating people from people, and lubricating the infiltration of the corporate message into the personal sphere, […]
“And that??s when we saw it. A red stain??a deep, dark red bloodstain. The kind that has been there for centuries. ??It??s Humayun??s,?? she said softly. For one instant I almost believed her. A boring class excursion to Purana Qila turns into a thrilling adventure for the four friends who fancy themselves to be detectives. […]
There often comes a moment in people s lives when full stops fall away,Question marks surface.And commas,Vast yawning commas.This is the point at which the individual becomes a seeker.This is a book for seekers.It encompasses the gamut of questions restless,fevered,desperate that have arisen in every seeker s mind at some point or the other.Questions about […]
This is a book for the thirsty.And emphatically not a book for the faint hearted.In a series of far-reaching exploratory conversations,Sadhguru a living master and mystic of our times touches on every conceivable question that seeker might nurse about the realm of the mystical.Questions about enlightenment,liberation,death,God and the afterlife.Also those niggling but ostensibly trifling questions […]
At the Ritz, they wonder where their famous, incognito guest has gone.From California to London, Caroles friends and family begin to make inquiries. Then comes a moment of shock as they realize that Carole is in a hospital far from home, fighting for her life. In the days that follow, the paparazzi swarm. A mysterious […]
One night in November 2002, PC Billy Tyler is called to a mortuary in Suffolk to guard the body of a notorious child-killer. But in the eerie silence of the hospital, the killers presence begins to assert itself. A vivid evocation of an extraordinary moment in crime history, “Death of a Murderer” is a dark […]