After spending years in prison after being framed, Edmond escapes, transforms himself into the Count of Monte Cristo, and plans revenge against those who imprisoned him.
Free-spirited and rebellious, Saira has grown up in California with her beautiful, obedient sister Ameena. From childhood, she has broken the boundaries between her desire for independence and her familys traditions – in particular, her Bombay-bred mothers idea of how girls should behave. Now, hungry for experience and curious about the world, Saira travels to […]
Based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta, it is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the cross-currents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of Indias social transition – a phase in which the older elements are not […]
Communication and motivation are essential for business survival–learning the skills and techniques to improve both is never time wasted. In Communicate to Win, British training guru Richard Denny shows how anyone can turn a dream of success into reality. Using his inspirational style, he reveals the secrets of successful communication. This second edition contains even […]
As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplanes swooping path, Virginia Woolfs?ÿMrs. Dalloway?ÿfollows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers–from Peter Walsh, whom […]
Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canadas new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical […]
Business people of all levels can benefit from this guide to conducting successful meetings. Readers will learn to invite the right people to the meetings, develop a proper agenda, tactfully prevent someone from taking over the meeting, and reinvigorate a stalled meeting.
“Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometowns of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheauxs onetime best friend – a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheauxs life.” […]