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Greatest Works of H.G. Wells (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) showcases the remarkable literary genius of H.G. Wells, a pioneer of science fiction and visionary storytelling. Immerse yourself in a collection of his greatest works, beautifully presented in a luxurious hardbound edition.

Immerse yourself in the world of literature with the World''s Greatest Short Stories deluxe hardbound edition. Featuring a carefully curated selection of timeless tales from renowned authors, this beautifully designed anthology is a must-have for every book lover''s collection.A timeless collection of literary gems!

Kabuko the djinn is the evocative story of a djinn who journeys through human life in search of occult knowledge. Wishing to study the dynamics of the human species for himself, in order to unearth the secrets of human power, Kabuko enters the body of Ajee Shah, a boy born in post-independence Punjab, Pakistan. As Kabuko loses himself to the trials and tribulations of living an ordinary yet intrinsically exceptional human life through Ajee, sex and the supernatural collide, entangling them both in a cataclysmic event that is to change their lives forever. Woven throughout this tapestry of youthful yearnings and a desire for transcendental knowledge are real secrets of the Islamic occult, true stories of Muslim saints and the folklore of the Punjab.

On a sunny April morning in West Windsor, New Jersey, Vinita Patil wakes up to find an envelope from Mumbai in her mail. The anonymous missive inside it claims that her son is dying of leukaemia and that his survival may depend on her. This confounds Vinita. She has been living with her husband and daughter for twenty-five years in America. She has no son. or does she Once upon a time, in a small town in India, a middle-class girl fell in love with an upper-class playboy from her college. The torrid affair inevitably ended in a catastrophe that turned her world upside down. Now, as transgressions from her past threaten to rattle her cozy suburban dream, Vinita must leave behind a family whose faith in her has been shaken and return to her hometown in India that''s on the brink of bedlam. Amidst this turmoil, will Vinita be able to salvage her marriage? or will secrets from the past wreck her world forever? Find out in this riveting tale of one woman''s emotional journey back home to make amends for blunders made in her youth.

There are legends, myths, fables and parables. And the tale of the man with two heads is one of them. When the invitation to play is a dead, mutilated stray dog stuffed inside a gunnysack, you know that the game is going to be dangerous and that the only way to stop the madness is to understand it. And to hope that when the time comes, the knife finds a sweet spot. This is where it all began this is the story of the man with two heads.

Legend has it that there exists a supreme Crystal of Creation, with part of the souls of Lord Shiva and Narayana suspended within it. This single most powerful weapon, with the power to construct, annihilate and recreate the universe, remained hidden somewhere deep within the Himalayan ranges for millennia until now. Now it has gone missing! And thus begins an epic adventure that will take Rama beyond the kingdom of Ayodhya into lands where he will have to battle the fiercest of demons that have colonized the earth, and, in the course, change the destiny of human lives forever. As powers greater than the universe itself come together only to erupt into chaos and intrigue, discover a tale set in a time before Time, where the immortal Rama will come to life and reveal his mysterious world through his eyes as he begins his true purpose the quest for the Crystal of Creation. A Children'' s Bookshelf Selection: Each month our editor'' s pick the best books for children and young adults by age to be a part of the children'' s bookshelf. These are editorial recommendations made by our team of experts. Our monthly reading list includes a mix of bestsellers and top new releases and evergreen books that will help enhance a child'' s reading life.

Land you can''t burn it like money; you can''t melt it like gold. You can only buy it, sell it, snatch it, grab it. Titles change, governments change, times change, but the land stays where it is unmoved and sterile. That is its beauty. But, somewhere deep down, men want to grab its immortality and slip it into their horribly insecure lives. They never can, but they never will stop trying. Gurgaon, circa 1998. A city is being born. Ordinary farms are turning into virtual goldmines in the shadow of lofty skyscrapers. Agastya, whose days are numbered, lords over one such estate. He realizes it''s time to pass on the legacy to the next generation— his estranged sons, Pranay and Karan, who will come from Delhi with blemished pasts, base aspirations and a woman who would divide them. And then, not unlike the Mahabharata, the land would become the stage where their greed, affections and deepest fears would struggle and suffocate. No one would leave the place unscathed, if they would leave at all.

Racy, unpredictable, romantic and inspiring, this is a novel that is bound to get you addicted and stay with you forever. When gamer and entrepreneur Rishi Rai sets out to revolutionize the gaming industry, something somewhere goes terribly wrong and, like dominoes, the blocks of his life fall down one after the other. An unexpected meeting with Alex, an unpredictable, crazy American hippie, changes his life forever, as he decides to quit everything and join him on an unplanned, uncharted journey across India. From getting irrepressibly high in the mysterious Malana Valley in the Himalayas to starting a shack on the bewitching Om Beach on the West Coast, they do it all. But their adrenaline-charged adventure takes a turn when Rishi meets Kyra, a beautiful and enigmatic gamer. As passions surge and sparks fly, Rishi gets drawn to Kyra unaware of who she is and where she comes from. What follows next is something nobody could have ever dreamed of. Who is Kyra and why are the paparazzi after her? Can Rishi connect the dots in his life to protect the love of his life? While the world becomes a spectator, can he mastermind the fall of a ruthless giant to become a global icon or will he become the biggest loser?

Kashmir has seen long years of strife and turmoil and Wali Mohammad Khan has been a silent witness to it all. The violence that terrorism unleashed in the Valley was every bit as senseless as the men who propagated it with manic intensity, but Wali managed to create a seemingly normal life for himself and his family within the protective walls of his home, naï vely believing that the madness beyond would never touch them. But Wali''s illusions get shattered when a ghost from his past returns to bring the insanity of terrorism right into his home, threatening everything he holds dear. Tears of Jhelum lays bare before us, the story of one of those victims of terrorism, whose heartbreaking stories are otherwise lost forever behind the smokescreen of apathy and indifference.

The story of an Aussie teacher, Diana, who comes to India on a Round Square exchange program, the tale chronicles Diana''s journey across the different schools she teaches at and the wealth of information she gathers from each place about all things Indian. The story takes the reader through Delhi, Shimla, Dehradun, Mussoorie, Indore, Ujjain, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Jaipur and Agra and expounds on the many facets of Indian customs, legends, history and religion.

Q. What happens when three ambitious, high-achieving, 20-something Mumbaikars become New Yorkers? A. Madness. Zipping through life''s ups and downs like a high-speed elevator during rush hour, buddies Shri, Shanks and Neel hold on to each other and their sanity, with a bro-hood bonding that chipkos them together, fevicol se. Neel''s the driven hedge fund guy, with a weakness for scotch and women. Tam Brahm Shanks, a techie, falls for the "wrong" girl. Good Son Shri, a banker, holds a secret he means to take to his grave. Their intertwined lives buzz with high-voltage drama explosive secrets, super-charged romances and a-fuse-a-minute meltdowns. There''s alcohol-fuelled passion, Devdas style. Inter-racial hook-ups. Even a fake affair, because money can''t buy the real thing. When their skyscraper-sized dreams are tested, their friendship is at stake. Their jobs are on the line. Their love lives are on the rocks. This "desified" saga of friends in Manhattan is like the city''s rapid transit express subway line. You won''t want amy stops in between.

Is a man''s past set in stone, or can it be changed? Rewritten and reshaped? Is time a reality, or a construct of the imagination? Fleeting and fragmented? One man is about to find out. Meet Arpit, a bitter young man who embarks upon an incredible and seemingly impossible journey to right the seven wrongs that have shadowed his life, all in a quest to be together with Mannat, the love of his life. When Arpit meets Nishimaya, a modern-day mystic, little does he know that his life is about to change. In entirety. But change comes with effort. And Arpit has to lose himself in order to resurrect his past and set things right. With every past mistake he corrects, he finds a corresponding change in his present life but not all changes are easy to make. And as Arpit travels further back into his own life, he''s forced to dig into frightening depths and fight against his own self to dredge up the truth from the sediments of folly that litter his world. Unknown to him, however, Mannat is supporting his struggle from halfway across the world even as she tries to gather her own life together. And Nishimaya, as she takes Arpit through the swirls of time, has to confront ghosts of her own as well. As their lives get caught in the web of karma, dreams, memories and destinies, Arpit, Mannat and Nishimaya must stumble and fall if they are to reach the end. But Time still holds a revelation none of them had expected.

While her B-School batchmates are busy scrambling for top jobs and grades, a restless Sarika dreams of putting on her running shoes and having all the pages of her passport stamped by the age of thirty. What follows is a frenzied quest of not just collecting stamps but ticking off items off her ever-expanding bucket list: From learning the local language in Spain to an alcohol trail through Greece; from a tryst with Shakespeare and Jane Austen in the United Kingdom to an encounter with the Vampire in Romania; from straddling the border of two countries in the Middle East to a road trip through Morocco to the Sahara; each experience bringing her a little closer to reaching that final destination on her passport. A journey of falling in love with globetrotting this one promises to be one of the best roller-coaster reading experiences you will have this year.

A seemingly innocuous remark over an innocent cup of tea, and Aranya discovers that her family has been fighting a decade-long legal battle over her grandfather'' s expansive estate. And all this while they not only kept her in the dark, but also kept her very existence out of the court'' s knowledge! A cesspool of emotions, half-truths, betrayals, and the unspooling of long buried dirty family secrets threaten to overpower Aranya and disrupt what modicum of peace and balance she has in her life as a single mother of two children. At the center of this storm is the one woman who, ever since the day Aranya was born, has had nothing but curses and abuses for her; who has deliberately kept her name out of the court case; who has wished her dead for every day of her life; who refuses to now remember her birth. The woman who is her mother. Her own mother. This is the story of a woman fighting against power, money, deceit, and treachery for her right to be recognized as a daughter. A daughter by court order . .

The Horseman had come to your apartment?'' Adri nodded. ''What did it want?'' ''My goddamn soul.'' Tantrics. Necromancers. Exorcists. Talkers to the dead. Summoners of Demons. An ancient art. A select few. The only ones in the land allowed by law to inscribe upon themselves the magical tattoos of the profession. The city of Old Kolkata. Dark. Devastated. War-ravaged. Unforgiving. Adri Sen, a banished Tantric, wakes up one morning to find the Horseman, Death, sitting at the edge of his bed. The Apocalypse cometh. Wraiths whisper. Ancients bleed. Demons stalk. Fallen Angels rise. Assassins attack. Storytellers spin. In every legend, a small grain of truth. Run for your soul, Adri. Run.

I''ve had it with your attitude, Siya. Go ahead, get on your high horse and stay there. I refuse to beg anymore. Goodbye.” What makes a marriage? Love or compatibility? Passion or pragmatism? Shobhan Bantwal''s compelling new novel explores the fascinating subject of arranged marriage, as a young Indian-American woman navigates the gulf between desire and tradition. To Siya Giri, arranged marriages have always seemed absurd. But while her career as an environmental lawyer has flourished, she remains a virgin, living with her parents in suburban New Jersey. However, she now wants to get married and for that she is finally ready to do the unthinkable! Siya''s first few bridal-viewings are as awkward as she anticipated. But then she''s introduced to Roger Vadepalli and things seem to change. or do they? Self-possessed, intelligent and charming, Roger is clearly interested in marriage and seems eager to clinch the deal, but Siya, who is attracted to him in spite of her mistrust, is also drawn into a flirtation with Lou, a widowed colleague who is far from her family''s idea of an acceptable husband. In choosing between two very different men, Siya must reconcile her burgeoning independence and her conservative background. And she must decide what matters most to her not just in a husband, but also in a family, a culture and a life.

True love is like a permanent state of madness, one that makes us end up doing things we always thought ourselves incapable of. The same happened with Delhi-based Arjun Singh. As a teenager, he made fun of romantic movies and love songs. Even when he got married, he only gradually fell in love with his wife— their love was mature and pure and had none of the madness that love stories are made of. But his story only begins here . . . One day at a party, he meets Tamanna, who looks breathtaking beside her overweight and pompous husband. Her arrival turns Arjun'' s life around. He does everything love-struck teenagers are known to do— from writing poetry and letters to checking his phone every few minutes. He pines, he sings, he cries, he obsesses, he hyperventilates, he regrets, he scolds himself, he broods, he dreams, and he loves— truly and helplessly. And as time passes, the gradual revelation of Tamanna'' s maturity, her thoughtfulness, and her witty personality leave Arjun completely awestruck. But his is not a usual love story, for he is married, and so is she. Heartbreaking and inspired by the author'' s life story, Tamanna is a journey through a man'' s heart, exploring, as it does, how it is possible to love more than one person at the same time, and how love heeds no reason and no boundaries . . .

This is a story of seven commoners whose farsightedness and resilience to think beyond the obvious, and to ingeniously master the practices of their respective fields, made them the Seven Uncommoners. While some journeys show incredible upswings against awe-wrenching odds, others give remarkable examples of when, how and what to do best with the resources at hand. With fields ranging from technology to infrastructure, from managing hotels to supply chains, from setting up law offices to investment banking firms; together these seven showcase the transforming face of Indian business that is ready to take on the best in the world. As a faithful rendition of the lives of these fascinating individuals who understand the crests and troughs of a demanding business environment, Seven Uncommoners offers a rich insight into the riveting world of start-up culture and its subsequent growth.

From the fall of the Soviet Union to the Arab Spring to today'' s continuing conflicts, media have played a decisive role in political affairs across the globe— driving the revolutionary changes shaping today'' s new world. This is the first book presenting a comprehensive look at the emergence of media as a primary actor, and not merely an observer, of global affairs. As the founder and CEO of Internews, the world'' s largest non-governmental media development organization, David Hoffman has had a backstage pass to many of the seminal world political upheavals in recent years. In these pages we see how media have been used for good and bad, and how with the rise of digital technology, the power of media to intervene in global affairs is in the hands of everyone— including you. Citizens Rising examines media'' s historic impact and offers a roadmap to the future.

If I had to choose between letting down A friend or my country, god, give Me the strength to betray my nation. ‘ I was born in a mentally retarded country.'' Thus begins this provocative, stylish, and racy literary rant against India by a twenty-four-year-old awaiting capital punishment; hoisting so huge a historic and political canvas to paint upon— opening at the Emergency that almost murdered Democracy and culminating in the Godhra riots, which almost destroyed secularism— a canvas so grand, it will leave you staggered . . . . . . and set the tone for a modern story of an ancient Mad Nation! Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, Autobiography of a Mad Nation is written on an epic scale— where history, personal friendships, love for a nation and belief in its values, sense of great literature, fight against censorship, passion for ideas, and a zeal for unforgettable characters and dialogue fuse— to leave a mesmerizing impact on the minds of readers who discerningly distinguish between great, and all else.

For a woman in a male-dominated society, ‘ choice'' is an alien word. And inequality, violence, injustice, abuse, and discrimination a daily living reality. A God Who Hates Women is an emotional journey through a labyrinth of violence and civil war. It'' s a journey through a battlefield riddled with archaic cultural demands and explosive emotions . . . where a mother and her son struggle to navigate through a cruel patriarchal society in an attempt to survive. To live. Will endurance and courage overcome daily abuse? Will a crumbling homeland deprive a young boy of his right to identity? Will it wipe away all dreams of a future? A myriad of memories and experiences are woven together in this riveting true tale of one family'' s heartbreaking struggle through the mire of religion, politics, war and their unwavering hope for peace.

He ran away with a shoe from the cobbler'' s shack. Sitting in the middle of the road, chewing on a bone, he was unaware of the bus above him. Spotting a few scattered sheep and goats, he anticipated fun and action. A foolhardy fighter. But above all, the perfect companion, guard, and savior . . . Meet Fluffy, the cutest, wild-spirited Lhasa Apso! In the sleepy Himalayan suburb of Shimla, life had been quite laidback. And then one evening came a most unexpected phone call. A canine was on its way; the little girl would soon have a companion. And thus began this true story of an undying friendship. Of an inseparable bond between Fluffy and his little mistress. Join in their escapades as they glide from innocence to maturity, exploring the Himalayan wilderness. A heart-warming tale of the selfless love and boundless devotion that only canines are capable of showering, Anita Krishan'' s Fluffy and Me will take you on an emotional journey full of laughter and tears, fun and fear. Moving, sensitive, hilarious, and deeply touching . . . an unpretentious story of love!

A goddess in the temple. A burden in the family. Children are a gift of God, they say. But do they really believe? Isha and Nikhil Tilak are expecting their second child. Hardwired to favor a grandson, Nikhil'' s egotistical parents have resented and coldly rejected their first granddaughter. So ever since the day Isha discovered that she'' s expecting, this question has obsessed her: ‘ Is it a boy? Or . . . God forbid . . . a girl?'' And finally the answer is there on the gynecologist''s screen— it'' s a girl! What will Nikhil and Isha do now? As their decisions add to their nightmare, Nikhil is found murdered in cold blood. And their innocent unborn daughter is blamed for it. With her five-year-old at her heels, grief-stricken and relentlessly oppressed by her in-laws, who believe the baby to be a bad omen, Isha sets out on her own to build her life around her forbidden daughters. Will she be able to protect them from the grave dangers that lie ahead? A thrilling, captivating, and thought-provoking portrayal of the dark secrets hidden in the Indian culture, this novel is bound to stir your conscience.

She is beautiful, she is smart, she is kind, She is a bloody rare find. But she is dead now . . . And those doe-like wonderful dark brown eyes no more offer warmth or love. The ruby red of those lips is now a cold blue. And the curve of that body is now frozen in rigor mortis. What happened? Who killed her— the chief minister'' s secret mistress?

Part rant, part reportage. Partly serious and partly funny. Name Place Animal Thing by top film critic Mayank Shekhar is a whacky yet insightful take on desis and popular culture. Covering concerns of a young, urban India, ranging from city, cinema, stardom, and religion to cops, cigarette smoking, social drinking, and social media, each piece has been peppered with Shekhar'' s characteristic wit and razor sharp observations to simultaneously inform, amuse, and irritate! If you wish to start a conversation, here'' s the book to pick.