Shobha De

Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown

An ancient secret brotherhood.
A devastating new weapon of destruction.
An unthinkable target.

In Angels and Demons World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.

Tender Hooks
by Moni Mohsin

After freeing her darling son, jonkers from the clutches of his low class slutty secretary aunty pussy has charged butterfly with finding him a new wife�a rich, fair, beautiful, old family type. Quickly. But who wants to marry poor, plain, die - vorced jonkers? as butterfly schemes her way through shaadis, gts (oho baba,get togethers!) and kitty parties trying to find a suitable girl from the right bagground, she discovers to her dismay that her hapless cousin has his own ideas about his perfect mate and secretly she may even agree!

Full of wit and wickedness,tender hooks is another delightful romp through pakistani high society from the bestselling author of the diary of a social butterfly.