The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime by Maxim Jakubowski The funny side of the wrong side of the law comes through in this mammoth collection from masters of combined humor and mystery, such as Donald E. Westlake, Peter Lovesey, Terry Pratchett, Ed Gorman, Sarah Caudwell, Bill Pronzini, Mike Ripley, Nicholas Blincoe, Hilary Bonner, Christopher Brookmyre, and many more. Wisecracking safecrackers, accident-prone good guys, and criminal line-up ranging from deadpan to dead stupid all feature in The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime roundup of the most unusual suspects.
The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi We got stared at a lot. People asked out loudly some out of curiosity, others out of malice whether we were men or women or number nines or devadasis. Several men made bold to touch us, on our backs, on our shoulders. Some attempted to grab our breasts. Original or duplicate they shouted and hooted. At such moments I felt despair and wondered if there would ever be a way for us to live with dignity and make a decent living.
Revathi was born a boy, but felt and behaved like a girl. In telling her life story, Revathi evokes marvelously the deep unease of being in the wrong body that plagued her from childhood. To be true to herself, to escape the constant violence visited upon her by her family and community, the village-born Revathi ran away to Delhi to join a house of hijras. Her life became an incredible series of dangerous physical and emotional journeys to become a woman and to find love.
Corporate Chanakya: Successful Management The Chanakya Way by Radhakrishnan Pillai Chanakya, who lived in 3rd Century BC, was a leadership guru par excellence. His ideas on how to identify leaders and groom them to govern a country has been well documented in his book Kautilya's Arthashastra. This book contains 6000 aphorisms or sutras. In the present book the author simplifies the age old formula of success for leaders of the corporate world. Divided into 3 sections of Leadership, Management and Training Corporate Chanakya includes tips on various topics like organizing and conducting effective meetings, dealing with tricky situations, managing time, decision making and responsibilities and powers of a leader. Call it your guide for corporate success or a book that brings back ancient Indian management wisdom in modern format you just cannot let go the Chanakya wisdom contained in each page. Flip any page and discover the Corporate Chanakya in you.
The Scientific Indian Science Fiction Anthology by Selvakumar Ganesan This collection of science fiction stories originally appeared at TheScian.com. They were winning entries sent by authors for the yearly science fiction story contest organized by The Scientific Indian between 2006 and 2009.
The Puffin Book of Classic Stories for Girls by Paro Anand Pick up a dainty blue umbrella, skip around a secret garden; spend a day in the mountains, playing amongst the goats and birds; save a little pig from a dreadful fate. All this and more in these stories of magic, whimsy and humour.
Read the miraculous story of Pollyanna; explore a magical land with Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz; feel the warmth of love, and bond with the March sisters in Little Women; follow the travails of the mischievous Katy as she gets into scrapes at school; and watch out for Matilda's extraordinary tricks.
Featuring the works of such renowned authors as Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, Roald Dahl, Ruskin Bond, Rabindranath Tagore and others, and a sparkling introduction by celebrated author Manjula Padmanabhan, The Puffin Book of Classic Stories for Girls is a matchless collection of stories from the masters of world literature for girls of all ages.
The Monochrome Madonna by Kalpana Swaminathan Sitara said, with awful distinctness, I think I'm going to die.
And that's how I got stuck with the annual corpse.
Half an hour later I stood in an empty flat, alone with a stranger who was very recently, and very violently, dead.
Rushing to Sitara's aid, Lalli's niece Sita is distracted by Raphael's Sistine Madonna. Why is it monochrome. And what does it have to do with the body on the living-room floor.
Such questions are hardly relevant to the police in their hunt for the murderer. But Lalli is a detective who revels in curiosities, and she thinks otherwise.
A brisk thriller of deceit and intrigue, The Monochrome Madonna has Lalli at her most astute as she interprets the nuances of a murder without motive.
Oliver Twist leaves behind his gang of criminals for a better life; an open window is just what a fertile mind needs in Saki's .The Open Window; Satyajit Ray's Badan Babu has a brush with a Pterodactyl's egg; Rabindranath Tagore recollects boyhood days spent dreaming in an abandoned palanquin; and Sherlock Holmes sets off to solve the mystery of the engineer's thumb.
Featuring the works of such renowned authors as Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Premchand, Mark Twain and others, and a lively introduction by well-known children's author Paro Anand, The Puffin Book of Classic Stories for Boys is a matchless collection from the masters of world literature for boys of all ages.
The Ark's Anniversary by Gerald Durrell When Gerald Durrell was six years old, he informed his
mother that he intended to have his own zoo. This is
the story of how that little boy grew into his big ambition
and how his dream grew into The Jersey Wildlife
Preservation Trust, which today is a major world force
in wildlife conservation. Whether the author is on the
trail of a pigmy hog or a bank manager, whether he is
courting patrons or tracking down a Gunther's gecko,
Durrell does it with equal parts enthusiasm, optimism
and good humour.
The Bafut Beagle by Gerald Durrell One of Gerald Durrell's most popular and best-loved books, the Bafut Beagles was the name which Durrell bestowed the pack of African hunters and their mongrel dogs with which he hunted and captured many of the oddest and most elusive creatures in the Cameroons. His adventures in pursuit of such fauna as flying mice and booming squirrels were often as strange as the animals themselves. From thoughtfully providing hunters with magic potions to repel instant death from the Que-Fong-Goo, to teaching the Fon, King of Bafut and his councillors to dance the Conga, Durrell endears and endures it all.
The New Noah by Gerald Durrell In The New Noah, Gerald Durrell packs humour and love along with his nets, traps and mad schemes as he journeys across the world in search of animals for his zoo? hunting down, trading and often rescuing rare, beautiful animals. Ant-eaters, electric eels, porcupines, moustached monkeys, curassows, toucans, hairy frogs, the odd boa-constrictor... all as pampered and fussed over as luxury cruise-liner guests aboard Gerald Durrell?s arkcruise-ark.
A fabulous treat for anyone with a taste for adventure.
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