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Go to Book No. 44 Check all the Books Here   Name of the Book: ONLY WHEAT NOT WHITE Author: Varsha Dixit Read some reviews: 1. Lisa Cullinan   2. Mina Khan   3. Shriya Pandit   The Story: What if the one you completely love is the one you simply can't! Twenty-six-year-old Eila Sood moves to America to mend fences with her estranged older sister, Sheela. Eila and the rest of the family in India had cut off ties with Sheela after she married Steve Jacobs, 'out of caste, and out of color'. Elia soon realizes that Sheela's marriage is on the rocks. To help pay Sheela's household bills, Eila takes a second job at an afternoon strip club. When she crosses paths with the owner, the handsome Brett Wright or 'blue-eyed ogre' as Elia calls him, he both infuriates and fascinates her. Brett turns out to be her reluctant and unquestionably sarcastic knight in shining armor. As Eila and Brett spend more time together their desire for each oth...

Go to Book No. 42 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book: A PATCHWORK QUILT  Author: Sulekha Rawat Read a review:     Kriti Ghoshal The Book: This book is a collection of poems by the mother-daughter duo, Sulekha and Shloka Rawat.  Publishing facilitation : AuthorsUpFront You can also buy @ About The Author  Sulekha Rawat  Sulekha is a dreamer, healer and writer; loves drinking strong and sweet tea, listening to music, watching movies, spending time with her family and friends, and pouring out her thoughts on the pages of her notebooks. She was born and brought-up in Mumbai and now lives in Delhi/NCR with her husband, Vikram Rawat, and now grown-up children, Shloka and Kartik. Sulekha also has a side-kick named Sparky, her 11 year old Dalmatian who listens to her read out her rough drafts and gives her suggestions for improving them with a shake of her adorable head.  ...

Go to Book No. 41 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book: SITA: AN ILLUSTRATED RETELLING OF THE RAMAYANA Author: Devdutt Pattanaik Read some reviews: 1. Manu Prasad   2. Priya 3. Avanthika   The Story: It is significant that the only character in Hindu mythology, a king at that, to be given the title of ekam-patni-vrata, devoted to a single wife, is associated with the most unjust act of abandoning her in the forest to protect family reputation. This seems a deliberate souring of an uplifting narrative. Rams refusal to remarry to produce a royal heir adds to the complexity. The intention seems to be to provoke thought on notions of fidelity, property and self-image. And so the mythologist and illustrator Devdutt Pattanaik retells the Ramayana, drawing attention to the many oral, visual and written retellings composed in different times, in different places, by different poets, each one trying to solve the puzzle in its own unique way. ...

Go to Book No. 38 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book: SHIKHANDI AND OTHER STORIES THEY DON'T TELL YOU Author: DevduttPattanaik Read some reviews: 1. Anupama Ma 2. ArunDiwakar 3. Sukanto The Story: Patriarchy establishes men as superior to women. Feminism views women and men as equal. Queerness questions what constitutes male and female. Queerness isn’t only modern, Western or sexual, says mythologist DevduttPattanaik. Take a close look at the vast written and oral traditions in Hinduism, some over two thousand years old, and you will find many overlooked tales, such as those of Shikhandi, who became a man to satisfy her wife; Mahadeva, who became a woman to deliver his devotee’s child; Chudala, who became a man to enlighten her husband; Samavan, who became the wife of his male friend; and many more . . . Playful and touching—and sometimes disturbing—these stories, when compared with their Mesopotamian, Greek, Chinese and Bib...

Go to Book No. 36 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book: 26: 26 STORIES; 26 COLOURS; 26 EMOTIONS Author: Aditi Kaushiva Read some reviews: 1. Inderpreet Kaur Uppal 2. Leo 3. A. Moran-Soley The Story: This anthology is an attempt at crafting stories which subscribe to the genre of flash-fiction which is a compendium of extremely brief narratives and stories. This anthology strives to explore the myriad hues of life by painting 26 bite-sized stories, each based on 26 colours which commence with every letter of the alphabet from A to Z. The themes developed in these stories range from marital despair to urban city-life blues, from love to loss, from child abuse to infidelity, divorce, and much more. This anthology is inspired from ideas which took shape during the April A- Z blogging challenge which the author undertook in 2014. Each story has been written in just one day and tries to bear testimony to the fact that short, swiftly wri...

Go to Book No. 33 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book: CAFÉ LATTE Author: Amit Shankar Read some reviews: 1. Inderpreet Kaur Uppal 2. Amrit Sinha 3. Rashi Gaur The Story: 18 UNUSUAL short stories... We are brought up listening to and reading stories, which make us form a clichéd framework of expectations and concepts about life. Café Latte takes you on a tantalizing foray into the unusual with some refreshing and some startling stories. A young man, Bikash, is delivered a message through paranormal forces while waiting on the railway platform; A doctor snaps a young man back to life by promising to help him commit suicide. A poor boy, Lokesh, dreams of people at a cinema night show perishing in a fire. Will his desperate attempts to save some lives succeed? 'The Other Side' is the story of a nymphomaniac fighting her desperate craving for sex. 'Smart TV' showcases a smart sales performer, Raj, buying his wife and daughter an e...

Go to Book No. 35 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book: THE SECOND COMING Author: Shubha Menon Read some reviews: 1. Adite Banerjie 2. Merril Anil   3. Anmol Rawat The Story: A wedding planner who believes in fairytale weddings, Mini yearns for romance in her own marriage. The magic of the initial years has vanished, leaving behind a hunger that she assuages with chocolate. Mini would love to change her situation, but she is over the hill, overweight and under confident. The chances of having a hot affair with a happening man are dim, if not non-existent. An erstwhile royal scion decides to wed a Bollywood starlet and Mini is sent to Mumbai to plan the celebrations. The manager of the Mumbai office is young Rustom, the answer to Mini’s secret dreams. Goaded by impending menopause, Mini decides it’s now or never. She simply has to take a second stab at romance. Rustom is a ladies man. He is also married, and a skirt chaser. Mini decid...

Go to Book No. 26 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book : THE ELIGIBLE PRINCESS Author: Summerita Rhayne Read some reviews: 1. Devika Fernando 2. Arti 3. Wendy Jones The Story: ....After Hidden Passion, the Kamboj Princesses Saga continues with Rukmani’s sister Lakshaya... King Kartikeya must marry a princess. He's determined to do anything to keep the kingdom he has taken with strategy and sheer guts. If that involves charming a princess into marriage, then so be it. Princess Lakshaya infinitely prefers the study of science to the art of impressing a suitor. In fact, she would rather have no more proposals at all. But refusing a king as opulent as Kartik is out of question. Drawn against her will by the force of his attraction, she begins to accept him, only to discover hidden secrets along the way. Can she bring herself to go ahead with this marriage? Set in Early Middle Ages in India, Book 2 in the Kamboj Princesses Saga follow...

Go to Book No. 24 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book : BLOODGIFTED Author: Tima Maria Lacoba Read some reviews: 1. Melodie Ramone 2. Fiona Chapman 3. Tracy Ehlers The Story: Being unable to age is only the beginning … Laura Dantonville is shocked to learn her strange genetic mutation, is linked to a dark family secret—a centuries-old curse that turned her Roman ancestor into a vampire. Now that she has come of age, she is the key to breaking that curse. But she’s also the prey of rogue vampires who inhabit the city’s frightening and violent underworld, as her blood gives them the ability to daywalk. For her protection she’s assigned a guardian—the handsome, sexy and dangerous Alec Munro. Former military doctor and current leader of the Brethren, Alec Munro has no intention of being responsible for Laura. After all, it was her damned family who was responsible for his untimely death and subsequent transformation. He owes them nothing, yet...