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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...

Go to Book No. 32 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book: THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Author: Yashodhara Lal Read some reviews: 1. Kritika Narula 2. Sankalpita Singh 3. Nandhini The Story: This is not your typical boy-meets-girl story. Okay, they do meet, but there are some complications. Trish is twenty-eight. She’s unemployed, overweight, single and snarky. She knows all that. And if one more person – just one more person – tries to fix her, she might explode. Sahil is thirty-five. He has superpowers. Well, kind of. He seems to think so, anyway. He’s also hot (okay, in a geeky kind of way, but still). And he plays the guitar, helps the underprivileged and talks about his feelings. Aren’t guys like that supposed to exist only in fantasies? When Trish and Sahil meet, magic happens. Real magic, you know, like fireworks, electricity, that sort of thing. But here’s the problem. Trish doesn’t want anyone in her life. She has enough to deal w...

Go to Book No. 31 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book: DYING FOR A LIVING (Boxset) Author: Kory M. Shrum Read some reviews: 1. Paula Cacciola 2. Filmer Harriet 3. Boneist The Story: Dying for a Living (Book 1) On the morning before her 67th death, it is business as usual for Jesse Sullivan: meet with the mortician, counsel soon-to-be-dead clients, and have coffee while reading the latest regeneration theory. Jesse dies for a living, literally. As a Necronite, she is one of the population's rare 2% who can serve as a death replacement agent, dying so others don't have to. Although each death is different, the result is the same: a life is saved, and Jesse resurrects days later with sore muscles, new scars, and another hole in her memory. But when Jesse is murdered and becomes the sole suspect in a federal investigation, more than her freedom and sanity are at stake. She must catch the killer herself--or die trying. Dying by the Hou...

Go to Book No. 29 Check all the Books Here Name of the Book :  UNSETTLED: THE SEARCH FOR LOVE AND MEANING Author: Neelima Vinod Read some reviews: 1. Sundari Venkatraman 2. Inderpreet Kaur Uppal 3. Dola Basu Singh The Story: The hundred-room house is a rich tapestry of memories and hidden secrets, a dark, forbidding place rumoured to be haunted by a vengeful Yakshi. Propelled by a desire to save their marriage, Divya and Raghav journey to the haunted mansion in search of the mythical Scrolls of Love. Written five hundred years ago by the banished court poet Shankara, they are fabled to have the power to heal and reignite lost love. Is this just a legend, or are the couple heading towards a chilling destiny? You can also buy @ About The Author  Neelima Vinod  About the author in her own words: I’ve been writing poems for a long while and I’ve majored in Literature- so I know some of the greats. Poetry i...