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            <title>MARI</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mari-185-114021.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mari-185-114021.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/114021-sml.jpg"  alt="MARI"  title="MARI" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">I open the diary slowly. The childish scrawl of a young girl fills its pages, and as I read on, I am almost that girl again. Carefree, innocent, and oblivious to the way in which the war would change my life forever. I am drawn once again, irresistibly, into that mad whirl of living, dying and loving. That was the war I knew. I had thought then that life began at seventeen. And that life began in spring. And the world was green with the young green of new plants, the hills bathed with thin mist every evening and the nights velvet with the songs of Bing Crosby. How little I knew of life then. 
Kohima. 1944. The Japanese invade India, life changes overnight, and seventeen-year-old Mari O’Leary and her young sisters are evacuated from their home and separated from the rest of their family. 
Even as she pines for her fiancé Vic, a soldier in the British army, Mari and her sisters are forced to run from village to village, camping in fields, eating herbs for food, seeking shelter or a trustworthy friend, until the madness has passed. 
A sensitive recounting of a true story, Mari is also the story of Kohima and its people.  Easterine Kire brings alive a simpler time in a forgotten place that was ravaged by war before it was noticed by the rest of the world.<br><br><b>Author: </b>EASTERINE KIRE&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>In Other Rooms, Other Wonders</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/in-other-rooms-other-wonders-185-43717.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/in-other-rooms-other-wonders-185-43717.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/43717-sml.jpg"  alt="In Other Rooms, Other Wonders"  title="In Other Rooms, Other Wonders" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Moving from the elegant drawing rooms of Lahore to the mud villages of rural Multan, a powerful collection of short stories about feudal Pakistan.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Daniyal Mueenuddin&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>RANDOM HOUSE</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>SARASWATI PARK HB</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/saraswati-park-hb-185-91228.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/saraswati-park-hb-185-91228.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/91228-sml.jpg"  alt="SARASWATI PARK HB"  title="SARASWATI PARK HB" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author.

Feted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave, Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer - the last of a dying profession - sits under a banyan tree in Fort, furnishing missives for village migrants, disenchanted lovers, and when pickings are slim, filling in money order forms. But Mohan's true passion is collecting second-hand books; he's particularly attached to novels with marginal annotations. So when the pavement booksellers of Fort are summarily evicted, Mohan's life starts to lose some of its animating lustre. At this tenuous moment Mohan - and his wife, Lakshmi - are joined in Saraswati Park, a suburban housing colony, by their nephew, Ashish, a diffident, sexually uncertain 19-year-old who has to repeat his final year in college. 

Elliptical and enigmatic, but beautifully rendered and wonderfully involving, Saraswati Park is a book about love and loss and the noise in our heads - and how, in spite of everything, life, both lived and imagined, continues.<br><br><b>Author: </b>ANJALI JOSEPH&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Good Bones (Reissue)</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/good-bones-reissue--185-94932.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/good-bones-reissue--185-94932.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/94932-sml.jpg"  alt="Good Bones (Reissue)"  title="Good Bones (Reissue)" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and minibiography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence.Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things -- precise, witty, wise, and sometimes offbeat Atwood writing, with the funny and the sidelong view of the world which her readers recognize at once.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Atwood, Margaret&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Little Brown</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>THE SACRED GROVE</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-sacred-grove-185-91225.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-sacred-grove-185-91225.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/91225-sml.jpg"  alt="THE SACRED GROVE"  title="THE SACRED GROVE" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">He may be only thirteen, but Ashwin knows that he is going to be a superstar. Specially with the arrival of his new cricket coach, Rafiq the driver. As the son of the district collector in a small town in central India, Ashwin has little to worry about, except for his mother's annoying pregnancy and his father's alarming principles. Smart, funny and highly resourceful, he manages to steer his way through fierce turf battles between friends, a powerful crush on his history teacher and the bossy ways of a nosy aunt. But it is only a matter of time before he stumbles upon the world of prejudice hidden behind the veneer of the idyllic small town, from which nobody is immune, not even his best friend Ravi. Fast and fun, but with an edge that can hurt, The Sacred Grove is a story about growing up in troubled times.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Singh, Daman&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>HIGH LOW IN-BETWEEN</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-low-in-between-185-91226.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-low-in-between-185-91226.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/91226-sml.jpg"  alt="HIGH LOW IN-BETWEEN"  title="HIGH LOW IN-BETWEEN" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">'There was nothing in the room to surprise her. She could understand exactly what had happened. She had known about this in the morning. She had known about it the day before, the month before, and in fact since the moment of her birth.' The violent death of her biologist husband forces Nafisa into a world of illegal organ transplants, bribery, and scientific and political controversy. With an acute sense of the disruptions of contemporary South Africa, and its keen feeling for love and loss, the novel explores Nafisa's relationships with the people close to her and the anarchic currents of life and death.<br><br><b>Author: </b>COOVADIA, IMRAAN&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>REFUGE</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/refuge-185-94261.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/refuge-185-94261.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/94261-sml.jpg"  alt="REFUGE"  title="REFUGE" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Set in the tea estates of Sri Lanka, Refuge evokes the plight of the downtrodden Tamil labourers working on them. Their lives are a sharp contrast to the lives of the urbane, whisky-drinking managers in their clubs and mansions.

Slender, doe-eyed Valliamma, a Tamil labourer on one plantation, is in love with Soma, a Sinhala fish vendor and the father of her illegitimate son. Valliamma is exploited by individuals, a brutal social and economic system and, ultimately, the politics of a state. Her fate symbolizes the dilemma and tragedy of her community, the so-called ‘Indian’ Tamils of Sri Lanka. Struggling for a place in the land of her birth and that of her child, caught between issues of race and language, Valliamma is denied the shelter and refuge she seeks there. The novel ends as a journey begins, once more in search of refuge.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Gandhi, Gopal&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>PENGUIN INDIA</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>STRIKER STOPPER</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/striker-stopper-185-76526.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/striker-stopper-185-76526.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/no_img.jpg" width="" height="" border="0"  alt="STRIKER STOPPER(Image not available)" title="STRIKER STOPPER(Image not available)"  /></a></td><td valign="middle">Striker is the story of a young football player, Prasoon Joshi, whose father, once a top scorer in the Calcutta League is completely sidelined after being accused by the club he played for of deliberately throwing the winning goal. As a young player struggling to make his mark, Prasoon not only has to battle the ruthless exploitation of the football clubs, his family's straitened financial circumstances, and his own development as a player, but he has also to exorcise his father's ghosts. Stopper, on the other hand, is the story of the much older Kamal Guha, a veteran player with an eclectic record, now playing the final game of his career... <br><br><b>Author: </b>NANDY,MOTI&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HACHETTE</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>JOHNNY GONE DOWN</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/johnny-gone-down-185-62950.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/johnny-gone-down-185-62950.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/62950-sml.jpg"  alt="JOHNNY GONE DOWN"  title="JOHNNY GONE DOWN" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Nikhil Arya has fallen.
Once, he was an Ivy League scholar with a promising future at NASA; now, at forty, he is broke, homeless, and minutes away from blowing his brains out in a diabolical modern-day joust.
It wasn't meant to be this way.
An innocent vacation turned into an epic intercontinental journey that saw Nikhil become first a genocide survivor, then a Buddhist monk, a drug lord, a homeless accountant, a software mogul and a deadly game fighter. Now, twenty years later, Nikhil aka Johnny is tired of running. With the Colombian mafia on his trail and his abandoned wife and son ten thousand miles away, he prepares for his final act, aware that he will have lost even if he wins.
Or will he? Is there any greater victory than living a life that knows no limits, a world that has seen no boundaries?
From the bestselling author of Keep Off the Grass comes the once-in-a-lifetime story of an ordinary man fighting an extraordinary destiny. Can he pick up the pieces one last time or will Nikhil, now Johnny, go down for good?<br><br><b>Author: </b>KARAN BAJAJ&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>QUARANTINE</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/quarantine-185-62963.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/quarantine-185-62963.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/62963-sml.jpg"  alt="QUARANTINE"  title="QUARANTINE" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Last week during one of our marathon telephone conversations my mother asked me which one of us, me or Frank, was the woman in our relationship. ‘Neither of us, obviously,’ I said. ‘That’s what makes us gay.’ ‘Very funny,’ my mom said. ‘Someone on Oprah said that often gay couples have one person who plays the man and the other who plays the woman. So I was wondering which you were.’ ‘Frank and I don’t believe in hetero-normative gender roles,’ I told her. I knew my mom didn’t know what ‘hetero-normative’ meant, so I figured she’d drop it. ‘So who does the cooking and cleaning?’ she asked. I could have truthfully answered ‘neither of us.’ Instead I asked, ‘Is that what you think womanhood is, Mom, cooking and cleaning?’

Rahul Mehta’s stories are inhabited by young, gay Indian men on the wrong side of the American dream: adrift in the world, in complicated relationships, and with uncertain futures. Here are lovers who go to a nightclub deciding to cheat on each other; a couple slowly breaking up while they holiday; a young man who can’t stop himself from burning up all his money; another who reluctantly prepares his grandmother for her US citizenship test.

In a voice that’s bare and wry, edgy and tender, Rahul Mehta writes of desire and family ties with rare candor. This is an outstanding debut.<br><br><b>Author: </b>RAHUL MEHTA&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>RANDOM HOUSE</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>MAY I HEBB YOUR ATTENTION PLISS</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/may-i-hebb-your-attention-pliss-185-62951.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/may-i-hebb-your-attention-pliss-185-62951.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/62951-sml.jpg"  alt="MAY I HEBB YOUR ATTENTION PLISS"  title="MAY I HEBB YOUR ATTENTION PLISS" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">The wave of liberalization in the 1990s changed forever the face of India. It bolstered the economy. It raised the stock index. It raised hem lines of skirts even more. It led to the growth of the fashion police And also the moral police. Numbered items became item numbers. To the twenty-two scheduled languages were added C, Cobol, Java. You were either watching sitcoms or starting dotcoms. News became entertainment. Entertainment became news. Terror struck the country – sometimes in the form of gunmen from across the border and sometimes in the form of Bollywood movies. 

To SMS-ize – ‘It wuz da best of tyms, it wuz da wrst of tyms’ 

Having been a part of this chaotic revolution in popular culture, blogger Arnab Ray of greatbong.net takes a funny, sarcastic, politically incorrect and totally irreverent look at assorted random stuff including Bollywood C-grade revenge masalas, ribald songs of the people, movie punching, fake educational institutes, stubborn bathroom flushes, unreal reality shows, the benefits of corruption, opulent weddings, brains in toaster ovens, seedy theatres and pompous non-resident Indians.

Nothing here is off-limits and no cow too holy.<br><br><b>Author: </b>ARNAB RAY&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Appetite for Destruction</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/appetite-for-destruction-185-64837.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/appetite-for-destruction-185-64837.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/64837-smlArray"  alt="Appetite for Destruction"  title="Appetite for Destruction" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">This is an important, and in some ways revolutionary, book. The point count method of hand evaluation was first proposed in 1914 and popularized in 1934 by Milton Work. The Banzai Method evolved by David Jackson and Ron Klinger improves on Milton Work by reassessing the relative values of the honour cards but also adds a further dimension to accurate hand evaluation by including the tens and is of crucial importance when assessing balanced hands. According to Eric Kokish, an internationally respected American authority, who has contributed the Foreword, the many example deals are an eye-opener. When you finish this book, it is unlikely that you are going to look at your hand the same way as you have in the past.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Jackson, David;Klinger, Ron&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Orion</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>LESSONS IN FORGETTING</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lessons-in-forgetting-185-49487.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lessons-in-forgetting-185-49487.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/49487-sml.jpg"  alt="LESSONS IN FORGETTING"  title="LESSONS IN FORGETTING" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">When we first see Meera, she is a carefully groomed corporate wife with a successful career as a writer of cookbooks. Then one day her husband fails to come home after a party and she becomes responsible not just for her children but her mother and grandmother, and the running of Lilac House, their rambling old family home in Bangalore. Enter Professor J.A. Krishnamurthy, or JAK, a renowned cyclone studies expert, on a very different trajectory in life. In a bedroom in his house lies his nineteen-yearold daughter Smriti, left comatose after a vicious attack on her while she was on holiday at a beachside town. A wall of silence and fear surrounds the incident—the grieving father is helped neither by the local police, nor by her boyfriend in his search for the truth. Through a series of coincidences, Meera and JAK find their lives turning and twisting together, with the unpredictability and sheer inevitability of a cyclone. And as the days pass, fresh beginnings appear where there seemed to be only endings.<br><br><b>Author: </b>ANITA NAIR&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS INDIA</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Fountainhead</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-fountainhead-185-43804.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-fountainhead-185-43804.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/43804-sml.jpg"  alt="The Fountainhead"  title="The Fountainhead" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense of individualism and presents an exalted view of man's creative potential; it is a book about ambition, power, gold and love.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Ayn Rand&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Penguin</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>RULE THE WORLD - THE WAY I DID</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/rule-the-world-the-way-i-did-185-52237.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/rule-the-world-the-way-i-did-185-52237.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/52237-smlArray"  alt="RULE THE WORLD - THE WAY I DID"  title="RULE THE WORLD - THE WAY I DID" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Chanakya is an unrivalled personality whose parallel cannot be found in history. Many people admire him for his wisdom and practical maxims, while many despise him for his unscrupulousness. Nonetheless, there is no one who is not awed by him. He was a shrewd politician, a master strategist, a crafty tactician, and an able administrator. He demolished a stale kingdom and an arrogant dynasty to establish a powerful and united kingdom. This book is a peek into the life of this unmatched thinker. It also discusses his teachings and principles, which are still as contemporary and relevant to the modern times as they were myriads of years ago. Meant for all those who want to achieve an enviable position in life, the book will help you earn unprecedented power and success, and rule the world like Chanakya did.<br><br><b>Author: </b>PROF.S.K.PRASOON&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Pustak Mahal</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/environmental-studies-for-undergraduate-courses-185-52268.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/environmental-studies-for-undergraduate-courses-185-52268.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/52268-smlArray"  alt="ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES"  title="ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">This book Environmental Studies for Undergraduate Courses follows specifically and strictly designed model syllabus prescribed by the UGC for undergraduate courses of higher education in India. The textbook has been divided into eight units. The first unit covers definition, scope and importance of environmental studies. Second unit explains the renewal and non-renewal resources. Next unit introduces the reader to the types of ecosystems, and food chains. Fourth unit describes biodiversity and its conservation. The fifth unit elaborates sources of pollution, solid waste management, and disaster management. Sixth unit discusses sustainable development, urban problems, climate & global warming, and legislative environmental Acts. Human welfare and environment form the next unit. Fieldwork relating to study of simple ecosystems forms the eighth and the last unit. The salient features of the book include a simple explanation of the subject, relevant case studies, environmental quotes and interesting facts.<br><br><b>Author: </b>DR.SUSHMITA BASKAR & DR. R. BASKAR&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Unicorn Books</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>CURFEWED NIGHT</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/curfewed-night-185-43766.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/curfewed-night-185-43766.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/43766-sml.jpg"  alt="CURFEWED NIGHT"  title="CURFEWED NIGHT" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">In 2003, the young journalist left his job and returned to his homeland to search out the stories and the people which had haunted him. In Curfewed Night he draws a harrowing portrait of Kashmir and its people. Here are stories of a young man<br><br><b>Author: </b>Basharat Peer&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>RANDOM HOUSE</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>DELHI NOIR</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/delhi-noir-185-48600.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/delhi-noir-185-48600.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/48600-sml.jpg"  alt="DELHI NOIR"  title="DELHI NOIR" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">The award-winning noir series published in New York comes to India with its first collection stories in Delhi. Fourteen writers, young and established, male and female, gay and straight, use the devices of crime fiction and film noir to provide gripping, incisive and alternative perspectives on this city where people wake up to news stories every day about rape and murder, incest and corruption, mindless road rage and sudden political flare-ups. What they uncover is a chilling, often sordid and sometimes sensuous layer of life that surprises, shocks and amuses at the same time

Allan Sealy, Omair Ahmed, Radhika Jha, Hartosh Singh Bal, Siddharth Chowdhury, Ruchir Joshi, Meera Nair, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Mohan Sikka, Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Tabish Khair, Uday Prakash, Manjula Padmanabhan and Hirsh Sawhney<br><br><b>Author: </b>HIRSH SAWHNEY&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain-185-48661.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain-185-48661.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/48661-sml.jpg"  alt="THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN"  title="THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo realizes that racing is a metaphor: that by applying the techniques a driver would apply on the race track, one can successfully navigate the ordeals and travails one encounters in life.

Enzo relates the story of his human family, sharing their tragedies and triumphs. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations as a dog, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family.

The Art of Racing in the Rain is a testament to a man's life, given by his dog. But it is also a testament to the dog, himself. Though Enzo cannot speak, he understands everything that happens around him as he bears witness to his master's problems. His enforced muteness only refines his listening ability, and allows him to understand many of life's nuances that are lost on most humans. With humour, sharp observation, and a courageous heart, Enzo guides the reader to the bittersweet yet ultimately satisfying conclusion: there are no limitations to what we can achieve, if we truly know where we want to be.<br><br><b>Author: </b>GARTH STEIN&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>Arrack in the Afternoon</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/arrack-in-the-afternoon-185-48643.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/arrack-in-the-afternoon-185-48643.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/48643-sml.jpg"  alt="Arrack in the Afternoon"  title="Arrack in the Afternoon" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">This delightful first novel traces the changing ethos of Bombay as seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Verghese Konnikara. The story is of an alcoholic, a chronic depressive, who decides one day to end it all by jumping under a truck on the highway. He survives, however, and following a strange turn of events, is transformed into a godman of sorts.
 
The tale weaves through the debris and chaos that is modern-day Bombay and also explores the phenomenon of instant stardom, which is now such an intrinsic part of our celebrity culture.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Mathew Menacherry&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>KEEP OFF THE GRASS</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/keep-off-the-grass-185-19235.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/no_img.jpg" width="" height="" border="0"  alt="KEEP OFF THE GRASS(Image not available)" title="KEEP OFF THE GRASS(Image not available)"  /></a></td><td valign="middle">What do you do when you are a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate making half-a-million dollars a year as a hotshot investment banker on Wall Street? You bust your ass and become a millionaire by thirty, of course. Not if you are Samrat Ratan, born in the USA to immigrant Indian parents; you quit and enrol in business school in India instead. Samrat's rollercoaster journey begins at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bangalore, where he spends his time getting high on marijuana while his grades – and self-confidence – plummet. Soon, Samrat's quest for identity turns increasingly bizarre as it takes him places he hadn't planned on visiting – prison, for example – and makes him do things he hadn't banked on doing: 'meditating' stoned with a sexy Danish hippie in the Himalayas, hanging out with a cannibal on the banks of the Ganga, and peddling soap to the formidable Raja Bhaiya in Benares. Does Samrat – Yale valedictorian, investment banker, convict, pothead – survive his fall from grace?<br><br><b>Author: </b>Bajaj, Karan&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Hodder & Stoughton general</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>THE PRESIDENT IS COMING</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-president-is-coming-185-44139.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/no_img.jpg" width="" height="" border="0"  alt="THE PRESIDENT IS COMING(Image not available)" title="THE PRESIDENT IS COMING(Image not available)"  /></a></td><td valign="middle">It<br><br><b>Author: </b>ANUVAB PAL&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>RANDOM HOUSE</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-story-of-edgar-sawtelle-185-48670.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/48670-sml.jpg"  alt="THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE"  title="THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">A literary debut of stark and striking brilliance - a coming-of-age story, set in the remote wilderness of northern Wisconsin.

Born mute and able to communicate only by sign, the brilliant Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents Gar and Trudy. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised
and trained a breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomised by Almodine, Edgar's lifelong companion. But when his beloved father mysteriously dies, Edgar blames
himself, if only because his muteness left him unable to summon help. Grief-stricken and bewildered by his mother's desperate affair with her dead husband's brother, Edgar's world unravels one spring night when, in the falling rain, he sees his father's ghost. After a botched attempt to prove that his uncle orchestrated Gar's death, Edgar flees into the Chequamegon wilderness leading three yearling dogs. Yet his need to face his father's murderer, and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs, turn Edgar ever homeward. When he returns, nothing is as he expects, and Edgar must choose
between revenge or preserving his family legacy…<br><br><b>Author: </b>David Wroblewski&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>Undercover : The Adventures of a Real Life Gigolo</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/undercover-:-the-adventures-of-a-real-life-gigolo-185-48672.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/undercover-:-the-adventures-of-a-real-life-gigolo-185-48672.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/48672-sml.jpg"  alt="Undercover : The Adventures of a Real Life Gigolo"  title="Undercover : The Adventures of a Real Life Gigolo" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">He's sexy, charming and gorgeous. And he's yours – for the right price…

When young Aussie Luke Bradbury finds himself alone, broke and out of ideas in London, things look desperate. Until he spots a tempting ad. Lured by the promise of easy money - and the chance to bed as many women as he can handle - Luke becomes a gigolo. It's a job millions of men would kill for.Soon, Luke finds himself the hottest property in town as the calls - and the money - come flooding in. His clients include a shy fortysomething still living at home with her mother, a glamorous lesbian couple, a virgin desperate for experience and even a drugged-up rock chick and an A-list celebrity couple. Luke quickly learns all there is to know about women in his quest to give them the ultimate pleasure, climbing inside their heads as well as their beds.But all too soon Luke discovers the darker side of his lucrative new profession. Is he selling his soul as well as his body?<br><br><b>Author: </b>LUKE BRADBURY&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>HARPER COLLINS</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Tiya : A Parrot's Journey Home</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tiya-:-a-parrot-s-journey-home-185-43705.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/43705-sml.jpg"  alt="Tiya : A Parrot's Journey Home"  title="Tiya : A Parrot's Journey Home" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Fresh, attractive, humorous and witty, Tiya is easy to read because it wears its learning lightly.'<br><br><b>Author: </b>Samarpan&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Harper</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Bones of the Hills</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bones-of-the-hills-185-19458.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bones-of-the-hills-185-19458.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/19458-sml.JPG"  alt="Bones of the Hills"  title="Bones of the Hills" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">The fatherless boy<br><br><b>Author: </b>Conn Iggulden&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Hodder & Stoughton general</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Cutting for Stone</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cutting-for-stone-185-43713.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cutting-for-stone-185-43713.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/43713-sml.jpg"  alt="Cutting for Stone"  title="Cutting for Stone" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Marion and Shiva Stone are born from the unexpected union of Sister Mary Joseph,
a gentle Malayali nurse, and Thomas Stone, a brilliant, intense British surgeon. A union so mysterious that no one at the Missing hospital in Addis Ababa, where the two worked in such tandem<br><br><b>Author: </b>Abraham Verghese&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Random House Group</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>The Lost Art of Gratitude</title>
            <link>http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-lost-art-of-gratitude-185-43818.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-lost-art-of-gratitude-185-43818.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/43818-sml.jpg"  alt="The Lost Art of Gratitude"  title="The Lost Art of Gratitude" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. 

Isabel's son, Charlie, is now of an age - eighteen months - to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel's surprise, she finds Minty Auchterlonie, the high-flying financier she first encountered in The Sunday Philosophy Club. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never truly been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about the complicated troubles at the investment bank she heads, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? 

Not that this is the only dilemma facing Isabel: she also crosses swords again with her nemesis Professor Dove, in an argument over plagiarism. Her niece, Cat, of course, has a new, problematic man (a stunt man!) in her life. And Jamie - doting father of Charlie - is still pressing Isabel to solve his dilemma: getting her to marry him. 

As always, there is no end to the delight in accompanying Isabel as she makes her way toward the heart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing, and downright snooping, in her inimitable - and inimitably charming - fashion.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Alexander McCall Smith&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY</td></tr></table>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>DANCING BEAR</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dancing-bear-185-19493.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/no_img.jpg" width="" height="" border="0"  alt="DANCING BEAR(Image not available)" title="DANCING BEAR(Image not available)"  /></a></td><td valign="middle">.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Morpurgo, Michael&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Hodder & Stoughton general</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/i-know-this-much-is-true-185-19711.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/no_img.jpg" width="" height="" border="0"  alt="I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE(Image not available)" title="I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE(Image not available)"  /></a></td><td valign="middle">.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Lamb, Wally&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Hodder & Stoughton general</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>Chances Are : Adventures in Probability</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chances-are-:-adventures-in-probability-185-954.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/954-sml.JPG"  alt="Chances Are : Adventures in Probability"  title="Chances Are : Adventures in Probability" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">Combining philosophical and historical background, "Chances Are" is a lay person's journey into the realm of probability--from poker to politics, weather to war, Monte Carlo to mortality. Illustrations.
A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanitys struggle against randomness

Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settlingreluctantlyfor likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. "Chances Are" is the story of mans millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictableto help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and injustice. In these pages, we meet the brilliant individuals who developed the first abstract formulations of probability, as well as the intrepid visionaries who recognized their practical applicationsfrom gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.<br><br><b>Author: </b>Kaplan, Michael&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Penguin</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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            <title>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<table><tr><td><a href="http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-185-43781.html"><img src="http://www.bookvook.com/uploaded_files/product/43781-sml.JPG"  alt="The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie"  title="The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie" border="0" width="85" height="110" /></a></td><td valign="middle">The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  is a charming novel set on Guernsey in World War II. 

It<br><br><b>Author: </b>Mary Ann Shaffer&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Publisher: </b>Penguin</td></tr></table>]]></description>
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