From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers comes a novel about the tangled histories of two families. In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya's mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster.
Anna can't wait for her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a good job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she's not too thrilled when her father unexpectedly ships her off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Etienne St. Clair, the perfect boy. The only problem? He's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her crush back home. Will a year of romantic near-misses end in the French kiss Anna awaits?
Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past - and a love - Peri had tried desperately to forget.
A master of inventive fiction, Neil Gaiman delves into the murky depths where reality and imagination meet. Now in American Gods, he works his literary magic to extraordinary results. Shadow dreamed of nothing but leaving prison and starting a new life. But the day before his release, his wife and best friend are killed in an accident. On the plane home to the funeral, he meets Mr. Wednesday—a beguiling stranger who seems to know everything about him. A trickster and rogue, Mr. Wednesday offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. With nowhere left to go, Shadow accepts, and soon learns that his role in Mr. Wednesday’s schemes will be far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought —and the prize is the very soul of America.
To achieve a state of completeness of our existence, the first requisite is to control our Mind. To achieve this pre-requisite we must win over our propensity and move steadily towards our planned objective. This is the real 'Sadhana' for which one need not take recourse to renunciation. Actual emancipation lies dormant in the society we live in, in love, affection, mercy and forgiveness that we receive from society. The Universe is the temple of the supreme God—Jagananth, The God of Universe itself. We must merge ourselves with the happiness, pains, sufferings and agonies of our fellow human beings, we should ensure that our inherent strength and virtues embrace every other human being inhabiting the universe.
Drawing on unheard White House tapes, recently declassified documents, and investigative reporting, Gary Bass uncovers an astonishing story of superpower brinkmanship, war, scandal, and conscience. This is the definitive account of the build-up to the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War and the birth of Bangladesh. In the midst of this Cold War cataclysm, the Bangladeshis became collateral damage, victims of power games played by Nixon, Kissinger, Yahya Khan and even Indira Gandhi. Revelatory, authoritative and compulsively readable, The Blood Telegram is a thrilling chronicle of a pivotal chapter in South Asian history.
Clary has no choice but to travel to the City of Glass if she must save her mother. She does so knowing that to enter without permission is death. Jace doesn’t like it, and Simon has been imprisoned by the Shadowhunters. Clary begins to dig into her family’s past and crosses paths with a Shadowhunter named Sebastian. She doesn’t have much time, for the diabolical Valentine is mustering the full force of his power for one final assault on the Shadowhunters. Jace needs to discover how much he’s willing to risk for Clary, and Clary will need to control her newfound powers to save the Shadowhunters and their city.
Set in New York, and described as funny, smart, and romantic, with disturbing undertones, City Of Ashes is the second thrilling installment in the fantasy series for young adults, titled The Mortal Instruments. As the book reveals, Clary is now living in Luke’s house as her mother is in a coma. After returning to the institute, she learns that her brother Jace has been imprisoned in the Silent City. Jace has recently discovered that their father Valentine has killed the Silent Brothers in order to get the Mortal Sword. Clary frees Jace, and together they try to garner support against Valentine, and predict his next step. When they are invited to the court of the Queen of the Seelie Court of the Faeries, Clary, Jace, Simon, and Isabelle, attempt to convince her to help them defeat Valentine. The Queen ponders over lending her support, and also mentions that her court is privy to deeply guarded secrets.
When Clary Fray, a fifteen year old girl, goes to the Pandemonium Club in NYC, she has no idea what to do when she witnesses a murder. The murderers are three teenagers covered in strange tattoos and wielding stranger weapons. The body also disappears, leaving Clary baffled. Soon, her mother vanishes, and she begins to search for her. In her hunt she finds a barely recognizable New York, rife with wild warlocks, hidden faeries, rabid werewolves, and demons. All of these creatures who won't be satisfied until they destroy the land called Downworld. She travels through Downworld and meets a mysterious demon hunter named Jace. Jace is one of the Shadowhunters, and Clary doesn’t know why she’s having feelings for him. She joins the Nephilim, a secret cult of demon hunters and tries to master her newfound abilities quickly to rescue her mother. However, rescuing her mother might put Downworld itself at risk of destruction.
The Shadowhunter world faces darkness once again. Clary and the rest of the Nephilim have to fight her own brother in battle. Seemingly undefeatable, he is an enemy like no other. Can Clary, Jace, Simon and their friends defeat him, or will they be forced into another world to find a chance? Lives are at stake and love will be sacrificed, changing the entire world in this last installment to the series which has held readers around the world stuck to their seats for the past few years.
Tessa Gray's joy at her wedding is shortlived as evil automatons abduct her. She is a vital ingredient in the Clockwork Prince's plan to destroy the Shadowhunters. Jem and Will are ready to do anything to save her, but Will struggles with his own feelings for her even though she is engaged to Jem. In a race against time, Will must risk everything to save both his closest friend and the girl he loves. And Tessa must come to terms with her own abilities for once she does, she might become more powerful than she ever imagined. The first book in The Infernal Devices is Clockwork Angel and the second book is Clockwork Prince.
