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It’s 2020 and children are stuck indoors as the novel coronavirus finds its way into India. A nationwide lockdown is announced and amidst the growing crisis, Ajja and Ajji welcome their grandchildren and Kamlu Ajji into their house in Shiggaon.From stitching masks, sharing household chores, preparing food for workers to losing themselves in timeless tales, the lockdown turns into a memorable time for the children as they enter the enchanting world of goddesses, kings, princesses, serpents, magical beanstalks, thieves, kingdoms and palaces, among others. The myriad stories told by their grandparents become the biggest source of joy, making the children compassionate, worldly-wise and more resilient than ever.Following the trail of the best-selling Grandma’s Bag of Stories, India’s favourite author Sudha Murty brings to you this collection of immortal tales that she fondly created during the lockdown period for readers to seek comfort and find the magic in sharing and caring for others. Wonderfully woven in her inimitable style, this book is unputdownable and perfect for every child’s bookshelf!
A child of her time novel
From the pen of much loved author Maggie Bennett comes this engrossing and emotional story of prejudice, passion and one woman's struggle to fight for what she wants in life. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Harris, Nancy Revell and Catherine Cookson. READERS ARE LOVING A CHILD OF HER TIME! 'It's a lovely story from the start. I was hooked.' -- ***** Reader review'Wonderful story'-- ***** Reader review'[Maggie Bennett] is a real story teller who makes you want to turn each page' -- ***** Reader review'Maggie Bennett is a brilliant writer' -- ***** Reader review*********************************************************HAS SHE THE STRENGTH TO FIGHT FOR THE LIFE SHE'S ALWAYS YEARNED FOR?Phyllis Bird is twenty - five, a teacher, and still living with her parents in a quiet Hampshire village. With so many young men lost in the Great War, her future is without hope until she is offered the position of nursery maid in the London home of acclaimed playwright Harold Berridge. Desperate to break out of her mundane existence, she decides to take it up.Befriended by the actress Maud Ling and thrown into the glamorous world of the cinema, Phyllis falls passionately in love with Maud's younger brother Teddy. But Teddy's heart lies elsewhere.Things go from bad to worse when tragedy strikes the Berridge household, and a heartbroken Phyllis is forced to leave.Six months later, when Phyllis has started to rebuild her life, her world is turned upside down once more when she is invited to a party at Maud Ling's film studios.For there she falls under the spell of the charming but devious American actor Denver Towers, with disastrous consequences...
Wartime brides novel
The war is now over and people must count the cost. Three women from very different backgrounds meet when they find themselves on Bristol Temple Meads station waiting for the return of their loved ones. Edna's fiance , Colin, comes home crippled. Charlotte's doctor husband, who was a loving and gentle father, returns a violent, disturbed man with no love for her and even less for their children. Polly, who is waiting for her GI boyfriend Aaron, is once again disappointed when he doesn't arrive. Adjusting to men who are very changed and, in Polly's case, to no man at all, is the core of this enthralling novel. However, during the war years, the women have had to cope. They too have changed and they harbour secrets that would be best kept.
The clippie girls novel
Sisters in love. A family at war. A city in peril. Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together and huge changes in their lives are inevitable. For Rose, there is the chance to fulfil her dream of becoming a clippie on Sheffield’s trams like Peggy. But for Myrtle, the studious, clever one in the family, war may shatter her ambitions. When the tram on which Peggy is a conductress is caught in a bomb blast, she bravely helps to rescue her passengers. One of them is a young soldier, Terry Price, and he and Peggy begin courting. They meet every time he can get leave, but eventually Terry is posted abroad and she hears nothing from him. Worse still, Peggy must break the devastating news to her family that she is pregnant. The shock waves that ripple through the family will affect each and every one of them and life will never be the same again.
Just one evil act novel
Sergeant Barbara Havers is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help—Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isn’t on Hadiyyah’s, their daughter’s, birth certificate. He has no legal claim. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold. Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. The Italian police are investigating, and the Yard won’t get involved, until Barbara takes matters into her own hands — at the risk of her own career. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how far she’s willing to go to protect it.
The Castaways novel
A SECRET BEACH.A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME.WISH YOU WERE HERE?THINK AGAIN…You wake on a beautiful, remote island.Sparkling blue seas, golden sunsets, barely a footprint in the sand.Yet this is no ordinary escape. Next to the wreck of a plane, a stranger paces. Another sharpens a knife, scoring a list of the dead onto a palm tree. Others watch from the shadows of a campfire – all with untold stories, and closely-guarded secrets…This is no ordinary holiday.This is no ordinary island.This is no ordinary beach read.Gripping, twisty and full of sun-soaked atmosphere, THE CASTAWAYS will whisk you far away to the island – and never let you go.
Arihant physics for jee
•Detailed “theory” is given with the figures to understand the topic well. •“Sample examples” are given for subject understanding before the text. •Each topic includes the “introductory exercise” to test the ability. •“Extra Points” are given to follow the points in brief. •2 leveled solved examples are given at the end of chapter •Consist 2 leveled exercise level 1 for AIEEE and level 2 for IIT JEE, including subjective Questions, Single Correct Option, Assertion & Reason, Match the Column including Reasoning, Aptitude & Comprehension, etc. •Chapter-wise Hints & Solutions are provided at the end of the book
Self improvement
Dark Horse' is one of the most popular novels of this decade written in Hindi. Such live and vivid portray of the life of candidates preparing for Civil Services Examination in Hindi medium were not focused in any other book till date. Candidate preparing for the country's highest honored examination is not only an aspirant but also has multi-faced life-style and struggles in his lap. This is the story of the same struggle. This novel depicts the uncommon doldrums of getting out of villages/ towns and dealing with urban life specifically in the backdrop of Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi. In addition to the immense popularity among readers, this novel has also received the 'Sahitya Akadami Youth Award' of 2015. This is an edited and refined version of this book.
Universal Self Scorer Errorless Physics Volume 1 & 2
The Errorless Physics by Universal Self Scorer is a completely solved objective practice book, ideal for IIT-JEE, NEET, and other entrance exams. It includes topicwise questions, detailed solutions, short tricks, and previous year papers from the last 15 years. Highly recommended by toppers and teachers, this revised edition ensures full exam coverage for engineering and medical aspirants.
Numerical Chemistry ( ) by Dr. P. Bahadur IIT JEE, AIEEE
This book Numerical Chemistry ( ) by Dr. P. Bahadur (Shri Balaji Publication) is one of the most recommended books for IIT-JEE, AIEEE, and other engineering entrance exams.It provides a comprehensive collection of concept-based numerical problems with detailed solutions.Ideal for students who want to strengthen their problem-solving skills in physical chemistry.Language: HindiCondition: Good / UsedPublisher: Shri Balaji Publications
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction."A Thousand Splendid Suns" is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land.Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority.But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Daughter by Jane Shemilt
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios—kidnapping, murder—seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter’s disappearance, she’s still digging for answers—and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she’s trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she’d raised.
Sea Prayer
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone. Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution, and he will donate author proceeds from this book to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation to help fund lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the globe. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
