Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Angela’s Ashes

Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt''s sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s.

Angela''s Ashes is Frank McCourt''s sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums – too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy''s drinking bouts constantly brought the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds.

Written with the vitality and resonance of a work of fiction, and a remarkable absence of sentimentality, Angela’s Ashes is imbued on every page with Frank McCourt''s distinctive humour and compassion. Out of terrible circumstances, he has created a glorious book in the tradition of Ireland''s literary masters, which bears all the marks of a great classic.

ISBN: 9780007205233
Author: Frank Mccourt
Published by:
Harper Collins Publishers India
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

187 Lives

Amoving portrayal of the 2006 Bombay bomb blasts…and the times we live inOn 11 July 2006, the end of an ordinary day in the life of a city brimming with life turned, instead, into a nightmare as Mumbai was shaken by a series of bomb explosions on its suburban trains. 187 Lives, a series of profiles that were done by the Indian Express of the victims, brings into sharp focus the ramifications of such mindless acts of violence. Besides the huge loss of life is the tragedy of those who are left behind--wives, parents, children, relatives and friends, who take years to face up to the loss of a loved one. 187 Lives presents an account of the events of that day, and portraits of those who died, both in a tribute to the victims, and as a reminder of the incalculable cost of terrorist violence.The book is a team effort by the reporters of the Indian Express, Mumbai.

ISBN: 9788172236045
Author: Team Indian Express
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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1812: Napoleon`s Fatal March on Moscow

An epic account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and eventual retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Russian and European history. • The saga of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and the catastrophic retreat from Moscow has fascinated not only military historians; Tolstoy’s War and Peace demonstrates the dramatic appeal of those events at a universal humal level. This is the story of how the most powerful man on earth met his doom, and how the greatest fighting force ever assembled was wiped out.• By 1810 Napoleon was master of Europe, defied only by Britain, which he could not defeat because he had no navy. His intention was to destroy Britain through a total blockade, the Continental System. But Tsar Alexander of Russia now refused to apply the blockade, and Napoleon decided to bring him to heel.• Napoleon quickly realised that nemesis awaited him, and the events of 1812 had a colossal impact on the fate of Europe: a great patriotic surge helped turn the Russians into a nation (hence Tchaikovsky’s ‘1812’ overture) and led them to reject Western values; the Germans began their fateful ‘Prussification’; the French lost their cultural dominance. And Napoleon’s legend – as man of destiny – began to exert its insidious fascination.

ISBN: 9780007123759
Author: Adam Zamoyski
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15-minute Yoga

ISBN: 9780007286942
Author: Collins gem
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1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didn''t stop there.Until now, scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance - the basis of our modern Western world - came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece and Rome. However, a stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published.Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that a sophisticated Chinese delegation visited Italy in 1434, sparked the Renaissance, and forever changed the course of Western civilization. After that date the authority of Aristotle and Ptolemy was overturned and artistic conventions challenged, as was Arabic astronomy and cartography.Florence and Venice of the 15th century attracted traders from across the world. Menzies presents astonishing evidence that a large Chinese fleet, official ambassadors of the Emperor, arrived in Tuscany in 1434 where they met with Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. A mass of information was offered by the Chinese delegation to the Pope and his entourage - concerning world maps (which Menzies argues were later given to Columbus), astronomy, mathematics, art, printing, architecture, steel manufacture, civil engineering, military machines, surveying, cartography, genetics, and more. It was this gift of knowledge that sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance - Da Vinci''s inventions, the Copernican revolution, Galileo, etc. Following 1434, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, which formed the basis of European civilization just as much as Greek thought and Roman law. In short, China provided the spark that set the Renaissance ablaze.

ISBN: 9780007275861
Author: Gavin Menzies
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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10-Minute Watercolours

A handy, practical and inspirational little book – perfect for the pocket or art bag – showing watercolour painters of all levels how to loosen up their paintings and maintain spontaneity.
Written by popular artist Hazel Soan, the book is arranged in two parts: the first section explains all about watercolour and shows what can be achieved with it in a short time span; the second section suggests specific approaches to painting in particular situations.

ISBN: 9780007202157
Author: Collins gem
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10 Little Rubber Ducks

Chuckedy-chuckedy-chuckgoes the rubber duck machine.Out pop little yellow rubber ducksone after the other...A brand-new batch of rubber ducks is loaded on to a ship and sent off to be delivered to children everywhere. But when a storm strikes, 10 little ducks are tossed into the sea and swept away in 10 different directions – with some wonderfully unexpected adventures along the way.Come ride the waves as legendary children''s book author and illustrator, Eric Carle, explores numbers, directions, opposites, geography, animals and more in an extraordinary interactive picture book, beautifully illustrated with his unique collage-style art. And for a final surprise, the last page contains a duck with a squeaking sound chip for a special treat at the end of the story!

ISBN: 9780007202423
Author: Eric Carle
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...And Pran

The biography unveils the life and times of one of India's most important actors. Not only does it bring to light a career that spans more than six decades and 350 films, but it also presents an intimate portrait of the man behind the image.

ISBN: 817223466X
Author: Reuben, Bunny
Published by: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Paddington Takes The Test

Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 13 January 1926 and educated at Presentation College, Reading. He served in the Royal Air Force and the British Army before working as a cameraman for BBC TV for 19 years. In 1997 he was awarded the OBE for his services to children’s literature.

‘ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS!’Paddington read on the glossy leaflet showing a large, sleek, silver-grey car. It took him a long time to eat fifteen packets of currants in order to enter the competition. And the Rolls-Royce he’d expected to win turned out to be one of ten thousand consolation prizes – a bookmark!Then Paddington finds himself taking a driving test and, much to his amazement, is presented with a license allowing him to drive a rather unusual vehicle.

ISBN: 9780006753780
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Agent Alfie – Licence to Fish

Justin Richards is the author of over a dozen genre and SF novels (including Dr Who), and is the co-author with Jack Higgins of two teenage thrillers, Sure Fire and Death Run. He lives in Warwick with his wife, two sons and a nice view of the castle.

A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies…SPUD has set up a secret base under the school pond and is using radio-controlled duck-cameras to gather information. But the chief SPUD agent has made the mistake of having his weekly edition of SPUD''s Nasty Newsletter redirected to his new base - by Alfie''s dad, the local postman! It doesn''t take long for the gang to work out what SPUD are up to.Can Alfie and his friends find a way of turning the SPUD infiltration to their advantage? Of course they can - and soon the school is teaching the pupils using even more bizarre methods than usual, all for SPUD''s benefit. Will the evil organisation really believe in assassination by daffodil? Or that trained hamsters are used to infiltrate their bases? Of course they will…

ISBN: 9780007273591
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

White Boots

Noel Streatfeild grew up in a vicarage. Her father eventually became Bishop of Lewes. Noel trained as an actress, and acted for nine years before writing her first book, for adults. She did not write her first (and most famous) children’s book until 1936 – Ballet Shoes. Thereafter she wrote more than thirty other children’s books, some of which were televised, and all of which were hugely popular. Noel died in 1986.

Harriet must choose between her friend Lalla and her new-found love of ice-skating…

"If you pass your inter-silver, I''ll tell Aunt Claudia that I don''t want to work with you any more."

Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn''t much good at it, until she meets Lalla Moore, a young skating star. Now Harriet is getting better and better on the ice, and Lalla doesn''t like it. Does Harriet want to save their friendship more than she wants to skate?
About the author:
Noel Streatfeild grew up in a vicarage. Her father eventually became Bishop of Lewes. Noel trained as an actress, and acted for nine years before writing her first book, for adults. She did not write her first (and most famous) children''s book until 1936 – Ballet Shoes. Thereafter she wrote more than thirty other children''s books, some of which were televised, and all of which were hugely popular. Noel died in 1986.

ISBN: 9780007270026
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Agent Alfie – Sorted

Justin Richards is the author of over a dozen genre and SF novels (including Dr Who), and is the co-author with Jack Higgins of two teenage thrillers, Sure Fire and Death Run. He lives in Warwick with his wife, two sons and a nice view of the castle.

A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies…Alfie and his friends are preparing for their SATS exams – because everyone knows that if you don’t have your Special Agent Training Standards you can’t go on to do your GCSEs. And if you didn’t have your General Cerftificate in Surveillance and Espionage then where would you be?The thing is, SATS are hard enough as it is. But when the test papers go missing in the post and are replaced by competitions to win sets of matching saucepans, it just gets ridiculous! Can Alfie and his friends solve the mystery of the missing post? One thing’s for sure: SPUD just have to be behind it, somehow…

ISBN: 9780007273584
Author: Justin Richards
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Monday, September 13, 2010

A Year in Tibet

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2003

Winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award

''The United States has never in its history intervened to stop genocide and has in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred.''

In this convincing and definitive interrogation of the last century of American history and foreign policy, Samantha Power draws upon declassified documents, private papers, unprecedented interviews and her own reporting from the modern killing fields to tell the story of American indifference and American courage in the face of man''s inhumanity to man.

Tackling the argument that successive US leaders were unaware of genocidal horrors as they were occurring – against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Kurds, Rwandans, Bosnians – Samantha Power seeks to establish precisely how much was known and when, and claims that much human misery and tragedy could readily have been averted. It is clear that the failure to intervene was usually caused not by ignorance or impotence, but by considered political inaction. Several heroic figures did work to oppose and expose ethnic cleansing as it took place, but the majority of American politicians chose always to do nothing, as did the American public: Power notes that ''no US president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on.'' This riveting book makes a powerful case for why America, as both sole superpower and global citizen, must make such indifference a thing of the past.

ISBN: 9780007265114
Author: Sun Shuyun
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Lessons in Love

Kate Lawson was born on the edge of the Fens and is perfectly placed to write about the vagaries of life in East Anglia. In between moving house, raising a family, singing in a choir, walking the dog, working in the garden, taking endless photos and cooking, Kate is also a scriptwriter, originating and developing a soap opera for local radio, along with a pantomime for the town in which she lives. Writing as Gemma Fox, Kate was short-listed for the Melissa Nathan Comedy Romance Award in 2006.

A warm romantic comedy about teaching old dogs new tricks...

Two women: one small difference between them - The letter Y,. Firstly there''s Jane Mills - she''s suffering from a broken heart, no job and a house she can''t afford. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Jayne Mills can afford anything she wants, but at what cost to herself? In her late 20s, Jane''s up for a challenge. Fast approaching 50, Jayne''s had more than enough of them. Meeting Jane after a mail mix-up, gives her the chance to assess her choices, and the glorious opportunity to remake the one that she most regrets. It seems that even late along the road, you are never too old to learn new tricks...

For anyone who''s ever wondered what became of the one who got away or dreamed of escaping on a grown-up gap year, this is a wonderfully warm read about finding answers to life''s troubles in the unlikeliest of places.

A sparkling romantic comedy about lost chances found and walking in someone else''s shoes, perfect for fans of Jane Green and Tess Stimson.

ISBN: 9781847560926
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Radiant Shadows

Melissa Marr was voted in high school the “most likely to end up in jail”. Instead, she went to
graduate school, worked in a bar, became a teacher and did a lot of writing. Wicked Lovely is her first novel.

Melissa Marr''s New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series continues with the fourth � and penultimate � installment in the darkly seductive story about the collision of the mortal and faery worlds�

The events of FRAGILE ETERNITY have left the faery world off-balance, its key players fighting to maintain control over their world � and its secrets�

Devlin lives in a world where everything is beautiful, ordered� and cruel. As a prominent member of the High Court and half-brother to Sorcha, the High Queen, he''s one of the most powerful faeries of the old guard.

Ani lives in a world where every line is blurred. Half human, half faery, half in the dedadence of the Dark Court and half out of it, her life of dive bars, tattoos and street fights couldn''t be farther from the clean lines of the High Court.

But you can''t choose where your heart will take you, and when Devlin and Ani meet, two extremes of the faery world collide � with passion, violence and heat; for better � and for worse"

ISBN: 9780007384648
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

The Sun Guide on the 2010 World Cup

The Sun is the UK's most popular newspaper, with almost 3 million copies sold daily and with 8 million daily readers.

The bestselling World Cup guide teams up with the nation''s most popular newspaper to deliver the fans'' favourite tournament preview.
The Sun Guide to the 2010 World Cup is the book all football fans will want beside them on the sofa as millions begin limbering up for the summer''s World Cup finals in South Africa.
The guide contains the most informative preview on the market of the 32 teams and roughly 800 players competing in front of sport''s largest TV audience.
It breaks down each of the team''s qualifying campaigns and analyses every player''s club record to reveal their pre-tournament form. This results in a unique rating system identifying and ranking the top strikers, defenders, midfielders and goalkeepers going to South Africa.
The same analysis forms the basis for the Sun''s world-beating ‘Dream Team’ game, giving its 750,000 players a chance to steal a march on their rivals with their fantasy league squads.
Illustrated with around 250 stunning colour photographs, and complete with group-by-group analysis by a big name pundit from the Sun, this fabulous preview guide will be the last word in pre-tournament preparation.

ISBN: 9780007358304
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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