Minor Disturbances At Grand Life Apartments

Author : Hema Sukumar
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 1399708481
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments written by Hema Sukumar and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'So humane and funny' DEBORAH MOGGACH 'The most charming, utterly lovely story I've read in ages... this is one of my books of the year' RED 'I loved this heartwarming read' PRIMA Welcome to Grand Life Apartments... Soon-to-be-retired Kamala spends her days counting down to her daughter's annual visits from abroad. Thirty-two-year-old engineer, Revathi, is frequently reminded by her mother that she's fast reaching her expiry date in the arranged-marriage market. And heartbroken Jason is here because he's running away - from London, and from his past. With nothing in common, they are united only by a love - and a need - for where they live. So when a developer threatens to demolish everything they know, they come together to save their beloved home... Readers LOVE Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments 'What a delight this book is!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Left me feeling nostalgic' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Lovely characters and warm tales' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ------- 'I was put in mind of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City' GRAEME SIMSION 'Warm, gorgeous, tender, hopeful and human' DAISY BUCHANAN 'An enchanting hug of a book' NIKKI MAY 'A super warm and lovely read' KATE SAWYER 'I loved being transported to the Grand Life Apartments and I was bewitched by the characters, colours and tastes of Chennai. Please can I move in forever?' CLARE POOLEY 'A gorgeous, beautifully written story, full of wonderfully charming characters - and a loveable cat' NICK BRADLEY 'Written with such warmth' SARA NISHA ADAMS

Author : Saurabh Chawla
Publisher : Storizen Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storizen Magazine August 2023 | Amitav Ghosh written by Saurabh Chawla and published by Storizen Media. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are enthralled to feature the award-winning author Amitav Ghosh. His latest book, “Smoke and Ashes" beckons you to embark on a riveting adventure through the Tales from the Opium Trade. Ghosh's narratives are not mere tales; they are intoxicating journeys through history, culture, and the indomitable human spirit. Prepare to be captivated as we delve deep into Ghosh's literary universe. In an exclusive interview, we have the privilege of peering into the creative mind of Siddhartha Deb, the author of the spellbinding "The Light at the End of the World." Deb's work consistently illuminates the uncharted territories where humanity, environment, and society intersect. Our interview promises to be an electrifying exploration of his latest literary creation and the profound issues it addresses. But that's not all! This issue is also packed with thought-provoking book reviews and an exciting overview of the hottest new releases in the literary world this month. These pages are your treasure map to undiscovered gems and literary adventures waiting to be embraced. As you turn the pages of this issue, remember that literature has the power to set your imagination free, ignite your curiosity, and connect you with the magic of the world. So, fasten your seatbelts, dear readers, and get ready to embark on an exhilarating literary journey that will leave you breathless. Thank you for being a part of our daring expedition into the world of words. We can't wait to continue this thrilling journey with you in the issues to come. Adventure awaits! Happy Reading!

Author : Amrita Mahale
Publisher : Context
ISBN 13 : 9789387894228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Author : Suzanne Palmer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756415152
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scavenger Door written by Suzanne Palmer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Hugo Award-winning author comes the third book in this action-packed sci-fi caper, starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man and professional finder. Fergus is back on Earth at last, trying to figure out how to live a normal life. However, it seems the universe has other plans for him. When his cousin sends him off to help out a friend, Fergus accidently stumbles across a piece of an ancient alien artifact that some very powerful people seem to think means the entire solar system is in danger. And since he's the one who found it, they’re certain it’s also his problem to deal with. With the help of his newfound sister, friends both old and new, and some enemies, too, Fergus needs to find the rest of the artifact and destroy the pieces before anyone can reassemble the original and open a multidimensional door between Earth and a vast, implacable, alien swarm. Problem is, the pieces could be anywhere on Earth, and he’s not the only one out searching.

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307826473
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Town written by Tracy Kidder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.

Author : Aliya Ali-Afzal
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538755033
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would I Lie to You? written by Aliya Ali-Afzal and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “total page-turner,” wife and mother Faiza is about to find what happens when you have your dream life and are about to lose it... but only if you're caught (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium). At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish white mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. She's learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their language of fashion and vacations and haircuts. You'd never guess, seeing her at the trendy kids' parties and the leisurely coffee mornings, that her childhood was spent being bullied and being embarrassed of her poor Pakistani immigrant parents. When her husband Tom loses his job in finance, he stays calm. Something will come along, and in the meantime, they can live off their savings. But Faiza starts to unravel. Creating the perfect life and raising the perfect family comes at a cost – and the money Tom put aside has gone. Faiza will have to tell him she spent it all. Unless she doesn't... It only takes a second to lie to Tom. Now Faiza has mere weeks to find $100,000. If anyone can do it, Faiza can. She's had to fight for what she has, and she'll fight to keep it. But as the clock ticks down and Faiza desperately tries to put things right, she has to ask herself: how much more should she sacrifice to live someone else's idea of the dream life?

Author : Dulce Maria Cardoso
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 152940245X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violeta among the Stars written by Dulce Maria Cardoso and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: suddenly I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, for some time, seconds, hours, I can do nothing, suddenly I stop Violeta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, in the midst of a fearsome storm. When her tired eyes close for just a second, her car veers off the road, rolls down a muddy embankment, over and over, and comes to rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground. And as she lies amid the wreckage of her car, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's life will quite literally flash before her eyes . . . Scenes from her past overlap with what happened right before the accident: her upbringing with her distant, critical mother; her father's mysterious double-life; her troubled relationship with her daughter; her life on the road as she drives between waxing product-selling appointments with breaks at motorway service stations, the abuse from other travellers mocking her size, the alcohol, the risky encounters with lorry drivers on filthy public toilet floors... Violeta Among the Stars weaves memories and feelings as Violeta reflects on her death, her life, her reality and her dreams. An astonishing portrait of a seemingly insignificant life, from one of Portugal's greatest living writers. Translated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-Quintana Ángel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of the Financial Times, and his translations include the anthology Other Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil and The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso. With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Author : Jack Cheevers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101638648
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Act of War written by Jack Cheevers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE “I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shangri-la.”—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In 1968, the small, dilapidated American spy ship USS Pueblo set out to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Though packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, its crew, led by ex–submarine officer Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested young sailors. On a frigid January morning, the Pueblo was challenged by a North Korean gunboat. When Bucher tried to escape, his ship was quickly surrounded by more boats, shelled and machine-gunned, forced to surrender, and taken prisoner. Less than forty-eight hours before the Pueblo’s capture, North Korean commandos had nearly succeeded in assassinating South Korea’s president. The two explosive incidents pushed Cold War tensions toward a flashpoint. Based on extensive interviews and numerous government documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, Act of War tells the riveting saga of Bucher and his men as they struggled to survive merciless torture and horrendous living conditions set against the backdrop of an international powder keg.

Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078674703X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out Of Control written by Kevin Kelly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Author : Kate Sawyer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529340691
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stranding written by Kate Sawyer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE FICTION PRIZE AT THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 'A terrific debut. Brave, unexpected... transfixing and captivating... full of hope, resilience and love.' THE SUNDAY TIMES "Holds the big within the small, the intimate within the epic" - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies 'A captivating read' THE SUN 'GORGEOUS and original and captivating' - Marian Keyes, international bestselling author of Grown Ups 'A story that is powerfully familiar and yet utterly original.' - Afua Hirsch 'A captivating read... (a) beautiful, surprising novel' FABULOUS 'A novel that has stayed with me for weeks afterwards . . . Perceptive and unflinching' - Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist 'A quiet, piercing contemplation on what really matters when it comes to the end of the world. Strange and beautiful' - Abigail Dean, author of Girl A 'Beautiful and harrowing but also optimistic and extremely moving . . . a truly arresting depiction of an unlikely relationship' - Clover Stroud, author of The Wild Other 'I didn't want this book to end. It blew me away, and moved me beyond belief' - Bryony Gordon, author of Mad Girl EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. Ruth is ignoring the news. Like most people, she has relationship problems, job stress, friends and family who need her. Ruth has a life. But the news is about to catch up with Ruth, and her problems are going to be swept away...along with the rest of the world. Only when the comforts and complications of her old existence are gone, does Ruth finally realise how she might be able to live to the fullest.