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The blockbuster new love story by Chetan Bhagat. He's 33. She's 21. He's a struggling stand-up comic. She's a rising star in private equity. He's divorced. She's never had a boyfriend. He's Punjabi. She's from a conservative Jain family. They shouldn't be together. But they can't stay apart...

THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan’s women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions.” —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times...

A romantic coming-of-age story about one woman’s inspiring journey to find self-love, reconnect with family, and forge a new path for her future, from the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick Dirty Laundry Durga is named after the Bengali goddess—pure of heart, filled with...

1938: Divya has made the long sea journey from India to England, employed as a nanny by a British family. But once they arrive, she is cruelly abandoned, with no means to return home. Afraid and alone, she faces prejudice and rejection… until she finds her way to an Irish-run boarding house on West India Dock Road and meets Jack, Charity and a host of unexpected friends.

“An extraordinary gift to its lucky readers: an enormously full and brilliantly structured novel whose characters come to feel as familiar—and as bottomlessly mysterious—as one's own family.” —Karen Russell, author of National Book Award finalist The Antidote “A testament to...

Neel is a journalist drawn to war zones. It's in these spaces riven by conflict that his sense of dislocation, of not belonging anywhere, drops off him. At all other times, he's in quest, seeking solid ground: a home. It is a pursuit that takes him halfway across the world to America and back to...

In the windowless, cramped servant's room at Mrs Shetty's luxurious house, where her mother is a maid, Alka dreams of an escape. When Mrs Shetty decides to send her to the same school as her daughter, she works hard, moulding herself into a new avatar. She marries Subbu, a coffee grower with a...

மனதை உருக்க வைக்கும் சம்பவங்கள்.... பிள்ளை கனியமுதே!

Una princesa llamada Elizabeth nació con la proverbial cuchara de plata en la boca. Su familia esperaba que un día se casara con un príncipe rico y guapo, y que todos vivieran felices para siempre. Pero, en cambio...su hermano Samuel se convirtió en uno de los más grandes hombres de poder e influencia en la historia de Hollywood, y Elizabeth recibió un disparo en la cabeza de manos de su sobrino en la boda de su sobrina, y se encontró a sí misma a medio camino del cielo con un ángel llamado Oleo, quien podría ayudar a la Princesa a cambiar su destino.

பத்து வருடங்கள் வெளிநாட்டில் பணிபுரிந்துவிட்டு தன் திருமணத்திற்கு பெண் பார்க்க வரும் மௌலி வந்த அன்றே தன் பால்ய சிநேகிதி அகிலாவை சந்தித்து காதல் கொள்கிறான்.

கதாநாயகனின் பார்வையில் நகர்கின்றது இந்த கதை. ஏதோ காரணத்திற்க்காக ஊரை விட்டு ஓடி வர நேர்ந்த கதாநாயகன் ஒரு செல்வந்தனிடம் வேலைக்கு சேர, நாளைடைவில் அவரது மகளான சாவித்ரியை மணக்கிறார்.