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multiple takes on how family dynamics can affect your life, make it or break, is highlighted in the genre. Authors via fairly personal accounts provide a deep insight into the broken and shattered. The family as an institution is being challenged from all angles. With the complexities of life, and the variety of family structures including re-marriages and same-sex families, there is a renewed interest in family dynamics, and in particular family therapy.
8 To Great: How To Take Charge Of Your Life And Make Positive Changes

8 To Great: How To Take Charge Of Your Life And Make Positive Changes

MK Mueller

This groundbreaking and powerfully practical text offers a simple 8-step process for taking charge of our lives and achieving our dreams. It revolves around award-winning author MK Mueller’s patented formula for positive living, positive relationship

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8 To Great: How To Take Charge Of Your Life And Make Positive Changes

8 To Great: How To Take Charge Of Your Life And Make Positive Changes

MK Mueller

This groundbreaking and powerfully practical text offers a simple 8-step process for taking charge of our lives and achieving our dreams. It revolves around award-winning author MK Mueller’s patented formula for positive living, positive relationship

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Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry

Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry

Khushwant Singh

Urdu is a beautiful language and it has earned fame for its beautiful poetry. Celebrating The Best of Urdu Poetry is a tribute to the language and a treat for the lovers of Urdu shaayri. for the past two centuries, there have been many known and unkn

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Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry

Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry

Khushwant Singh

Urdu is a beautiful language and it has earned fame for its beautiful poetry. Celebrating The Best of Urdu Poetry is a tribute to the language and a treat for the lovers of Urdu shaayri. for the past two centuries, there have been many known and unkn

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Dollar Bahu

Dollar Bahu

Sudha Murty

A story of how money corrupts the way people look at one another and how it can almost tear a family apart Vinuta marries Girish, a bank clerk, and starts living with his family in Bangalore. She adjusts to her new family well, looking after her husb

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Dollar Bahu

Dollar Bahu

Sudha Murty

A story of how money corrupts the way people look at one another and how it can almost tear a family apart Vinuta marries Girish, a bank clerk, and starts living with his family in Bangalore. She adjusts to her new family well, looking after her husb

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Her Last Wish

Her Last Wish

Ajay K. Pandey

His father's over expectations only ruined his self-confidence further with each failure. A ray of hope walked into his life as his wife, a charismatic personality spreading joy wherever she went. Everything is going per plan, but darkness comes knoc

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Her Last Wish

Her Last Wish

Ajay K. Pandey

His father's over expectations only ruined his self-confidence further with each failure. A ray of hope walked into his life as his wife, a charismatic personality spreading joy wherever she went. Everything is going per plan, but darkness comes knoc

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kisan

kisan

Chander Mohan Kokra

hindi story farmer

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kisan

kisan

Chander Mohan Kokra

hindi story farmer

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Mai - Silently Mother

Mai - Silently Mother

Geetanjali Shree

Behind the walls of a house in a North Indian town a whole world thrives—of the joint family, their attendants, their visitors. Three generations of women and their men live different strategies of adjustment and achievement to accommodate or challen

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Mai - Silently Mother

Mai - Silently Mother

Geetanjali Shree

Behind the walls of a house in a North Indian town a whole world thrives—of the joint family, their attendants, their visitors. Three generations of women and their men live different strategies of adjustment and achievement to accommodate or challen

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Rishte muhabbat k

Rishte muhabbat k

Ayesha siddiqua

Insan ki zindagi mein uske rishte sab se zyada zaroori hote hain... rishtey muhabbat k ho tu insan khush kismat hota hai....

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Rishte muhabbat k

Rishte muhabbat k

Ayesha siddiqua

Insan ki zindagi mein uske rishte sab se zyada zaroori hote hain... rishtey muhabbat k ho tu insan khush kismat hota hai....

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A Hundred Little Flames

A Hundred Little Flames

Preeti Shenoy

Sometimes, a journey back is a step forward. When 26-year-old Ayan is sent to live with his grumpy old grandfather Gopal Shanker, in a tiny village, in Kerala, he is understandably devastated. What can a sleepy, idyllic village without even Internet

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A Hundred Little Flames

A Hundred Little Flames

Preeti Shenoy

Sometimes, a journey back is a step forward. When 26-year-old Ayan is sent to live with his grumpy old grandfather Gopal Shanker, in a tiny village, in Kerala, he is understandably devastated. What can a sleepy, idyllic village without even Internet

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Sister of My Heart

Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day the two girls were born--the

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Sister of My Heart

Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day the two girls were born--the

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An Unexpected Gift

An Unexpected Gift

Ajay K. Pandey

‘Giving up is not an option when someone calls you mother. ’ Abhay, still struggling with the grief of losing his wife, is unable to cope with his job and the care of his toddler son. So, when the mysterious Sheetal enters his life, applying for the

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An Unexpected Gift

An Unexpected Gift

Ajay K. Pandey

‘Giving up is not an option when someone calls you mother. ’ Abhay, still struggling with the grief of losing his wife, is unable to cope with his job and the care of his toddler son. So, when the mysterious Sheetal enters his life, applying for the

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Shodh

Shodh

Taslima Nasrin

In Shodh unlike her other novels, Taslima Nasrin seeks to revolutionize the concept of love and marriage in the so-called elite yet tradition-bound societies. She effects this through a transformation of roles assigned to women - as lover, wife, moth

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Shodh

Shodh

Taslima Nasrin

In Shodh unlike her other novels, Taslima Nasrin seeks to revolutionize the concept of love and marriage in the so-called elite yet tradition-bound societies. She effects this through a transformation of roles assigned to women - as lover, wife, moth

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The Mother I Never Knew - Two Novellas

The Mother I Never Knew - Two Novellas

Sudha Murty

What secrets lurk in a family’s past—and how important are they in the here and now? Sudha Murty’s new book comprises two novellas that explore two quests by two different men—both for mothers they never knew they had. Venkatesh, a bank manager, st

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The Mother I Never Knew - Two Novellas

The Mother I Never Knew - Two Novellas

Sudha Murty

What secrets lurk in a family’s past—and how important are they in the here and now? Sudha Murty’s new book comprises two novellas that explore two quests by two different men—both for mothers they never knew they had. Venkatesh, a bank manager, st

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That Empty Space

That Empty Space

Geetanjali Shree

A bomb explodes in a university cafe, claiming the lives of nineteen students. The Empty Space begins with the identification of those nineteen dead. The mother who enters the cafe last to identify the nineteenth body brings home her dead eighteen-ye

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That Empty Space

That Empty Space

Geetanjali Shree

A bomb explodes in a university cafe, claiming the lives of nineteen students. The Empty Space begins with the identification of those nineteen dead. The mother who enters the cafe last to identify the nineteenth body brings home her dead eighteen-ye

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House of Cards - A Novel

House of Cards - A Novel

Sudha Murty

House of Cards is the story of Mridula, a bright young woman with enormous enthusiasm for life who hails from a Karnataka village. A chance meeting with Sanjay, a talented but impoverished doctor, leads to love and the couple marry and settle in Bang

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House of Cards - A Novel

House of Cards - A Novel

Sudha Murty

House of Cards is the story of Mridula, a bright young woman with enormous enthusiasm for life who hails from a Karnataka village. A chance meeting with Sanjay, a talented but impoverished doctor, leads to love and the couple marry and settle in Bang

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The Namesake

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

Join Ashima in her journey through complex Indian situations Namesake is the brainchild of Jhumpa Lahiri. The story unfolds with Ashima’s grandmother coming to know that Ashima is pregnant. She was very excited when she came to know this and extremel

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The Namesake

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

Join Ashima in her journey through complex Indian situations Namesake is the brainchild of Jhumpa Lahiri. The story unfolds with Ashima’s grandmother coming to know that Ashima is pregnant. She was very excited when she came to know this and extremel

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The Good Muslim

The Good Muslim

Tahmima Anam

Maya Haque—outspoken, passionate, headstrong—has been estranged from her brother Sohail for almost a decade. When she returns home to Dhaka hoping for reconciliation, she discovers he has transformed beyond recognition. Can the two, both scarred by w

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The Good Muslim

The Good Muslim

Tahmima Anam

Maya Haque—outspoken, passionate, headstrong—has been estranged from her brother Sohail for almost a decade. When she returns home to Dhaka hoping for reconciliation, she discovers he has transformed beyond recognition. Can the two, both scarred by w

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March, Ma Aur Sakura - Geetanjali Shree

March, Ma Aur Sakura - Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree

March, Ma Aur Sakura, Harper Hindi's first original Hindi title is a mixed bag of old and new stories from the author of Mai, Tirohit and Hamara Sheher Us Baras. It deals with ordinary everyday realities such as the routine of a woman in a middle cla

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March, Ma Aur Sakura - Geetanjali Shree

March, Ma Aur Sakura - Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree

March, Ma Aur Sakura, Harper Hindi's first original Hindi title is a mixed bag of old and new stories from the author of Mai, Tirohit and Hamara Sheher Us Baras. It deals with ordinary everyday realities such as the routine of a woman in a middle cla

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34 Bubblegums & Candies - On love, hope and other such delicacies

34 Bubblegums & Candies - On love, hope and other such delicacies

Preeti Shenoy

Life is a bit like bubblegum and candies. Sometimes you have to keep on chewing so that you extract whatever you can out of it. At times, the bubble you blow bursts unexpectedly and you are left with a sticky mess. Sometimes you lick it slowly and

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34 Bubblegums & Candies - On love, hope and other such delicacies

34 Bubblegums & Candies - On love, hope and other such delicacies

Preeti Shenoy

Life is a bit like bubblegum and candies. Sometimes you have to keep on chewing so that you extract whatever you can out of it. At times, the bubble you blow bursts unexpectedly and you are left with a sticky mess. Sometimes you lick it slowly and

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The Cost of Living

The Cost of Living

Arundhati Roy

From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate bu

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The Cost of Living

The Cost of Living

Arundhati Roy

From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate bu

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The Conch Bearer

The Conch Bearer

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In a dingy shack in the less-than-desirable Indian neighbourhoods he calls home, twelve-year-old Anand is entrusted witth a conch shell that possesses mystical powers. His task is to return the shell to its rightful home mary hundreds of miles away i

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The Conch Bearer

The Conch Bearer

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In a dingy shack in the less-than-desirable Indian neighbourhoods he calls home, twelve-year-old Anand is entrusted witth a conch shell that possesses mystical powers. His task is to return the shell to its rightful home mary hundreds of miles away i

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