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Barbara Taylor Bradford has made a special place in the world of literature with her fantastic way of story-telling. All her 27 novels are master-pieces that sing of the life's saga on love, relationships, buried secrets, obsessions and redemption of the human being.

'Secrets from the Past' is a latest romantic-thriller from the author. It is a compelling, emotion packed saga of the secrets that are buried deeply in the past and the protagonist stumbles upon it step by step.  The story of this novel shifts from the city landscapes of Manhattan's skyscrapers to the riots filled streets of Libya. The story is hence spread out on the wide canvas where a Thirty year old Serena Stone discovers the hidden secrets of her life, her father and her birth.

The author has poured down herself in creating the character of Serena Stone. She is a talented American Photojournalist and has chosen this profession as her father was a famous war photographer Tommy Stone. However, she witnesses the untimely death of her father out of a severe heart attack and her mother had died long time ago too. She initiates writing a biography on her father and while she calls out for some help to her father's best friend, Harry Redford, to fill in the gaps in her work she tumbles on the even that is going to change her life forever.

Harry Redford asks her to visit her former lover Zachary North who stays in Venice. Zachary is also a war photographer and he has recently returned from Afghanistan all mentally and physically exhausted. He has become as good as 'a dead man walking'. Serena follows Redford's advice and goes to the old Venetian apartment of her father where Zac is currently staying. Their love and passion is fueled again and as they go through her father's iconic photographs together, Serena finds a completely new collection of photographs that she had never seen before. In that unseen collection of her father's pictures she finds a family history, the one that will change her world forever. The search for truth begins and leads her to unknown places and meet people whom she never knew before.

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As Sweet As Honey begins with the preparation of a wedding ceremony in the small Asian Island called Pi on the Indian coast. Meterling, a 6 feet tall lady is getting married to a short English old man named Archer, who is owner of a gin distillery on Pi Island. Meterling has already been ostracized from the society as she is unusually tall and her marriage with an old English man becomes even more blasphemous. Unfortunately, during the previous day of wedding, the to-be husband of Meterling dies all of a sudden. This leads his sister to think that it was a murder to gain all the wealth of her brother.

Later in the novel, Meterling discovers soon after her to-be husband Archer's death that she is pregnant. Archer's brother marries Meterling to support her and takes her to London along with him. Thus begins the journey of an Eastern woman in the Western world.

The novel brings forth the abyss that can never be bridged between the two cultures of east and west. The first half of the novel is narrated by one of Meterling's younger cousin sister and several other family members. It is only once she goes to London that you get to hear Meterling's voice. The entire story is evolved out of conversations, view points of the various characters in the 'stream of consciousness' style of writing. Therefore, this book is considered to be an East Asian homage to Virginia Woolf's famous novel 'To The Lighthouse' which has been written in the same style.

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Deb Shapiro's Your Body Speaks Your Mind is a book for today's generation. Read this book understand your body and the symptoms that you can see in your body. Our body is connected to our mind and most of the emotional stress affects the body to a great extent. If you are emotionally fit and balanced then you will always be fit and healthy. Deb tries to tell us that the mental stress we are going through these days affects our health to a great extent and there is a deep relation between the stress in your mind and the body.

When we are sad tears roll down and when we are happy we smile. This is the immediate reaction that our body gives on what is going on in our mind. Similarly our body will also react in the same from smallest disease to the biggest. Like from headache to cancer. It is just that we need to understand these symptoms. All our thoughts come out in different ways through different reactions in our body.

Once you are able to understand the symptoms you will be able to find solutions yourself. To heal the body of the pain and the illness medicine will not work alone the mind also needs to believe that the body will be fine with these medicines and then the results will be unbelievingly great. Controlling the mind and making a bed ridden person feel that he is fit can bring him back to his feet. It is just the will power and the understanding of the different symptoms you see in your body. You can pre-order this book now and get it on launch from Infibeam.com with free shipping across India.

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Sanjay Gandhi is considered to be one of the most controversial political man in the Indian history. He is the younger son of India first woman prime minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. Vinod Mehta in his book The Sanjay Story:  From Anand Bhavan to Amethi attempts to look into the life of this politician assessing his achievements & failures and the impact of his decisions on the newly independent India.

The story starts the narration of his life in Anand Bhavan, the palatial mansion of Nehru-Gandhi in Allahabad. The book also brings forth the facts of Feroze Gandhi's relationship with Indira Gandhi and Kamala Nehru. These narrations throw light upon the background in which Sanjay's volatile personality was evolved. His passion for cars resulted into the foundation of Maruti Udhyog, which has now become the no.1 auto-mobile company in India.

Vinod Mehta sieves the facts from the rumors in this biographical book. He gets to the basis on which Sanjay Gandhi emerged as a dramatic and controversial politician during the Emergency period of India. The book deals with his association to the youth congress and the sterilization campaign that he initiated in the name of family planning. The story brings out in details Sanjay's motives behind taking such life changing decisions of not only his life but also India's future. His sterilization campaign was perhaps his attempt to become immortal in the history of Indian politics which he did succeed to an extent. 

Thus, this book shows the rise and the downfall of Sanjay Gandhi. It also attempts to know how a nation of more than 600 million people gave in to the whims and fancies of a then Prime Minister's son. The story is not simply based on the life of Sanjay Gandhi alone but it also shows the life of India and its political scenario during most dark period in Indian history: the emergency period.

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Jack Reacher One Shot is a fast paced thriller novel with an interesting plot. Somewhere in the Indiana state loud sounds of six sniper shots are heard in the calmness of an afternoon. The sniper is perhaps foolish enough to leave the traces behind and gets caught by the police easily. It's a slam dunk case for the police officers but just then the man tells the police nothing but just that he's the wrong one. He asks policemen to get Jack Reacher for him.

Jack Reacher is an ex- US military policeman Major and is wandering all the time all over USA without any specific contact details. He is found in Miami relaxing his retirement with a Norwegian blonde.  He's is no mood to stick around at one place and keeps on moving and tries to avoid troubles but it seems like troubles don't like to leave him alone and he is summoned by the Indiana Police.

By the time, the Indiana Police gets Reacher in the town; the guy caught for the crime is brutally beaten and is barely in the condition to recall the events of that fatal day. However, Reacher meets him and tries to solve the Jigsaw puzzle laid in front of him by trying to find the evidences and calculating the happenings of that day.

He is soon finds himself in a battlefield trying to explore the truth of the case and gets closer to the unseen enemy bit by bit and shot by shot. But does he really crack the mystery of the murders case? Will he catch hold of the unknown and unseen enemy who's pulling the strings from the unknown space? Will he be able to match up with the cunningness of enemy?

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Blood Red Sari is India's first ever all women action thriller novel by Ashok Banker. It unveils the story of Lalima, a social activist, makes three professional women run for their lives against time.

A Blood Red Sari is an action thriller and is a part of Ashok Banker's Kali Quartet. The story revolves around three females Sheila, Nachiketa and Anita. Sheila is the owner of an all women's gym in Kolkata, Nachiketa who is a Delhi based attorney and she sues her in-laws for violent abuse that has left her wheelchair bound for lifetime, and Anita is a Malayali private investigator whose brothers are after her. Lalima is a social activist who chooses these three women for finishing her task that she herself was unable to do.

This pulse-pounding novel is all about the human trafficking and mafia. Sheila, Nachiketa and Anita run for their lives while they are running short of time. All the three of them struggle and battle for their survival. What happens to the fate of all the three women coming from different parts of the country and with different backgrounds? Does Lalima succeed in accomplishing her task through these women? Explore the thriller world where Lalima uses her influences and hires killers to track down the evidences that she needs. Will Sheila, Nachiketa and Anita survive through the dangerous ordeals?

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