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When you love someone, what's there to prove? Everything! It looks like life is teaching Rohit a lesson. His publishing deals, his relationships, even his job - nothing seems to be working out. To make matters worse, Karan is still trying his best to ruin him as a writer. But when Nisha leaves him, it's the ultimate blow. To win her back Rohit must prove he loves her enough to do things that matter to her: like helping Tara find a publisher.

Everyone has told you to behave well and have the best of manners. But nobody told you why, when and how. Here is a book, and the only one, to guide you on what to do and what to avoid in 40 different combinations of humans, venues and situations. Not like yet another boring book of theoretical guidelines, but a mother-daughter conversation to tell it all.

Neel met the love of his life at his undergraduate medical college. Through the horrors of ragging to the bond of friendship, set on the charged backdrop of Mumbai blasts and suicidal batchmates, Neel and Riya found themselves share deep moments of togetherness. Did this romantic bond lead them to fulfilment or to lingering miasma of pain?

Akash is young, single, and conservative with a preference for girls with brains than in miniskirts. One day, he runs into free-spirited Aleesha at a local discotheque. A Mass Media student. This brief meeting leads them to exchange their BlackBerry pins and they begin chatting regularly. Why don’t we feel the moment when we fall in love but always remember when it ends?

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Author Megha Bajaj set out on a journey and visited different parts of India and discovered 11 such individuals who were truly happy and successful. She realized that in a country of 1.3 billion people these individuals had one thing in common – they had the rare ability to turn an ordinary event into a significant one and then turn that into a ‘breakthrough’.

Inspector Ashish Bharadwaj is arrogant and hot-tempered, but he’s usually right about things. His brother, Manav, is quiet and intuitive. He is also brilliant at solving cases. Who’s right? And at what cost are they going to win? Since everyone’s looking only for what they want to see, will they ever actually find out what happened to Shravya Chandra? And so begins the battle of egos, the endless search for a killer and the unravelling of secrets…

Do you flaunt your happy moments in the form of filtered photographs on Facebook, Instagram, etc.? Do you and your partner set relationship goals for others on social media? Do you make people jealous of the perfect life you are living? Do you portray yourself as a forever-happy person to your social media followers?

The story revolves around a successful man named Hasil,a successful entrepreneur, who marries the woman he loves Palki. When catastrophe takes over his life with his memories, he comes across two girls, Swadha and Pallavi. What will happen if these two girls fall in love with Hasil? Will Hasil be able to forget his wife and choose one? Meanwhile, what happened to Palki?

A refugee of the Great War, Poirot is settling in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work.....

Shadow of the Past is a story about three young people crippled by their own past and insecurities and how their life changes when they stop running away and start embracing it. But the question always remains: to what extent can anyone go to get rid of their past?

As you read this, a flurry of thoughts run through your mind, right from wondering how different this book is going to be from the umpteen other books you have browsed, to what might be the USP of this particular novel, and if its really worth your money...wait, did you just read what was going on in your mind?