From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Aladdin.
She’s his diamond in the rough. He’s her worst nightmare.
Yasmin Karam, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, has never known strife. So, when her beloved father falls ill, she’s determined to make his final days his happiest. His last wish? To see her married to a man of his choosing. Except Yasmin’s heart already belongs to someone else. A servant. A street rat. A man her father would never consider worthy. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Yasmin strikes a desperate deal with her father’s right-hand man, Julian, not realizing he has his own twisted agenda.
Julian Faraci has one goal: become the most powerful man in the world. He’s built a future from broken bones and faded bruises, never caring who he hurt along the way. But when his mentor falls ill, he finds himself on the verge of losing everything, and he’ll stop at nothing to inherit what is rightfully his. Even if it means forcing a woman he can’t stand into marriage.
Yasmin is a brat who speaks out of turn, and he’s the villain of her story. But he decides she’ll be his―no matter what it takes to convince her.
From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Wizard of Oz.
A woman can be great, and terrible too.
Evelina Westerly has always been the bad guy. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family’s drug empire, she’s her father’s ruthless secret weapon. With her days divided between perfecting her greenhouse, seeking revenge for her sister’s murder, and putting a gun to the head of anyone in her way, Evelina doesn’t have time for anything else. Especially not for love. After a one-night stand with a gorgeous man at a nightclub, she’s sated her urges and is back to her criminal ways. That is, until that same man shows up as the new Westerly lackey…under a totally different name.
But Nicholas Woodsworth’s real secret is much more dangerous than an alias. He’s an undercover DEA agent, and he’s hell-bent on destroying the drug trade that devastated his family. When he realizes the youngest daughter of the Westerly empire is the same woman he’s been fantasizing about since that night at the club, attraction wars violently with disgust. Evelina embodies everything he’s against, and he’s been sent here to be her downfall. Yet the more they learn about the darkness in each other’s hearts, the more alike they seem, and when hatred turns to something more, Nicholas will have to decide whether he can love a wretched woman, even if it means bringing both of their lives to ruin.
From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale in her fan-favorite Never After series.
She doesn’t belong to him…she belongs to the crown.
Prince Tristan Faasa was never destined for the throne. That was always his brother, Michael. The same brother responsible for both Tristan’s tormented childhood and the scar that mars his face. When their father dies, Michael is set to assume the throne, and Tristan is set to steal it. The leader of a secret rebellion, Tristan will stop at nothing to end his brother’s reign. But when Michael’s new betrothed, Lady Sara Beatreaux arrives, Tristan finds himself in the middle of a new kind of war. The kind that begs the question of what’s more important, the crown or the woman about to wear it.
Sara has one plan. Marry the King and eradicate the Faasa line, even at the risk of her own peril. But she never expects the Scarred Prince. He’s dangerous. Forbidden. And one of the men she’s been sent to kill. But the line between hatred and passion has never seemed so thin, and as secrets come to light, Sara grows unsure of whom she can trust—torn between vengeance and the villain she was never supposed to love.
हिंदी के सबसे अधिक लोकप्रिय उपन्यासकार गुरुदत्त के प्रसिद्ध उपन्यास वाममार्ग का यह सम्पूर्ण पॉकेट संस्करण है। यह उपन्यास लेखक को चमत्कारपूर्ण लेखन-कला का श्रेष्ठ उदाहरण है। भारत के इतिहास के उस उथल-पुथल से भरे युग का यह जीता-जागता चित्र है जब परिर्व्तन और नवीनता के नाम पर अनैतिकता और अनाचार की शक्तियों ने लोगों के व्यक्तिगत और सामाजिक जीवन को झकझोर डाला था। कथानक की रोचकता और घटना-प्रवाह को दृष्टि से यह एक बेजोड़ उपन्यास है।
’अक्षरों की अज़मत’ विभिन्न मंच, समागम, साहित्यिक महोत्सव के साथ-साथ देश के बाहर सरजमीं पर दी गई वे तकरीरें हैं, जो यादगार बन गई हैं। किताब का संपादन इमरोज़ ने किया है। एक ओर अमृता की तकरीरें हमें नया रास्ता-नई सोच की ओर अग्रसर तो करती ही है, तो साथ ही साथ जब इमरोज़ के स्केचेज जब तकरीरों के अंत में दिखता है तो कहीं न कहीं उनमें वह नई जान आ जाती है। हर तकरीर के खत्म होने के साथ दिए गए स्केच काबिले-तारीफ़ हैं। हर बार अमृता को पढ़ते हुए हम कहीं न कहीं अंदर से फ़िल्टर होते हैं और पाठक के तौर पर आसमान तो बड़ा होता ही है, जिसमें हम परिंदों की भांति बहते हैं। इस भेड़चाल के दौर में इनके तकरीरों से गुज़रना हमें मुहब्बत और आदमियत के और करीब ले जाता है।
अभय तिवारी ने रूमी नाम से फ़ारसी साहित्य के विद्वान सूफ़ी विचारक और संत मौलाना मुहम्मद जलालुद्दीन रूमी की प्रसिद्ध पुस्तक “मसनवी” का हिंदी अनुवाद किया है। मसनवी फ़ारसी साहित्य की अद्वितीय कृति है। इसमें संस्मरणों और रूपकों के ज़रिए ईश्वर और आस्था के मसलों पर विवेचन किया गया है। रूमी सिर्फ़ कवि नहीं है, वे सूफ़ी हैं, वे आशिक़ हैं, वे ज्ञानी हैं, विद्वान हैं और सबसे बढ़कर वे एक गुरु हैं। उनमें एक तरफ़ तो उस माशूक़ के हुस्न का नशा है, विसाल की आरज़ू व जुदाई का दर्द है, और दूसरी तरफ़ नैतिक और आध्यात्मिक ज्ञान की गहराईयों से निकाले हुए अनमोल मोती हैं। इसीलिए रूमी का साहित्य सारे संसार को सम्मोहित किए हुए है।
अमर कहानियों के रचयिता आचार्य चतुरसेन हिन्दी कथा – साहित्य के अद्वितीय कथा – शिल्पी के रूप में जाने जाते हैं। उनकी कहानियां और उपन्यास हिन्दी साहित्य के इतिहास की अमूल्य धरोहर हैं। आचार्य चतुरसेन की सम्पूर्ण कहानियों को सिलसिलेवार एक साथ प्रकाशित करने की योजना के अन्तर्गत 5 भागों में संकलित किया गया है। इन संकलनों की यह विशेषता है कि ये कहानियां सर्वथा प्रामाणिक मूल – पाठ हैं, जो सभी पाठकों के साथ – साथ हिन्दी कहानियों के अध्येताओं और शोधार्थियों के लिए भी मह्त्वपूर्ण हैं। ‘बाहर – भीतर’ सम्पूर्ण कहानियों की शृंखला की पहली कड़ी है। इसमें 18 कहानियां दी गई हैं, जो चतुरसेन के लेखन के शिखर को रेखांकित करती हैं।
They came to earth―Pestilence, War, Famine, Death―four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity.
They came to earth, and they came to end us all.
The day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond’s town and kills everyone in one fell swoop, the last thing he expects to see is one woman left alive and standing. But Lazarus has an extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed. Not by humans, not by the elements, not by Death himself.
She is the one soul Death doesn’t recognize. The one soul he cannot pry free from her flesh. Nor can he ignore the unsettling desire he has for her. And the longer she tries to stop him from his killing spree, the stronger the desire becomes.
When Lazarus crosses paths with the three other horsemen, an unthinkable situation leads to a terrible deal: seduce Death, save the world. A hopeless task, made worse by the bad blood between the two. But try as she might, Lazarus cannot stay away from that ancient, beautiful being and his dark embrace.
The end is here. Humankind is set to perish, and not even the other horsemen can stop Death from fulfilling his final task.
Only Lazarus can.
They came to earth―Pestilence, War, Famine, Death―four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity.
They came to earth, and they came to end us all.
Ana da Silva always assumed she’d die young, but she never expected it to be at the hands of the haunting immortal who spared her life years ago. Famine. But if the horseman remembers her, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she’s stabbed and left for dead.
Only, she doesn’t quite die.
If there’s one thing Famine is good at, it’s cruelty. He can’t forget the pain humanity has brought him, and he’s ready to bring it back to them tenfold. But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him for what he did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around.
In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But at the end of the day, the two are enemies. Nothing changes that. Not one kind act, not two. And definitely not a few steamy nights. But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don’t stop themselves soon, heaven will.
They came to earth―Pestilence, War, Famine, Death―four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity.
They came to earth, and they came to end us all.
The day Jerusalem falls to the horsemen, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring her people. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his heaven-sent wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp.
Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, helplessly watching her world burn town by town, and the one responsible for it is her seemingly indestructible “husband,” who refuses to let her go. But there’s another side to him, one that’s gentle and loving and set on winning her over, and she might not be strong enough to resist.
However, if there’s one thing Miriam has learned, it’s that love and war cannot coexist. She must make the ultimate choice: surrender to War and watch humankind fall, or sacrifice everything to stop him.
