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Furyborn (Empirium Trilogy, 1)

The first book in the instant New York Times bestselling series, the Empirium Trilogy!

Furyborn is an epic YA fantasy about two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world…or doom it.

When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and one of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed as the Blood Queen…unless the trials kill the queen first.

One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable―until her mother vanishes. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire’s heart is more terrible than she ever imagined.

As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world―and of each other.

Perfect for:
-Epic fantasy and dark fantasy YA readers
-Fans of To Kill A Kingdom and Ash Princess
-Lovers of dual POVs and epic world building
-Those who enjoy fiction about strong girls and women

The Empirium Trilogy:
Furyborn (Book 1)
Kingsbane (Book 2)
Lightbringer (Book 3)

Praise for Furyborn:
“Set in an immersive world of elemental magic, legendary godsbeasts, and cutthroat assassins, Claire Legrand’s Furyborn is an addictive, fascinating fantasy.” ― Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series

A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Title of Spring 2018

A Goodreads Most Anticipated Title of Spring 2018

A Bustle Most Anticipated Title of Spring 2018

“A must-read.” ―Refinery29

“A series to watch.” ―Paste Magazine

“Visionary.” ―Bustle

“One of the biggest new YA Fantasies.” ―Entertainment Weekly

“Empowering.” ―BuzzFeed

A Firestorm in Paradise

Before the 1857 Uprising of India, the old Delhi, or Shahjahanabad is sprawling with life—like an ode wavering towards its end. The inhabitants of Red Fort and the splendored world around it, all subjects of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lived on the cusp of a change with the arrival of the British. Yet, people’s own stories continued against backdrop of this transition.

At the centre of this sprawling narrative is a princess, Falak Ara, daughter of the Emperor. Beautiful and vivacious, Falak Ara is curious about the world outside the fort but never imagines being able to leave. Soon, she loses her heart to a salatin—a prince— and longs for a union with him. Her quest is made difficult by a changing Shahjahanabad, on whose horizon lurks a revolution.

Author Rana Safvi unspools the aches of a young heart as she pays homage to Old Delhi—which, like a living, breathing being, has many moods and survives a lifetime in this novel A Firestorm in Paradise.

Remember Me As Yours: They Went to Look for Love. They Found Life

Nityami Thakur hails from Bhopal and only has a simple request from life: that she get a man who loves her as unconditionally and loyally as she would. But her pursuit of this simple wish has landed her on a journey where every man she meets only punctures her confidence, convincing her that perhaps she is not good for anybody. Sick and tired of window-shopping for Mr Right, Nityami gets to know that her first love from school is somewhere in Sikkim. And that he has recently broken up. With renewed hope and the desire to take a break from her messy present, Nityami decides to take a road trip to Sikkim.

Falak Sultana hails from New Delhi and is a born fighter. Coming from a broken home with an abusive father, she worked hard to not only set up her own small food delivery service but, unbeknownst to her family, to also pursue an MBA, aspiring to bigger life goals. Her only friend is her stepmother, who is her age. Just when Falak thinks her life is finally aligning with her dreams, she ends up doing something drastic, which makes her run for her life. And she reaches Sikkim.

When the two girls find themselves, coincidentally, in the same cab, they feel the company would be good for the road trip ahead. But little do they know whom destiny has kept in store for them. Someone who had changed their lives when they had first met, and will once again alter their lives.

Remember Me As Yours is as much a fast-reading romantic comedy, as it is a poignant coming-of-age tale of two girls who find themselves singled out by society and are desperate to make sense of their personal losses.

One Sting Attached (Hindi)/Ishq Baaqi/इश्क़ बाक़ी

अयोध्या जैसे प्राचीन शहर में एक प्रेमी जोड़ा, शिवम और आईना, एक-दूजे के नज़दीक आने लगता है। फ़ारुक़ी परिवार की बेटी आईना बारहवीं की छात्रा है, तो श्रेष्ठ दर्ज़ी बनने की इच्छा रखने वाला शिवम एक प्रमुख मंदिर के महंत का बेटा। जिस दिन शिवम अपने प्यार के करीब पहुँचता है, उसी दिन वह शहर में हुए दंगों में अपना सब कुछ, अपने माता-पिता और अपनी नीली आँखों वाली प्रेमिका को खो देता है। …और पीछे बची रह जाती हैं सिर्फ दर्दनाक यादें।
खिन्न और टूटा दिल लिये हुए शिवम शहर की हलचल और अपने काम में खो जाने के लिए दिल्ली चला आता है। जब ज़िंदगी में ठहराव आने लगता है, तभी फिर से हवा के झोंके की तरह अतीत उसके सामने लौट आता है और उसे आभास होता है कि आईना ज़िंदा है। बड़ी मशक्कत से जुटाई गई जानकारी के साथ, शिवम अपने प्यार को पाने के लिए एक दुरूह यात्रा शुरू करता है, जो उसे आईना की तलाश में दुबई तक ले जाती है। शिवम और आईना की यह प्रेम कहानी एक बार फिर साबित करती है कि अगर किसी को शिद्दत से चाहो तो पूरी कायनात उससे मिलाने में लग जाती है।  

Aakhiri Ishq/आख़िरी इश्क़

‘इस नॉवेल में हमारा समाज, इन्सानी रिश्ते और रिश्तों की उलझनें एक नए ढंग में सामने आती हैं। त्रिपुरारि ने लव-स्टोरी को साइंस-फ़िक्शन की शक्ल अता की है और अपने लिए एक नई और अलग राह तलाश की है। साइंस-फ़िक्शन हमारे यहाँ कम लिखा जाता है, ख़ुशी है त्रिपुरारि ने इस तरफ़ संजीदगी से तवज्जोह दी है। उम्मीद है उनका ये नॉवेल साइंस-फ़िक्शन में एक संग-ए-मील साबित होगा’- रहमान अब्बास, साहित्य अकादेमी अवॉर्ड विनर, उर्दू नॉवलिस्ट
आख़िरी इश्क़ साइंस-फ़िक्शन और फ़ैंटेसी जॉनर में लिखा ऐसा रूमानी नॉवेल है जो उर्दू और हिन्दी पढ़ने वालों को इश्क़ के मुख़्तलिफ़ रंगों में सराबोर करता है, और जो उर्दू अदब की दुनिया में “साइंस-फ़िक्शन” को बतौर जॉनर कायम करने का हौसला रखता भारत की आज़ादी के साथ ही, सरकार एक सीक्रेट प्रोजेक्ट “द गेटवे ऑफ़ पास्ट एंड फ़्यूचर” की शुरुआत हिमाचल के तीर्थन वैली में एक लैब बनवाकर करती है। यहाँ ऐसी मछलियाँ तैयार की जाती हैं, जिनकी आँखों में इंसान अपना माज़ी या मुस्तक़बिल देख सकता है। वैसी ही एक सुनहरी मछली की वजह से अल्मा और अबीर मुसलसल एक-दूसरे के ख़्वाब में आते और इश्क़ में पड़ जातयही सिलसिला एक ऐसी कहानी में तब्दील होता है जिसे पाठक पूरी पढ़कर ही दम लेंगे! लेकिन कहानी, क्या वो पूरी होती है, क्या कहानियाँ पूरी हो पाती हैं . . . और इश्क़ . . .
त्रिपुरारि के लेखन में ग़ज़ब सम्मोहन है। वो अपनी भाषा के साथ-साथ कथ्य से भी पाठकों को अपने मोहपाश में बाँध लेते हैं। उनके इस उपन्यास में प्रेम का एक अनूठा संसार तो खुलता है, साथ ही ये एक ऐसी कथाभूमि पर गढ़ा गया है जो अचंभित भी करता है।
– अनंत विजय, राष्ट्रीय फ़िल्म पुरस्कार विजेता पत्रकार-लेखक  े हैं।
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Gobind – From the bestselling author of Calling Sehmat and Vichhoda comes another powerful story of love, honour and sacrifice!

The story of a man who will stop for nothing but love and will give nothing less than complete loyalty!

Born in an impoverished Sikh family in Bihar, Gobind is content to live under the long shadow of poverty. Then, one day, moved by his father’s words, Gobind vows to uplift his life and change his and his family’s fortunes forever.

A soldier at heart, he joins the Indian Navy and becomes a shining star, all set to achieve great success. No one though knows the pain he’s carrying in his heart—that of an unfulfilled promise, an unrequited love.

Soon fate throws him one more challenge—on an assignment to Russia he meets someone who’s not only extraordinarily beautiful, but also reminds him of his lost love. The only catch is, being with her will jeopardize the pledge he made to the navy notwithstanding his heroic rescue of his course mates.

What decision will he make? Who will he choose? Which promise will he break?

A thriller, a love story, a saga of passion and human endurance, Gobind is a page-turner that will keep you spell bound long after you’ve finished reading it.

Lessons in Chemistry (Special HB edition with Sprayed Edges)

* The multi-million-copy bestseller *

* THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *

* STREAM ON APPLE TV+ *

Your ability to change everything – including yourself – starts here

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.

But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.

Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.
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A Book of the Year for:
Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Woman and Home, Stylist, TLS Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, India Knight, Hay Festival, Waterstones, Amazon, Books are My Bag and many more

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award
Author of the Year at the British Book Awards
As read on BBC Radio Four
A BBC TV ‘Between the Covers’ pick
Hay Festival Book of the Year
Winner of the Books are My Bag Reader’s Choice Award
Winner of the Books are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award
Shortlisted for the HWA Crown Award

Under the Night Jasmine

How complex are relationships between men and women? How corrupted is a man’s thinking for women he interacts with? Even though a woman gives birth to a man, how little a man understands her!
When the pandemic strikes and the lockdown happens, the usually, always travelling Rohit is forced travel within himself and explore his relationships thus far: with his mother, his teacher, his lovers—relationships that affect his current thought process, his relationships now. With the first stirrings of sexual attraction for his teacher and her lover came the shame of desire. His relationship with his lost girlfriend, with Dushyant, brings in guilt and remorse. What could he have done differently? What kind of a shameless person was he, using people to fulfil himself?
Fluctuating between poetry and prose, questioning even the method of writing Under the Night Jasmine is a world that is layered and many-splendored. It’s a coming-of-age novel — A micro look at a man’s world that both pushes back and fascinates.

Fool Me Twice

Since school, Sana has been the popular girl with excellent grades, beloved by both teachers and parents, living an enviable life. Sana and Ashish have been dating since the eleventh grade, sharing the kind of teenage romance that makes it to the bestsellers list, sells out theatres and causes their loveless friends to gag. Nothing, not even long-distance, can tear the two apart.

Except, maybe, a handsome, overachieving, book-reading senior from Sana’s college?

Pranav is the typical ‘cool guy’ sought after by the entire college. He also happens to be Sana’s new friend, Aanchal’s, brother. But he’s nothing more than a friend! Sana already has the best boyfriend in the world!

Correction: had, before a drunk driver on New Year’s Eve obliterated her happiness.

Set in New Delhi, Fool Me Twice is an unconventional story that will stump readers expecting a good, old romance trope. We meet and fall in love with a young couple planning their futures together when life rudely hijacks the steering wheel. Exploring the ways a twenty-year-old navigates grief and life after a loss that shatters most fifty-year-olds, Fool Me Twice looks at the complexity of falling in love ‘again’ at an age where most are falling for the first time, and what it feels like to move on from mourning one great love to make room for another.

All He Left Me Was a Recipe

Part fact, part fiction, All He Left Me Was a Recipe is a never-ending pursuit of love, a quest for the ever-elusive ‘Mr Right,’ all while kissing the ‘Mr Maybes’. It’s a rollercoaster ride through the fabulous and often hilariously complicated world of modern dating where love, lust and culinary metaphors are on the menu.
From ‘a-ha’ moments to giggles and even some epic heartbreaks with a fair share of tear-shedding, this book is a VIP pass to Shenaz Treasury’s heart in all its shapes and forms over the years. Every story wraps up with
a recipe—a memento from each of these unforgettable encounters—along with some timeless life lessons.
So, pour a glass of wine, get comfy and dive into a world that’ll make you laugh, shed a tear or two, and who knows, you might just find yourself along the way.

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