यह किताब मोहब्बत के उस सफ़र की कहानी है, जो आपको सिर्फ़ प्रेम करना नहीं सिखाता, बल्कि आपके भीतर की रोशनी को भी जगाता है—एक ऐसी रोशनी, जो मुश्किल वक़्त में उम्मीद बनकर आपका हाथ थाम लेती है। यह किताब किसी तय कहानी को कहने के लिए नहीं लिखी गई। शायद इसे लिखना इसलिए ज़रूरी था क्योंकि भीतर बहुत कुछ ऐसा था, जिसे चुप रहकर अपने साथ रखना अब मुमकिन नहीं था। यह उन भावनाओं को शब्द देने की कोशिश है, जिन्हें हम अकसर महसूस तो करते हैं, मगर कह नहीं पाते। प्रेम को समझने की इसी कोशिश में यह कहानी अपने किरदारों के साथ आपको भी अपने भीतर झाँकने का मौका देती है। क्योंकि कुछ प्रेम-कहानियाँ ख़त्म होने के बाद भी ख़त्म नहीं होतीं। वे हमारे भीतर कहीं रह जाती हैं—एक सवाल की तरह, एक याद की तरह, और कभी-कभी एक नई उम्मीद की तरह।
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The Memory of Borrowed Books: A Novel
A sweeping, magical ode to community and the stories we leave behind, The Memory of Borrowed Books follows one librarian who discovers a hidden room of unfinished memories―and must find the one that can save her beloved library from closing forever. Perfect for fans of Evie Woods and How to Read a Book.
Deep in the library lives a hidden room
where magic lines the shelves and memories lie in wait
Ready for readers daring enough to finally discover the truth.
In the coastal town of Foxhollow Bay, librarian Claire Ashford keeps her life as meticulously ordered as the centuries-old library she calls home. But when the town announces plans to shut it down, her sanctuary, and the life she’s built within its walls, begins to crumble.
One night, while wandering the stacks after hours, Claire discovers a door that shouldn’t exist. And behind it lies a secret room filled with books no one else can see.
Each book pulls her into the memories of those who have passed through the library’s doors―moments half-lived and stories left unfinished. Buried within these pages is a message the library has been trying to share, urging Claire to uncover the path to saving it.
With the demolition looming and time running out, Claire must piece together what the library is trying to show her. But one book keeps calling her back, and in its pages is a memory that could change everything. One that reveals the key to saving the library may be tangled in her own memories more than she ever could have imagined.
An ode to the power of community and hope, The Memory of Borrowed Books is a sweeping story about what’s at stake when the places we love―and the memories they hold―are threatened. A reminder that what we fight to preserve just might be the very thing that saves us in return.
Letters from the Last Apothecary (Tressport Magic, Book 1): A Novel
EMILY WILDE meets DIVINE RIVALS in this debut cozy historical romantic fantasy about a grumpy apothecarist, the whirlwind woman who comes to save his shop, and the letters that secretly unite them. You’ve Got Mail with a magical twist!
Nestled between steel skyscrapers lies a small shop stocked with old magic and experimental elixirs. This cozy historical romantic fantasy debut is a tale of mistaken identity, reluctant partnership, and the quiet, transformative magic of being truly seen—on and off the page.
Josephine Pinova doesn’t believe in fate. Yet, it must be fate when she walks into one of the last magical apothecaries in the city and they offer her a job after she’s just been fired.
Struggling against a tide of anti-magic sentiment amidst the city’s rapid industrialization, the shop is slated to close in six short months unless Josie can save it. Luckily, she’s no stranger to impossible odd—she’s applying to study magic at the local university, something women are typically excluded from—even as the shop’s prickly apothecarist, Aufidius Reid, seems determined to dislike her.
Reid finds her unbearably insistent. She finds him infuriatingly uptight—nothing like the sensitive scholar Josie has been exchanging anonymous letters with as they study together for entrance to a graduate magic program. A scholar who just so happens to be Reid himself, unbeknownst to either of them.
Letter by letter, they fall in love. But at work, Josie and Reid clash constantly about the direction of the business. As pressure rises, they discover the threat to the shop is more dangerous than they could have ever imagined, and working together to save it might be their only chance at true purpose, and at each other.
I Who Have Never Known Men | Special Hardcover Collector’s Edition with Stenciled Edges | The Heartbreaking Post-Apocalyptic TikTok Sensation | Dystopian, Feminist and Literary Fiction
SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.
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Deep underground, thirty-nine women are imprisoned in a cage. Above ground, a strange world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?
Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no sense of time, and only vague recollections of their lives before. As years pass beneath the relentless glow of electric lights, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone, an outcast among the others.
Unlike the women around her, she has never known the world beyond their prison. But when freedom finally beckons, she will become the key to their escape and survival in the mysterious world above.
Translated by Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman is a haunting and thought-provoking novel about isolation, female friendship, survival and what it means to be human. Blending dystopian fiction with philosophical questions about memory, identity and human connection, this unforgettable story will stay with readers long after the final page.
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A haunting, unforgettable novel in a beautiful hardcover edition—one to discover, gift and keep on your bookshelf for years to come.
Penguin Pockets: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
What if you have spent your whole life doing everything right, only to discover that it means nothing when it matters most?
Ivan Ilyich has built the life he was supposed to want: a respectable career, a comfortable home, a good social position and a family. But when a sudden illness forces him to confront his own mortality, the certainties he has lived by begin to fall apart. As death draws closer, Ivan is forced to look beyond appearances and ask whether he has truly lived—or simply followed the life expected of him.
Brief, powerful and deeply affecting, Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is an unforgettable meditation on death, regret, and the search for a life that feels meaningful.
Penguin Pockets: The Importance of Being Earnest
In a world obsessed with appearances, telling the truth can be surprisingly inconvenient.
In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde turns love, courtship and social respectability into a sparkling game of deception, as two men invent alter egos to escape the expectations placed upon them. Mistaken identities, romantic entanglements and outrageous social rules collide in a comedy that skewers the performance of respectability and the absurdity of trying to live up to other people’s ideas of who we should be.
With its razor-sharp wit and unforgettable characters, Wilde’s enduring classic remains as relevant to our age of carefully curated identities as it was to Victorian society.
Panchparmeshwar Aur Anya Kahaniyan / पंचपरमेश्वर और अन्य कहानियाँ
ईदगाह कहानी में हामिद का चरित्र हमें बताता है कि आर्थिक अभाव उम्र से पहले बच्चों में कैसे बड़ों जैसी समझदारी पैदा कर देता है। मेले में हामिद अपनी हर इच्छा पर संयम रखने में विजयी होता है।
नमक का दरोगा में एक ईमानदार नमक निरीक्षक की कहानी को बताया गया है, जिसने कालाबाजारी के विरुद्ध आवाज उठाई। यह कहानी धन के ऊपर धर्म के जीत की है।
पूस की रात कहानी किसान की फसल बर्बाद होने से ज़्यादा कर्ज और मजबूरी से मुक्ति पाने की ख़ुशी दिखाती है।
दो बैलों की कथा एक मार्मिक कहानी है, जो हीरा और मोती नाम के दो बैलों और उनके मालिक के बीच के गहरे संबंध को उजागर करती है।
पंच परमेश्वर कहानी से हमें यह शिक्षा मिलती है, कि पंच की भूमिका निभाते समय और न्याय की गद्दी पर बैठते समय पक्षपात नहीं करना चाहिए।
गुल्ली डंडा कहानी में बचपन में साथ गुल्ली डंडा खेलनेवाले दो दोस्त सालों बाद मिलते हैं, वे तब भी गुल्ली डंडा खेलते हैं, पर क्या तब उनमें बचपन वाली बात रह जाती है? जानने के लिए पढ़ें यह उत्कृष्ट पुस्तक।
Usne Kaha Tha / उसने कहा था
उसने कहा था हिंदी साहित्य के इतिहास में मील का पत्थर मानी जाने वाली कहानी है। यह हिंदी की पहली कहानी मानी जाती है, जिसमें पूर्वदीप्ति (फ्लैशबैक) शैली का प्रभावी प्रयोग हुआ है। कहानी में पंजाबी श्रित बोलचाल की जीवंत भाषा का प्रयोग किया गया है, जो पात्रों को वास्तविक बनाता है।
यह कहानी उस दौर की प्रतिनिधि पत्रिका सरस्वती में 1915 में प्रकाशित हुई थी। प्रकाशित होते ही यह कहानी चर्चित हो गई। यह चर्चा हिंदी कहानी की दुनिया में आज भी जारी है। भारत के जिन विश्वविद्यालयों में हिंदी साहित्य पढ़ाया जाता है, वहाँ उसने कहा था कहानी भी अवश्य पढ़ाई जाती है। इस कहानी की केंद्रीय संवेदना प्रेम तथा विश्वास की भावना है। यह कहानी युद्ध की पृष्ठभूमि पर रचे कथा–विन्यास में संबंधों के विश्वास को रेखांकित करती है। किशोरावस्था का सहज आकर्षण पवित्र स्नेह-संबंध में परिणत होकर भावों के संसार में डूबता-उतरता विशुद्ध कर्त्तव्य भावना का रूप धारण कर लेता है। कहानी का मुख्य पात्र, लहना सिंह, बचपन में मिली एक लड़की (सूबेदारनी) की रक्षा करने के वादे को प्रथम विश्वयुद्ध के दौरान अपनी जान देकर निभाता है, मगर कैसे यह तो इस कहानी को पढ़कर ही पता चलेगा।
A Shimla Affair: Now in Hardback!
…the future of India may lie in unexpected hands.
1940, Shimla, British India. Nalini Mistry longs for a life outside of the four walls of her home; reality, however, is different.
Nalini and her two older sisters—Noor and Afreen—run the Royal Hotel Shimla, an opulent establishment that serves British high society. But when an underground revolutionary group asks them to aid a murderous conspiracy during the hotel’s Summer Jubilee Ball, they find themselves thrust headfirst into a dangerous game of lies.
Afreen dives deeper into the cause, as level-headed Noor tries to keep them safe. At the same time, Nalini finds herself enchanted by a crushingly handsome British officer, Charles Nayler—a man who sees her like no one else ever has.
As the night of the ball approaches, the sisters are drawn into a web of hidden agendas, shifting alliances, and impossible choices – where nothing is what it seems, and the price of freedom may be everything.
A Shimla Affair, a bold exploration of the true nature of freedom, follows the story of three women attempting to change the course of Indian independence—for love, duty, and revenge.
Super Champs of Devgarh
The Holy Mission boys have done the impossible—they’ve defeated the mighty Lajpat Rai Sports School and become the cricket champions of Devgarh.
But staying on top is far harder than getting there.
As board exams loom, their beloved coach, Ved Prakash, leaves town, and uncertainty hangs over the future of both the team and the school. Meanwhile, their bitter rivals from Lajpat Rai Sports School are determined to reclaim their lost glory, and a sinister plan threatens everything Star Eleven has worked so hard to achieve.
Packed with cricket, friendship, rivalry, humour and adventure, Super Champs of Devgarh is a thrilling story about teamwork, loyalty and finding the strength to overcome setbacks.
‘A heady mix of cricket, courage and camaraderie that keeps you hooked till the very end’—Murali Kartik