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Eighth Guest And Other Muzaffar Jang Mysteries, The

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For The Love of Apricots

A bottle of pickle, a jar of apricot jam, and a clump of stingingnettle-perfect ingredients for romance in sleepy Mukteshwar.Forty-year-old divorcee Nandini is something of an oddity in the Himalayansmall town of Mukteshwar where she has come to settle with her absent-minded birdwatcher father. Fiercely independent, strong-willed-she's awoman you can't take for a ride, which is how she has turned a homegrownpickle-making business into a successful women's co-operative.When she encounters the newcomer Vikas Joshi, who has recently acquiredan apricot orchard, sparks being to fly as a series of mishaps bring themtogether. It doesn't look like this shy, gentle widower and the feisty pickleproducer are made for each other. But destiny deems otherwise, with a littlehelp from the villagers-and a mysterious jar of apricot jam.Played out against the backdrop of the Kumaon Hills, across woodedmountains and apricot orchards, For the Love of Apricots is a quietly romantic,humorous story about a seemingly headstrong yet vulnerable heroine anda lonely man who realize, before it's too late, that love deserves a secondchance.Warm and light-hearted, yet sensitive and with an understanding of humannature at its core, this is a book to celebrate love in all its unpredictable ways.

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Crimson City

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Engraved In Stone

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An Unholy Drought

The year is 1556 CE. Humayun has died, and his thirteen-year-old son andheir, Akbar, must battle to save his throne, even as a drought devastates thenorthern plains. Against this backdrop, an old man documents the story of hisfamily-his ancestors and himself-beginning a hundred years earlier, when ateenager in Dilli discovers the true nature of his best friend.As the sprawling family saga unfolds, empires rise and fall, dynasties come andgo, and generations pass, each with a rich cast of characters shaped by forcesbeyond their control; by desire, love and betrayal.Like Qasim, who, wracked by the guilt he inherited from his irresponsiblefather, embarks on an all-consuming search for an elusive heirloom, while hispragmatic wife, Aabida, holds the family together as breadwinner-using herembroidery skills to set up a brocade workshop. Two generations later, youngZubair finds himself torn between his family duty-the workshop establishedby his grandmother-and his secret longing for a mysterious insurgent,which will spell disaster for him and his family. Years later, his son, Nadeem,will choose his passion for calligraphy over brocade, only enduring the familybusiness because of his love for Zarina, a talented naqshband-the artist whomakes the exquisite designs for the tapestry.Spanning a century and a half, from the early 1400s to 1556, An Unholy Droughtweaves an intricate tale of varied characters-their joys and sorrows-inDelhi, the phoenix city, as it transitions from the last days of the Sultanate tothe dawn of the Mughal Empire. Rich with human drama and period detail,this sequel to The Garden of Heaven is the second book in the acclaimed DelhiQuartet series, and an absolute page-turner.