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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death in Siberia
By Alex Dryden
Fiction
The Cold War is dead but Russia's ambitions continue to rage...The Kremlin is holding its leading nuclear physicist prisoner at a military facility above the Arctic Circle.
The reason? Professor Kryuchkov's ground-breaking discovery could save the world...and destroy Russia's economy. Former KGB agent Anna Resnikov is sent from America to confirm or deny rumours of Kryuchkov's breakthrough.
But the physicist has already taken action. And when police detective Alexei Petrov discovers the formula hidden on a corpse, he is desperate to decipher its meaning. Following Anna Resnikov to the Arctic city of Norilsk, their linked fates end in a thrilling, terrifying climax in the icy wastes of Russia's northernmost territories...
Rs.644/= Available at Makeen Books, Col 3
The Lost Relic
By Scott Mariani
Fiction
Some secrets should stay buried…
A web of deceit – and Ben Hope is caught in the mayhem. . .
Whilst visiting a former SAS comrade in Italy, a distracted Ben nearly runs over a young boy – and unwittingly walks into his deadliest mission yet.
Ben’s involvement with the boy’s family runs deeper as he witnesses their brutal murder at a gallery robbery. A seemingly worthless Goya sketch was the principal target in the bloodbath heist. Now it’s up to Ben to find out the truth behind the elusive painting.
Wrongly accused of murder and forced to go on the run, he must get to the heart of the conspiracy while he still has the chance. . .
Rs. 1,200/- Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia
The Darkest Pleasure
By Gena Showalter
Fiction/Paranormal Romance
From the New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter comes The Darkest Pleasure part of Lords of the Underworld Miniseries. Reyes is a man possessed.
Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her—even defy the gods.
Danika is on the run. For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been destroyed. But her dreams are haunted by Reyes, the warrior whose searing touch she can't forget. Yet a future together could mean death to all they both hold dear.…
Rs. 825/= Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda
Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment
By Dr. Deepak Chopra
Philosophy/Fiction
Very little is known about Jesus in his formative years. In the Gospel stories, we witness the birth of Jesus and then see him as a young boy of twelve, intensely questioning the Rabbis in the Second Temple in Jerusalem. He does not reappear until age thirty when he emerges as the potent and stirring rebel baptized by John at the River Jordan.
What happened to Jesus in those lost years? How did Jesus the boy become Christ the Saviour? These are the questions that motivate bestselling writer Deepak Chopra to attempt a (fictitious) fresh re-imagining of a young man's transformational journey from carpenter's son to revolutionary leader to spiritual saviour.
From his unceremonious birth in Bethlehem to the ultimate betrayal by his friend Judas in Jerusalem, Chopra captures the life of one of the world's most written about men, as never before.
Rs. 1,600/- Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia
Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside a Torture Jail
By Marina Nemat
Non fiction
Brought up as a Christian, Marina Nemat's peaceful childhood in Tehran was shattered when the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ushered in a new era of Islamic rule. After complaining to her teachers about her Maths lessons being replaced by Koran study, Marina was arrested late one evening. She was taken to the notorious prison, Evin, where interrogation and torture were part of the daily routine.
Aged sixteen, she was sentenced to death. Her prison guard snatched her from the firing squad bullets but exacted a shocking price in return: marriage to him and conversion to Islam. Marina lived out her prison days as his secret bride, spending nights with him in a separate cell.
Marina struggled to reconcile her hatred towards Ali and her feelings of physical repulsion with the fact that he had saved her life. When Ali was murdered by his enemies from Evin, and saved Marina's life for a second time, her feelings were complicated even further. At last she was able to return home, to her family and her past life, but silence surrounded her time as a political prisoner and the regime kept her under constant surveillance.
Marina's world had been changed forever and she questions whether she will ever escape Iran and its regime or be free of her memories of Evin.
Rs.1035/= Available at Makeen Books, Col 3
Happy Birthday
By Danielle Steel
Fiction
Time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future! For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. She's single, with no interest in changing that. Her successful restaurant in downtown New York consumes every ounce of her passion and energy. Ready or not, though, April's life is about to change, in a tumultuous discovery on the morning of her milestone birthday.
April's mother Valerie is a popular TV personality. Since her divorce, she has worked tirelessly to reach the pinnacle of her career. But she's having trouble equating her age with how she feels, and all the hours with personal trainers, top hairdressers and plastic surgeons can't hide the fact that she is turning sixty - and the whole world discovers it on her birthday.
It is also Jack Adams' birthday - the most charismatic sports announcer and hall-of-fame football star on TV, a man who has his pick of desirable younger women. But he fears his age may finally be catching up with him when he wakes up on his fiftieth birthday needing an emergency visit to the chiropractor...
As these three very different people celebrate their birthdays, they discover that life itself is a celebration - and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.
Rs. 720/= Available at Vijitha Yapa Bookshop
Flatlander
By Larry Niven
Science Fiction
Flatlander is a collection short stories of "Gil the Arm" that Larry Niven has written between the late 60s to-date. Set in the 2120s, the stories chronicle the adventures of Gil Hamilton, an agent with the UN police force.
Gil spent seven years mining in the asteroid belt before an accident resulted in the loss of his arm. He found out, however, that he had developed the psychic power of telekinesis which he calls his ‘invisible arm’. Gil together with his unfailingly accurate intuition, detective skills that are second to none and psychic powers of telekinesis fights against "organleggers," criminals who commit murder to sell the organs for transplant.
The stories revolve around the themes such as organ transplanting, psychic powers, and the ramifications of fusion power. Now you can read all the classic stories of the legendary ARM operative, collected in one volume for the first time in never-before-published Gil Hamilton adventure!
Rs. 640/= Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda
Florence Nightingale
Lady with the Lamp
Spiritual/History
Florence Nightingale never questioned the day God called her into His service. But determining just what that service would be was another matter. “Decent” young women of the nineteenth century weren’t expected to work—especially not in the foul disease ridden medical camps of the British military.
But that’s where the “Lady with the Lamp” found her calling: comforting sick, wounded and dying soldiers, and fighting for their rights within an apathetic establishment. From Scutari Hospital in the Crimean War, she turned the medical world upside down. Florence Nightingale’s efforts revolutionized the care of hospital patients and elevated nursing to the noble rank it holds today.
Most importantly, it clearly demonstrated Jesus’ teaching of service “unto the least of these my brethren.”
Rs 395/= Available at Pragna Publishers (Gte) Ltd, No 5 P.T De Silva Mw, Dehiwala. Tel-O777008997- 2712631
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