“Life's too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.”
― Jarod Kintz
The Lost Labyrinth
By Will Adams
Fiction
Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams third pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox.
Twenty years after vanishing without a trace, French archaeologist Roland Petitier makes a dramatic reappearance at a major Athens conference, promising an astonishing find - the legendary Golden Fleece. But before he can give his talk, he's found dead in a hotel room; and an out-of-control policeman puts Petitier's onetime protégé Augustin Pascal into intensive care, then later accuses him of Petitier's murder. Only Augustin's two closest friends, Daniel Knox and Gaille Bonnard can prove his innocence.
However, rumours of the fleece's rediscovery have spread, and ambitious Georgian oligarch Nergadze is determined to get it first. He sends his psychopathic grandson Mikhail to Athens with orders to bring it back. Mikhail quickly becomes convinced that Dan Knox has it, and slowly moves in for the kill…
Rs. 1,300/- Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia
The Leadership of Muhammad
By John Adair
Self-Help
The Leadership of Muhammad takes a close look at the leadership skills and life of Prophet Muhammad, written by leadership theorist, John Adair.
The author blends Prophet Muhammad's distinct way of leadership with the practices followed by Bedouin tribes, the result of which is The Leadership of Muhammad, an insightful book on how to inspire people and lead them towards a common vision.
Having served in an Arab legion and interacted closely with Bedouin culture, John Adair brings out the tribal style of leadership and opens up a debate about its pros and cons. The book is filled with incidents of his stay with the Bedouin tribe, little known details of desert life, and their beliefs.
The Leadership of Muhammad makes it evident that nobody is a born leader but can pick up the skills to be one. Detailed snippets of Muhammad's life, his qualities, his dedicated service to his people and his unchanging vision - principles that made Muhammad a great leader - are skillfully presented as lessons for aspiring leaders.
Rs. 800/- Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia
Runelight
By Joanne Harris
The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie, a girl the same age as Maddy but brought up a world apart - literally, in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised.
Now the Order is destroyed, Chaos is filling the vacuum left behind...and is breaching the everyday world. This is a chilling prophecy from the Oracle; a conflict between two girls; and with just twelve days to stave off the Apocalypse, carnage is about to be unleashed...
Rs.736/= Available at Makeen Books, Col 3
Barack Obama : The Making of the Man
By David Maraniss
Biography
In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Texas.
He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way, which produced these two extraordinary individuals, who met briefly in Hawaii, never cohabited, and married only to legitimize the child born of that union. At the heart of Obama's psyche and his political beliefs - and therefore his presidency - is his life-long struggle to understand the extreme duality of his identity.
Maraniss explores his extraordinary journey from a mixed race boy raised by white grandparents in laid-back Hawaii to an African America with a burning political vision and vocation. Barack Obama contains a wealth of new material. Maraniss reveals here previously unpublished love letters written by Obama as a young man in a search of an identity: black or white, writer or a man who could lead.
He also includes the journal entries of Obama's first significant (white) girlfriend, which chart their intense relationship and the moment when young Barack realized that he must leave everything behind him and set out for Chicago in order to 'become' an African American. The story wrought here is one of fierce ambition, survival, and love.
Rs.2, 950/= Available at Makeen Books, Col 3
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
By Richard McGregor
History
In this provocative and illuminating account, Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China’s Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future. China’s political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimensions.
The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. In The Party, Richard McGregor delves deeply into China’s inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military and keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house.
The Party’s decisions have a global impact, yet the CCP remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law and unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world’s only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is primed to think the worst of the West.
Available at Vijitha Yapa Bookshop
Thriller/Fiction
Right as I'm about to die, I realize all the myths are fake. My life isn't flashing before my eyes. All I can think about is how much I want to live. I moved to New York City to become the best journalist the world had seen.
And now here I am, twenty-four years old and weary beyond rationale thought, a bullet one-trigger pull from ending my life. I thought I had the story all figured out. I know that both of these men - one an FBI agent, the other an assassin want me dead, but for very different reasons. If I die tonight, more people will die tomorrow.
‘A top-notch blending of crime, corruption and journalism at a breakneck pace’ - Jeffrey Deaver.
Rs. 986/= Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda
Vampire’s Revenge
By Raven Hart
Fiction/Fantasy
Jack McShane: lover, killer, seducer, family man, and vampire. In the shadows of Savannah, with its hip nightspots and moss-draped oak trees, Jack is trying to save humankind from a threat it doesn’t know it faces: an explosion of the otherworldly, the weird, the wanton, and the wicked.
Tourists are heading to Savannah for St. Patrick’s Day–and Jack is racing through tunnels below the city to the edge of Hell itself to hold off a plot posed by the double-dead and demented. But Jack must also hold off his own desire for Connie Jones, the beautiful cop he turned into a vampire slayer.
Connie, her blood running hotter than she can handle, can’t imagine the games that Jack is playing with her body and her mind, or that the other monster she’s falling in love with is all part of his devious plan. Welcome to the world of Jack McShane, a blue-eyed vampire who knows how crazy things can get–once you get a little taste for blood.
Rs. 640/= Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda
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