“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
P. S. I Love You
By Cecilia Ahern
Fiction
Everyone needs a guardian angel…
Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry.
Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.
Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed 'PS, I Love You'.
As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing – and being braver than ever before.
Life is for living, she realises – but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you.
Rs. 1,200/- Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia 011-2725999
The 30 Minutes Communications Skills Kit (Pack of 4 Books)
By Tierney Catte
Self-Help
Make Every Minute Count and Get that Communication Across. This unique pack contains four bestselling titles from the popular 30 Minutes Series that together represent the complete guide to Communication & Networking skills.
Concise and compact each title will help you take the first step towards better communication techniques. With this pack you can: Enhance & unveil your communicating techniques, Discover how to make a communication clear & understandable, Learn the secrets of profitable communication & better time management and Manage to master your skills through internet.
Rs. 720/- Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia
By Jennifer Close
Fiction
Ever feel like everyone but you has their life under control? Isabella, Mary and Lauren feel like everyone they know has a plan, a good job, and a nice boyfriend.
Isabella, on the other hand, thinks she might hate her own boyfriend, Mary is working so hard she's hoping to get hit by a car just so she can have some time off work and Lauren is dating a man who can't spell her first-name.
All three of them have been friends since college, and now - more than ever - they need each other, as they struggle through those thrilling, bewildering, what-on-earth-am-I-doing years when everyone else is getting married ….
Rs.825/= Available at Makeen Books, Col 3
Pop Party : 35 Fabulous Cake Pops, Props and Layer Cakes
By Clare O'Connell
Cookery
If you like your cakes delicious, cute and stylish, then you'll love cake POPs - the delicious little treats designed by one of London's most fashionable bakeries. Cake POPs are here to stay. Since launching onto the cake scene a couple of years ago, these moist cakes on sticks have been a huge hit amongst anyone with a sweet tooth.
In her second book, POP Party, Clare O'Connell presents 40 brilliant ideas to create the perfect party for any occasion, including brand new cake POPs designs, pretty party 'props' and decadent layer cakes. Everyone will love the cute tortoise POPs, or why not make the quirky science POPs for a clever friend?
Make the corpse bride and groom POPs for Halloween, or a beautiful ruffle layer cake with Swiss meringue icing for a special birthday, and decorate your event with colourful paper pompoms and fun tassel garlands. The basic techniques section will tell you everything you need to know for your cake POP journey, and each recipe and project has clear, step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instructions - so you'll be cake POPping in no time!
Rs.2,518/= Available at Makeen Books, Col 3
By Monabi Mitra
Crime/ Fiction
Dashing DSP Bikram Chatterjee of the West Bengal Police hates his boss, the boorish SP Toofan Kumar. And he knows his boss especially resents his affair with screen goddess Shona Chowdhury- it’s a rank thing.
Bikram is keenly aware of the two distinct worlds he inhabits: the posh circles of Toofan and Shona- a world he instinctively distrusts- and the grimy world of crime with which he is familiar, even comfortable. Then Robi Bose, former darling of Calcutta’s Page 3, is found dead with bloody froth on his lips and Bikram is given the task of investigating this high-profile death in double-quick time.
This, in addition to all his other duties- cultivating informers, breaking up drug-smuggling rackets on the Indo- Bangladesh border and providing security for occasionally violent football matches. And as the investigation draws him in, Bikram finds his two worlds colliding in unexpected ways. Gripping, gritty and one hundred per cent honest, F.I.R. inaugurates the DSP Bikram series- the first desi police procedural.
(Rs. 656/=) Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda
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