“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes every day, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic
Fiction
The Lucifer Code
By Michael Cordy
What happens to us when we die?
Oblivion. Or so believes Dr. Miles Fleming, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has developed a device capable of reading human brainwaves. But when his own brother contacts him after being certified dead for six whole minutes, Fleming wonders if he's got it all wrong.
His search for the truth uncovers a terrifying religious conspiracy to stage the most ambitious experiment the world has ever seen - to prove beyond doubt the existence of a heaven or a hell. As the world awaits the final judgement, Fleming must confront his own demons to save not only his own soul but that of all humanity.
THE LUCIFER CODE pits the faith of religion against the certainty of science in a heart stopping thriller which explores our deepest fears.
Rs. 900/- Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia
Self Help
Messages from the Masters
By Brian Weiss
Messages from the Masters goes beyond his previous bestsellers. It draws on Dr. Weiss's fascinating case histories and the wisdom of his spirit guides to help you bring joy, balance and harmony into your life.
You will learn how to use the amazing power of love to rid yourself of fear, worry, sadness, anger and other negative thoughts and emotions, and bring love and healing into your life and into the lives of those around you.
Both inspirational and down to earth, Messages from the Masters is a spiritual guidebook which will change how you think about the world for ever.
Rs. 1,800/- Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia
Fiction
The Chalk Girl
Carol O'Connell
Before Lisbeth Salander, there was Kathy Mallory. The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect - except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree.
Poor child, people thought. And then they found the body in the tree. For NYPD detective, Kathy Mallory, there is something about the girl that she understands.
Mallory is damaged, they say, but she can tell a kindred spirit. And this one will lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes; murders stretching back fifteen years, blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that only someone with Mallory's history could fully recognise. In the next few weeks, Kathy Mallory will deal with them all...in her own way.
Rs.675/= Available at Makeen Books, Col 3
Crime fiction
Dead of Night
By Barbara Nadel
Inner city murder crosses two continents. Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman from Istanbul are sent to a policing conference in Detroit, but little can prepare them for the corruption that lies at its heart.
When Ezekial Goins, an elderly man of Turkish descent approaches them to crack the long-unsolved murder of his son, a quiet trip takes a far more sinister turn.
As they delve deeper into the case, the pair find themselves immersed in a terrifying world of inter-gang drug war and racial prejudice that puts them in mortal danger, and forces Ikmen to confront some demons of his own...
Rs.720/= Available at Makeen Books, Col 3
Nonfiction
No Easy Day
By Mark Owen
For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind.
From the streets of Iraq to the successful rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from pirates in the Indian Ocean; from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, operator Mark Owen of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group - commonly known as SEAL Team Six - has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite, handpicked twenty-four-man team as they train for the most important mission of their lives, Operation Neptune Spear.
The SEALs were going after bin Laden. Two weeks later, from a forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan, the helicopter-borne assault force took off into the night and flew low across the border. Then, deep inside Pakistan's heavily defended airspace, things started to go badly wrong.
From the crash of the Black Hawk helicopter that threatened the mission with disaster through to the radio call confirming their target was dead, the SEAL team raid on bin Laden's secret HQ is recounted in nail-biting second-by-second detail. In No Easy Day, team leader Mark Owen takes readers behind enemy lines with one of the world's most astonishing fighting forces. It is the only insider's account of their most spectacular mission.
Rs.1,900/- Available at www.books.lk
Nonfiction
Blasphemy
By Asia Bibi
The true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a cup of water. Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45° and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, drinks some more and then offers it to another woman.
Suddenly one of her fellow workers cries out that the water belongs to the Muslim women and that with her actions, Asia - who is Christian - has contaminated it. An argument ignites and in an instant, with one word, Asia's fate is sealed. 'Blasphemy!' someone shouts. In Pakistan this is a charge punishable by death.
First attacked by a mob, Asia was soon after thrown into prison and then sentenced to be hanged. Since then she has been kept in a windowless cell. Her family have had to flee their village, under threat from vengeful extremists. In the wave of accusation that followed, only two public figures came to Asia's defense: the Muslim governor of the Punjab and Pakistan's Christian Minister for Minorities. Both have since been brutally murdered.
Here, in equal measures shocking and inspiring, Asia Bibi, who has become a symbol for everyone concerned with ending the violence committed in the name of religion, bravely speaks to us from her prison cell.
Rs 1925/= Available at Vijitha Yapa Bookshop
Fiction
Naughty Men
By Siddharth Narayan
I have it all—IIT–IIM degrees, plum consulting-partner position with Mcarthur’s, a company-provided BMW—but things haven’t been going so well lately. Work bores me, my wife Meera and I haven’t had sex in years and my in-laws treat me like their personal slave. Also, for some time, I’ve been having reassuring conversations with Nunu, my d*ck.
Actually, he thinks I’m losing it! Sid, my friend from Institute days, has the same problem—he doesn’t talk to Nunu, though and his solution is simple: anything goes … as long as the wife doesn’t find out! We have a plan to spice up our lives.
It involves Jenny, the mystic masseuse from the Feather Touch massage parlour, the infuriatingly efficient Baby Detective Agency to get the in-laws to back off, and a leisurely, raunchy road trip along the coast from Kerala to Goa. Oh yes, did I mention that consulting project for Rajnikanth Sir’s new movie?
Rs. 655/= Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda
Fiction
The Hypnotist
By Lars Kepler
Read the number one Scandinavian crime bestseller taking the world by storm. Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family.
He’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and is comatose with shock. Linna’s running out of time. The killer’s on the run and, seemingly, there are no clues.
Desperate for information, Linna enlists disgraced specialist Dr Erik Maria Bark, a hypnotist who vowed never to practice again. As the hypnosis begins, a long and terrifying chain of events unfurls with reverberations far beyond Linna’s case.
Rs. 420/= Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda
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