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Two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Miss Caroline Bingley is staying at her brother's country estate within an easy ride of Mr and Mrs Darcy's home, Pemberley, and wondering if there's more to life than playing cribbage and paying calls on country neighbours. So when Georgiana Darcy's maid, Jayani, vanishes – and worse, Georgiana disappears in search of her – Caroline races to London to find them both, and quickly discovers a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

A house that has been closed for many years is now a scene of crime; people are being killed. How will Asia’s wisest fool solve this case?

Leopold Gallagher, un rico hombre de negocios inglés de familia aristocrática, serio y obsesionado por el trabajo, conoce una noche en la terraza de su casa a la que, en un principio, toma por la amante de su viejo vecino. Catalina Stapleton, la nueva habitante del piso de al lado, es una joven extrovertida y generosa que disfruta ayudando al prójimo. En cuanto cruza dos palabras con su estirado vecino decide que, aunque él mismo no lo sepa, el señor Gallagher es un hombre infeliz que necesita ser salvado de sí mismo.

About the author: Krishan Chander (1914-1977) was an Urdu/Hindi writer of short stories and novels. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu and later, after partition of the country, took to writing mainly in Hindi. He also wrote screenplays for Bollywood movies to supplement his meager income as an author of satirical stories. Krishan Chander's novels have been translated into over 16 Indian languages and some foreign languages, including English.

"Kuttay" as narrated by Mustaq Ahmed Yusufi, Ptaras Bukhari, and Saadat Hasan Manto.

El rey le había dicho: "Tienes hasta el alba... para convertir esta paja en oro." ¿Cómo lo iba a hacer? La pobre niña se echó a llorar, porque no sabía cómo iba a cumplir lo que el rey le había pedido. ¿Creéis que lo conseguirá? ¿La ayudará alguien? Oíd el cuento, y lo sabréis.

Mark Jones queria un sitio tranquilo donde estudiar, y lo iba a encontrar.... La Casa del Juez - Cuando llegó la época de los exámenes, Mark Jones empezó buscar un lugar tranquilo dónde poder estudiar, tenía que ser un pueblo donde nadie le pudiera molestar y después de andar por las afueras del pueblo durante un par de horas, encontró la casa que colmó sus expectativas. Más que tranquilidad, de la casa parecía emanar un aire de desolación. Con un escalofrío en el cuerpo la Sra Witham salió corriendo de la casa....

Who are made-in-India managers? What do they do differently? Over the last 50 years, several Indians have occupied top positions in multinationals across the globe. There are, today, innumerable instances of CEOs born and bred in India, helming S&P's 500 companies. In The Made-in-India Manager, two stalwarts of Indian business and academics examine this little-studied phenomenon and present a compelling argument: that a unique combination of factors has led Indian management to become a 'soft power' with the potential to decisively impact global managers of tomorrow.

Sawar aur doosray Afsanay is the first collection of short stories by Shamsur Rahman Faruqui. The theme of this collection of stories is the Indian culture of that time, narrated through 18th-century Delhi. The 18th century has probably been the most controversial in India's history of the last thousand years. According to the historiography that makes up the consciousness of modern India, it was an age of decadence and arrogance. In contrast, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi depicts in detail that Indian society was presenting the most developed view of a mixed Hindu-Muslim tradition.

One of the guests staying at the house of an honorable man is an international blackmailer, but how will Imran recognize him?

La vida del llamado "Papa Luna" podría ser perfectamente el argumento de una novela, llena de aventuras, intrigas y pasiones. Y es precisamente esa vida, la Claudio Borja quiere plasmar en una obra que permita a todo el mundo conocer la valía del Papa Luna, del que en realidad es descendiente. La vis romántica, surge de lleno en la novela, narrando la relación sentimental entre Claudio Borja, un joven poeta valenciano y Rosaura Salcedo una dama argentina viuda y adinerada, a la que el joven enamorado seguirá, abandonándolo todo por ella.

A stunning collection of over 10 hours of ambient soothing sounds from nature to calm your mind, body, and soul. Perfect for achieving mindfulness, or during yoga and meditation. In this audiobook, we have used state of the art recording technology to provide the most immersive sounds of nature, ones that create the ideal background sounds for times when you’re seeking inner peace.

In 1998, Satya opened to widespread critical acclaim. At a time when Bollywood was still rediscovering romance, Ram Gopal Varma's film dared to imagine the ordinary life of a Mumbai gangster. It kicked off a new wave of Hindi gangster films that depicted a vital, gritty side of Mumbai, rarely shown in mainstream cinema until then.

In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, 16-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister, Sophie. The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the noise only gets worse....

¿crees que existe la maldad por naturaleza? A lo mejor cambias de opinion... puede haber algo más frustrante para un policía que la falta de explicación lógica de una serie de muertes. ¿cómo han muerto estas personas?... ¿qué es la venganza? ¿ podría ser la liberación del ser primitivo que todos llevamos dentro obsesionado con destruir a quíen nos ha hecho daño?... escucha, escucha y lo averiguarásEn las 10 horas y 13 minutos de este volumen puedes escuchar los siguientes relatos.

Meet Tula, Vinny, Jabeen, Sonal and Samina - best friends and members of the 'Girlie’ club. Listen to this joyous exploration of friendship, family, work and womanhood in the British Asian community in the 90s. In their regular gatherings for ‘Girlie’ evenings the friends drink, laugh, blow off steam and commiserate. Nothing is sacred and friendships are tested, marriages analysed, and secrets exposed.

This is the story of Farheen Khan and her inspiring voyage as she rose above betrayal, culture, and tradition to live in the present. She will motivate all women to face challenges and reevaluate their purposes in life in order to focus on what matters most.

In this audiobook, beautifully narrated by the author, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan reveals how Islamophobia not only lives under the skin of those who it marks, but is an international political project designed to divide people in the name of security, in order to materially benefit global stakeholders. It can only be truly uprooted when we focus not on what it is but what it does.

El señor Ferguson acude desesperado al 221B de Baker Street, porque está convencido de que su esposa, originaria de Perú, está haciendo algo horrible: bebiendo la sangre de su bebé. Holmes escucha con atención al señor Ferguson, pero su escepticismo le hace pensar que está pasando algo muy diferente a lo que le cuenta el preocupado padre. Para intentar averiguar qué es lo que está pasando realmente, junto con Watson decide ir a la casa del señor Ferguson en Sussex y allí descubrirá una realidad más dolorosa de la que el señor Ferguson podía haberse imaginado.

This collection in Urdu includes: "Manto Fasadaat Par", in which the literary critic Muhammad Hasan Askari invites the listener to contemplate Manto’s approach towards writing on Partition; "Baray Aadmi", a short story in which we meet the innocent and vibrant Zakiya Begum; and "Hamid ka Bacha", Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story addressing hypocrisy.