Spontaneousby Aaron Starmer
Price: Rs 638
Mara’s senior year is proving to be a lot less exciting than she’d hoped, until the day Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period. Katelyn is the first, but she won’t be the last senior to explode without warning or explanation. The body count grows and the search is on for a reason, while the students continue to pop like balloons. But if bombs or terrorists or a government conspiracy aren’t to blame, what is? With the help of her oldest friend, her new boyfriend, a power ballad and a homemade disco ball, will Mara make it to graduation in one piece? It’s going to be one hell of a year, where the only test is how to stay alive and where falling in love might be the worst thing you can do. Aaron Starmer skillfully wields sharp humor, deep loss, and roaring escapades to deliver a smart and funny book that is a compelling read. You will want to read this book in one sitting, it’s that good. So arm yourself with some hot tea and cosy up.
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Wilde Lakeby Laura Lippman
Price: Rs 798
Luisa ‘Lu’ Brant is the newly elected – and first female – state’s attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her revered father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. As Lu prepares for the trial, the case dredges up painful memories, reminding her small but tight-knit family of the night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another man’s life. Only eighteen, AJ was cleared by a grand jury. Now, Lu wonders if the events of 1980 happened as she remembers them. What details might have been withheld from her when she was a child? The more she learns about the case, the more questions arise. Propelled into the past, she discovers that the legal system, the bedrock of her entire life, does not have all the answers and that the truth might be a dangerous thing to learn.
I Quit! Now What?
By Zareen Khan
Price: Rs 560
Nimisha is exhausted, of endless weekdays, working weekends, making presentations, working with complicated Excel sheets, handling a boss with time-management issues and the general politics of the workplace. After eight years of this life, her only personal insight is that she’s terribly un-ambitious and constantly struggling to be an average performer in the competitive corporate world. When a colleague flashes the glint for a golden sabbatical she catapults into it headfirst. After all, one has to find one’s calling at some point in one’s life. So will the sabbatical miraculously change her life forever? Or will she go rushing back to her pocket money-generating job? The author, Zareen, is not on a sabbatical. She is mother, cook, maid, doctor and magician for her kids – a very demanding job! And when she gets time off, she works as a marketing consultant. She lives in Delhi with her husband and two children.
