1. Title: Reckless
Author: S. C. Stephens
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Synopsis: It's love versus stardom for Kiera and Kellan. They fell in love, set up a band and now that the band is going places, their love has somewhat taken a back seat. The stardom is affecting everything - new friendships that they formed with people along the way, all the history that they turned their back to, and the overwhelming media hype. But nothing can be done to stop the band's popularity. Add to that characters that are all set to play the villain - their executive who can blindly trade anything for success and a pop star on the verge of decline. But glory comes with a price and therefore, Kiera and Kellan might have to pay a lot as their band hits a 'reckless' peak.
2. Title: Wait For You
Author: J. Lynn
Publisher: J. Lynn
Synopsis: To escape the ghosts of the past, one must take a step towards a new future. And for nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten, the past harbours ghosts from a 5-year-old Halloween party that she is determined to leave behind. Opportunity comes knocking and she packs her bags to a better life in a college thousands of miles away from where she is now. And there she meets the gorgeously handsome Cameron Hamilton. The dimple cheeked, 6 feet three inches high lad has all the girls swooning over him and soon, Avery too is smitten by his charm. But their special friendship is short-lived as Avery starts receiving threatening calls and emails once again.
3. Title: Frost Burned
Author: Patricia Briggs
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: The 7th novel in the series of Mercy Thompson is back and this time it is titled 'Frost Burned'. Mercy is now the mate to Alpha werewolf Adam Hauptman and in the process, she is bound to take up the role of a step mother to Adam's daughter, Jesse. She finds this new role blissful and is happy to nurture the relationship. But a fatal mishap turns things around when Adam and his entire pack are abducted. His disappearance has something to do with the political battle that the werewolves are involved in and Mercy can sense that Adam is in deep trouble. And to help him, she must seek help from an enemy ally.
4. Title: Alex Cross, Run
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: James Patterson is one of the most popular and oft-repeated authors featured on the New York Times Bestseller Lists. This time, our detective Alex Cross is preoccupied with three cases and he realises he does not have much time on him to nab the serial killers who have wrecked havoc in Washington DC. While a woman was found murdered with a lock of her hair ripped off, the second woman's body was discovered hanging from a sixth-floor window and the brutally bruised body of the third victim sent chills down the spines of many. Alex is unable to handle the pressure, so much so that he is oblivious to the conspiracy being planned somewhere against him. He is under someone else's investigation mission he is unaware of. Where will this game of vengeance, rumours, killings and conspiracies end? Who is this someone who is obsessively after Alex?
5. Title: Mirror Image
Author: Sandra Brown
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: TV reporter Avery Daniels gets a second life after suffering an airplane crash. With an unmistakable cosmetic surgery, she also gets a new face - the face of Carole Rutledge, a well-known, self-centered socialite. But a new face also means a new life. Carole's husband, Tate Rutledge, is the senatorial candidate and soon Avery learns that someone close to him is planning to kill him. Caught in the politics of the game and bearing the brunt of a newly acquired Texas dynasty, Avery risks her life to save Tate. But will she be second time lucky?
6. Title: The Storyteller
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Synopsis: Josef Weber is a friendly old man, adored by all in the neighbourhood. At the local bakery, he meets a young girl named Sage Singer and they both become friends at once. But one day he comes up with an odd request to Sage - he asks her to kill him. Sage, confused and a little taken aback refuses and that is when he reveals that he was a Nazi SS guard and he only deserves to be killed. To make things worse, Sage remembers that her grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. The question of confession, punishment and justice hence grows complicated, entangling the vulnerable threads of friendship.
7. Title: Safe Haven
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: Katie, a young woman has just relocated to the small town of Southport in North Carolina. Naturally, the neighbours are intrigued by her self-effacing nature. Slowly, she drops her guard and starts opening up to Alex, a widower with two kids and Jo, her next door neighbour. Katie is apprehensive about revealing her tumultuous past that led her to travel across another country, nevertheless, she begins to confide in them. Jo's empathetic support and Alex's kind love eases her troubles of the dark past and she eventually realises that it is nothing but love that will rescue her to a safe haven.
8. Title: The Striker
Author: Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: Book 6 in the 'An Isaac Bell Adventure' series, Clive Cussler and Justin Scott have once again woven a thrilling detective story with its protagonist Isaac Bell seen caught in a vicious trap set by his opponents. Fresh out of his apprenticeship at the Von Dorn Detective Agency, Isaac Bell receives an urgent message from his boss that sets the tone of the plot. The year is 1902 and Bell witnesses an accident that draws him closer to his mission of hunting down radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines. But there are alert adversaries behind the detective who try very hard to impede his investigation process. How long will it take Bell to crack the case?
9. Title: Gone Girl
Author: Gillian Flynn
Publisher: Crown Publishing
Synopsis: On her fifth wedding anniversary Amy Dunne suddenly goes missing without a trace from her rented home in North Carthage, Missouri. Under pressure from the police, media and Amy's doting parents, Husband-of-the Year, Nick grapples with a never-ending chain of lies, deceits, and his own oddly evasive behaviour. As events get murkier, the needle of suspicion points at Nick as the killer of his beautiful wife. With his sister Margo by his side, Nick pleads innocence. Then what was in that silver gift box in the back of Amy's bedroom closet?
10. Title: A Week in Winter
Author: Maeve Binchy
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Maeve Binchy finished writing this book days before she died in 2012. A grand storyteller, her books are a sheer joy to read. A Week in Winter celebrates the magic of life in all colours. A small town located on the west coast of Ireland is almost like one big family where everybody knows everybody. All families in Stoneybridge have their own little heartwarming stories and the way they live is unique and a lot of fun. Everyone thinks Chicky has lost her mind when she decides to turn a decaying mansion overlooking the Atlantic Ocean into a quaint place for a holiday by the sea. All done up, Chicky welcomes her first guests to Stone House's big warm kitchen, log fires, impressive bedrooms and what not. With a gang of characters from John, the American movie star, Winnie and Lillian, Nicola and Henry, Anders who has a knack for music to Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher; this holiday brings together innumerable stories and mysteries readers are sure to get engrossed in.
11. Title: The Chance
Author: Karen Kingsbury
Publisher: Howard Books
Synopsis: It all started beneath an old oak tree where two friends wrote letters to each other, buried them in a metal box only to make a promise to return after eleven years and relive a past of friendship, love and affection. But so much has changed in these eleven years. Ellie is now busy taking care of her girl and Nolan has become an NBA star, an athlete of immense popularity and fame. Ellie feels proud to catch a glimpse of her friend once in a while on TV and thinks to herself of congratulating him on their promised meeting. Nolan may be a star but his tragedies are hidden from the world; he lives in complete isolation and awaits the coming date of union with his best pal. A heartwarming tale by Karen Kingsbury, 'The Chance' is about the hope that we all live with, a hope to find true love again, a 'chance' we are unwilling to let go of.
12. Title: Calculated in Death
Author: J. D. Robb
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: Lieutenant Eve Dallas is disturbed after she discovers a woman's dead body at the stairs on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It is definitely a murder, concludes Eve as she begins to unearth details about Marta Dickenson, an affluent accountant, also a wife and mother and so brutally put to death. Important files from Marta's office go missing and Eve struggles to understand the motive of the murderer with every passing day. She soon realises that in order to nab the killer she has to use herself as bait. Is Eve risking too much?
13. Title: Fallen Too Far
Author: Abbi Glines
Publisher: Abbi Glines
Synopsis: Touted Abbi Glines's bestseller novel, 'Fallen Too Far' is bold, seductive and steamy. The book is about that forbidden territory everyone wishes to tread once in life. Blaire Wynn is only nineteen and moves in with her father and his new wife after nursing her mother for three years until she passes away one day. Life in the beach house along the Florida Gulf coast is new and her sexy and hot stepbrother is adding to her woes. Rush Finlay is twenty four and has secrets that Blaire may not want to know or uncover. Her father plans a trip to Paris with his new wife leaving Blaire with Rush. Has she fallen for the gorgeous Rush? Has she fallen too far?
14. Title: The Silver Linings Playbook
Author: Matthew Quick
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Synopsis: American author Matthew Quick's debut novel released in 2008 is back on the Bestseller List thanks to David O. Russell's film adaptation by the same name (starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) that now has eight nominations to its credit for Academy Awards 2013. It is a heartwarming story about a history teacher named Pat Peoples, who after spending years in a neurology hospital struggles to reconcile his lost and scattered memories. Wishing to reunite with his estranged wife Nikki, Pat continues to visit his therapist to resume a life he had left behind and forgotten about as a mental patient. Soon Pat is introduced to Tiffany who he befriends and agrees to train for a dance contest. As Pat yearns to meet Nikki, Tiffany falls in love with him. Will Pat Peoples ever get back with his wife or will he welcome a new love?
15. Title: Damascus Countdown
Author: Joel C. Rosenberg
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Synopsis: A communications strategist based in Washington, D.C., Joel C. Rosenberg has worked with some of the world's most influential leaders and his latest release explores the dangers and risks of nuclear wars in the Middle East. Israel has launched a strike on Iran and U.S. President William Jackson plans to condemn the Jewish State for unwarranted acts of violence by threatening to support a U.N. Security Council resolution. In the wake of missile strikes on Iran and an environment of hostility, CIA agent David Shirazi is on a mission to avert an impending disaster.
(Compiled by Anwesha Mittra, Arunima Mazumdar and Ipshita Mitra)
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