1. Title: Inferno
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Doubleday
Synopsis: Dan Brown has till date delivered nothing but international blockbusters. All his three novels - Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol have so far gripped readers with riveting plots and thriller endings. He now returns with yet another masterpiece, this time inspired by Dante's epic dark poem, Inferno. And with it returns his classic hero Robert Langdon, the Harvard University professor of Symbology. Hence begins another thrilling chase down history amidst perplexing art, codes and symbols. Set in Italy, Langdon finds himself deciphering landscapes of classic art, lost in secret passageways and probing futuristic science.
2. Title: And The Mountains Echoed
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: Riverhead
Synopsis: It took almost 6 years for Khaled Hosseini to come out with his third book and the wait was certainly worth it all. Abdullah is inseparable from his little sister, Pari but it doesn't take a second for their father soon to sell her off to a wealthy family in Kabul, a price that ensures rest of the family doesn't die of hunger. Pari's life soon gets transported from Kabul to France, where she grows up to become a mathematician. It is only after her mother's demise that she discovers her real roots, takes a trip back to the village where she was born, and later to USA, to reunite with her elder brother, Abdullah. 'And The Mountains Echoed' is a beautiful family saga and a definite page turner.
3. Title: The Hit
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Grand Central
Synopsis: The U.S. government summons Will Robie, a master assassin to nab state enemies and criminals who are threats to innocent lives and society's well-being in general. There's an interesting twist in the story once we are introduced to another equally skilled hitman in the character Jessica Reel whose talents are unmatched. Dangerous and lethal as Robie, the government now tells Robie to pursue Reel and bring her back dead or alive. It is, however, during his search that Robie discovers hidden secrets about Reel. Will Robie hand her over to the government as instructed or take his own decision in the case?
4. Title: Deeply Odd
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
Synopsis: Odd Thomas may be just another cook for others but no one knows that he is blessed with a special gift, a gift that allows him to see the dead and soon-to-be-dead people. He meets a mysterious truck driver near his town and at once has a vision of three children being slaughtered by him. When the driver realises that Odd knows about his cruel intentions, he tries to kill him but remains unsuccessful and flees from the spot. Now it's upon Odd to ensure that the children are safe by pursuing the driver but what he encounters is unimaginable. It's not just one murderer that he has to brave, it's a complete entourage of evil men and women who're driven by some strange supernatural force.
5. Title: The Forever of Ella and Micha
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Publisher: Forever
Synopsis: Ella and Micha have survived the best and worst of times together. But now, while Micha is away touring with his band and finally living his dream, Ella is managing her time between school and the rehab where her father is recuperating. They're braving the long distance relationship with all their might even though they miss each other terribly. Micha is not selfish to ask her to leave college and come with him, and she too would never ask him to give up his career. But as an unexpected tragedy strikes, their love is put to a real test.
6. Title: Zero Hour
Author: Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
Publisher: Putnam
Synopsis: The 11th in the Numa files series, with Zero Hour, authors Clive Cussler and Graham Brown lead Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala and the rest of the Numa team in search of a groundbreaking physicist's machine buried in a massive ocean trench. This machine can cause deadly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions enough to destroy the world. The novel's title is an inference to the zero point energy which exists in a state of energy in all matter everywhere. But till now no one has found a way to harness it, until of course one scientist finds a way. Or so he'd like to believe.
7. Title: World War Z
Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Broadway
Synopsis: Now a motion picture, World War Z is an 'oral history' of an imagined Zombie War that almost spells doom for civilization. Author Max Brooks inspired by the first-hand experiences of the survivors from the apocalyptic years takes up a journey across United States and all over the world, and even to ruined cities, to record the testimony of men, women and children who had encounters with the 'undead'. World War Z brings out the latent fears and trepidation that gripped the human race through those years.
8. Title: Sea Glass Island
Author: Sherryl Woods
Publisher: Harlequin Mira
Synopsis: While Samantha Castle's two sisters are heading for the altar, she finds it hard to negate her feelings for the local war hero, Ethan Cole, who was her teenage heartthrob. A change dawns on Samantha as she prefers to be with her family on the North Carolina coast than chasing actors and agents in New York. Ethan on the other hand has lost more than just a leg in Afghanistan - he has lost faith in love. Perhaps it is going to take an attractive, driven woman like Samantha to stir the emotions in him once again.
9. Title: Silken Prey
Author: John Sandford
Publisher: Putnam
Synopsis: The latest by the bestselling author John Sandford of the Davenport series, Silken Prey is another display of Sandford's razor-sharp story telling that involves murder, scandal, and political espionage. In this one, Lucas Davenport is investigating a Minnesota political scandal, and its connection with the mysterious disappearance of an operative. The investigations very troublingly lead to the Minneapolis police department, and most intriguingly, to a woman. She has certain ideas about the money, the way things should work, and her fiery resolve to make things happen. And she won't let anybody get in her way.
10. Title: 12th of Never
Author: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Publisher: Little, Brown
Synopsis: Detective Lindsay Boxer is on her way to solving the two most crucial cases of her career. It is a difficult decision for Lindsay to report to work just after a week of spending time with her newborn daughter. Work's calling and Lindsay finds herself back in the muck of criminal acts and murder mysteries. A football player is the suspect in a murder and an English professor's dream of a murder turns out to be real. Will Lindsay be able to avert this heinous act of killing before it unfolds or is she risking her life?
11. Title: Beauty from Surrender
Author: Georgia Cates
Publisher: Georgia Cates
Synopsis: Laurelyn Prescott comes back to Nashville after breaking up with Jack Henry. Music is the only way she thinks she can recover from the pain of separation and loss. Music was once Laurelyn's only dream until she left it midway. Now, in order to distract herself she resumes her career in music. Things unfortunately fail to take shape the way she'd imagined; disappointed with her record producer's unreasonable demands, Laurelyn walks away in anger. Opportunity comes knocking on her door one day and her musical ride takes a leap and finally, she sees her dream coming true. Jack Henry on the other side of the story is looking for his lost love who had left without a goodbye. When he finds her after three months of a gruelling search, he meets a totally different Laurelyn who is now a star with an enviable career. Will he able to bring the American girl out of Laurelyn he had fallen in love with? Does Laurelyn too, want him more than her success?
12. Title: Leopard's Prey
Author: Christine Feehan
Publisher: Jove
Synopsis: Sixth book in the Leopard People Series, Christine Feehan's 'Leopard's Prey' is a story of suspense, passion and much action. Leopard-shifter Remy Boudreaux is the only one who can catch hold of the serial killer that many victims from the French Quarter have surrendered to. As he embarks on his investigative journey, Remy finds himself being drawn into the charms of a mysterious woman, a jazz singer whose seductive songs he cannot resist. The killer is on the prowl and New Orleans can only depend on Remy who seems to have gone a bit off-track. The killer and the woman; is Remy's survival being challenged?
13. Title: A Different Blue
Author: Amy Harmon
Publisher: Amy Harmon
Synopsis: This is a story about a nobody, a woman who was abandoned at the age of two and raised by a drifter. Blue Echohawk has no memory of her identity, the place she was born in or her parents. How is it to live a life when you don't know who you are and where you belong? A difficult student in school, a British teacher decides to take her responsibility and a new chapter begins in Blue's life. And then love happens, as if it had to. With no one to call her own, no culture, no faith, no history, et al; is falling in love a tough proposition for Blue Echohawk?
14. Title: Whiskey Beach
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Putnam
Synopsis: Eli Landon, a former Boston-based criminal attorney, has found sanctuary in Bluff House, his family estate standing sentinel over Whiskey Beach, after being acquitted of his soon-to-be-ex wife's murder. He retreats to this new address despite his beloved grandmother recuperating from a nasty fall back in Boston. During his stay, he comes in contact with Abra Walsh, the housekeeper of Bluff House who is also a woman of many talents. She little by little takes steady control of his life and helps him overcome his misery. As the two get fully involved with each other, they become unmindful of the lurking danger that can destroy Landon's life and reputation forever.
15. Title: Ender's Game
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor/Tom Doherty
Synopsis: Winner of the 1986 Hugo Award for 'Best novel', Oscar Scott's Ender's Game is a captivating military science fiction novel that centres on the battle between mankind and the 'Buggers', an alien race which is growing invincible by the years. Worried government agencies soon decide to breed children with the help of genetic experiments and train them as soldiers to fight the Buggers' attack. Young Ender is one such kid who spends his days at mock battles in zero gravity as part of the training and grows up in a community of 'soldiers' in the Battle Room. He suffers acute loneliness being away from his beloved sister and lives in constant fear. Will Ender be the real champion to wash away the 'Buggers' and let the world survive again?
(Compiled by Anwesha Mittra, Arunima Mazumdar and Ipshita Mitra)
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