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Reflections Of A Man
Amari Soul - 2015
For the women, it encourages you to recognize the true value of your love, to reevaluate your standards and to make the decision that you will no longer settle for anything less than someone who loves you, respects you, and truly makes you happy. For the men, this book will, not only encourage you to learn more about the emotional needs of a woman, but it will provide you with clear insight into what a woman truly needs from you, emotionally, to be happy. Through beautiful words of poetry, powerful quotes and advice full of wisdom, Mr. Amari Soul creates a truly enlightening experience for both men and women with Reflections Of A Man. On one hand, women gain a new perspective on the true value of their love, raise their standards and refuse to settle. On the other hand, men become better equipped to, not only understand a woman’s emotional needs, but they are better able to meet or exceed their new standards as well.
Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
Preeti Shenoy - 2011
Pretty and intelligent, Ankita has everything she wants: friends, boys in hot pursuit, and admission into a premier management school for her MBA. But six months later, she finds herself a patient in a mental health hospital. How did she get here and will she ever get back her life again? Somehow, everything that made up her world has been taken away - and now she must fight like she has never had to, to recover her rightful lot. A gripping story of the pains of growing up, the strength afforded by faith and the indestructibility of the spirit, here is an inspiring story for modern readers.
I Too Had a Love Story
Ravinder Singh - 2007
Will you still call this a love marriage? And what if on the engagement day while you pull the ring out from your pocket, you realize what you planned was just a dream which never comes true…? How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, becomes your most precious possession and then one day goes away from you…forever? Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. Some stay incomplete. Yet they are beautiful in their own way. Ravin’s love story is one such innocent and beautiful story. He believes love stories seldom die. They are meant to stay for the generations yet to come and read them. And given that one chance to narrate his love story, this is how he began…
Everyone Has A Story
Savi Sharma - 2015
Nisha, the despondent café customer who keeps secrets of her own.Everyone has their own story, but what happens when these four lives are woven together?Pull up a chair in Kafe Kabir and watch them explore friendship and love, writing their own pages of life from the cosy café to the ends of the world.
Mr walton please control your love
ireader
She was never treated with respect from them and considers herself as Miss Green instead. Not wanting to deal with anything from the Anderson family including their money. After one drunken night, she ends up in bed with the powerful Mr. Walton. She didn't realize how that one encounter would change her life forever.Mr. Walton is a powerful CEO of the Walton company. When he sets his eyes on Miss Green he knows he can't let her go. No matter how much she pushes him away he won't give her up. He is a ruthless, cold-hearted person and will do anything to get his way.
You are the Best Wife
Ajay K. Pandey - 2015
Ajay isa planner for life; Bhavna makes him live in every moment.You are the Best Wife is a story of two people with contradictory ideologies whofall in love. It changes them for good. It changes the way they look at the worldand the way the world looks at them. Until destiny reveals its plans.This is a true inspiring story of the author and his struggle with life, after hisbeloved wife left him halfway through their journey. But her last words, ‘you arethe best husband’ gave him the strength to live on, and fulfil his promise of love.Told with frankness and doses of humor, this heartwarming tale of a boy and agirl who never gave up on their love in face of adversities, ends on a bittersweetand poignant note as Ajay comes to terms with the biggest lesson life has tooffer.
It Started With a Friend Request
Sudeep Nagarkar - 2013
One day, he runs into free-spirited Aleesha at a local discotheque. A Mass Media student, Aleesha is a pampered brat, the only child of her parents who dote on her. This brief meeting leads them to exchange their BlackBerry pins and they begin chatting regularly. As BlackBerry plays cupid, they fall in love. When they hit a rough patch in their life, Aditya, Akash’s close pal, guides them through it.But just when they are about to take their relationship to the next level, a sudden misfortune strikes. Can Aditya bring Akash’s derailed life back on track?It Started with a Friend Request is a true story which will make you believe in love like you never knew before.
Something I Never Told You
Shravya Bhinder - 2018
His one-sided love story moves at a faster pace this time but instead of becoming his lover; she chooses to become his friend instead. He needs a mentor and Rajbir steps in just in time. Something I never told you is a transforming tale of love, determination, belief and finding one’s strengths. Love Notes From Something I Never Told You- # Sometimes I wonder if you and I are the same person. We are a little broken, quite messed up and in love with the idea of love. # Just because of something which happened in the past, do not stop believing in love, do not stop looking for love, do not stop loving. # We were a little more than friends and a little less than lovers. # He gazed into her dark eyes. His soul had finally found the place it needed to rest in. # True love never dies. It sleeps Silently in aching hearts and wakes up on lonely nights. # When I am gone, don't look for me. A part of me will always be with you; you carry my heart in your heart. # Our love filled a space in my heart, space which I did not know even existed. # Your love was like a serene sunset. I was mesmerized beyond words by it before it left me alone in the darkness. # I dream about you way too often for us to be- Just friends. # Looking at you, I think I can write a Love Story. # Little did I know that my feelings for you were seeds when I buried them deep in my heart to forget you- they grew into love. # For long I have not been able to find myself, I am still lost in you.
Five Point Someone / One Night at the Call Centre / 2 States (The Story of My Marriage) / The 3 Mistakes of My Life
Chetan Bhagat - 2012
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak - 2009
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.
The Food of Love
Anthony Capella - 2004
She's completely enamored of the art, beauty, and, of course, food that Rome has to offer. Soon she's enamored of the handsome and charming Tommaso, who tells her he's a chef at the famed Templi restaurant and begins to woo her with his gastronomic creations. But Tommaso hasen't been entirely truthful—he's really just a waiter. The master chef behind the tantalizing meals is Tommaso's talented but shy friend Bruno, who loves Laura from afar. Thus begins a classic comedy of errors full of the culinary magic and the sensual stmosphere of Italy. The result is a romantic comedy in the tradition of Cyrano de Bergerac and Roxanne that tempts readers to devour it in one sitting. Evoking the sights, smells and flavors of Italy in sensuous prose, this lively book also features recipes for readers to create (or just dream about) Bruno's food of amore.
His Purchased Wife: Chapter 1
Nguyen Vrinda - 2019
She lost her parents at a young age of ten and then she lost her property to her uncle and aunt who now treat her as the maid of the house. As if life hadn’t snatched enough from her, that she lost her only dream when her uncle sold her to be the wife of a heartless man. Emily’s life took a huge turn when she became ‘His Purchased Wife.’ LK in the business world is short for Liam Knight. A Heartthrob king, who has achieved a lot of fame and controversies at a young age of twenty four. An egoistic hunk who will purchase Emily just to satisfy his ego and to take revenge from her. Hiding a big secret from others. Will Emily and Liam fall in love? Why is Emily being purchased by Liam? What’s Liam’s secret? "You’re such a bitch! I will not leave you this time.” I hear my cousin, Tia’s, angry voice and I begin to shiver in fear. I don’t know what I have done today to make her so angry but now it has become my daily routine to face the anger of Tia. No one, literally no one stops her when she beats me so bad. Once she nearly broke my ribs and still no one came to my rescue to protect me, I am just a waste in this house. Tia starts pulling my hair, “You whore.” I look into her eyes and all I see is disgust and hatred towards me. “You bitch; again because of you I had a breakup. What’s so special in you that everyone wants to make you their girlfriend?” I am not the reason that her boyfriends ditch her, she herself is the reason. Who would like to be the boyfriend of this whore who loves them for their bank balance? I want to shout all this to her face but here I am the weak one. Soon my aunt walks into the room, Tia is still pulling my hair and my aunt looks at me with same disgust Tia does. “Tia baby what happened? Why are you making your hand dirty by pulling her hair?” Wow! Great! Here, my aunt is worrying about her daughter’s hand which will get dirty after touching me instead of feeling bad for my pain which her daughter is giving me by pulling on my hair so harshly. “You know mom, Jacob ditched me just because of her. He said that my sister is more beautiful than me. It’s the fifth time that my boyfriend has ditched me because of her. This time I will not leave her alone.” Saying this Tia throws me against the wall and place her hands around my throat choking me. She starts pressing my throat harshly with an evil smirk on her face. I feel suffocated. It feels like I will die in a minute. Big fat tears stream down from my eyes due to pain and suffocation. “Lee...ave...Leave...meeee” I request Tia to leave me as the pain is enough. I don’t know for how long I would be able to survive this torture. “Leave her Tia and it’s an order.” Tia leaves me hearing the order and I fall on the ground breathing heavily, my face filled with tears due to Tia’s torture. “What is this Dad? Why did you stop me from murdering this Bitch?” She looks in my direction and throws a killing glare. Even I am shocked as, in this family no one cares for me. So why today did my uncle save me from his princess’s wrath? “You can take your revenge from her later princess” he says lovingly to Tia then glares in my direction. “And you, Emily. I need you to be ready in next thirty minutes. Mr.
Three Comrades
Erich Maria Remarque - 1936
On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can never have imagined. . . .Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world they did not make, but must endure.