The story of this novel centers around a character named Siddhartha. He is a simple rural boy who is very naive and decent. He is a person of average wit, average physique, and average features. After a long struggle, he reaches zeinth of success in his life. But due to his past he has to confront several challenges in his life. He fell in love twice in his life. Once when he was in college and pursuing his studies. At that time it was Sanjana with whom he was mad in love. Sanjana, a girl very beautiful, bubbly by nature but at the same time very timid. There came a phase in his life when Sanjana did not care about his feelings and got married to a person as per her parent's wish. Siddhartha got shattered by Sanjana's marriage, but he again screw up courage and move on in his life. Then again a girl named Deepshikha came in his life. Deepshikha is well educated, agile and belongs to a dignified bureaucratic family. Siddhartha felt his designation very slender before his family. Deepshikha chased these powers without giving any importance to love of her life. Siddhartha once again got shattered, stumbled and recovered from this. After getting deceived in love twice he lost his faith in love. Over the time he got married to a simple and honest girl named Aahana. They both lived happily with their children in their small world. But Time took harsh revenge. Both of his lovers who abandoned him suffered solitude.

"Hauntingly good" - P.C. Cast, co-author of the #1 NYT bestselling House of Night series Like everyone born after The Shift, sixteen year-old Aura can see and talk to ghosts. Persistent, and often angry, some even on the verge of becoming Shades, these violet-hued spirits are constantly talking to her, following her, and demanding her help to make amends for their untimely deaths. Aura has always found this mysterious ability annoying and wished she could find a way to reverse it. She'd much rather the ghosts left her alone so she could spend time with her boyfriend, Logan. But when Logan dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Aura is forced to reconsider her connections with the dead… and, the living. Surely a violet-hued spirit Logan is better than no Logan at all, isn't it? And things are complicated further when new exchange student, Zachary, is paired with Aura for a class project researching the 'Shift phenomenon'. Zach is so understanding - and so very alive. His support and friendship means more to Aura than she cares to admit. And, as Aura's relationships with both the dead, and the living, become more complicated, so do her feelings for both Logon and Zach. Each holds a piece of her heart… and clues to the secret of the shift. "A fully satisfying read, with well-developed, believable characters. Smith-Ready changes the world completely by simply changing our ability to see" - Publishers Weekly, starred review

Love in a Green Shade examines for the first time in depth the reception history of Daphnis and Chloe in literature, beginning with its Renaissance rediscovery and working through its various transformations in English, French, Spanish, and other literatures. At the same time, Richard F. Hardin launches a groundbreaking exploration of the idyllic romance tradition in fiction and drama. While Virgil and Theocritus beget a tradition of poetry concerned with male eroticism, idyllic romance centers on the couple in a story pointing toward marriage. In addition to Daphnis and Chloe, this study considers numerous works influenced by the idyllic romance tradition, including Shakespeare?s The Tempest, Milton?s Paradise Lost, Bernardin?s Paul et Virginie, Stowe?s The Pearl of Orr?s Island, Cather?s O Pioneers!, novels by Sand, Hardy, and Pardo Bazan, Louis Hemon?s Maria Chapdelaine, and Mishima?s The Sound of Waves.

Celebrating all the beautiful browns in one child’s colorful family Mama’s brown is chocolate, clear, dark, and sweet. Daddy’s brown is autumn leaf, or like a field of wheat. Granny’s brown is like honey, and Papa’s like caramel. In this loving and lovely ode to the color brown, a boy describes the many beautiful hues of his family, including his own—gingerbread.

With three of the goddess Durgas quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tigers curse. But the trios greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durgas final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Adaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Its a race against time--and the evil sorcerer Lokesh--in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume of the bestselling Tigers Curse series, which pits good against evil, tests the bonds of love and loyalty, and finally reveals the tigers true destiny once and for all.

God specializes in makeovers. —Mountain Home Amish proverb Vibrant, laughing, and with a wunderbaar gift of quilt design from God, Malena Miller is always in the middle of the doings among the Amish Youngie in Mountain Home, Montana. And there are big doings on the Rocking Diamond, the Englisch dude ranch next door to the Circle M. When Malena and her brothers are offered jobs helping a movie star learn how to be a cowboy for his upcoming picture, Malena wonders if her father’s silence and her mother’s worry are worth the generous salary. And then there’s Cord McLean, the actor, who definitely prefers her teaching methods to anyone else’s. Alden Stolzfus has been sweet on Malena ever since his family moved to the valley, but he’s too shy to tell her the truth in his heart. It hurts to watch this Hollywood bad boy gradually work his way closer to Malena, under the guise of learning about ranch life. If Cord is getting a makeover to turn him into a cowboy, then maybe Alden had better take a hard look at himself, too. All the bashful blacksmith has to do is make himself over … and become the hero of her dreams. The Montana Millers. They believe in faith, family, and the land. They’ll need all three when love comes to the Circle M! The Amish Cowboy’s Makeover is the fifth novel in the Amish Cowboys of Montana romance series. Though the books can be read as standalones, there is a family thread running through them all. No strong language, just a loving kiss and a guaranteed happily ever after. If you like books by Loree Lough, Mary Lantz, or Emma Cartwright, you're in the right place. Enjoy!

Irene had been married into a family that relied on culture to determine their fate. Unhappily married to Shane, her husband, Irene wanted out so badly. She wanted a divorce that couldn’t happen because of their strict culture and her only son. If she divorced Shane, it would embarrass the entire family and Shane could get full custody of her son. So her son became the pawn between them. It had been too much for Irene to fake her marriage, so she moved out and went to a city where she found a job at a very large company, hired a maid for her son and was forced to send money home to her husband, who didn’t work. Irene meets Morgan and things change. Morgan is her supervisor and they faced each other for the first time under unusual circumstances – Morgan was reprimanding her for substandard work. It was not a good meeting and she left feeling angry at him. What happened after shocked even her. She falls deeply in love by accident. He feels the same, but they don’t realize the truth until… and then it was too late to turn back. They spend tons of time together in passionate embrace, acting silly with each other and having fun together. It came time, though in the relationship where they had to face the facts – what future was there for them with Irene’s situation still looming over them? They had to part. The story has many turns and twists and the end will delight and possibly alarm you. Caught in a love triangle, staying together was more important to them, but so was keeping her son and divorcing her husband. You will find this story very compelling and filled with suspense, love, passion, infidelity, fun, sadness, pain and hurt. Love can be the sweetest thing, but it can also hurt very badly.

Regarded as a cursed omega who has a filthy, special ability to heal people with her body, Beth is sold by her relatives to the strongest and wealthiest pack in the continent - the LeBlanc Clan's leader, Kaius LeBlanc, an alpha who apparently needs Beth's healing power to cure his hidden illness. Beth plans to escape and reach her own goals until she slowly unravels the mysteries behind Kaius' cold and ruthless heart, finding that all she has known since birth may have been a lie after all... Haunted by his dark past, will the cold-hearted Kaius be able to put his nightmares behind him and treat Beth with warmth and kindness? Or will he grab Beth and allow the demons in his head to take control, destroying her like the ferocious beast he imagines himself to be in his nightmares?

Witness the fate of beloved heroes and notorious foes in V.E. Schwab’s New York Times bestselling Shades of Magic series. This discounted ebundle includes: A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive. A Darker Shade of Magic — Kell was raised in Arnes—Red London—and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand. A Gathering of Shadows — Restless, and having given up smuggling, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks like she always meant to do. And while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Element Games, another London is coming back to life, and those who were thought to be forever gone have returned. A Conjuring of Light — As darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, the once precarious balance of power among the four Londons has reached its breaking point. In the wake of tragedy, Kell—once assumed to be the last surviving Antari—begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. Lila Bard has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry. Tor books by V. E. Schwab The Shades of Magic series A Darker Shade of Magic A Gathering of Shadows A Conjuring of Light The Villains series Vicious At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.