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She's a Jolly Good FellowSajita NairHachetteSecond Lieutenants Deepa Shekhar and Anjali Sharma have an important task at hand: to convince their male counterparts that they too are assets to the Indian Army—rather than merely those with assets. When they are transferred to a remote army unit, several hilarious situations follow. However, the differences in their personalities begin to emerge gradually. Deepa is more 'officer': she insists on being called Sahab and even takes to swearing like the troops. Anju can't give up her make-up and her Mills & Boon romances. Or resist the charms of a certain dashing young officer, despite her friend's warnings to stay away. The girls frequently fall out and get back together, but face the same dilemma: is any man worth more than their uniform?The CureGeeta AnandRandom HouseBased on a true story of an American couple, John and Aileen Crowley, who thought they had settled into the perfect life, when their two youngest children were diagnosed with Pompe's disease, a rare muscular disorder. Determined to find a cure to Pompe's, John quit his job and invested himself and his life's savings in a biotechnology start-up company.In a year, the company went from an endowment of $37,000 to $27 mn. Soon after, it was sold to Genzyme for a $137.5 mn. Amidst scientific setbacks, accusations of conflict of interest, business troubles, and the children's worsening condition, eventually an antidote was created, and today the Crowley children attend school and lead fairly normal lives.Of Love and PoliticsTuhin A SinhaHachetteSet in the thick of political manoeuvring, against the backdrop of India's Nuclear deal, this is a story about relationships that are made and broken by the ideologies of the political parties that the three protagonists represent. Aditya, like the Congress he belongs to, tends to be elitist; Brajesh Ranjan, like his party, the BJP, swears by an overtly nationalist agenda and Chaitali Sen, like the CPI(M) swears by the underpowered. It takes a horrific incident like 26/11 to make each of them realise the shortcomings of the parties they swear by.Once Upon a Time in ScandinavistanZac O' YeahHachetteA crime novel set in a somewhat futuristic Europe after it has been colonised by India—its industries bought over by Asian capitalists; its administration, by popular referendum, entrusted to the IAS; its food infused with the flavours of curry. The book follows the life of a down and out Public Intelligence Officer, Borsk, who on night shift apprehending 'bad characters' and 'deviant girls', stumbles into a restaurant where the tandoori speciality of the day is a well done, 40-something, Indian male.Potato ChipsAnshuman MohanHarper CollinsOne fine day, Aman Malhotra is plucked out of his laidback school and thrust into big, bad St Xavier's. Life, Aman realises, is about to change, and not in a good way - his grades suffer, his classmates snicker at him, his teachers think he is a brat. Aman discovers an unlikely friend - Shubho, a boy with an extraordinary gift for tennis. As Aman tries to help Shubho, he starts to sort his own life out. Sometimes, he finally accepts, it's okay not to be the most popular kid. And in doing so, he finds himself at the heart of all activity at his new school.Prey by the GangesHemant KumarWisdom TreeA blood-curdling scream shakes Shambhu awake in the middle of the night. He discovers his childhood friend, Gunjan, bludgeoned to death a 100 metres away. The brutal murder sets him on a collision course with a ruthless killer. In a flash he sets off on a perilous journey across the Ganga, and into a treacherous, bandit-infested jungle. The focus gradually shifts to the 40-room colossus, where a desperate cat-and-mouse game is about to be played out—all night long. Shambhu finds himself surrounded by the Thakur, his henchmen, the sleazy psychopath who knifed Shambhu, the angry muscleman, his young daughter and the Thakur's beautiful wife. In the terminal moments before the end of the night, resolution dawns.
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