No One Else by Siddharth Dube
Price: Rs 958

At the age of ten, Siddharth Dube finds himself entranced by an androgynous striptease dancer and begins to see something of himself in her visceral beauty. He’s only just starting to understand some of his life’s defining preoccupations. For Siddharth is gay, and it’s dangerous to be gay in India. As Siddharth confronts personal traumas to eventually emerge as a staunch fighter for the outcast, his journey spans privilege as well as bigotry and persecution – from elite Doon School and Harvard to unsafe streets where lonely men seek each other out for sex and love, from the halls of power at the World Bank and the UN to jail cells where sex workers suffer horrifically at the whim of misguided officials. In a book that is deeply personal yet public-spirited, Siddharth writes with passion and insight about his own search for love and self-respect, and of the struggles of the oppressed and hated in a time of global right-wing ascendancy. 

Cow by Beat Sterchi 
Price: Rs 798

Cow by Beat Sterchi is something more than a story of a Spanish worker and a cow. A body is discovered, without its head—two killers are on the loose. A pair of killers requires a team of equally talented investigators. Luckily both Vincent D’Agosta and Special Agent Prendergast are back in town. Grace Ozmian, missing daughter of a tech billionaire has been found. Most of her. Her head is still missing. Lieutenant CDS Vincent D’Agosta knows his investigation will attract fierce media scrutiny, so he’s delighted when his old acquaintance FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Prendergast is assigned to the case. But neither man is prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting New York City and Grace is only the first of many victims to be murdered and decapitated. As the first snows of winter sweep across the city, it will take all of Prendergast’s skill and strength to unmask this most dangerous foe—let alone survive to tell the tale. 

The Code of Manavas by Arpit Bakshi 
Price: Rs 472

Book one of the Maha Vishnu Trilogy, The Code of Manavas, is set some two million years past ad 2050, when earth as we know it ceased to exist and so did mankind. A new race, the Manavas, now exists on Bhoomi, the erstwhile Earth, which is divided into two cities—Madhavpur and Ayudhpur. In the quiet and peaceful city of Madhavpur, a reclusive Krishna is busy with an immense task. He has to prepare a new abode for the Manavas before an impending apocalypse destroys them. He knows something that nobody else does—the Manavas are running out of time faster than they can imagine and there are no inhabitable planets to escape to. To make matters worse, there is someone in Madhavpur who wants to destroy Krishna and subjugate each Manava. The Manavas, it seems, are doomed. Yet Krishna knows there is a slim chance of survival for the Manavas, although there is a huge price to be paid for it. 

 
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