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Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to...
2) Sacrificio
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"Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan from the provinces, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and no clue what his future will be or what he stands for (he doesn't even know his age-seventeen? eighteen?). He falls into a job as a waiter in a tiny makeshift tourist restaurant that the resilient, middle-aged Cecilia has created out of her backyard patio. Rafa is soon drawn into a web of bizarre, ever-shifting entanglements, first with Cecilia's older son...
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"Tommy Dees is in the weeds--restaurant speak for beyond overwhelmed. He's been working as a server at Sunset Estates retirement community to get the experience he needs to attend one of the best culinary schools in the world. And to make his application shine, he also needs a letter of recommendation from his sadistic manager. But in exchange for the letter, Tommy has to meet three conditions--including training the new hire. What he doesn't expect...
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Originally entitled Q&A, Vikas Swarup's Slumdog Millionaire unfolds the story of Ram Thomas, an uneducated orphan from the slums of Mumbai, India. The story opens with authorities, unconvinced that a slumdog could answer all twelve questions correctly on India's biggest game show, Who Will Win a Billion?, holding Ram on suspicions of cheating. Enter Smita Shah, a lawyer bent on rescuing Ram. With Smita as his listener, Ram reveals how his life experiences...
5) Love hacked
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Knitting in the city volume 3
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Of Sandra Fielding's last 30 dates, 29 have ended with the man sobbing uncontrollably. She has difficulty removing her psychotherapist hat. Near desperate, Sandra gives in to an encounter with a hot waiter, Alex. Now, after spending her life helping others change for the better, she is falling for a man that refuses to change at all.
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Italian tycoon Vito Zaffari is waiting out the festive season while a family scandal fades from the press. So he's come to his friend's snow-covered English country cottage, determined to shut out the world. Until a beautiful bombshell dressed as Santa literally crashes into his Christmas! Innocent Holly Cleaver sneaks under Vito's defenses�he wants her like no other before and decides he must have her. When Vito finds her gone the next day, he's...
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El banquero italiano Vito Zaffari se había alejado de Florencia durante las Navidades, esperando que la prensa se olvidase de un escándalo que podría hundir su reputación. Para ello, había ido a una casita en medio del nevado campo inglés, decidido a alejarse del mundo durante unos días. Hasta que un bombón vestido de Santa Claus irrumpió estrepitosamente allí. La inocente Holly Cleaver provocó una inmediata reacción en el serio banquero...
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"Starbird has spent the first sixteen years of her life on a commune in the woods of Washington State. When she gets her Calling to become a waitress at the farm's satellite restaurant in Seattle, it means leaving behind the only place she's ever known and entering the World Outside"--
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"This three-book collection of popular VeggieTown Values stories provides children with an ideal gift they will enjoy for years to come. Join Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber, and all their friends as they learn biblical values, morals, and life lessons that make VeggieTown a great place to be!"--P. [4] of cover.