What do you call that imposter which sullenly creeps inside you, stealing away the tranquility of your heart and soul; that too at the tender age of thirteen? If not enigma, then how do you typify that imposter, which intrudes into your morbid life, invigorates it with its charisma, drags you into the deep crevices of longing and keeps you forlorn for reasons unknown to you? Set in the backdrop of the nineties, the story revolves around Rahul, a just-above-the-poverty-line boy, whose life is an unceasing tryst with unhappiness, until that enigma called LOVE comes like an oasis, infusing fresh zeal to his tattered life, only to leave him desolate and forlorn, for reasons beyond the cognizance of his heart and mind. Will he ever know why his love deserted him? What happens when his long lost love resurrects in his life, which is now blissfully complete with a beautiful family? What happens when he is ripped in the abattoir of his heart? Languidly immerse yourself into this enigmatic tale of love, longing and betrayal.

This is the story of the most successful Soviet and post-Soviet Kyrgyz family, which casted light to some great secrets of all happy, stable, and healthy social environments and even revealed the enigmas of our nature and universe that needs to know for majority to catch up the blue bird of fortune and be happy and fruitful in any time, country, and living situation and condition.

The Clarks Tooley boots are lost inside the ocean of people waving in one direction or another as the planes depart and arrive at Denver International Airport. On the spur of a moment, Elisa remembered! It was just beyond any belief what was happening! That chapter of her life she thought was long buried or cremated and ashes spread into a long ago dead past, was, in fact, creepingly reopening its door. Not just to alarm and panic, but to threaten, like a brute, the present and the near future. The past is back! The hijab had dropped down to the feet of the pedestal. Caution: sharp teeth primed to bite!

A four-part story of passion and betrayal in the Mediterranean—voted one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is a striking and sensuous masterpiece, breathing vivid life into each of its unforgettable characters and the dusty Mediterranean city in which they live. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years before, during, and after World War II, the books follow the lives of a circle of friends and lovers, including sensitive Darley, passionate Justine, philosophical Balthazar, and elegant Clea. Written in Durrell’s trademark evocative prose, these four novels explore the central theme of modern love, building into a remarkable whole that the New York Times hailed as “one of the most important works of our time.” This ebook features a new introduction by Jan Morris.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times–bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing's royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936--the concept of a universal machine--laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program--all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.

Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can't help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way ...