Turbulence by Samit Basu

'You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll gasp and you will demand a sequel'

BEN AARONOVITCH (Doctor Who)

'For wicked wit, for post-modern superheroics, for sheer verbal energy and dazzle, Samit Basu doesn't so much push the envelope as fold it into an n-dimensional hyper-envelope, address it to your hind-brain and mail it with a rail gun'

MIKE CAREY

(X-Men, Lucifer, the Felix Castor series)

How would you feel if you got what you really wanted? What would you do if you were given the power to change the world?

Everyone on BA flight 142 from London to Delhi got off it with a unique superpower. A power they didn't even know they wanted. Everyone, that is, who's still alive. Because someone is hunting down the passengers.

And now Aman Sen's ragtag collective of rogue superhumans is in grave danger. They must decide what to do with their powers and their lives — and quickly.

This explosive new blockbuster moves at hyperspeed across two continents as colliding forces move towards an action-packed finale that will leave the world — and you — changed forever.

Graham Hancock Omnibus I

1. The Sign and the Seal : The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant

2. Fingerprints of the Gods : The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

3. The Message of the Sphinx : A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind (with Robert Bauval)

4. Underworld : The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

5. Underworld Online (Online Updates)

Link: Box

East-West (Purbo-Paschim) Part II by Sunil Gangopadhyay

Outside a plush hotel in New York, an Indian youth is seen waiting for an appointment. He is desperately in need of a job. He is Atin, the young boy of Part One who gets mixed up in politics, and is obliged to leave the country, much against his will. He is still a revolutionary at heart, he hates his exile in America.

The large canvas of this novel covers three continents, but more particularly the dramatic events following the partition of India, the political unrest in West Bengal, the plight of the refugees and the birth of a new nation, Bangladesh. The social and political reality instead of remaining a backdrop takes on centre stage where simultaneously individual lives unfold, each with it's own account of love, hate, passion and betrayal. The author takes a dispassionate look at the Naxal revolutionaries, exposing their vulnerability, the colossal tragedy of so many promising lives coming to a pointless end. On the other side, in the other Bengal, events move to an inexorable climax, while the fictional characters flit across the stage, the shadow of actual historical figures loom large — Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, General Niazi and the day by day account of how the mighty Pakistan Army, one of the best in the world was doomed to a most humiliating defeat.

This novel of epic proportions is an unique experiment in blending fiction with facts, an attempt to truthfully capture a swiftly moving course of events, a compelling novel difficult to put down. This novel had won the prestigious Ananda Puraskar in 1989.

For Bengali original, see here: 1 + 2.

Fantasy Omnibus II

1. Mythohistorical Thrillers by Ashwin Sanghi

i) The Rozabal Line
ii) Chanakya’s Chant
iii) The Krishna Key

2. The Awakening Trilogy by Josephine Angelini

i) Starcrossed
ii) Dreamless
iii) Goddess

3. Novels by Neil Gaiman

i) Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (with Terry Pratchett)
ii) Neverwhere 
iii) Stardust 
iv) American Gods
v) Anansi Boys 
vi) The Ocean at the End of the Lane

4. Abandon Trilogy by Meg Cabot

i) Abandon
ii) Underworld
iii) Awaken

05 – Goddess Test Series by Aimée Carter

01 – The Goddess Test
01.5 – The Goddess Hunt
02 – Goddess Interrupted
02.5 – The Goddess Legacy
03 – The Goddess Inheritance

06 – Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B Cooney

Link: Box

Weight Loss by Upamanyu Chatterjee

'Between the ages of eighteen and thirty-seven, when he died, Bhola had just eight sexual partners, four women and four males. When he reviewed his life...it pleased him that he had maintained a balance between genders in his choice of lovers. Of course, it was ridiculous that he should at the age of thirty-seven be lightheadedly embarrassed about how few were the people he had slept with. Then he reminded himself that that was nothing new, that he had always felt ridiculous, not to worry.'

Weight Loss, Upamanyu Chatterjee's fourth novel, is only tangentially about losing weight. And though the hero dies tragically young, it is, fundamentally, comic.

Bhola, innocent and unremarkable, but for his near crippling obsession with sex and running, fears taking on the burden of emotional commitment and goes through life falling in love with all kinds of inappropriate people. At school, he lusts indiscriminately after his teachers, of both sexes, and is attracted to eunuchs. While in college, far from home, he has vaguely demeaning affairs with his landlady and with a vegetable vendor-cum-nurse and her husband. Later, he marries (a woman who sings with a voice of liquid gold), fathers a daughter (‘a warm, living thing') and suspects he is close to balance and beauty. Then his past catches up with him.

Upamanyu Chatterjee's genius for black humour and the absurd has never been more compelling than in this unforgettable portrait of a lost life.

Mainak Dhar Omnibus

1. Alice in Deadland Series

Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it's legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who survived- hordes of undead Biters. Fifteen year-old Alice has spent her entire life in the Deadland, her education consisting of how best to use guns and knives in the ongoing war for survival against the Biters. One day, Alice spots a Biter disappearing into a hole in the ground and follows it, in search of fabled underground Biter bases. 

What Alice discovers there propels her into an action-packed adventure that changes her life and that of all humans in the Deadland forever. An adventure where she learns the terrible conspiracy behind the ruin of humanity, the truth behind the origin of the Biters, and the prophecy the mysterious Biter Queen believes Alice is destined to fulfill. A prophecy based on the charred remains of the last book in the Deadland- a book called Alice in Wonderland.

i) Off With Their Heads
ii) Alice in Deadland
iii) Through the Killing Glass
iv) Hunting the Snark
v) Deadland

2. Heroes R Us

What happens when fate chooses an ordinary man for an extraordinary mission?

Arnab Banerjee, a shy twenty-five-year-old, has little excitement in his life other than tracking down missing books as an assistant librarian in a Delhi college. But all that changes when one day he is beaten up during a bank robbery. He awakens to discover that he has developed superhuman powers, which he hones with the help of Khan chacha, an ex-army man. And so begins his crusade against eve-teasers, corrupt policemen, and scheming politicians. But in his final adventure to thwart a deadly terror attack, Delhi’s ‘Guardian Angel’ is forced to join hands with the very men he has fought against: the minister who wants to use him to rig elections, the policemen who tried to kill him in an ‘encounter’, and the liquor baron who invited him to become his brand ambassador. Will he succeed in his mission and still preserve his ideals?​

3. Vimana

Legends have it that Gods flew in aircraft called vimanas and waged war with fantastic weapons. What if these turned out to be true? College student by day and wannabe fighter pilot by night, Aaditya’s immense knowledge of flying and fighter planes is displayed only on flight sims and Internet forums.

A chance encounter propels him into the centre of an ancient conflict between good and evil that has been raging for thousands of years, revealing to him a hidden world that we dismiss as mere myths from our ancient past. Alongside Shiva, Karthik, Durga, Indra and other gods, Aaditya has to stop the terrible plans of Kalki, the prodigal son. Seated at the controls of a vimana, Aaditya finds himself living his dream in a way he had never imagined possible!

4. Zombiestan

It began with stories of undead Taliban rampaging through Afghan villages, and faster than anyone could have anticipated; the darkness spreads through the world. In a world laid waste by this new terror, four unlikely companions have been thrown together- a seventeen year old boy dealing with the loss of his family, a US Navy SEAL trying to get back home, an aging, lonely writer with nobody to live for, and a young girl trying to keep her three year old brother safe. 

When they discover that the smallest amongst them holds the key to removing the scourge that threatens to destroy their world, they begin an epic journey to a rumoured safe zone high in the Himalayas. A journey that will pit them against their own worst fears and the most terrible dangers- both human and undead.

A journey through a wasteland now known as Zombiestan.

Mary Balogh Omnibus IV

A. Single Novels

i) The Secret Pearl
ii) Christmas Beau
iii) Beyond the Sunrise
iv) A Christmas Promise
v) Deceived
vi) Tangled
vii) Longing
viii) Truly
ix) The Temporary Wife
x) Thief of Dreams
xi) The Last Waltz
xii) A Matter of Class

B. Novellas

i) The Star of Bethlehem
ii) Playing House
iii) Golden Rose
iv) The Best Christmas Ever
v) A Waltz Among the Stars
vi) The Treasure Hunt
vii) The Dark Rider
viii) The Porcelain Madonna
ix) The Substitute Guest
x) The Wrong Door
xi) The North Tower
xii) No Room at the Inn
xiii) The Anniversary
xiv) The Best Gift
xv) The Forbidden Daffodils
xvi) Precious Rogue
xvii) The Surprise Party
xviii) Guarded by Angels
xix) The Betrothal Ball
xx) The Heirloom
xxi) The Wassail Bowl
xxii) The Bond Street Carolers
xxiii) A Handful of Gold
xxiv) A Family Christmas
xxv) Spellbound
xxvi) Almost Persuaded
xxvii) Only Love

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