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30 Women in Power : Their Voices, Their Stories

රු3,000.00

Through these honest and contemplative revelations, thirty women in power answer those questions that confront all working women from how best to balance the personal and the professional, to how to dismantle gender biases. Equally, the essayists consider seminal issues…

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A Century is not Enough: My Roller-coaster Ride to Success

රු3,400.00

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A Cook’s Tour

රු4,800.00

Anthony Bourdain, life-long line cook and bestselling author of "Kitchen Confidential", sets off to eat his way around the world. But being Anthony Bourdain, this was never going to be a conventional culinary tour. Bourdain heads out to Saigon where…

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A Different Kind of Power

රු4,650.00

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A Princess Remembers

රු4,500.00

She is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace and shot her first panther at the age of twelve. She became one of the…

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A Promised Land

රු7,800.00

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his…

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All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation

රු4,000.00

In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free. In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They…

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

රු4,900.00

Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous…

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Amma: Jayalalithaa’s Journey From Movie Star To Political Queen

රු2,350.00

Amma is the dramatic story of a woman who has risen again and again from humiliation, imprisonment and political defeat, challenging the male-dominated culture of Tamil Nadu politics to become chief minister of the state for the fourth time.

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Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon

රු9,000.00

A commander in the Israeli Army from its inception in 1948, and a politician whose tenure bridged numerous governments, as both a general and a politician Ariel Sharon championed the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.…

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Becoming

රු4,000.00

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and…

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Cleopatra: Discover the World of Cleopatra Through the Diary of Her Handmaiden Nefret

රු1,500.00

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Conversations with Mani Ratnam

රු4,200.00

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Dalai Lama: A Biography

රු2,500.00

This new, up-to-date biography provides insight into the curious and winning personality of the Dalai Lama as a boy and his wisdom as a man. The Buddhist spiritual worlds and the Dalai Lama's rarified role are engagingly and evenly presented.…

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Daughter of the East – Benazir Bhutto

රු3,400.00

Beautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced her into exile in the late 1990s. From her upbringing in one…

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Diana: Her True Story – in Her Own Words

රු7,300.00

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Einstein: His Life and Universe

රු3,800.00

How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein explores…

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Elon Musk: by Walter Isaacson

රු6,000.00

Epic feats. Epic failures. An epic story. Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk offers the most intimate, complete and revelatory portrait of the most fascinating and controversial innovator in the world. For two years, Isaacson had unprecedented access to Musk,…

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Even Buffett Isn’t Perfect: What You Can–and Can’t–Learn from the World’s Greatest Investor

රු5,000.00

A contrarian look at how Warren Buffett thinks about investing and related issuesWarren Buffett is the most successful and revered investor of all time. His ability to consistently find undervalued companies has made him one of the world’s richest men.Despite…

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Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography (Updated)

රු3,800.00

PAPERBACK EDITION FULLY UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS After creating more than a dozen billion-dollar businesses from scratch and breaking scores of world records, wouldn't you think you'd done it all? Not Sir Richard Branson. Having brought the Virgin brand…

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Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath

රු5,000.00

Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his…

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Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son

රු3,800.00

Japan’s Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his media-tech giant, SoftBank. He bankrolled Alibaba, China’s internet colossus, before the world had heard about it; plotted…

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Gandhi Before India

රු4,000.00

In 1893, when Mohandas Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a briefless lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable biography, Ramachandra Guha argues that the two decades that Gandhi spent in the diaspora…

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Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World [Paperback]

රු3,800.00

Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World [Paperback] Granting extraordinary access to their private world, Osama's wife and son reveal the frightening transformation of a loving husband into a hardened terrorist. In 1996,…

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HOPE: The Autobiography

රු5,300.00

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis. The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously. However, with the Jubilee Year of Hope coming in 2025…

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I Am Malala : The Girl who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

රු2,800.00

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

රු3,300.00

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Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy

රු3,000.00

Ever since she took office in 2017, riding a wave of 'Jacindamania', New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made the right choices, be they related to terrorism, women's and LGBTQ rights, labour reforms or climate change. She has also…

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Kamal Haasan: A Cinematic Journey

රු3,000.00

In many ways, Kamal Haasan is unique. One of the greatest actors India has ever produced, he has usually gone further than just enacting a role to completely immersing himself in it. Kamal Haasan: A Cinematic Journey explores some fifty…

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Living with the Himalayan Masters – Swami Rama

රු4,600.00

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Long Walk to Freedom

රු5,000.00

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M.S. Dhoni -The Untold Story

රු1,700.00

Captain Cool is the story of MS Dhoni, Indian cricket's poster boy. It is also the heartwarming account of the life of a young man who won India the World Twenty20 in 2007, the 50-over World Cup title in 2011…

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Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson

රු12,000.00

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Maud: The Diaries of Maud Berkeley (Adapted by Flora Fraser)

රු2,500.00

Maud Berkeley (1859-1949) was an amateur artist who sought no opportunity to share or publicise her work. She had a privileged and seemingly uneventful childhood and adolescence as an only child in York until her parents retired to the Isle…

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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

රු8,300.00

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Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask

රු6,000.00

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Moonwalk

රු7,900.00

Megastar Michael Jackson's singularly brilliant career and intensely private lifestyle have become a magnificent obsession for millions of rock fans and celebrity watchers throughout the world. His double-platinum singles rocket to the top of the music charts with a velocity…

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Mother Mary Comes to Me (Hardcover)

රු4,700.00

Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary,…

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Mother Mary Comes to Me (Paperback)

රු3,700.00

Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary,…

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Mother Teresa: A Biography

රු2,800.00

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Muhammad: Prophet of our Time

රු5,600.00

The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion Muhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history. Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight…

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My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography

රු3,100.00

In this book, Gandhi recounts his journey from being Mohandas to becoming the Mahatma and also recollects the various incidents that lead him to develop the ideology of Ahimsa.Written in the form of essays, the book is a detailed account…

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My Life

රු6,700.00

The acclaimed autobiography of Fidel Castro, one of the towering political figures of our age, who dominated both Cuba and the world stage for over half a century. Here Castro tells his story in full for the first time, speaking…

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My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

රු3,200.00

An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo For a dozen years as one of the world's most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. The first woman of colour…

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Notes On Being A Man

රු4,200.00

Businessman, author, professor, and podcaster Scott Galloway offers a path forward for men and parents of boys. Scott Galloway has been sounding the alarm on this issue for years. In Notes on Being a Man, Galloway explores what it means…

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Notes on Grief

රු2,400.00

'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping…

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On Michael Jackson

රු6,000.00

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Playing it My Way : My Autobiography

රු3,200.00

The greatest run-scorer in the history of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar retired in 2013 after an astonishing 24 years at the top. The most celebrated Indian cricketer of all time, he received the Bharat Ratna Award - India's highest civilian honour…

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Poor Charlie’s Almanack

රු4,750.00

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up,” Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between…

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Rajini’s Mantras: Life lessons from one of India’s most-loved superstars

රු2,000.00

Life lessons from one of India’s most-loved superstars HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN TRUE RAJINIKANTH STYLE! In Rajini’s Mantras, bestselling author P.C. Balasubramanian brings out the best life lessons from Rajinikanth’s iconic speeches, public interactions and performances right from his…

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Ranil Wickremesinghe – A Political Biography

රු3,000.00

Ranil Wickremesinghe - A Political Biography

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Ratan Tata: A Life

රු5,900.00

To create an Indian environment with fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink, nutritious food with no one left hungry, and a way to care for everyone’s health should be the priority for you and me.—Ratan Tata Ratan Tata…

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Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days

රු5,600.00

Michael Jackson's former bodyguards reveal the amazing truths of the late superstar's last years - his life in seclusion with his children, his financial crises, his preparations for the This Is It tour and the weeks leading up to his…

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Shadow Cell: an explosive insider account of the world’s new spy war from ex-CIA operatives

රු4,000.00

A thrilling first-hand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the intelligence agency - an unprecedented insider view of 21st-century spycraft. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a 'tandem…

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SHAH RUKH KHAN : Legend, Icon, Star

රු2,900.00

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Spider Woman: A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

රු7,500.00

As President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale won global attention in finding the 2019 prorogation of Parliament to be unlawful. Yet that dramatic moment was merely the pinnacle of a career throughout which she was hailed as a pioneering…

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Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

රු3,400.00

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews…

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Sultan : A Memoir

රු4,700.00

The official autobiography of Wasim Akram, the 'Sultan of Swing', one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

රු6,500.00

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom

රු5,000.00

Spanning a period of several decades, this captivating collection of letters showcases the correspondence between John D. Rockefeller, the renowned American business magnate, philanthropist, and visionary, and his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Through these heartfelt and thought-provoking letters, we…

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