Looking For The Big B

'Jessica,' he pronounced, 'you have known me for seven years. My life has changed seven times. You will never finish this book.' There is no reason why Amitabh Bachchan and I should appear in the same sentence. He is India's most legendary film star - a mixture of Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino and Elvis. In India where film stars are treated as gods, Bachchan is the über-god, the Big B. As for me, I am English, almost thirty, and not in the least bit famous. Yet here I am in Bombay about to start writing his story. How did I get here? Why did I get here? Can I pull it off? Bombay is mayhem and Bollywood is maddening. The Big B is strangely aloof, the magazines are full of lies, and no one is talking. I want to write a book that explodes the myths surrounding India's most famous man. But what will I find?

In the heart of the Deep South, the Executioner starts a new Civil War In a grassy field in North Georgia, Mack Bolan pays tribute to the men who died at Chickamauga. For more than a century, the battlefields of the Civil War have been peaceful memorials, but on a lonely stretch of highway outside Atlanta, the one-man army known as the Executioner is about to open a new battle. His target is the Mafia, which has long used the Georgia highways to smuggle cigarettes, whiskey, and stolen electronics. Lately, something far more sinister has been creeping up from the South: heroin, by the truckload. Bolan is here to cut the connection. To protect the innocent truckers hauling the Mafia goods, Bolan lets them drop their cargo before he destroys it. When the white powder fails to arrive at its destination, the mob comes after Bolan, and the highways of the South become a battleground. Dixie Convoy is the 27th book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

"Six friends, three couples... endless heart-warming adventures!" When you read Fighting the Barrier/Facing the Barrier, you'll enter the world of Jon and Brie, the first couple you will meet in the Lakeside Series book collection. Jon and Brie have been friends for years. She's just come home from college and Jon can't wait to see her again. But she's got something that has always been a separation factor and thinks it might be time to confront him about it. Will she be able to get passed the barrier she put up so many years ago, and will he be able to accept what it is she's going to tell him?

An Sudong was originally an ordinary student, but unintentionally joined the Immortal World's chat group to make a deal with the various deities in the Heaven Realm. From then on, his life began to take off, and he wouldn't care about those rich second generations or geniuses ...

When the ancient evil of the Blackbringer rises to unmake the world, only one determined faerie stands in its way. However, Magpie Windwitch, granddaughter of the West Wind, is not like other faeries. While her kind live in seclusion deep in the forests of Dreamdark, she's devoted her life to tracking down and recapturing devils escaped from their ancient bottles, just as her hero, the legendary Bellatrix, did 25,000 years ago. With her faithful gang of crows, she travels the world fighting where others would choose to flee. But when a devil escapes from a bottle sealed by the ancient Djinn King himself- the creator of the world- she may be in over her head. How can a single faerie, even with the help of her friends, hope to defeat the impenetrable darkness of the Blackbringer? At a time when fantasy readers have an embarrassment of riches in choosing new worlds to fall in love with, this first novel by a fresh, original voice is sure to stand out.

Without thinking twice, Jake brought home the big shiny egg that he found near the sea shore. He and his best friend George never imagined that a mermaid baby would hatch from it. Their terror and panic on discovering a merbaby soon turns into adventure as they gradually learn about the magical world of water. The merbaby, whom they name Lily, grows into a twelve year old beautiful, strong and intelligent young girl at the end of one year. But then all hell breaks loose as Lily has been tracked down by a wicked merman who is a follower of an evil sorceress mermaid who wants to capture her. They manage to get rid of the merman and then travel to this amazing world of water deep within the sea, where they are again chased by the evil sorceress mermaid. Another adventure later, they manage to return to the land only to realize that Lily is still not safe! The evil sorceress seeks something very desperately that is in Lily’s possession.

Bollywood in Britain provides the most extensive survey to date of the various manifestations and facets of the Bollywood phenomenon in Britain. The book analyzes the role of Hindi films in the British film market, it shows how audiences engage with Bollywood cinema and it discusses the ways the image of Bollywood in Britain has been shaped. In contrast to most of the existing books on the subject, which tend to approach Bollywood as something that is made by Asians for Asians, the book also focuses on how Bollywood has been adapted for non-Asian Britons. An analysis of Bollywood as an unofficial brand is combined with in-depth readings of texts like film reviews, the TV show Bollywood Star (2004) and novels and plays with references to the Bombay film industry. On this basis Bollywood in Britain demonstrates that the presentation of Bollywood for British mainstream culture oscillates between moments of approximation and distancing, with a clear dominance of the latter. Despite its alleged transculturality, Bollywood in Britain thus emerges as a phenomenon of difference, distance and Othering.