Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Keystones Books

Faber & Faber. Paperback. NEW. Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction. It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans from around the world comment in dozens of languages; even on skincare products endorsed by the wildly popular Korean boyband, of which Moon is the youngest, most luminous member. Seized by ineffable desire, our unnamed narrator begins writing Y/N fanfic—in which you, the reader, insert [Your/Name] and play out an intimate relationship with the unattainable star. Then Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye. As Y/N flies from Berlin to Seoul to be with Moon, our… Read More

John Murray Learning. Paperback. NEW. the author of You Are A Badass, the New Your Times bestselling book everyone is talking about.YOU ARE A BADASS AT MAKING MONEY is the book you need if you've spent too much time watching money land in your bank account and then roll through your fingers. Jen Sincero went from living in a converted garage to traveling the world in 5-star luxury in a matter of years, and knows all too well the layers of BS one can get wrapped up in around

Hachette India Children's Books. Paperback. NEW. Let the games begin!The Pandavas are all set to graduate from Guru Dronacharya's school, having learnt how to lead armies and wield battle magic. Now they must display their skills in a grand tournament before the entire kingdom! It isn't going to be just fun and games, though. The crafty Kauravas already have a whole new bag of dirty tricks ready to keep Sahadev, Nakul, Arjun, Bhim and Yudhishthir from impressing the people of Hasti

Penguin Random House. Paperback. NEW. What if you ran away from your life today? Twenty years later, three people are looking for you. One is dying to meet you again. The other wishes you had never met them. The third wishes they could have met you at least once. You are one person. Aren't you? But you are not the same person to each of them. Find the answers about your own life in this story about searching for love and discovering yourself. Join a broken but rising YouTube star Alara, a struggling but hopeful stand-up comedian Aarav, and a zany but zen beach shack owner Ricky. Together, take the journey to seek the truth behind the famous singer Elisha's disappearance somewhere by the deep sea in Goa. Will you be able to find Elisha? Or will you end up finding yourself?

Rupa Publications India. Paperback. NEW. Somewhere between self-help and self-promotion lies self-awareness and advancement. Most characters that readers will get to meet in this book will sound familiar to them, characters they may have to deal with regularly, as most people do. With principles based on awareness, forgiveness, strategic application, and follow-through, one can join the thousands of enlightened converts who have participated in Tamara Jacobs’s workshops and seminars for over twenty-five years.

Speaking Tiger. NEW. Baba Padmanji’s 1857 Marathi novel Yamunaparyatan highlights the suffering of Hindu widows, forced into a life of loneliness and torture by their cruel Brahminical families. The heroine of the novel, Yamuna, starts off as a happily married woman, sharing a bond of mutual trust and respect with her husband. She travels with him across various regions of the Bombay Presidency and western India and her interactions with widows on the way reveal the extent of their suffering within Hindu patriarchal and Brahminical society. Yamuna sympathizes with them and calls for urgent reform, while advocating for widow remarriage. When tragedy strikes and Yamuna is widowed, she too is tortured and stigmatized. But the feisty young woman manages to start a new chapter in life by converting to Christianity and remarrying a Christian man. Yamuna’s Journey is the first English translation of Padmanji’s pathbreaking novel. In this engrossing and layered translation, Deepra Dandekar paints a… Read More

Fingerprint Publishing. Paperback. NEW. A flight from New Delhi to new York. Two strangers, seat 7A and seat 7B, who have nothing in common. Absolutely nothing. Except they are both hoping the seat next to theirs remains empty. It doesn't. Mid-flight turbulence and infant incontinence forces them to interact—the cool wall Street guy and the mom-with-the-drool-stained-sweater-and-ordinary-aspirations. Blistering wit, opposing views, and some unexpectedly poignant admissions keep them addictive engaged and hopelessly sleep deprived through the fifteen-hour journey. Touch down... And they leave the cabin without a backward glance, jumping right back into their dramatically different lives. Never to meet again. But somehow they continue to travel together—interlocked forever through an inexplicable connectedness. Can one meeting change everything forever? The Japanese have a term for it: ichi-go ichi-e. One time, one encounter, lasts a lifetime.

Hay House Publishers India. Paperback. NEW. A witty and life-affirming account of a spiritual seeker’s year-long quest for enlightenment. 'What if you could find inner peace right where you are? No one-way ticket to paradise required...' After a terrible year, feeling burned out and broken, Emma Howarth decided to go on a year-long mystical adventure - from the comfort of her own home. The result was a year that changed everything. A year that turned frantic chaos into life in the slow lane. A year of magic and moonlight and pink sky sunrises. A year fragranced with incense and burning herbs (that sometimes smelled suspiciously illegal). A Year of Mystical Thinking is Emma's witty and life-affirming account of the year that transformed her world. Each month she introduces a new spiritual practice, with practical, actionable tips - from how to create the perfect vision board to living by the phases of the moon. Join Emma on her journey as she connects with spirit guides in February, obsesses… Read More

Andersen. Hardcover. NEW. In the year 1896, three dear friends, Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly, bid farewell to their beloved boarding school and embarked on separate journeys, venturing into contrasting lives filled with unique challenges and aspirations. Despite their divergent paths, the bond between these young women remained unbreakable, as they exchanged a series of heartfelt letters, documenting their dreams, tribulations, and, most importantly, their quests for happiness. Polly, a compassionate soul, found solace and purpose in her role as a teacher within the confines of an orphanage. While her friends pursued more conventional paths, Polly dedicated herself to nurturing the young minds entrusted to her care. Her letters breathed life into her daily experiences, revealing the joys of witnessing the children's progress and the profound impact her guidance had on their lives. Despite occasional struggles with limited resources and overwhelming responsibilities, Polly's unwavering commitment to… Read More

Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.. Paperback. NEW. What should he be like, this lost man? A romantic, a man with a dream, a man with brown skin and blue eyes, living in a hut on a snowy mountaintop... a man who owed allegiance to no one... who was his own master, who lived at one with nature knowing no fear. But that was not Major Roberts-that was the man I wanted to be.' It is believed that the foundation of every good relationship-platonic or otherwise-is friendship. The familiarity and ease that grow in friendships is what get many of us through a hard day. But it is not just the long-lasting associations that help us through life; it is also the acquaintances that we collect along the way. People are a sum of parts-of ephemeral yet significant encounters, and enduring and monumental intimacies. What makes a person whole is all the parts of themselves- good, wonderful, bad, ugly. In The Yellow Umbrella, with the story titled the same that has never appeared in print before, Ruskin Bond takes us… Read More

Penguin Books Limited. Paperback. NEW. ‘A literary heavyweight’—Indian Express In these bold, wry and ebullient stories, Meera’s astonishing range of narrative techniques is on full display as she expertly lays bare the faultlines behind the façade of everyday life, sometimes with dark humour and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness.

HarperBusiness. Paperback. NEW. The Rise and Fall of One of India's Most Promising Bankers The year was 2004, India's economy was booming and 'India Shining' seemed like a true slogan. Around the same time, a non-banking financial company applied for and received a licence to operate as a private bank. Yes Bank was born. Its rise was phenomenal and it soon became the fourth-largest private bank in the country, with approved permissions to operate in Singapore, London and Dubai. The returns were also immense: shareholders received hefty dividends on their investments for years on end.That is, till the skeletons began tumbling out of the Yes Bank lockers. Stories of the bank's reckless lending were going around, and allegations of bribery and corruption became rife. Ultimately, in March 2020, the bank ran out of money, and customers were unable to get their own savings out of their accounts. The bank's promoter Rana Kapoor was arrested, and multiple agencies began what is still an ongoing probe.Yes… Read More

Sourcebooks Casablanc. Paperback. NEW. New York Times and USA Today bestseller Roni Loren brings the heat in this complex story of: A woman battling her anxiety A man who seems too good to be true A sizzling connection built over sweltering New Orleans nights And an emotional climax that'

Usborne Publishing Ltd. Paperback. NEW. Yeti is expecting a lot of customers at his Snow Cafe. Delicious spaghetti should fill them up. But how much to make? You can't have too much spaghetti- can you? Another hilarious entry in the popular Phonics Readers series. A QR code on the back cov

Penguin Books Ltd. Paperback. NEW. Meet Yinka. And Yinka's mum. And Yinka's aunties. Who are all asking . . . YINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND? -------- 'Your bookself needs this . . . full of heart' Jendella Benson, Hope and Glory 'Love story? Nah, more of a self-love story!' Reader ***** Yinka wants to find love. Her problem? Her mum wants to find it for her. She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom. Plus there's her preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum she's sure is far too small as a result. Oh, and the fact that she's thirty-one and doesn't believe in sex before marriage might be a bit of an obstacle too . . . So when her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences 'Operation Find A Date for Rachel's Wedding'. Armed with a totally flawless, incredibly specific plan, will Yinka find herself a huzband? What if the thing she really needs to find is herself? Hilarious and wildly entertaining, this tale of love, culture,… Read More

Embassy Books. Paperback. NEW. Learn Yoga in Your Own Home Yoga for Beginners is the essential guide to getting started with yoga. With a friendly voice and step-by-step instructions, this book offers everything you need to start enjoying yoga's calming and strengthening effects

Macmillan. Paperback. NEW. The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga yoga by the master of this increasingly popular discipline One of the great yoga figures of our time, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois brought Ashtanga yoga to the West more than thirty years ago. Based on flowing, energetic movement coordinated with the breath, Ashtanga and the many forms of vinyasa yoga that grow directly out of it have become the most widespread and influential styles practiced today. Yoga Mala―a “garland of yoga”―is Jois’s authoritative guide to Ashtanga. In it, he outlines the ethical principles and philosophy underlying the discipline, explains important terms and concepts, and guides the reader through Ashtanga’s Sun Salutations and the subsequent primary sequence of forty-two asanas, or poses, precisely describing how to execute each position and what benefits each provides. It is a foundational work on yoga by a true master. To coincide with publication of Guruji: A Portrait of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois… Read More

Macmillan. Paperback. NEW. A landmark new translation and editionWritten almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu unde

Hachette India. Paperback. NEW. What are the Yoga Sutras? Instructions for bearded rishis who lived in the forests of ancient India? Or the complete manual of asanas? Neither! In fact, the text may well have been called ‘Maharishi P’s Ultimate Handbook of Mind Control’, for it is really a set of techniques to help us – all of us – awaken and harness the explosive power of our minds, through our actions, our attitudes and our awareness. And not our asanas? Those too, but not in the way you imagined it. In this surprising, sparkling book, Roopa Pai unravels the secrets of Patanjali's compact 2,000-year-old text in ways both fun and accessible. Walk down the well-marked paths into a dazzling world where a whole new version of yourself – self-assured, fearless and free – awaits you. Go on, then – what are you waiting for?

North Atlantic Books. Paperback. NEW.