. Lauren Weisberger has contributed to Last Night at Chateau Marmont as an author.

Lauren Weisberger is the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Devil Wears Prada, " which was made into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway; "Everyone Worth Knowing"; and "Chasing Harry Winston. "A graduate of Cornell University, she lives in New York City with her husband.

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No one can resist a rags-to-riches story. It is every common mans dream.

But Rajinikanths story is irresistible. He continues to be an enigma to both his fans and contemporaries.

He is simple Shivaji Rao Gaekwad who, by way of luck and hard work became a superstar, and continues to remain on top notwithstanding the vagaries of time. The book, written in cinematic style, painstakingly seeks to record every nuance of Rajinikanths life: the joys and sorrows, the pains and ecstasies, loves and betrayals.

It also does not shy away from underlining the two extremes that have remained an intrinsic part of his highly eventful career: the human and the divine. The book tells the essential truth about Rajinikanth that has thus far remained unknown to his vast fan following (less)

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The protagonist, both a participant and an observer, carries the reader along with him as he goes in and out of the human universe and keeps watching himself as much as we watch him. Yet, (less)

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when the government sleeps', suggesting that the nation may be rising despite the state. India's is a tale of private success and public failure.

Prosperity is, indeed, spreading across the country even as governance failure pervades public life. But how could a nation become one of the world's fastest-growing economies when it's governed by a weak, ineffective state? And wouldn't it be wonderful if India also grew during the day--in other words, if public policy supported private enterprise? What India needs, Gurcharan Das says, is a strong liberal state.

Such a state would have the authority to take quick, decisive action; it would have the rule of law to ensure those actions are legitimate; and finally, it would be accountable to the people. But achieving this will not be easy, says Das, because India has historically had a weak state and a strong society (less)

Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over thefollowing years countless young men, seduced by the romance of the militant, fuelled by feelingsof injustice, crossed over the Line of Control to train in Pakistani army camps.

Peer was sent off toboarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist inDelhi.

But Kashmirangrier, more violent, more hopelesswas never far away.In 2003, the young journalist left his job and returned to his homeland to search out the stories andthe people which had haunted him.

In Curfewed Night he draws a harrowing portrait of Kashmirand its people. Here are stories of a young mans initiation into a Pakistani training camp; a motherwho watches her son forced to hold an exploding bomb; a poet who finds religion when his entirefamily is killed.

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Julie Buxbaum is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. The Opposite of Love is her first novel (less)

Except that this stranger seems to know much more than he should about Jack. Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway.

But when he's called to investigate a student murder--connected to an elusive Mr. K--he remembers the man from the airport.

Is the stranger really who he says he is? With the help of the Jameson, Jack struggles to make sense of it all. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis.

But why has he been chosen? And could he really have taken on the devil himself? Suspenseful, haunting, and totally unique, "The Devil" is Bruen at his very best. About the Author : Ken Bruen has contributed to The Devil as an author.

Ken Bruen was born in Galway, Ireland in 1951. The author of sixteen novels, he spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, SE Asia and South America.

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when the government sleeps', suggesting that the nation may be rising despite the state. India's is a tale of private success and public failure.

Prosperity is, indeed, spreading across the country even as governance failure pervades public life. But how could a nation become one of the world's fastest-growing economies when it's governed by a weak, ineffective state? And wouldn't it be wonderful if India also grew during the day--in other words, if public policy supported private enterprise? What India needs, Gurcharan Das says, is a strong liberal state.

Such a state would have the authority to take quick, decisive action; it would have the rule of law to ensure those actions are legitimate; and finally, it would be accountable to the people. But achieving this will not be easy, says Das, because India has historically had a weak state and a strong society (less)