12 Results for : chilana
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Menaka's Choice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 765min
Born during the churning of the ocean, Menaka is the most beautiful of all the apsaras in the world, with quick intelligence and innate talent. However, she craves the one thing she can never have: family. Elsewhere, after severe austerities, a man, now blessed with the name Vishwamitra, challenges the gods and dares to create another heaven. Fearing his growing powers, Indra, the king of gods, decides to put a stop to his ambitions by making Menaka seduce him. What will happen when Menaka and Vishwamitra meet each other? Will Menaka finally find what she really wished for? Or will she again be forced to surrender to her destiny? Find out in this fascinating portrait of one of the most enduring mythological figures. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028623/bk_adbl_028623_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Battle for Bittora , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 845min
Twenty-five-year-old Jinni lives in Mumbai, works in a hip animation studio and is perfectly happy with her carefree and independent existence. Until her bossy grandmother shows up and announces that it is Jinni s 'duty' to drop everything and come and contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from their sleepy hometown, Bittora. Of course Jinni swears she won't. But she soon ends up swathed in cotton saris and frumpy blouses, battling prickly heat, corruption and accusations of nymphomania as candidate Sarojini Pande, a daughter of the illustrious Pande dynasty of Pavit Pradesh. And if life isn't fun enough already, her main opposition turns out to be Bittora ex-royal Zain Altaf Khan, an irritatingly idealistic though undeniably lustworthy individual with whom Jinni shares a complicated history.... Enlivened by Chauhan's characteristic brand of wicked humour and sexy romanticism, this is a rollicking new tale of young India. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026420/bk_adbl_026420_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Faint Promise of Rain: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 670min
It is 1554. On a rare night of rain in the desert of Rajasthan, India, a daughter, Adhira, is born to a family of Hindu temple dancers just as a new Mughal emperor takes the throne. Fearing a bleak future, her father puts his faith in tradition and in his last child for each to save the other: He insists Adhira "marry" the temple deity and give herself to a wealthy patron. But after one terrible evening, she makes a bold choice that carries her family's story and their dance to a startling new beginning. Told from the perspective of this exquisite dancer and filled with the sounds, sights, and flavors of the Indian desert, Faint Promise of Rain is the story of a family and a girl caught between art, duty, and fear in a changing world. Shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan Prize for International Writing ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064497/bk_acx0_064497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beyond Our Stars , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min
Fleeing a destroyed Earth, seventeen-year-old orphan Hope grew up living in the confines of a spaceship heading to CR-3, a new home planet. She's been kicking the steel walls for too long and ever since she broke her boyfriend's heart, touchdown could mean open air and a fresh start. But no one expected the Locals. Hope’s dreams of freedom turn into nightmares when the Locals trap the humans and mark groups for observation. At any moment she can be called into a holographic observation room for testing. Some days she’s drowning in a strange dark ocean, some days she’s locked up without food, and all with the one boy she can't seem to forget. As the Locals study Hope, she studies them. She wants to believe the tall grey creatures could be peaceful, but as the simulations become more dangerous, Hope is about to become the human race’s last chance for survival. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018577/bk_adbl_018577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The One You Cannot Have , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min
How long does it take to heal a broken heart? Can you ever forget that one perfect relationship you had? Anjali knows who she wants - she wants Aman. Aman, too, knows who he wants - he wants Shruti. Shruti and Aman were once inseparable. Theirs was a love that would last forever and more. Then, out of the blue, Shruti left Aman. A devastated Aman moved abroad in the hope of forgetting Shruti and to heal. Shruti married Rishabh. Now Aman is back in India and looking for a fresh start. But he is still haunted by memories of his love. Can he ever break free from it? His head tells him to move on, to find love with Anjali, but his heart won't listen. No matter what he does, Shruti's shadow looms large. Can there be a happily ever after for any of them? A straight-from-the-heart modern-day romance of unrequited love, of complicated relationships and about moving on when you realise that there will always be the one you cannot have. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana, Sanjiv Jhaveri. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028011/bk_adbl_028011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Zoya Factor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 821min
When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when not eating with her results in defeat, they decide she's a lucky charm. The nation goes a step further. Amazed at the ragtag team's sudden spurt of victories, it declares her a goddess. So when the eccentric IBCC president and his mesmeric, always exquisitely attired Swamiji invite Zoya to accompany the team to the tenth ICC World Cup, she has no choice but to agree. Pursued by international cricket boards on the one hand, wooed by cola majors on the other, Zoya struggles to stay grounded in the thick of the world cup action. And it doesn't help that she keeps clashing with the erratically brilliant new skipper who tells her flatly that he doesn't believe in luck.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026421/bk_adbl_026421_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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It Happens for a Reason , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 462min
When Vipasha, Vee to friends, 18 and single, makes the decision to have her baby, she does more than give up her promising modelling career. She ends up cutting ties with her family and with Ankush, the man she thought she was in love with. Fast-forward 16 years, and she now has two unusual careers: she runs a dog-boarding facility and is a gym instructor. Aryan thinks she is the coolest mom in the world and hopes she will one day find her Prince Charming - exactly what her best friend, Suchi, has in mind for her. But Vee secretly has a thing for Saurabh, the quirky vet. Then, out of the blue, Ankush comes back into their life. But can a decision that was taken at 18 - more in the throes of lust than love - be the basis of a lifelong relationship? Is there a future for Ankush and Vee? Vee, Aryan and Ankush are in for the ride of their lives. No seatbelts, full speed and a very bumpy road ahead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028010/bk_adbl_028010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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When the Time Is Right , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1151min
Buddhadeva Bose’s greatest novel When the Time Is Right is a grand family saga set in Calcutta during the last two decades of British rule. Of Rajen Mitra’s five lovely daughters, it is the youngest - the beautiful, intelligent Swati - who is the apple of her father’s eye. As she grows from an impetuous, spirited child to a lonely young woman, Swati is witness to the upheavals and joys of the Mitra family even as the country slides toward the promise of independence and the inevitability of war. Anxious to ensure that his daughters find suitable husbands, Rajen-babu realizes it is only a matter of time before his favourite child, too, must leave home. While the boorish entrepreneur Prabir Majumdar decides that she will make him a fitting wife, Swati finds herself increasingly drawn to Satyen, the young professor who introduces her to a world of books and the heady poetry of Tagore and Coleridge. First published in Bengali, as Tithidore, in 1949, When the Time Is Right is a moving tale of a family and a nation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004539/bk_adbl_004539_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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34 Bubblegums & Candies: On love, hope and other such delicacies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 188min
Life is a bit like bubblegum and candies. Sometimes you have to keep on chewing so that you extract whatever you can out of it. At times, the bubble you blow bursts unexpectedly and you are left with a sticky mess. Sometimes you lick it slowly and relish it. When you greedily bite off more than you can chew or a hard boiled sugar candy slips down inadvertently, you bear the pain as it makes its way down the food pipe. At rare times, when you manage to strike just the right balance, a feeling of contentment reigns supreme. Life does not come with an instruction manual, but you can still convert it to a 'do it yourself' kit! It throws you surprises. When it trips you, you figure out that the best way to deal with it is to just lie there and laugh, before bouncing right back. This is a collection of 34 real-life incidents. These could happen to anybody, and you will probably recognize yourself in some of them. Some are humorous, some moving, some thought provoking, but each one brings out the essence and flavor of a journey called life. 34 Bubble Gums and Candies is one book that will tempt you, making you want you taste it, chew it, relish it. So what will today bring you - a bubblegum or a candy? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029252/bk_adbl_029252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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As Sweet as Honey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 550min
In her latest novel, Indira Ganesan, a writer often likened to Arundhati Roy and Chitra Divakaruni, gives us an enchanting story of family life that is a dance of love and grief and rebirth set on a gorgeous island in the Indian Ocean. The island is filled with exotic flora and fauna and perfumed air. A large family compound is presided over by a benign, stalwart grandmother. There is a very tall South Asian heroine with the astonishing un-Indian name of Meterling, who has found love at last in the shape of a short, round, elegant Englishman who wears white suits. There are also numerous aunts, uncles, and young cousins - among them, Mina, grown now, and telling this story of a marriage ceremony that ends with a widowed bride who, in the midst of her grief, discovers she is pregnant. While enjoying their own games and growing pains, Mina and her young cousins follow every nuance of gossip, trying to puzzle out what is going on with their favorite aunt, particularly when the groom’s cousin arrives from England and begins to woo her. As Meterling - torn between Eastern and Western ideas of love and family, duty and loyalty - struggles to make a new life, we become as entranced with this family, its adventures and complications, as Mina is. And with her we celebrate a time and place where, although sometimes difficult, life was for the most part as sweet as honey. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meetu Chilana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010798/bk_adbl_010798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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