මකරන්ද දඩයම
කංචනා කුමාරි දොඩංගොඩ විසින් රචිත මිනිස් හැඟීම් ඉතා සියුම්ව විනිවිද දකින හෘද සංවේදී සහෘද සිත වෙනස්ම මානයකට යොමු කරන සුවිශේෂී නවකතාවකි.
A Monster Calls
At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting – he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient.
විදර්ශනා
විදර්ශනා‘ තත්කාලීන සමාජ යථාර්ථය හා පුද්ගල මනෝභාවයන්ගේ හැසිරීම් රටාවන් පිළිබඳ නිර්මාණශීලී විවරණයකි. පුද්ගලයකු තුළ පවතින, එහෙත් පිටත සමාජයට පෙන්වීමට අකැමැති හැඟීම් ඔහු මේ නිර්මාණය තුළින් විවෘතව කතා කරයි. ජනමාධ්යවේදියකු ලෙස කටයුතු කළ නදීෂ් දික්කුඹුර මහතාගේ ප්රථම නවකතාව ‘විදර්ශනා‘ වන අතර ‘ගස් මිනිස්සු හා ‘ආදරණීය මාක්ස්‘ ඔහු විසින් රචිත වෙනත් කෘතීන් ය.
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
J.K. Rowling’s screenwriting debut is captured in this ebook edition of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay. When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover
කතන්දර කියන්නී
සඟවා ගත් රහස් නැත්තේ කාටද? එහෙත් වසර හැත්තෑවක් පුරා රහස් සඟවාගෙන වෙනත් කෙනෙකු නමින් ජීවත්වෙමින් සිට ලොව හැරදා යාමට පෙර පාපෝච්ඡුාරණය කිරීමට සිතන්නේ කව්රුන්ද? ඒ පාපෝච්ඡුාරණයත් සත්යයක්ද? ජෝසෆ් වෙබර්, සේජ්, ඇඩම් සහ ලියෝ වර්තමානයේත් ෆ්රාන්ස්, රයිනර්, මින්කා සහ ඩරිජා අතීතයේත්, ආනියා, ඬේමියන්, ඇලෙක්ස් හා කැසිමිර් ප්රබන්ධයේත් හැසිරෙනුයේ වංචනිකව, එකිනෙකා රවටා ගනිමිනි. කිසිවෙක් කිසිවකුට සියයට සියයක් සත්යය පවසන්නේ නැත. සත්යය අසත්යයෙන් වසා දැමීමට කෙතරම් උත්සාහ කළත් අවසානයේ සත්යය මතුපිටට එන්නේ දිය යට ඔබා යට ගැසීමට තැත් දැරූ රබර් බෝලයක් මෙනි.
හඩ නිහඩ
ඇලිසියා බෙරෙන්සන් සිය සැමියා ශ්රේබ්රියෙල්ට බෙහෙවින් ආදරය කළාය එහෙත් එක් රැයකදී ඇයම ඔහුව වෙඩි තබා මාර දැමුවාය .ඒ මන්ද හේතුව අනාවරණය කරගත නොහැකි සිය සැමියා ඝාතනය කළ තැන් පටන් ඇය වචනයක් හෝ කතා නො කිරීම නිසාය .
රෝස මාලිගාවේ මනුසත්තු
ගෙවුණු මාර්තු මාසයේ හිටිහැටියේම හිරු පැමිණි ඉරු දිනයක රෝස මාලිගාවේ ගෙවත්තේ තැනක පුටුවක් තබා නර්මදා වාඩි ගෙන සිටියාය. රත්නවීර ඇය අසළට ගියේ තමා අලුතින් ගත් කැමරාවත් අරගෙනයි. කැමරාවකුත් අරගෙන තමා ඉදිරියට ආ තාත්තා එයින් තමාගේ පින්තුරයක් ගන්නට උත්සාහ කරනු දකින දියණියට සිනහ පහළ විය. ඒ සිනහව කැමරාවේ සටහන් විය.
Orange Moon
When Leela, a teenage girl, is kidnapped by the Tamil Freedom Fighters, her brother enlists the help of the staff and guests at the Moon Rise Hotel.
Marni, the hotel manager, is in despair about the problems in her marriage, the futile search for her father and finding Leela alive. Hosting a dinner party for an arrogant junior minister is the last thing she needs.
Escape to Australia on a refugee boat may be the only option, but will they find Leela in time?
The lives of these strangers collide in a cross-cultural story of love, despair, bravery and corruption.
Rules For Being A Girl
New York Times-bestselling authors candace bushnell and Katie cotugno team up in this fierce, feminist exploration of everyday sexism. From Katie cotugno and author of sex and the City candace bushnell comes this fierce and feisty exploration of feminism: standing up, speaking out and rewriting the rules. Don’t be easy. Don’t give it up. Don’t be a prude. Don’t be cold. Don’t put him in the friend Zone. Don’t Act desperate. Don’t let things go too far. Don’t give him the wrong idea
Loyal Stalkers
In a private room sheltered from the Colombo riots, a seventeen-year-old girl gives birth to a hatechild. At a city gym, an introverted fitness instructor obsesses over his unattainable client. Inside an untended guest-house room, an adolescent cricket champ is caught unawares by his coach’s violent fury. By a rain-drenched gravesite, a special-needs teacher confides in a stranger.
Hidden Depths
A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope intrigued. But then another body is discovered in a rock pool, the corpse again strewn with flowers. Vera must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death.
The Girl Who Reads On The Metro
When Juliette takes the métro to her loathed office job each morning, her only escape is in books – she avidly reads on her journey and imagines what her fellow commuters’ choices might say about them. But when, one day, she decides to alight the train a few stops early and meets Soliman – the mysterious owner of the most enchanting bookshop Juliette has ever seen – she is sure her life will never be the same again . . .
Redemption
Decker has returned to Burlington, Ohio, for a special reason. It would have been his daughter Molly’s fourteenth birthday. Molly was brutally murdered four years ago in their home, along with his beloved wife, Cassie, and his brother-in-law. But then Decker is tracked down by a man he’ll never forget: Meryl Hawkins, his first homicide arrest more than twelve years ago.
Anil`S Ghost
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island.
Dork Diaries Holiday Heart Break
IT’S THE BIGGEST DANCE OF THE YEAR AND IT’S UP TO THE GIRLS TO ASK THE BOYS. NIKKI REALLY WANTS TO ASK HER CRUSH, BRANDON, BUT WHAT IF HE SAYS NO? MAJOR CRINGE! WILL NIKKI PLUCK UP THE COURAGE TO ASK BRANDON, OR WILL SHE BE LEFT AT HOME LIKE A TOTAL DORK-ARELLA?!
Dork Diaries Once Upon A Dork
WHAT SONG COULD YOU LISTEN TO 100 TIMES? WHAT TV SHOW ARE YOU TOTALLY OBSESSED WITH RIGHT NOW AND WHY?
Paper Towns
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS AND LOOKING FOR ALASKA, SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES QUENTIN JACOBSEN HAS ALWAYS LOVED MARGO ROTH SPIEGELMAN, FOR MARGO (AND HER ADVENTURES) ARE THE STUFF OF LEGEND AT THEIR HIGH SCHOOL. SO WHEN SHE ONE DAY CLIMBS THROUGH HIS WINDOW AND SUMMONS HIM ON AN ALL-NIGHT ROAD TRIP OF REVENGE HE CANNOT HELP BUT FOLLOW. BUT THE NEXT DAY MARGO DOESN’T COME TO SCHOOL AND A WEEK LATER SHE IS STILL MISSING. Q SOON LEARNS THAT THERE ARE CLUES IN HER DISAPPEARANCE . . . AND THEY ARE FOR HIM. BUT AS HE GETS DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY – CULMINATING IN ANOTHER AWESOME ROAD TRIP ACROSS AMERICA – HE BECOMES LESS SURE OF WHO AND WHAT HE IS LOOKING FOR. MASTERFULLY WRITTEN BY JOHN GREEN, THIS IS A THOUGHTFUL, INSIGHTFUL AND HILARIOUS COMING-OF-AGE STORY.
Julys People-Nadine Gordimer
FOR YEARS, IT HAS BEEN WHAT IS CALLED A ‘DETERIORATING SITUATION’. NOW ALL OVER SOUTH AFRICA THE CITIES ARE BATTLEGROUNDS. THE MEMBERS OF THE SMALLEST FAMILY – LIBERAL WHITES – ARE RESCUED FROM THE TERROR BY THEIR SERVANT, JULY, WHO LEADS THEM TO REFUGE IN HIS NATIVE VILLAGE. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SMALLEST AND TO JULY – THE SHIFTS IN CHARACTER AND RELATIONSHIPS – GIVES US AN UNFORGETTABLE LOOK INTO THE TERRIFYING, TACIT UNDERSTANDINGS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES.
Dork Diaries How To Dork Your Diary
NIKKI MAXWELL HAS BEEN WRITING IN A DIARY SINCE THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, AND SHE USUALLY TAKES IT EVERYWHERE SHE GOES, SO SHE CAN’T BELIEVE IT WHEN ONE MORNING SHE CAN’T FIND HER DIARY! THE HUNT IS ON, AND WHILE SHE LOOKS, PURSUING VARIOUS THEORIES ABOUT WHERE IT COULD BE, NIKKI CAN’T HELP PUTTING TOGETHER A LIST OF IMPORTANT DIARY-KEEPING LESSONS TO REMEMBER IN CASE OF MISSING DIARY EMERGENCIES LIKE THIS ONE. OVERFLOWING WITH NIKKI’S TRADEMARK HUMOUR AND ART THIS SPECIAL DIY EDITION OF DORK DIARIES NOT ONLY FEATURES A BRAND NEW STORY FEATURING ALL OF YOUR FAVOURITE CHARACTERS FROM THE SERIES,
And The Mountains Echoed
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING NOVELS IN THE MARKETMESMERISE YOUR SENSES WITH THIS RIVETING STORYLINE! PRESENTING THE GREAT BESTSELLER BY KHALED HOSSENI, ‘AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED’ IS A GREAT NOVEL WHICH IS A MUST HAVE FOR READING ENTHUSIASTS. THE NOVEL IS ABOUT A BOY ABDULLAH AND HIS SISTER PARI WHO LIVE WITH THEIR FATHER ALONG WITH THEIR STEPMOTHER. THE NOVEL IS SET IN THE LANDS OF SHADBAGH, AFGHANISTAN WHERE THEIR FATHER, SABOOR, IS IN A CONSTANT SEARCH FOR A PLACE TO WORK SO HE CAN FEED HIS FAMILY. THE STORY HIGHLIGHTS THEIR STRUGGLE THROUGH THE EVIL EYES OF POVERTY AND THE BRUTAL WINTERS.
Boy In The Dress
The sparkling debut children’s novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country.Dennis was different.Why was he different, you ask?Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book…Charming, surprising and hilarious – The Boy in the Dress is everything you would expect from the co-creator of Little Britain. David Walliams’s beautiful first novel will touch the hearts (and funny bones) of children and adults alike.”
Billionaire Boy
“A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and one of the fastest growing children’s author across the globe.Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact.You see, Joe’s rich. Really, really rich. Joe’s got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He’s the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land.Yes, Joe has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But there’s just one thing he really needs: a friend…”
Puffin Classics Anne Of Green Gables
The Cuthberts are in for a shock. They are expecting an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables – but a skinny red-haired girl turns up instead. Highly spirited Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts’ affection with her vivid imagination and constant chatter, and soon it’s impossible to imagine life without her. A favourite classic with cover and introduction by the inimitable Lauren Child, award-winning creator of Clarice Bean and the hugely popular Charlie and Lola series.
The English Teacher
Krishna, is an English teacher at the same college he had attended as a student. Although Krishna has recently married, his wife Susila and their daughter live with his parents-in-law some miles away. The story opens with his immediate family deciding to join him in Malgudi. Krishna is initially frightened by his new state of affairs, but he soon finds that his love for both his wife and child grows deeper than he could have imagined.
The Art Of War (Sun Tzu)
Sun Tzu’s Art of War is a widely acclaimed book on military strategy that has influenced and shaped the idea of Western and Eastern nations military philosophy. It presents complete instructions on how to win battles and manage conflicts. The theories proposed in Art of War are extremely beneficial on the battle ground and has been tried and tested by many successful military generals around the world
Sense and Sensibility-Puffin Classics
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY IS CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST CLASSIC NOVELS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. IT IS ONE OF JANE AUSTEN’S BEST WORKS. IT IS A MOVING TALE OF TWO SISTERS WHO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING THAT WHIRL AROUND EMOTIONS LIKE LOVE, SORROW, BETRAYAL, AND ROMANCE.
Secret Garden-Puffin Classics
AFTER LOSING HER PARENTS, YOUNG MARY LENNOX IS SENT FROM INDIA TO LIVE IN HER UNCLE’S GLOOMY MANSION ON THE WILD ENGLISH MOORS. SHE IS LONELY AND HAS NO ONE TO PLAY WITH BUT ONE DAY SHE LEARNS OF A SECRET GARDEN SOMEWHERE IN THE GROUNDS THAT NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO ENTER. THEN MARY UNCOVERS AN OLD KEY IN A FLOWERBED – AND A GUST OF MAGIC LEADS HER TO THE HIDDEN DOOR. SLOWLY SHE TURNS THE KEY AND ENTERS A WORLD SHE COULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED.
Puffin Classics Dracula
JONATHAN HARKER IS TRAVELLING TO CASTLE DRACULA TO SEE THE TRANSYLVANIAN NOBLE, COUNT DRACULA. HE IS BEGGED BY LOCALS NOT TO GO THERE, BECAUSE ON THE EVE OF ST GEORGE’S DAY, WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT, ALL THE EVIL THINGS IN THE WORLD WILL COME FULL SWAY. BUT BUSINESS MUST BE DONE, SO JONATHAN MAKES HIS WAY TO THE CASTLE – AND THEN HIS NIGHTMARE BEGINS. HIS BELOVED WIFE MEENA AND OTHER LOST SOULS HAVE FALLEN UNDER THE COUNT’S HORRIFYING SPELL. DRACULA MUST BE DESTROYED . . . WITH AN EXCITING INTRODUCTION BY HOLLY BLACK, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES.