Seeking fame with his violin, eight-year-old Mishka joins a circus.

Natasha is staying with her grandfather in Horridgrad - a town full of criminals and corrupt officials, ruled by Ivan the Horrid. To cheer her up, her grandfather buys her a snow white puppy. She calls him Mishka. Mishka grows to be big and brave. He foils a post office robbery and saves some children from drowning. Soon he is helping scare all the thugs from the streets. Everyone feels safer with Mishka around. But Ivan is not about to let the 'Big Dog' ruin his racket. When he discovers Mishka's secret he plots to use it to get rid of him for good

“Ben-David delivers spy thrillers with all the authenticity and inside knowledge of an ex-Mossad agent.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography Ronen, an expelled Mossad agent, has disappeared following a failed assassination attempt against the Hezbollah operative responsible for suicide bombings in Israel. Feared to be on an unauthorized mission, it is up to his former commander, Gadi, to track Ronen down and stop him from causing harm both to himself and to his country. The physical and intellectual scuffle between the two men becomes one of deeper moral inquiry. Written with a master novelist’s terse conviction, Duet in Beirut takes us inside a much-discussed but little understood world. As revealing in its psychological acuity as it is in its portrait of life in the Mossad, Duet in Beirut is an essential thriller of espionage and political intrigue—written by an author who spent twelve years working with Israel’s legendary intelligence agency. “Le Carré fans will enjoy Ben-David’s look behind the scenes of government-sanctioned hits and the tension between loyalty to the chain of command and dissent.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Mishka Ben-David’s Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg “The novel has a solid sense of intrigue and suspense . . . The characterizations are precise, too: these aren’t stick figures in a spy story but real people in a real environment. A nice blend of classic spy-novel conventions with a thoroughly contemporary setting.” —Booklist (starred review)

Retells five traditional tales from Galicia, a region that is partly in Poland and partly in Russia.

Reyansh is a boy who is into simple living and high thinking, who feels that our beliefs can manifest into reality. He leaves his well-paying job to do something big in his life. He chooses to become an entrepreneur. Besides his career, he has always wanted someone in his life with whom he can be as real as he is. Mishka is a simple innocent girl who has deep faith in love and destiny. She feels from the bottom of her heart that someone somewhere is made for her. She believes in the power of the universe and that everything happens for the reason. Will Reyansh get the one to whom he can say “you are my everything”? Will Mishka get the one to whom she can say “you are the one who is made for me”? Are they destined to be together or has destiny some other plan for them? What will happen when their different ways meet at the same destination?

About the Book: Abira, a girl next door, with dreams. She is smart and opinionated. But with unconventional dreams. She also has the courage to follow them. Meera and Anniruddha, Abira's loving and caring parents. And for those dreams, Abira has got her parents' support too. But, after all, they are people from another generation. So, how far will that support go? This book portrays how life should be. This book is not just a story. It is about you, doing what you really want to. Because, that's how it should be... About the Author: Apeksha Vithalkar (Pen Name - AvyaApeksha) believes that to lead a happy life one should look out for joy in little things. She values those tiny moments or aspects of a regular life that are usually unnoticed. She is into reading thought-provoking, yet light-hearted content. Her choice of reading reflects her way of writing. As a writer, she believes that there should be no filters in writing. Content should be easy to understand so that readers can connect to it instantly. Her simple yet binding style of putting words together makes the content relatable to the readers.