Reliance TimeOut and Scholastic presented a book launch of "Terror on the Titanic: A Morningstar Agency Adventure" By Samit Basu
Reliance TimeOut, the books, music, stationery, toys and gifts store of Reliance Retail in association with Scholastic organized an exclusive book launch of "Terror on the Titanic: A Morningstar Agency Adventure" by Samit Basu at Reliance TimeOut store today. Terror on the Titanic is the author's first young adult novel, and the first book in the Morningstar Agency Adventures series.
Tweet-- Reliance TimeOut, the books, music, stationery, toys and gifts store of Reliance Retail in association with Scholastic organized an exclusive book launch of "Terror on the Titanic: A Morningstar Agency Adventure" by Samit Basu at Reliance TimeOut store today. Terror on the Titanic is the author's first young adult novel, and the first book in the Morningstar Agency Adventures series.
The book was unveiled amidst an enthusiastic crowd of book lovers. The author showed a short film based on the book and read excerpts from Terror on the Titanic.
Speaking at the launch Mr. Deepinder Kapany, Head, Reliance TimeOut, said, "We have always provided the most exciting and engaging book reading experiences to our readers. Today, the launch of 'Terror on the Titanic: A Morningstar Agency Adventure' by Samit Basu gives us another opportunity to present a great piece of literature for our young adult readers. The novel takes the reader through some of the fascinating characters and adventurous story line, which will surely be loved and appreciated by all readers."
About the book: The Morningstar Agency is an organisation that has existed across the world for many centuries. Its agents are powerful, charismatic individuals; some more than human, some merely unique. It is rumoured that the Agency President, Mr. Morningstar, is immortal, and has a remarkable degree of influence on our history. Terror on the Titanic, the first case report to be released from the Agency archives, stars agent Nathaniel Brown, a young Anglo-Indian man with many strange talents-he can speak to animals, has incredibly sharp senses and the skills of many jungle creatures. He owes these to his training-his very famous father was raised by wolves.
It's 1912, Brown is on the Titanic, and his mission is to prevent a stolen jewel from reaching America. Simple enough, except that monstrous aliens are also involved. And since this is a Morningstar Agency Adventure, the fate of our world hangs in the balance.
About the Author: Samit Basu is a 30-year-old Indian writer of novels, short stories, comics and screenplays. He has written three fantasy novels The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations. These were the first works of fantasy by an Indian in English and were all bestsellers in India. Apart from the novels, Basu has written several short stories in anthologies for adults and children, and comics, including two series, Devi and The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma, and a graphic novel, Untouchable, co-written with Mike Carey (the Felix Castor series, Lucifer, X-Men). He lives and works in New Delhi.
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About Reliance TimeOut
Reliance TimeOut, the books, music, stationery, toys and gifts store of Reliance Retail is the one stop destination of books, music and stationery enthusiasts. Reliance TimeOut offers a huge range of choice to customers across cities with 1,35,000 Books of every genre including Indian Languages and Academic books, over 65,000 movie and music titles, 21,000 Stationery Items, 8,000 Toys, 19,000 Gifts articles including Fragrances, Watches and Fashion Jewellery. Shoppers can choose from a variety of gifts for as low as Rs. 49/- or more to meet their tastes and requirements. Reliance TimeOut also periodically offers book enthusiasts with the option of interacting with their favourite authors through book reading sessions designed specially for them. These products combined together with services such as the Cafe, Kid's Play Area, Sound Domes, Reading Bar offered in a truly world class environment and with friendly, knowledgeable and energetic staff - has helped the store win the hearts of over 1 million customers.
About Reliance Retail Limited
Reliance Retail Limited (RRL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited opened its first retail store in November 2006 and today operates more than 1,000 stores in over 86 cities, spanning 14 states and serving over 2.5 million customers every week. RRL is a multi-format retailer that operates
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About Reliance Industries Limited
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India's largest private sector company on all major financial parameters with a turnover of Rs. 2,00,400 crore (US$ 44.6 billion), cash profit of Rs. 27,933 crore (US$ 6.2 billion), net profit of Rs. 16,236 crore (US$ 3.6 billion) and net worth of Rs. 1,37,171 crore (US$ 30.6 billion) as of March 31, 2010.
RIL is the first private sector company from India to feature in the Fortune Global 500 list of 'World's Largest Corporations' and ranks 117th amongst the world's Top 200 companies in terms of profits. RIL ranks 75th in the Financial Times FT Global 500 list of the world's largest companies. RIL is rated as the 15th 'Most Innovative Company' in the World in a survey conducted by the US financial publication-Business Week in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group.
About Scholastic
Scholastic Corporation is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books and a leader in educational technology. Scholastic has operations in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom. Internationally, the authors published by Scholastic include J.K. Rowling, R.L. Stine, Philip Pullman and Cornelia Funke.
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Scholastic India runs a dynamic publishing programme that aims to bring out innovative titles from the best of Indian authors and illustrators. Scholastic works closely with teachers, parents and students to encourage reading and promote the highest quality of reading and educational material in English.
Scholastic distributes its products and services through a variety of channels including proprietary school-based book clubs and school-based book fairs. It also works with trade distributors to sell books through retail stores throughout the Indian subcontinent.
The Indian authors published by Scholastic are Ruskin Bond, Anushka Ravishankar, Paro Anand, Manjula Padmanabhan, Meera Uberoi, and Samit Basu, among others.
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