This one book is a definite must for all parents who want their kids to read Indian stories rather than just Harry Potter, Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton, Hardy Boys or God forbid Twilight series!!!!! Its called, ‘One Hundred and One Folktales From India‘...
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A Night To Remember ‘Night‘ by Elie Wiesel is not a book for the faint hearted or for those looking for a casual read. The book maybe thin but don’t judge it by the size. Its profound impact on the reader goes beyond its volume. The book deals with the Holocaust-one of the brutal...
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Plot Certain people in law and secret police circles are involved in morbid sex slavery and the like. Lisbeth Salander gets into this mire and soon half a dozen people want her dead and six feet under. Review In the second installment of Stieg Larsson’s “Millenium trilogy”, asocial hacker Lisbeth Salander is on the...
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Author: Stieg Larsson ISBN 978-1-84724-254-2 (English) Publication date: 2005 Translated by: Reg Keeland Pages: 480 Plot Harriet Vanger has been missing and presumed dead for 40 years. But then why does her great uncle, Henrik Vanger, still receive one framed flower every year on his birthday, from her? Review Sweden may be the land...
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Author: Agatha Christie Lead Character: Hercule M. Poirot Genre: Fiction, Crime Thriller, Murder Mystery Who do you think is the best detective character after Sherlock Holmes? Do you even know other characters? Well, in case you don’t know let me introduce to you Hercule M. Poirot, A Belgian by Birth but settled in UK...
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As the name suggests, it is a story of a Mistress of Spices! Sounded interesting hence I chose this one to read. It is written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni who also wrote “Arranged Marriage”, a book which I honestly did not know until I read this title. Mistress of Spices is a story of...
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Plot: The book recounts 12 nervous hours in the life fictional airport ‘Lincoln International’ at Chicago and how the lives of about a dozen people collide as a result. Main Characters: Mel Bakersfield (Airport General Manager), Cindy Bakersfield (Mel’s wife), D O Guerro (a passenger with a terrifying agenda!), Tanya Livingston (A passenger relations...
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The Hot Zone, is a 1994 New York Times best seller book by Richard Preston. The Book discusses the sudden reappearance of the Ebola virus, which was then limited to Southern Africa, to be discovered in Washington D.C. How America responds to the virus and whether it succeeded in ensuring the safety of its citizens...
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The Fountain Head is a story of one man and the rest of the world. It is a philosophical fiction that entails the story through love, lust, trust, jealousy, care, passion, and enthusiasm of the people and the world. The story starts with the two architecture students, Howard Roark and Peter Keating; one being...
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Plot: A scientific research deep sea drilling team drills into an underwater volcano except that it isn’t a volcano at all! Main Protagonists: Perry Bergman (President of Benthic marine), Suzanne (Oceanographer), Donald (ex-navy), Michael (ex-naval diver who was thrown out the Navy as a result of more than a few transgressions), Richard (same story...
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