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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night is the tale of how Christopher John Francis Boone solved the mystery of the murder of his neighbour's pet dog. Christopher suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and sees the world in a very different way to the way most of us do. For Christopher the most co
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The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones-Shakespeare-or someone using that name. Interred With Their Bones is the story of a lost Shakespeare play and the quest to discover who really wrote the plays credited to one William Shakespeare. Interred Withe Their
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Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon is not your typical happily ever after fairy tale. This is not Cinderella's story. This is a dark retelling with themes of aging and redemption from past mistakes. Lil is a lonely old woman struggling to make ends meet. She works for Geo
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First published in the early twentieth century shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin has been translated by Natasha Randall and republished in 2006. We is considered a precursor to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Fourand has a feeling similar to Ray Bradbury's Fa
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When was the last time you ventured into the land of make believe? Every so often, I love to read fairy tales and folktales because we can learn from them. I read Best-Loved Folk Tales of the World by Joanna Cole and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wish that life were that simple where the good guy u
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Top Indian author Chetan Bhagat leads as India's latest youth icon and the author of three immensely popular novels Five Point Someone, One Night @ The Call Centre and The 3 Mistakes of my life. His latest novel "2 States: The Story of my Marriage" has hit the stands just recently, and have showed
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A Long Way Down is the story of four people - Martin a former breakfast TV presenter who has fallen from grace; Maureen, a single mother struggling to cope with the drudgery of caring for a her disabled son; Jess, the 18 year-old daughter of a politician who is in despair at the break-up of a rela
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This is meant to be very much a work of, and for, our time, although I would hesitate to call it a novel. True, the author has meticulously delved into, and researched much of the political, social and religious issues which confront the early 21st century developed world. The seven chapters are e
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A fictional history is a portion of a book endearing to readers, becoming popular and timeless in a way that people can't forget it; and thus, it is somehow thought to be real. There are various stories and books that fall under this category such as the story of Merlin, Mary Magdalene and The Da
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Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951, partly on the strength of this funny, wicked, and remarkable masterpiece, originally published in 1944. The Dwarf catapulted Lagerkvist to international fame, but the book is now largely dwarfed (ahem) by his more famous
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