Travel related books
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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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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Pakistan has been in the World News a bit lately and it is unfortunate what we've seen. The Taliban is on the run and some of them are heading to other nations like Somalia. The Swat Valley is being dismantled by the Pakistani Military, but some of this is for show and the Taliban has folks on all
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Timothy Ferriss seems to have mastered the life of leisure and delegation. His product, brainQUICKEN, is run without his direct intervention. He travels the world and has had some fascinating experiences. But many would not call him successful, they would call him shiftless. In The Four-Hour Wor
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The Durian is a contentious fruit; loved by many whilst others are disgusted by its strong smell, and strange appearance. Jakarta, one of South-east Asia's largest and least known Cities, is aptly nicknamed the "Big Durian." Tales from the Big Durian, is a collection of true stories and experience
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Marone Memoirs - An immigrant Story by author Sarah E. Lingley is the story of her great grandparents Raffaele and Rosa Marone and their voyage to freedom in America. This book chronicles their journey and subsequent life in America. Raffaele Marone, tired of his life in Laurenzana, Italy, travel
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The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith is a historical yet very intense and exciting novel. Another masterpiece Tom Rob Smith was published since Child 44. The setting of the story is on Soviet Grounds in 1956. During this war era between the government and the civilians, everyone had seen the terror
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In the book "2 States-The Story of My Marriage", Chetan Bhagat has done an absolutely outstanding job in dissecting the psyche of the modern day Indian middle class family and brilliantly narrating in fiction the very real issues that people go through when inter caste/creed/religious/state marria
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I am an ardent reader. Thanks to my cousin Sumi who got me started on this habit when I was in 9th grade. Secret Seven(before that I had only read a lot of biographies personality development books and like university of success and positive thinking by Norman Vincent Peale who is one of my most f
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