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By By Khaled Hosseini

Easily one of the most memorable books I’ve read recently. This beautifully written first novel by Hosseini presents a glimpse of life in Afghanistan before the Russian invasion and introduces richly drawn, memorable characters.

Quiet, intellectual Amir craves the attention of his father, a wealthy Kabul businessman. Kind and self-confident Hassan is the son of Amir’s father’s servant. The motherless boys play together daily, and when Amir wins the annual kite contest, Hassan offers to track down the opponent’s runaway kite as a prize. When he…

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Day of the Diamond Earrings
A Novel of Struggle, Love and Achievement
By
Helen Brighton Wheeler
Published by Book Pal
http://www.bookpal.com.au/
A very well written Novel, Helen is really good with her characters and plots.  Her writing prowess comes from her journalistic background and she has done full justice to the story.  It’s the story about a woman, Christine, struggling to make the best out of the moments thrown at her. The moments are very realistic and the reader gets deeply engrossed and no doubt the ending is surprising…

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Heartland- On the Side of Angels
By TERRI SEDMAK

Kelly and Luke form the heart of this epic novel. The chapters are written in a very unique manner dedicated to the protagonist on the scene at that moment of the story.  The stories are written in a conversational mode and one feels like it’s been enacted in front of the eyes with lots of emotions which the readers tries to visualize and enact through the verses. That’s one unique USP that has resulted in this huge compilation. The story…

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Traegonia the Ember Rune

As soon as you start this novel you are inthe middle of action. An old Traegonia prophecy that had brought theprotagonists together was the beginning of an adventurous life for them in theprocess of which they learned many things in life together. There is a sweetmention of a game Track 20 which was innovatively created as a combination of hide-and-seekand Marco Polo. The game to me appears to be an initiative by the two differentspecies to make a step forward to come closer to each…

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It might have been a long time since I read a romantic adventure and the moment I held “Keeping Grace Alive” I liked it from the very beginning. Annie Lee has made a lovely attempt at creating a romantic adventure novel. It’s the story of two people, who are brought together by strange circumstances. These extraordinary situations make them explore probabilities and events that finally unfold the knots of fate.
It’s a romantic novel with its fair share of excitement, thrills and adventure. The backdrop is chosen well but would have…

Colors have been there as long as we can remember, till it dates back to ramayan or mahabharat infact. There has been a color description attached to the clothes, from the white of the purity to the saffron of the rishis to the pink, blue and red for the youth. Ever wondered where these colors came from?
How did the people in the faraway age when synthetic means were not known, make their colors? Does this question make you think even for a second? If yes in that this is…

When I started reading ‘Poems from the Heart’, being a lover of poetry I wanted to fall in love with the words. Few in the beginning looked quite promising but as I progressed I realized the writer was a novice and had left numerous loose ends in her poetry. Alana D.O. Babb has potential to be a good writer and she has done some very good writing too but she needs to learn and develop more skills of the trade.
‘An Open Book’ is one of the finest verses in…

Author’s note: To read ‘The Complete Adventures of Feluda (Vol I) by Satyajit Ray‘ please click here.

A disturbed grave in a centuries-old cemetery, a ciphered message and a mysterious ‘repeater’… On a visit to the Park Street cemetery (founded in 1767) in Calcutta, Feluda and his friends chance upon an old grave that has been dug into. Slight clues lead them into the heart of a mystery that is both complex and fascinating. When the jigsaw that involves Marquis Godwin’s dilapidated flat in a scary and gloomy old building…

The author K.S. Krueger has presented the best of fictional world with a moral connectivity to the real world. The novel was first published by Author House and that attaches enough credibility to it.
As I read the epilogue I wondered how the author would have weaved such a delicate plot of inducing moral responsibility in the readers with fictional characters that looked strange to me. The readers can also visit the website www.WorldOfTraegonia.com to get to know the fictional characters which make the reading all the more exciting and…

“All I know for sure is that Andy Dufresne wasn’t much like me or anyone else I ever knew… it was a kind of inner light he carried around with him.” – Red

Who hasn’t heard of ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, the 1994 movie starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman that received seven Academy Award nomination and many others! This is the book that the movie was based on. The characters were masterfully played by the lead actors, but then again, at the risk of sounding biased, I’ll say – the…