Name: Love, Job or Country Author: Rohit Agarwal No. of Pages: 258 Genre: Fiction Publisher: Frog Books (An Imprint of Leadstart Publishing) Price: Rs. 175/- Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says: Avinash and Chetan live in different domains, while one is an ambitious marketing professional; another is a hard-core spy out to serve …
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Book Review #23: Unravelling Anjali
Name: Unravelling AnjaliAuthor: Nim GholkarNo. of Pages: 357Genre: General FictionPublisher: BecomeShakespeare.comPrice: Rs. 299/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:1998 Australia. Anjali Jathar is looking forward to life as an immigrant bride following her arranged marriage to ambitious divorcee Ravi. Settling in, she explores not just a new culture but also her new found freedom. …
Book Review #22: God Is a Gamer
Name: God Is a GamerAuthor: Ravi SubramanianNo. of Pages: 310Genre: Thriller FictionPublisher: Penguin BooksPrice: Rs. 299/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CROSS GAMER, BANKER, POLITICIAN AND TERRORIST WITH VIRTUAL MONEY?From the bestselling author of ‘If God Was a Banker’ comes the first ever bitcon thriller. ‘God Is a Gamer’ is …
Book Review #21: 7 Secrets of The Goddess
Name: 7 Secrets of The GoddessAuthor: Devdutt PattanaikNo. of Pages:259Genre: MythologyPublisher: Westland Ltd.Price: Rs. 395/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:As nature, she is motherAs culture, she is daughterCreator of humanityShe is wealth, power, languageLakshmi, Durga, SaraswatiShe is DeviAnswer to that masculine anxietyWhich keeps resisting enquiryLocked in her stories, symbols and rituals are the …
Book Review #20: The Bluest Marble
Name: The Bluest MarbleAuthor: Vipin KumarNo. of Pages: 264Genre: Fiction-Urban LifePublisher: BecomeShakespeare.comPrice: Rs. 249/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:Aditya is known as Ram Kumar 125 – a name given to amnesiac patients in a ‘Mental Hospital’. He doesn’t have amnesia; he just doesn’t want to go back to the world he knew before. …
Book Review #19: 5 Soul-Searching Short Stories
Name: 5 Soul-Searching Short StoriesAuthor: Shailesh J. KhatriNo. of Pages: 115Genre: Fiction: Short StoriesPublisher: BecomeShakespeare.comPrice: Rs. 95/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:Five stories with five critical messages on life… Five situations with the protagonist making a decision that changes his life... Five circumstances that show you that life is never fair and yet… …
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Book Review #18: Beyond School
Name: Beyond SchoolAuthor: Chitra AnandNo. of Pages: 201Genre: Reality FictionPublisher: Frog Books (An imprint of Leadstart Publishing Pvt. Ltd.)Price: Rs. 125/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:Beyond School centres upon the weeks leading up to 17-year-old Shail s final board exams, as his world becomes a pressure-cooker and the weight of preparing for the …
Book Review #17: Whisper of the Worms
Name: Whisper of the WormsAuthor: MarcardianNo. of Pages: 317Genre: FictionPublisher: Cactus PublishersPrice: Rs. 240/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:A crow eyed peep in to the backyard of a banking organization.An unusual portrayal of the life and times of an ordinary mortal and his subdued fight for survival.Listen to the Whisper of the worms …
Book Review #16: 60 Minutes
Name: 60 MinutesAuthor: Upendra NamburiNo. of Pages: 361Genre: FictionPublisher: Westland Ltd.Price: Rs. 350/-Published in: June 2014The Blurb:Successful, brash and ferociously ambitious, Agastya is the poster-boy for corporate success. As the chief marketing officer of one of the biggest FMCG companies he is all set for the most important product launch at his career when things …
Book Review #15: Private India
Name: Private IndiaAuthor: Ashwin Sanghi and James PattersonNo. of Pages: 470Genre: Fiction/ThrillerPublisher: Arrow Books (www.randomhouse.co.uk)Price: Rs. 350/-Published in: 2014 The blurb of the book says: In Mumbai seemingly unconnected people are dying, strangled in a chilling ritual and with strange objects carefully arranged with the corpses. For Santosh Wagh, head of Private India, the Mumbai branch …
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