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Shabd lists the best-published memoirs, of well-known personalities, following them from birth, continuing in roughly chronological order until their death. It deals with those experiences of people's lives and the most significant events.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

"If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix’d in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the p

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

"If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix’d in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the p

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My Lost Diary

My Lost Diary

Abhik Dasgupta

Like the dried leaves of autumn, some pages of our lives get lost inevitably with time, yet the memories linger at a remote corner of our minds - never failing to inspire us into filling up the blank pages again and again. 'My Lost Diary' is not jus

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My Lost Diary

My Lost Diary

Abhik Dasgupta

Like the dried leaves of autumn, some pages of our lives get lost inevitably with time, yet the memories linger at a remote corner of our minds - never failing to inspire us into filling up the blank pages again and again. 'My Lost Diary' is not jus

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Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: An Autobiography

Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: An Autobiography

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is not My purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of My numerous experiments with truth, and as My life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.

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Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: An Autobiography

Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: An Autobiography

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is not My purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of My numerous experiments with truth, and as My life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.

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Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror

Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror

Amitava Kumar

Bureaucratic in its convolutions and brutal in its deceptions, the war on terror has had an impact on our lives that we do not yet understand. We sense it. A growing claustrophobia, wariness, suspicion, the stickiness of constant surveillance. But fo

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Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror

Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror

Amitava Kumar

Bureaucratic in its convolutions and brutal in its deceptions, the war on terror has had an impact on our lives that we do not yet understand. We sense it. A growing claustrophobia, wariness, suspicion, the stickiness of constant surveillance. But fo

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The Great Scientists- Charles Darwin (Inspiring biography of the World's Brightest Scientific Minds)

The Great Scientists- Charles Darwin (Inspiring biography of the World's Brightest Scientific Minds)

Om Books Editorial Team

Where did humans come from? And are monkeys really our cousins? Get the right answers to these questions and learn about the phenomenal discoveries Charles Darwin made about life on Earth. Read more

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The Great Scientists- Charles Darwin (Inspiring biography of the World's Brightest Scientific Minds)

The Great Scientists- Charles Darwin (Inspiring biography of the World's Brightest Scientific Minds)

Om Books Editorial Team

Where did humans come from? And are monkeys really our cousins? Get the right answers to these questions and learn about the phenomenal discoveries Charles Darwin made about life on Earth. Read more

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On Love and Sex

On Love and Sex

Khushwant Singh

Over a career spanning upwards of six decades, Khushwant Singh has done more to puncture the humbug, hypocrisy and prudishness of Indian society with his frank and unabashed explorations of human sexuality than any other Indian writer writing in Engl

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On Love and Sex

On Love and Sex

Khushwant Singh

Over a career spanning upwards of six decades, Khushwant Singh has done more to puncture the humbug, hypocrisy and prudishness of Indian society with his frank and unabashed explorations of human sexuality than any other Indian writer writing in Engl

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The Great Scientists- Albert Einstein (Inspiring biography of the World's Brightest Scientific Minds)

The Great Scientists- Albert Einstein (Inspiring biography of the World's Brightest Scientific Minds)

Om Books Editorial Team

What did Einstein say about time travel? How often did he comb his hair or even wear Socks? This book tells everything you want to know about the amazing genius, Albert Einstein. Read more

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The Great Scientists- Albert Einstein (Inspiring biography of the World's Brightest Scientific Minds)

The Great Scientists- Albert Einstein (Inspiring biography of the World's Brightest Scientific Minds)

Om Books Editorial Team

What did Einstein say about time travel? How often did he comb his hair or even wear Socks? This book tells everything you want to know about the amazing genius, Albert Einstein. Read more

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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Shyam Selvadurai

Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, “Th

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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Shyam Selvadurai

Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, “Th

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MY FATHER

MY FATHER

Jeetu

Whole story of my father

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MY FATHER

MY FATHER

Jeetu

Whole story of my father

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Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

Arundhati Roy

In the winter of 2014, Arundhati Roy met Edward Snowden, along with the actor and writer John Cusack and Daniel Ellsberg, the Snowden of the 1960s. Their conversations touched on some of the great themes of our times ֠the nature of the state, surveil

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Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

Arundhati Roy

In the winter of 2014, Arundhati Roy met Edward Snowden, along with the actor and writer John Cusack and Daniel Ellsberg, the Snowden of the 1960s. Their conversations touched on some of the great themes of our times ֠the nature of the state, surveil

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Women Scientists in India : Lives, Struggles and Achievements

Women Scientists in India : Lives, Struggles and Achievements

Anjana Chattopadhyay

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Women Scientists in India : Lives, Struggles and Achievements

Women Scientists in India : Lives, Struggles and Achievements

Anjana Chattopadhyay

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Journey of life

Journey of life

Chauhan faizan

सबसे पहले में आप को इस कहानी के लोगो से परिचय करवाता हूं। **फैजान चौहान** इस घर का सबसे बड़ा बेटा हे।फैजान को अकेला रहना और चुपचाप रहना पसंद हे वो बोहत ही शर्मिला लड़का हे. **मोहसिन चौहान** इस घर का छोटा बेटा हे।वो थोड़ा शरारती और काफी डिमांडिं

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Journey of life

Journey of life

Chauhan faizan

सबसे पहले में आप को इस कहानी के लोगो से परिचय करवाता हूं। **फैजान चौहान** इस घर का सबसे बड़ा बेटा हे।फैजान को अकेला रहना और चुपचाप रहना पसंद हे वो बोहत ही शर्मिला लड़का हे. **मोहसिन चौहान** इस घर का छोटा बेटा हे।वो थोड़ा शरारती और काफी डिमांडिं

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Sufi: The Invisible Man of the Underworld [Paperback] Surti, Aabid

Sufi: The Invisible Man of the Underworld [Paperback] Surti, Aabid

Aabid Surti

Sufi is the story of two boys who grew up in Dongri, Mumbai. One of them, Iqbal Rupani, aided and abetted by a corrupt policeman, is drawn towards criminal activities in his teens. As he becomes powerful and influential as a racketeer and smuggler, h

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Sufi: The Invisible Man of the Underworld [Paperback] Surti, Aabid

Sufi: The Invisible Man of the Underworld [Paperback] Surti, Aabid

Aabid Surti

Sufi is the story of two boys who grew up in Dongri, Mumbai. One of them, Iqbal Rupani, aided and abetted by a corrupt policeman, is drawn towards criminal activities in his teens. As he becomes powerful and influential as a racketeer and smuggler, h

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Puffin lives : Rani Laxmibai

Puffin lives : Rani Laxmibai

Deepa Agarwal

A little girl, Manikarnika, with an uncanny sense of her own destiny, grew up to be none other than the brave queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai. Trained in horse riding and the martial arts from an early age, Manu was married to Gangadhar Rao, the Mah

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Puffin lives : Rani Laxmibai

Puffin lives : Rani Laxmibai

Deepa Agarwal

A little girl, Manikarnika, with an uncanny sense of her own destiny, grew up to be none other than the brave queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai. Trained in horse riding and the martial arts from an early age, Manu was married to Gangadhar Rao, the Mah

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Sargam

Sargam

Sargam

The most important thing is to that somethime we forget how to leave our lives. But when we some good character in Bible we found good lesson. This character will help to grow in the lord.

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Sargam

Sargam

Sargam

The most important thing is to that somethime we forget how to leave our lives. But when we some good character in Bible we found good lesson. This character will help to grow in the lord.

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Ready for Revolution

Ready for Revolution

Stokely Carmichael

Carmichael ultimately sided with those calling for the expulsion of whites. He said that whites should organize poor white southern communities, of which there were plenty, while SNCC focused on promoting African-American self-reliance through Black

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Ready for Revolution

Ready for Revolution

Stokely Carmichael

Carmichael ultimately sided with those calling for the expulsion of whites. He said that whites should organize poor white southern communities, of which there were plenty, while SNCC focused on promoting African-American self-reliance through Black

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Love a Little Stronger

Love a Little Stronger

Preeti Shenoy

Life is a collection of moments, some memorable and some mundane. Often it is the tiniest things that bring the greatest joy, even though at that time, we have no idea that what we are witnessing may be magical, something that we will talk about and

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Love a Little Stronger

Love a Little Stronger

Preeti Shenoy

Life is a collection of moments, some memorable and some mundane. Often it is the tiniest things that bring the greatest joy, even though at that time, we have no idea that what we are witnessing may be magical, something that we will talk about and

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In Other Words

In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri

On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in he

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In Other Words

In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri

On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in he

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The Last Queen

The Last Queen

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

'I am Rani Jindan, Mother of the Khalsa. That is my identity. That is my fate.' While we have all heard tales of Rani Lakshmi Bai and Padmavati, not many of us are familiar with another Indian queen. Daughter of the royal kennel keeper, the bea

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The Last Queen

The Last Queen

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

'I am Rani Jindan, Mother of the Khalsa. That is my identity. That is my fate.' While we have all heard tales of Rani Lakshmi Bai and Padmavati, not many of us are familiar with another Indian queen. Daughter of the royal kennel keeper, the bea

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WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLS

WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLS

VrC Dhirendra Singh Jafa

When the Country Calls is an inspiring saga of a patriotic soldier who left no stone unturned in serving mother India and the struggles of a prisoner-of-war and his fellow colleagues in enemy captivity, while upholding their pride in being Indians an

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WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLS

WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLS

VrC Dhirendra Singh Jafa

When the Country Calls is an inspiring saga of a patriotic soldier who left no stone unturned in serving mother India and the struggles of a prisoner-of-war and his fellow colleagues in enemy captivity, while upholding their pride in being Indians an

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