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book in this category highlights the main themes of Contemporary Society is that the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial order in the modern world is fraught with hardships, as was the transition from an agricultural to an industrial order in an earlier human era. This framework also illustrates the increasing fragmentation of the social order, which leads people away from the community and a common purpose to conflict and disunity.
Before We Visit the Goddess

Sweeping across the twentieth century, from the countryside of Bengal, India, to the streets of Houston, Texas, Before We Visit the Goddess takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the lives of three unforgettable women: Sabitri, Bela, and T

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Reef

At the age of eleven, Triton goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed with the island’s disappearing reef. It was the biggest house he had ever seen. People from all over the world came here-to sell their wares, to ta

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The Roof Beneath Their Feet

Roofs are meant for wild things. They are meant for romance and play. A place to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet caresses.But above all, they are realms of freedom. This is the story of Chachcho and Lalna and their much- t

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Suncatcher

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 JHALAK PRIZE 1964. Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hard-wor

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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke . . .' So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's

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23 May 2022
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Home: Vintage Minis

Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of Home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what i

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17 August 2022
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East, West

This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay a mispronunciation leads

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अनुभूति

अगस्त और मैं, जैसे बारिश और बादल, जैसे नदियां और पानी, जैसे जून कि तपती धरा पर अगस्त कि बूंदों की मनमानी, 45 डिग्री पारे के बाद सूखी फसलों कि फिर से हरियाली, एक ऐसा माह जिसकी शुरुआत फुहारों से होतीं, सावन और हरियाली के रंग लिये, श्रद्धा और भक्ती लि

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18 August 2022

All About Women

Collection of poetry on women, dowry, rape,social problems, family. Beautiful and sensitive, yet so provocative that this work along with her other writings have generated a call in Bangladesh for her execution for blasphemy. A leader in feminist act

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अनुभूति

अगस्त और मैं, जैसे बारिश और बादल, जैसे नदियां और पानी, जैसे जून कि तपती धरा पर अगस्त कि बूंदों की मनमानी, 45 डिग्री पारे के बाद सूखी फसलों कि फिर से हरियाली, एक ऐसा माह जिसकी शुरुआत फुहारों से होतीं, सावन और हरियाली के रंग लिये, श्रद्धा और भक्ती लि

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18 August 2022

The Prelude

William Wordsworth's verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of his works, from the epic autobiographical masterpie

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27 April 2022

Stories We Never Tell

The Stories We Never Tell is a contemporary story that not only revolves around mental health issues, but also the pressures that young people put on themselves. There are stories we never talk about. Stories we are afraid to share. Simply becaus

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Interpreter of Maladies

Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise.A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaki

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23 May 2022
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Asheesh Kumar's Diary

मेरा स्टोरी लिखने का प्रयास है कि में आपको बता दूं कि लड़का होना इतना आसान नहीं होता है

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25 August 2022

Try thinking my way: comprises ten compositions

This book speks about ten relevant topics of different things in life. All the ten topics are related to our human living world. This book would actually evoke some ways of questioning our minds for the better. This book actually motivates us to th

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25 August 2022

Depression

The book depression is a combination of all emotion and human thought in which the human being have depressed thought by his thoughts and feeling there is a description of feeling of depression of any thing such mentality of human being in today's wo

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27 August 2022

Wise and Otherwise - A salute to Life

Fifty vignettes showcase the myriad shades of human nature A man dumps his aged father in an old-age home after declaring him to be a homeless stranger, a tribal chief in the Sahyadri hills teaches the author that there is humility in receiving too,

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11 June 2022
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Life: An adventurous journey....✨🥀

Life is a journey and not a destination. It has it's own up's and down's. Do not bogged down by the difficulties. In fact Emerson never wrote those words. it's possible what he did write, was it's impetus: "To finish the

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30 August 2022

Unaccustomed Earth

The book, ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ is a collection of short stories which reveal the patterns and layers of human emotions and the complicated links of relationships. The stories in this book focus on the lives and issues of the Indian American community

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23 May 2022
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Lost Libido And Other Gulp Fiction

An incredible collection of stories about people caught in the chaotic, cultural flux of urban India and their reactions to the problems, temptations and tricky choices that life throws at them.

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22 June 2022
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