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Book Review: By God - The Making of a Messiah by Shashi Warrier

About the Book Ghublistan. An island resplendent with the divine herb. A country rich in bat Guano. A society where people are content, happy to serve their Prophet. But the country is experiencing a surge in emigration, and the Prophet is getting restless.  Image Source: Goodreads.com

Book Review: Bestseller by Ahmed Faiyaz

Introduction Image (C) Privy Trifles ISBN:978-9353332648 Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Rupa Publications Price: Rs. 295/- (I got the book for review from the publisher)

Book Review: When I Hit You Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN:978-9386228840 Genre:  Fiction / Contemporary Publishers: Juggernaut Price: Rs. 299/- (I got the book for review from the publisher)

Book Review: I am M-M-Mumbai by Rishi Vohra

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ISBN:978-93-86455-70-3 Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Vishwakarma Publications Price: Rs. 250/- (I got the book for review from the author)

Book Review: The Reluctant Healer by Andrew Himmel (ARC)

Introduction Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Greenleaf Book Press  (I got the ARC for review from Smith Publicity)

Book Review: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ISBN:978-1509859849 Genre:  Fiction / Contemporary Publishers: Pan Macmillan India Price: Rs. 759/- (I got the book for review from the publisher)

Book Review: Half the Night is Gone by Amitabha Bagchi

Introduction (C) Privy Trifles ISBN :    978-9386-2287-03 Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Juggernaut  Price:  Rs. 599/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Book Review: Missing - a novel by Sumana Roy

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-9386021991 Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Aleph Book Company Price:  Rs. 599/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Book Review: The Baptism of Tony Calangute by Sudeep Chakravarti

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-9386021960 Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Aleph Book Company Price:  Rs. 299/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Book Review: Let's Have Coffee by Parul A. Mittal

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ISBN :    978-812-9148-66-7 Genre:  Fiction/ Romance Publishers: Rupa Publishing Price:  Rs. 295/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Book Review: Turn On, Tune Out by Cynthia Adina Kirkwood

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ASIN :    B071VXXD5P Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Amazon Price:  Rs. 389/-  ( I got the book for review from the  author )

Book Review: Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-1509852864 Genre:  Fiction/ Young Adult Publishers: Pan Macmillan India Price:  Rs. 399/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Book Review: The Assassinations- A Novel of 1984 by Vikram Kapur

Introduction ISBN :  978-9386702333 Genre:  Fiction/ Drama Publishers: Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Price:  Rs. 299/-  ( I got the book for review from Writer's Melon )

Book Review: The Indigo Sun by Rupa Bhullar

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN:  978-8129149602 Genre:   F iction / Contemporary Publishers: Rupa Publications Price:  Rs. 295/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Book Review: Invisible Ties by Nadya A R

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN:  978-8129147974 Genre:   Fiction Publishers:  Rupa Publications Price:  Rs. 250/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publishe r )

Book Review: Rebound by Sanil Sachar

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ISBN:  978-8129148438 Genre:   Fiction Publishers:  Rupa Publications Price:  Rs. 200/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publishe r )

Book Review: I Quit! Now What? by Zarreen Khan

Introduction ISBN:  978-93-8150-6974 Genre:  Fiction Publishers:  Amaryllis Price:  Rs. 350/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher ) Nimisha is exhausted. Of endless weekdays, working weekends, making presentations, working with complicated Excel sheets, handling a boss with time-management issues and the general politics of the workplace. Sigh! After eight years of this life, her only personal insight is that she's terribly unambitious and constantly struggling to be an average performer in the competitive corporate world. When a colleague flashes the glint of a golden sabbatical she catapults into it headfirst. After all, one has to find one's calling at some point in one's life. So will the sabbatical miraculously change her life forever? Or will she go rushing back to her pocket money-generating job? Behind the Book Source: Goodreads.com

Book Review: All That Glitters by Liza Trevino

Introduction ISBN:  978-1633933088 Genre: Fiction / Women Publishers: Koehler Books Price: $18.93/-  ( I got the book for review from b00k r3vi3ws ) Alexandria Moreno--clever, sexy, ambitious and, at times, self-destructive. She blazes a path from Texas to Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1980s to make her dreams of becoming an A-list Hollywood film director come true. She and her best friend arrive in Los Angeles with little more than hope and the determination to make it big. Alex, a beauty as dark and mysterious as her scarred heart, stands at the bottom of the Hollywood mountain looking up, fighting for her chance to climb to the top. Will her quest to live fast and take no prisoners on her way to success destroy her in the end? All That Glitters is a women's fiction Jackie Collins-type saga that introduces a strong, driven Latina heroine at the center of a rags-to-riches story spanning a decade of action. Along the way, Alexandria walks the fine line separating...

Book Review : A Way back into love by Veronica Thatcher

-Introduction-- ISIN:  9781946641175 Genre: Fiction /Contemporary Romance Publishers: Notion Press Price:  Rs.379/-  ( I got the book for review from b00k r3vi3ws ) Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes, uncertain. People, irrational. But love…well, that makes everything complicated. And when you are caught in a tangled web of secrets, lies, and complex affairs, someone is bound to get burned. Emily Stevens is a spunky, spirited college girl whose life gets turned upside-down when she realizes she's in love with her best friend of fifteen years, Derek Thorpe. As Emily prepares to confess her feelings to Derek, something happens one night which changes her life forever. Five years later, Emily finds herself in Boston, alone and heartbroken. Will she ever be able to forget the past? And what will she find when she returns home...to the man she left behind? Buy your own copy at Amazon  Behind the Book Source: Goodread...

Book Review: What May Have Been by Lynn Steward

Introduction ASIN:  B00U8CR2KG Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Literary fiction / Women's Fiction Publishers: Lynn Steward Publishing Price:  Rs. 250/- ( I got this book from the b00k r3vi3w for a review ) As a fashion buyer at one of New York’s most glamorous department stores, Dana McGarry is a tastemaker, her keen instinct for fashion trends and innovative ideas coupled with a razor sharp business sense. But like the elegant and conservative store that employs her, Dana is caught between two eras—between being liked and standing her ground, between playing by the rules and being a maverick. Dana is sensitive and beautiful, but what you see is not what you get. Behind the cool and attractive facade, Dana is both driven by her need to control yet impeded by her expectation of perfectionism. As she competes to replace women at the top of their game, she is challenged by jealous colleagues. And when a wealthy love interest wants to open doors and support he...