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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)

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com Genre:  Fiction/ Young Readers Publishers: Pan Macmillan India

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 )

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-812-915-1506 Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Rupa Publishers Price:  Rs. 295/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ISBN:   978-9386850423 Genre:   F iction  Publishers: Westland Price:  Rs. 299/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publishe r )

Introduction ISBN:  978-1545558089 Genre: Fiction Publishers: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Price (Kindle Version): $3.99/-  ( I got the book for review from the b00k r3vi3ws ) One morning, Yael and Arik Katz are startled by a surprise inheritance: Noa, the ten-year-old daughter of Canadian friends with whom they had made a long-forgotten will-exchange agreement, is delivered to their doorstep with no warning. Why did her parents decide that she should grow up with acquaintances rather than family? How do you raise a girl you do not even know? Secrets and lies are revealed and everything starts to get complicated Noa does not find her place in Israel. Yael takes her back to Toronto to look for a more suitable adoptive home. The search reveals answers to questions that have not even been asked about parenthood, marital relations, love, one’s home, and the fragility of life. Can life ever be the same again? As Yael delves into Noa’s past to bett...

Introduction ISBN: 9789382616740 Genre: Fiction / Drama Publishers: Pan MacMillan Price:  Rs.350/- ( I got this book from the publisher for a review ) Single mother Samaira juggles her corporate job and Aksh, her teenaged son, even as she defies society, disapproving in-laws and her own family. But when Aksh is found battered and beaten at school, she finds herself questioning her role as a mother. Faced with a conspiracy of silence from the school, she delves deeper only to discover the murky world of bullying, the secret life of teenagers, and the emotional distance between parents and children. In her pursuit of truth and justice, Samaira ends up challenging the power equations of politics, wealth and influence. It’s Not About You is an urgent, contemporary tale that celebrates the persistence of the human spirit to fight against all odds. Behind the book Source: Goodreads.com

Introduction ISBN: 9788129142146 Genre: Fiction Publishers: Rupa Publishing House Price:  Rs.176/- ( I got this book from the publisher for a review ) Hi, I'm Radhika Mehta and I'm getting married this week. I work at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank. Thank you for reading my story. However, let me warn you. You may not like me too much. One, I make a lot of money. Two, I have an opinion on everything. Three, I have had a boyfriend before. OK, maybe two. Now if all this was the case with a guy, one might be cool with it. But since I am a girl these three things I mentioned don’t really make me too likeable, do they? Behind the book Source: Goodreads.com

Introduction ISIN:  9781250043948 Genre: Fiction / Drama Publishers: Pan McMillan Publishers Price:  Rs. 307/- ( I got this book from the publisher for a review ) From the award-winning author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors comes the confession of a woman, driven by the demons of her past to commit a single and possibly unforgivable crime. "The walls of my cell are painted an industrial white, like albumen. They must think the color is soothing. Where I come from it connotes absence, death, unrelenting loneliness." In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. There the girl must reinvent herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin. Both love and loss fill her life, but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and scars of her past...