THE DAY THE CRAYONS CAME HOME

Title: The Day the Crayons Came Home Author: Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers, Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Penguin Release Date: August 18, 2015 Pages: 32 THE DAY THE CRAYONS CAME HOME Drew Daywalt (Author), Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)     Do you know who Esteban…..The Magnificent is?? Neither did I till I read this book. Like its […]

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SHAHAB NAMA

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Shahab Namah (Urdu)– 1999 by Qudrat Ullah Shahab  (Author) Shahab Nama is one of the most interesting autobiographies I have ever read. It is a fantastic read which unfortunately was never translated into English. Shahab Nama is the story of Qudrat Ullah Shahab, a Pakistani Bureaucrat who served in the Indian Civil Service before partition and volunteered during the famine […]

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WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

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WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalanithi  (Author),Abraham Verghese (Foreword) I read this book in one sitting and by the time I ended it there were knots in my stomach and tears in my eyes. Having lost someone very close to cancer I could feel the pain the writing. The first half talks about the early life of Dr. […]

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