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The Perks of being a Wallflower (Paperback)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ is an epistolary novel, where the narrator is a young introvert boy called Charlie. The story revolves around series of letters written by Charlie to an anonymous person mentioning his experiences. Though shy and sensitive in nature, Charlie is an intelligent boy with unconventional thinking capabilities. His first letters starts with Charlie mentioning about suicide of his Middle School’s friend and death of his favourite aunt Helen and how these tragic incidents have took toll in his life. Charlie befriends two seniors Patrick and Sam and ends up indulging in alcohol and other drugs with Sam. In the meantime, Charlie also learns about his sister having relationship with an abusive guy and eventually getting pregnant. The flashback of his aunt dying in car crash stops haunting Charlie, as he starts enjoying company of his friends and Sam. While playing Truth and Dare, he is asked to kiss the prettiest girl in the room; he kisses Sam for which he faces neglect from the group. Flashback returns. Will Charlie be ever able to get control over his life? Will he be able to get his friends back? What turns did Charlie’s life take and how he battled to overcome it?
- ASIN: 1451696191
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Media Tie-In edition (14 August 2012)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781451696196
- ISBN-13: 978-1451696196
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Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth (Paperback)
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ‘It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I’d lost a long time ago.’Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. Tweak is a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his father’s parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy. Praise for Nic Sheff:- ‘Difficult to read and impossible to put down.’ Chicago Tribune ‘Nic Sheff’s wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.’ Armistead Maupin
- Publisher: Scribner UK; Reissue edition (27 December 2018)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 1471177947
- ISBN-13: 978-1471177941
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Cloud Cuckoo Land (Paperback)
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN BEST FICTION PICK OF 2021ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’s FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021‘Serious novels are rarely this fun’ The Times ‘A gift’ Guardian ‘Buoyant with humanity’ Daily Mail ‘Worth the seven year wait’ Stylist When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive. How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love. Idaho, 2020:An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans? Unknown, Sometime in the Future: With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance. Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.
- Publisher: Fourth Estate (28 September 2021)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 640 pages
- ISBN-10: 0008478651
- ISBN-13: 978-0008478650
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Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Parts 1 and 2 Playscript (Paperback)
It’s been nineteen years since Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger saved the wizarding world, and now they’re back on a most extraordinary adventure, joined by a brave new generation that’s only just arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, struggles with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present collide, both father and son are locked in a race through time as they battle mysterious forces, all while the future hangs in the balance.
- ASIN: B09TGTTS2J
- Publisher: GENRIC (1 January 2021)
- Paperback: 330 pages
- ISBN: 9780751565362
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Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) Paperback
Cervantes’ Tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, The ‘books of chivalry’, this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature.
- ASIN: 1853260363
- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Language: English, Spanish
- Paperback: 800 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781853260360
- ISBN-13: 978-1853260360
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Carmen (Paperback)
Carmen the inspiration for one of the world’s most popular operas ;is a story about the dark forces that lurk beneath the ade of civilization, where passions are brutal and erotic love is seductive and sinister. When Don Jos; meets a gypsy woman, he has no idea that his chance encounter with the &; pretty witch&; will have disastrous consequences. With her magic and her malevolent spirit, Carmen exerts a powerful charm on the unsuspecting Don Jos, who is drawn into a seedy underworld of bandits and smugglers exploited and humiliated, until he is driven to the ultimate revenge. In Carmen, Prosper introduced a literary archetype: the femme fatale, who uses her sexuality and mystery to ensnare and ultimately destroy the weak, unsuspecting man. It appears here with The Venus of Ille, a brilliant tale of the supernatural. Prosper is a noted French novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
- Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd; New edition (1 March 2004)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 93 pages
- ISBN-10: 1843910969
- ISBN-13: 978-1843910961
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The Selected Works of Kahlil Gibran (Paperback)
- Publisher: Om Books International
- Language: English
- Paperback: 831 pages
- ISBN-10: 9352762835
- ISBN-13: 978-9352762835
- The Selected Works Of Kahlil Gibran presents the Lebanese-American author, poet and philosopher, Kahlil Gibran’s 13 most iconic works—philosophical reflections and essays, stories and parables, poems in prose and verse and more. His perennial classic, The Prophet (1923), is an exploration of life and the human condition through the metaphorical return of Prophet Almustafa to his birthplace, Orphalese. In The Broken Wings (1912), Gibran poetically reveals his first love and the feelings it evokes. Sand and Foam (1926) is a priceless collection of parables and aphorisms, which draws on a world of kings, hermits, saints, slaves, animals and wind, enriched with the author’s mystical drawings and sketches. Between Night and Morn (1972) presents Gibran’s scathing indictments of worldly wrongs and his tender spiritual jubilation. Spirits Rebellious (1908)—an invitation to reflect on societal norms and earthly laws that rob human beings of the freedom to live and breathe as free souls—was burnt in the marketplace of Beirut at the time of its publication.The other works included in this collection are The Wanderer (1932), The Madman (1918), The Forerunner (1920), The Earth Gods (1931), Tears and Laughter (1914) and Secrets of the Heart (1947), making it the perfect read for those who believe in the power of love to overcome all forms of persecution and injustice.
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Noise: The new book from the authors of ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ and ‘Nudge’ (Paperback)
Books, FictionNoise: The new book from the authors of ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ and ‘Nudge’ (Paperback)
- Publisher: William Collins (1 June 2021)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 0008309000
- ISBN-13: 978-0008309008
- The Sunday Times bestseller‘A monumental, gripping book … Outstanding’ Sunday TimesWherever there is human judgement, there is noise.‘Noise may be the most important book I’ve read in more than a decade. A genuinely new idea so exceedingly important you will immediately put it into practice. A masterpiece’Angela Duckworth, author of Grit‘An absolutely brilliant investigation of a massive societal problem that has been hiding in plain sight’Steven Levitt, co-author of FreakonomicsFrom the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think. Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients – or that two judges in the same court give different sentences to people who have committed matching crimes. Now imagine that the same doctor and the same judge make different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday, or they haven’t yet had lunch. These are examples of noise: variability in judgements that should be identical.In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein show how noise produces errors in many fields, including in medicine, law, public health, economic forecasting, forensic science, child protection, creative strategy, performance review and hiring. And although noise can be found wherever people are making judgements and decisions, individuals and organizations alike commonly ignore its impact, at great cost.Packed with new ideas, and drawing on the same kind of sharp analysis and breadth of case study that made Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge international bestsellers, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise and bias in decision-making. We all make bad judgements more than we think. With a few simple remedies, this groundbreaking book explores what we can do to make better ones.
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