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Authors: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780061988257
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The Island Beneath the Sea is everything we have come to expect from Isabel Allende. It is rich, colourful and sensual. Her writing became popular with her heart rending memoir Paula where she chronicled her daughter’s fight against a disease that eventually claimed her life.

Authors: Andre Agassi
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9780307268198
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Evidently, a lot of thought goes into the cover photograph of an autobiography, the ultimate act of putting oneself in front of the world to be dissected. From the cover of Open, Andre Agassi’s haggard face stares blankly at the reader.

Authors: Dr. Brian Weiss
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Year: 1994
ISBN: 9780671657864
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Dr Brian Weiss has been a noted psychiatrist and an academician; a “success” in his chosen field of understanding the human mind and the complexities that come with it, even before he started his work concerning PLR (past life regression) and related theories and/or therapies and writing about it.

Authors: Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher: Puffin (2011)
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780143331704
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In an increasingly urban world, where food is sourced from supermarkets and animals are seen in the zoo, even domesticated animals like the cow become an exotic species.

Authors: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury (2011) Year: 2011
ISBN: 9781408809457
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Robert Frost said, ‘In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.’ For some people, like Elizabeth Gilbert, the going on of life comes with a formidable successor to her literary achievement of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’.