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Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
Year: 2001
ISBN: 9788172235154
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“The Alchemist” of the pioneer of philosophy has driven me to take up this book which mirrors many thoughts that we think of analysing everytime they flit across our mind but never dare to. Paulo,in this seemingly slow book depicts the war between evil and good that takes place in one’s mind through an interesting story.

Author: Ismat Chughtai, M. Asaduddin
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9780670086184
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To be honest, I hadn’t heard the name before, Ismat Chughtai, though it sounded vaguely familiar. So I gladly picked up her “memoirs”—no, I wouldn’t define the book as an autobiography—more so because it is the work of an Indian woman, trying to create an identity for herself in a time when it not only
seemed difficult, but improbable.

Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Little Brown UK
Year: 1998
ISBN:9780751527377
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Only the fortunate beings get to learn and acknowledge oneself from a true mentor, at least once in a lifetime. Mitch Albom is one of those lucky ones. Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir in the form of shared experiences of his teacher, coach and mentor- Morrie Schwartz.

This is a big day for the book lovers in India. Especially,for those who love to read thrillers. The word "thrillers" reminds us a person who is recently ruling the book market in India. It is none other than Mr.Ravi Sbrahmanian. It is the long awaited release of his "The Bankster" that makes today special for many.

Author: Namita Devidayal
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2009
ISBN: 978-0312536640
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In the ocean of life, sailing through the tides of incidents, accidents and change, the one thing which keeps the sail high and upright is perhaps music, the only thing that makes us feel closer to ourselves. Somehow, while reading The Music Room, this faith will get established in you. The book, as the name itself says, is a memoir.

Author: Rafael Nadal and John Carlin
Publisher: Hachette
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780751547733
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This was arguably the most looked forward to tennis book since Andre Agassi’s Open a few years ago. Yet the timing of Rafael Nadal’s autobiography did raise a few eyebrows. It was announced right after his most successful year as a tennis player, a time when many believed he was at the height of his powers and had a few good years in him. An autobiography at the age of 25 is a baffling idea.

Author: Graham Hunter
Publisher: Backpage Press
Year: 2011
ISBN: 0956497128
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The first announcement of this book was greeted with much excitement and anticipation by many football fans, irrespective of their football affiliations. Pep Guardiola’s FC Barcelona had already become stuff of legend even when the book was conceived.

Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780330535670
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The protagonist of the book, Harry Clifton is prodded upon by various unanswered questions, rather oblivious to the child prodigy hidden within him. This Child prodigy is man hunted by a prodigal person, Old Jack – his mentor, punctiliously his keen source of knowledge and worldly virtues and values.

Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Year: 1997
ISBN: 9780853459910
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent is Eduardo Galeano’s first and best known work. It is easily one of the most powerful books ever written. A more detailed and thorough account of Latin American history, a history of exploitation, violence and poverty, would be hard to find.

Author: D.H.Lawrence
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9788188280658
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 More prominently known as the author of the controversial ‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’ (banned on the grounds of being obscene and vulgar), D.H.Lawrence’s ‘Women in Love’ is said to be based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen.