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#BookReview: The Fantastical Flights Of Emilia Gate by Louise M.Hart

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Title: The Fantastical Flights Of Emilia Gate Author: Louis M. Hart Publisher: Olympia Publishers London Published on: 25th April 2017 Binding: Paperback Pages: 106 ISBN: 9781848978652 BLURB The fantastical Flights of Emilia Gate is the first work of young adult fiction written by acclaimed author and poet, Louise M.Hart. Emilia Gate is twelve year old. When her mother becomes seriously unwell and is admitted to hospital. Emilia is sent to the Children's Home. Unhappy she and an older boy flee to London. There she meet an array of villains and eccentrics, including the despicable Faggit. Follow Emilia's adventures in this page turning novel, which references Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.Will she be reunited with her mother or she is doomed to perish in London's frightening underground? COVER PAGE The cover page of the short novel The Fantastical Flights of Emilia Gate is very simple and subtle. It is in pastel blue colour having th

#BookReview: Sing,Unburied,Sing by Jesmyn Ward

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Title: Sing,Unburied,Sing  Author: Jesmyn Ward Publication Date: 1st October 2017 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing  Binding: Paperback Pages: 304 ISBN: 9781408891032 BLURB Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His mother, Leonie, is in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is black and her children’s father is white. Embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances, she wants to be a better mother, but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violenc

#BookReview: Battling Injustice 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates by Supriya Vani

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Title: Battling Injustice 16 Women Peace Laureates  Author: Supriya Vani  Published On: 24th October 2017 Publisher:  Harper Collins Publishers India  Binding: Paperback Pages: 512 ISBN: 9789351778332 BLURB Aung San Suu Kyi, Malala Yousafzai, Tawakkol Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Shirin Ebadi – these women and others like them shaped the history of their peoples through their fight against political persecution, social deprivation and gender discrimination. The Nobel Peace Prize memorializes their achievements and courage and ability to inspire hope in others. Through the life portraits of sixteen women Nobel Peace laureates, peace activist and journalist Supriya Vani argues that the fate of the world is inextricably tied to the emancipation of women and that the cause of world peace urgently requires women leaders. COVER PAGE The cover page of the book is very simple and heartwarming. It is in white colour having an image of

Jeffrey Archer is back

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JEFFREY ARCHER RETURNS WITH A RIVETING COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES! ISBN 9781509867769 ǀ Fiction > Short Stories ǀ Macmillan ǀ Rs 399 ǀ 288pp ǀ PB ǀ B Format Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly awaited collection of short stories,  Tell Tale , giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out ‘Who Killed the Mayor?’ and the pretentious schoolboy in ‘The Road to Damascus’, whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s in ‘A Gentleman and a Scholar’, and another young woman