: പണ്ടുകാലങ്ങളില് ചില രാജാക്കന്മാര്ക്ക് വിദൂഷകന്മാര് ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. രാജാക്കന്മാര്ക്കു വിനോദം നല്കുകയാണ് വിദൂഷകന്റെ ചുമതല. എന്തു പറയാനും വിദൂഷകനു സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യമുണ്ട്. രാജാവിനെപ്പോലും വിദൂഷകന് വിമര്ശിക്കും. അവന്റെ നാവിന് വാളിനെക്കാള് മൂര്ച്ചയും ഉണ്ടായിരിക്കും. വിജയനഗരസാമ്രാജ്യത്തിലെ രാജാവായ കൃഷ്ണദേവരായരുടെ വിദൂഷകനായിരുന്നു തെനാലിരാമന്. ബുദ്ധിശക്തിയാലും വാക്ശക്തിയാലും അനുഗ്രഹിക്കപ്പെട്ട ആ വിശേഷപ്രതിഭയെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള കഥകളാണിതുമുഴുവന്. കുട്ടികള്ക്കും മുതിര്ന്നവര്ക്കും ഒരുപോലെ ആസ്വദിക്കാവുന്ന കൃതി.
: Tom Sawyer is a respectable boy in a little Mississippi River town. Huck Finn is a freedom loving, neglected outcast. What better playmate could Tom want? One night, innocent games of pirates and Robin Hood turn serious when the boys witness a murder in the graveyard. The murderer will kill them if they tell the truth. What should they do? The boys decide to search for the murderer’s treasure. What risks will they take? Who else will they endanger?
: Maya has finally become a monitor! But oh no! She's lost the key to the class cupboard! It's not at home, it's not in the playground and it's definitely not hanging on her wrist. Can Maya get out of this mess?
: Lemony Snicket :A Series of Unfortunate Events #8- The Hostile Hospital (No:7618)
: Lemony Snicket
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: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.
In The Hostile Hospital the siblings face a suspicious shopkeeper, unnecessary surgery, heart-shaped balloons, and some very startling news about a fire.
: Fifteen-year-old April lives in Imphal valley and has grown up learning to save herself from tear-gas shells and hearing stories about children disappearing. But when her best friend Henthoiba goes missing, she is determined to find him. April finds an unlikely ally in Shalini Gupta, her new schoolmate and the daughter of an army man recently posted in Imphal. With no real leads except for a bag with some of Henthoiba’s belongings and sharp deduction and combat skills, the two set out to find him.. As they get sucked into the investigation, they stumble upon a dangerous, unknown world—where children disappear and are trafficked and trained to be soldiers. A world where drugs, arms and gold are peddled across borders.
: Ikigai - The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life (No:7616)
: Hector and Francesc Miralles
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: According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy.
: The young Prince Alfred has never known a life outside Buckingham Palace – but when strange goings-on breach its walls and stalk the corridors in the dead of night, he is thrust into a world of mystery, adventure and monsters.
And when his mother, the Queen, is dragged away to the Tower of London, Alfred must screw up his courage and battle to save her, himself… and the entire city.