- : When Breath Becomes Air (No:6858)
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- : For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?' At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated
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- : The Boy who Harnessed the Wind (No:6857)
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- : When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land.400
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- : The Secret Seven - Where are the Secret Seven (No:6853)
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- : When the Secret Seven visit a haunted house they discover it is not empty after all. Soon, they are trapped inside. How will they escape?
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- : Topic by Topic Dictionary (No:6852)
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- : It breaks the traditional approach of listing word alphabetically. This dictionary is arranged thematically. The dictionary is aimed at learners from 6 to 15 years old
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- : My Family and other Animals (No:6851)
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- : One of the most pleasurable, rib-tickling adventure comedy books that I have read, My Family and Other Animals is the narration of author Gerald Durrell’s childhood life in the exotic Greek Island of Corfu. Fed up with the cold, harsh winters of England, the Durrell family gives up on it and decides to move to a country with better weather. And what could be better than a Greek Island with its warm sunshine and sparkling blue waters? So the family impulsively moves to Corfu, a small Island with friendly people and even friendlier fauna.
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- : Malgudi Adventures: Classic Tales For Children (No:6850)
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- : fter the stupendous success of Malgudi Schooldays, R.K. Narayan s chronicle of the escapades of Swami and his friends, comes Malgudi Adventures, which contains more delightful stories of children s adventures in the magical South Indian small town of Malgudi. There are the memorable stories of Babu, who, in trying to set up the lights for his sisters?Navaratri display, manages to plunge the entire household into darkness; of a snake charmer boy who grows up with a monkey named Rama as his companion; and of Raju, who decides to become a guide when a train station is built at Malgudi. Also included are the fascinating stories of Balu, who dumps his father s accounts ledger in the gutter; of a little boy who finds himself lost on the streets of Malgudi late one night; of Chandran, who falls head over heels in love on the banks of the Sarayu one evening; and of the hilarious sequence of events that unfolds when Raja the tiger decides to seek refuge in the local school.
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- : A Little Princess (No:6849)
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- : Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature.
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