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One: Your Wellness Guide to Body, Mind & Soul Author: Mirav Tarkka & Heidi De Love Page: 298   ‘One: Your Wellness Guide To Body, Mind & Soul is a collection of 22 stories written by different authors. These stories revolves around the experiences of these authors and how they too were or are not perfect each story tells us how these authors took control of their life. As I read the stories it was really inspiring to read these stories. Each story has something to give the readers like in one story the author has said that it is very important to notice or listen what our body is trying to say. How it is very important to create a balance in life and in what ways we can keep our inner warrior alive. The book contains various topics right from nutrition, creativity to communication and there are tips that all can follow in their practical life. To know more about these wonderful tips and to get to know about our body, mind & soul read ‘One: Your Wellness Guide to Body,

The Backbenchers: Unusual Fellows Author: Sachin Garg Pages: 142                   ‘The Backbenchers: Unusual Fellows’ by Sachin Garg is a book that is set in school. We follow the stories of a group of students some of whom have similar aspirations and some who are totally opposite to each other. So, Jigyaasu Lele is a very ambitious student and likes to stay updated with what is going on around him. He likes to follow rules and if he is not aware of them he might even go to the point of searching them and then following them. Whereas, Radhika is a happy go lucky girl and according to her rules are made so that our life is made simple and easy. Her motto in life is that we should follow only those rules that make sense. So, Jigyaasu wanted to know certain details about his new school and he tried to get them in his own ways but unfortunately fails. So, he approaches his best friend Radhika who uses her own ways to get the information and they are somewhat successful. On the very

Letters of a Bloodline – Book 1: Maya’s Confession: A Shocking thriller of your family’s 15,000 years old mystery Author: Jay Puranik Pages: 338                   ‘Letters of Bloodline: Maya’s Confession: A Shocking thriller of your family’s 15,000 years old mystery’ is a book which revolves around a family’s 15000 years old mystery. The book starts with the protagonist receiving an email from her mother. It is the family’s tradition that once the chosen child is 25 years old they are handed over a bunch of letters. These letters possess all the secrets that lie within the family’s bloodline. To the protagonists surprise the oldest letter starts from the 13,000 B.C. i.e. Stone Age which were written by the first mother. The email specially mentions that as the letters are passed on to the next generation necessary updates are to be made like vocabularies, etc. The email sent by her mother also specially tells her to not disclose or reveal about these letters to anybody neither hi

The Colour of Your Voice Author: Daniel Newwyn Pages: 106                   ‘The Colour of Your Voice’ by Daniel Newwyn is a heart wrenching story of Violet Pham and Turner Nguyen. In this story we get to see the hardships that our protagonist Violet Pham has to go throughout her life. Until one day when she meets Turner Nguyen and then they slowly start falling in love with each other. Turner always encourages her to move ahead and pursue her dreams which she admires a lot about him. Violet knows about Turner’s background and his involvement in illegal things but that doesn’t affect her love for him at all. Life is all about sudden twists & turns and Turner gets a work which is very dangerous. There’s not much option for Turner and he ends up doing it but the consequences are not too good. Will Violet ever be able to overcome all the struggles that life has thrown at her so far? Finally after meeting someone who she likes a lot and after falling in love with him… Will it be a

The Thirst Author: Daniel Newwyn Pages: 15                 ‘The Thirst’ by Daniel Newwyn is a story of a salaried man i.e. Kyousuke from Osaka. The book begins with Kyousuke receiving a forced vacation from his office authorities. Kyousuke had never taken a single leave he is confused as to why he is given leave all of a sudden. The next biggest question before him is what he is going to do while he is not working. Soon he decides to leave for where most salaried men like to visit. Here he goes to his regular bar where the bartender Hasebe knows him very well. Soon he starts drinking so much that Hasebe decides to intervene in the matter. But Kyousuke soon gets angry with Hasebe’s behavior and asks him if he knows to whom he is talking. Soon they both get into conversation which is an eye opener to Kyousuke and all of us in some way or the other. Why it is that Kyousuke is given a vacation all of a sudden? What is it that Kyousuke feels the need to drink so much? To know read ‘Th

Love, Swipe, Blackmail Author: Nitish Bhushan Pages: 255                   ‘Love, Swipe, Blackmail’ by Nitish Bhushan is a book that revolves around Ravi and Vandana. Ravi is in love with Vandana and they are soon going to get married. It was not easy to convince Vandana however after continuously approaching she accepts him and now they were in love with each other. They even convince their parents about their relationship and soon they approve of it. Soon Ravi feels that they are not compactable for each other. Ravi soon learns about the ‘Sofu App’ which enables the user to chat with girls and if they find each other compactable they can even meet. Soon Ravi downloads the app and starts chatting with some girls but soon he deletes the app for some reason. One day out of nowhere he receives a call from an unknown number. He talks to the girl and learns that she was registered on Sofu. But soon things turn nasty when the girl starts blackmailing him. What makes Ravi feel that he