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She finds her wings on the race tracks. Wing Jones is different from others in looks and she is made aware of this every day at school. Her mother is from China and father from Ghana, and this has given her a peculiar appearance so she stands out. She lives with both her grandmothers, mother…
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Set in 1876, Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton is the story of William Johnson whose life gets entwined in the rivalry of paleontologists Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. William Johnson is a laidback rich boy studying at Yale who had a “devil may care” attitude towards everything in his life. He embarks upon…
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‘How do you tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.’ Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a saga of people of different religions, genders and social status who are brought together by circumstances. The story starts with the birth of Aftab who later becomes Anjum, embracing her…
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Love and lies, two things that complicate our lives and that is what Isha Inamdar’s True Liars is about. The story starts with Anjana, Nj to her friends, and Harsh who are going to Harsh’s home as dating couple to attend his sister’s wedding. His reason for doing so is that he wants to hide…
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“Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn’s happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father — Pikeville’s notorious defense attorney — devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.” The novel…