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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens”




Katherine Applegate, a multiple award-winning American author, has penned a deeply moving tale about an adult gorilla living inside a glass cage in a mall in America, in her book, The One and Only Ivan. Inspired from real-life events, the author pens a heart-breaking yet thoroughly entertaining story about a gorilla and his friends and his mission to find freedom, and mind it, this book is not only for the middle-grade children, but can be enjoyed irrespective of any age of the reader, from young to old.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”



Paula Treick DeBoard, an American best-selling author, pens a mystifying tale set in a modern, posh American neighborhood which haunts a new family by the buried lies and secrets behind the doors of their neighbors, in her upcoming book, The Drowning Girls. This story revolves around a family who just shifted to a nice and rich neighborhood but their happy days soon turn into nightmare by a fifteen year old girl whose plans for the summer is way too sinister.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“My demons love your demons like crazy”


Diana T. Scott, an American author, pens a heart-wrenching contemporary love story about two medical interns in her new book, Our Demons, Best Friends which is the first book in the Half of Me series, that unfolds a deeply moving blossoming love story between Ava and Sebastian, two broken souls beholding lots of pain and broken promises from their not so distant past, by highlighting how these two souls collide and how they unite under one cause.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”




Ann Jacobus, an American author, pens her debut YA psychological thriller, Romancing the Dark in the City of Light that unfolds a heart-wrenching and thoroughly riveting tale about a young teenage girl, with a problem of drinking and escaping her issues, who is trying to find love on her stay in Paris, while dealing with her mental tantrums.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“It’s fire and it crashing! . . . This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! Oh, it’s crashing . . . oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky, and it’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There’s smoke, and there’s flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here!
. . . I can’t talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest, it’s just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage, and everybody can hardly breathe and talk . . . Honest, I can hardly breathe. I’m going to step inside where I cannot see it. . . .”



Ariel Lawhon, an American author pens a poignant and enthralling tale based on the world famous Hindenburg disaster that took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States, in her book called Flight of Dreams: A Novel.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”




Claire Warner, an English writer, has penned an enchanting tale of magic, immortality and love, in her book, The Black Lotus which is the first book in the Night Flower series. This story unfolds the forbidden regency styled romance between a young debutante and a mysterious bachelor in town and on top of that the story has elements of mystery, magic and is set in the early eighteenth century .

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars



"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. "




Candace Bushnell, an international best-selling author, has penned a sassy tale of four blond women from Manhattan, in her book, Four Blondes that narrates the tale of four different women, independent and strong-willed, who pave their way in the jungle called life by standing strong along with the men, fashion, age, needs and fame and to claim fame, they would do anything for it.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars



“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”




L.J. Sellers, an American best-selling author, pens a fast-paced gripping thriller called, Point of Control, that unfolds the story about a middle-aged no-nonsense FBI detective trying to find the link behind missing metallurgical scientists from all over the world. But when dead body of a scientist turned up, it seems that there is a big agenda behind the whole kidnapping thing, as it is definitely not for a ransom.

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