The Compassionate Rebel: Energized by Anger, Motivated by LoveBurt Berlowe, Rebecca Janke and Julie PenshornPublisher: Growing Communities for Peace; First Edition edition (February 1, 2002)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0964667649ISBN-13: 978-0964667648 When I finished reading this book, I felt deeply honoured to have been given the chance to review this book and immensely humbled by the stories ther...

Spiritual ClarityBy Jackie WellmanPaperback: 158 pagesPublisher: PublishAmerica (July 25, 2005)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 141377654XISBN-13: 978-1413776546 This is Jackie Wellman’s first book and in one sentence, I found the book informative, entertaining and in many parts funny. The book is divided into five sections which demonstrate the manner in which Ms. Wellman has conducted her study. It f...

The RomanticsPankaj MishraPaperback: 288 pagesPublisher: Anchor (February 20, 2001)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0385720807ISBN-13: 978-0385720809 Touted prior to its release a few years back as the Next Big Thing in South Asian literature, Mishra’s “The Romantics” fails to live up to its promise. Told through the eyes of Samar, an undergraduate at the Benares Hindu University at the end of the 1980...

The Compassionate Rebel: Energized by Anger, Motivated by LoveBurt Berlowe, Rebecca Janke and Julie PenshornPublisher: Growing Communities for Peace; First Edition edition (February 1, 2002)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0964667649ISBN-13: 978-0964667648 When I finished reading this book, I felt deeply honoured to have been given the chance to review this book and immensely humbled by the stories ther...

Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter [Paperback]Ntozake ShangePaperback: 288 pagesPublisher: St. Martin’s Griffin; First Edition (October 11, 2011)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0312644108ISBN-13: 978-0312644109 “I travel a lot,” Liliane tells us early on. “I look at men and take some home or leave the country, borders have never intimidated me. My passport is in order and I carry letters of credit, ...

FuryBy Salman RushdiePaperback: 272 pagesPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 6, 2002)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0679783504ISBN-13: 978-0679783503 Set in contemporary New York City, the somewhat familiar character of Professor Malik Solanka has abandoned his wife and three-year old son without a word, fleeing from England to NYC in the hope of escaping his rather enviable life, with al...

Ranch Boyby H. Steven RobertsonPublisher: Rutledge Books Inc.ISBN: 1582442169Type: FictionCategory: Action/ThrillerPages: 293ISBN No: 1-58244-216-9 One of the purposes of reading is to discover new and exciting places. A story well told, will take you on a journey far beyond your land to meet people who are exciting and complex all at once. Yet, you must not be taken too far away that you are not...

Autobiography of a Yogiby Paramahansa YoganandaMass Market Paperback: 604 pagesPublisher: Self-Realization Fellowship (December 12, 1946)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0876120796ISBN-13: 978-0876120798   When writing an autobiography, the challenge for the writer, I would imagine, would be to write a story that everyone would say, “I want to read that!” More often than not, autobiographies of celebri...

Notes from a Small IslandAuthor: Bill BrysonFormat: PaperbackISBN: 0-552-99600-9Publishers: Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday, a division of Transworld Publishers Ltd. On the back cover of the copy of this book I was given to read, this was stated: “After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back tot the States for a while, to let his kids experie...