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A Place Called Home
A Memoir
David Ambroz - 2022-09-13
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PORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER A galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to become a leading advocate for child welfare, recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change.  “You will fall in love with David Ambroz, his beautifully-told, gut-wrenching story, and his great big heart.” (Jeanette Walls,...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2022-12-08T12:23:45.000Z
Even though it's a work of fiction, @preetishenoy's novel A Place Called Home reflects this prosperity. Despite what you hear in the press, persistence, hard work and luck work in India. My review of Preeti's book      source
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The Copenhagen Affair
Amulya Malladi - 2017-09-26
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Set in the capital city of the world’s happiest country, a comedy of manners about depression, the pressures of marriage, and the possibility of falling in love again, from the bestselling author of A House for Happy Mothers.Sanya was always the perfect wife, but after a breakdown at her office, it’s her husband Harry’s turn to step up. His proposa...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2022-10-23T12:45:04.000Z
Amulya deals with the important topic of depression within the plot. I'll visit Copenhagen again as I am sure the restaurants in the book are real! Written in a very down to earthy style, reinforces my fandom of Amulya's writing that started with reading the "Mango Season"      source
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A Place Called Home
Preeti Shenoy - 2022-06-27
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Shashi Bellamkonda
2022-10-02T12:48:39.000Z
Thanks @preetishenoy A Place Called Home was very enjoyable read. I could feel connected with the places and characters in the book. Well done. Review👇      source
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Sisters of Mokama
The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India
Jyoti Thottam - 2022-04-12
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Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains. -- Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for StoneThe never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same New York Times editor Jyoti Thottam's mother was ...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2022-09-25T03:31:51.000Z
There are two fascinating things about the journeys in @JyotiThottam's book. Sisters of Mokama. 1. The journey of a group of Catholic nuns from Kentucky setting up a hospital in Bihar in 1947 2. The journey of a young woman from Kerela journeying to join them.      source
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How to Lead
Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
David M. Rubenstein - 2020-09-01
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The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffet, Oprah, and many others through illuminating conversations about their remarkable lives and careers. For the past five years, David M. Rubenstein—author of The American Story, visionary cofounder of The Carl...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2021-04-16T23:10:09.000Z
This is a great book.      source
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The Great Railway Bazaar
By Train Through Asia
Paul Theroux - 2006-06-01 (first published in 1975)
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First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, th...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2021-04-09T02:15:05.000Z
I loved the books - The Great Indian Railway Bazaar and the Old Patagonia Express The Economist Asks: Paul Theroux      source
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The Old Patagonian Express
By Train Through the Americas
Paul Theroux - 1989-11-07 (first published in 1979)
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A witty sharply observed journey down the length of North and South America.Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Sweating and shivering...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2021-04-09T02:15:05.000Z
I loved the books - The Great Indian Railway Bazaar and the Old Patagonia Express The Economist Asks: Paul Theroux      source
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Forgiving What You Can't Forget
Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again
Lysa Terkeurst - 2020-11-17
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*#1 New York Times Bestseller*You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you.Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Lysa TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey. But in surprising way...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2021-01-30T22:50:02.000Z
This book by @LysaTerKeurst has a great message. "Forgiving can seem impossible when the other person has not just affected a season of our life but affected us deeply every day since. Unchangeable wounds feel so very unforgivable"      source
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
A George Smiley Novel
John le Carré - 2020-03-31 (first published in 1974)
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carré's new novel, Agent Running in the Field, is coming October 2019.The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement--especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with ...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2020-12-13T23:08:20.000Z
Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy and the Spy Who Came In from the Cold. India in the 70's these John Le Carré books fascinated us. Sad to hear of his passing @sarahlyall      source
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré - 2019-07-04 (first published in 1963)
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In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in the tale of a British agent who ...
Shashi Bellamkonda
2020-12-13T23:08:20.000Z
Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy and the Spy Who Came In from the Cold. India in the 70's these John Le Carré books fascinated us. Sad to hear of his passing @sarahlyall      source
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