(Image Credit: noexitpress.co.uk) The year is 2016. The results of a tumultuous Presidential election have just been announced in the United States of…
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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Frank Herbert’s second installment in the Dune saga, ‘Dune Messiah’, bears an uncanny resemblance to one of its most telling…
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(Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash) A benevolent disposition that hides a belligerent murderer A paid assassin sheathed in the skein of a pious mendicant The…
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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Every now and then, crops up a piece of literary marvel that unshackles itself from being straitjacketed as belonging to…
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(Image Credit: NetGalley.com) Published by Magination Press, a children’s book imprint of the American Psychological Association, Jamie Roche, an experienced professional in the…
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(Photo by Charl Folscher on Unsplash) Biding her time and getting away from battles that aren’t hers Wielding words that cut sharper than a rapier yet…
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Bookend - Where reading meets review
Ponniyin Selvan – Thyaga Sigaram (Volume 5) – Kalki Krishnamurthy
(Image Credit: Vikatan Publications) The unparalleled story telling capabilities of Kalki attain its apogee in the concluding volume, a tome titled “Thyaga Sigaram”.…
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(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) This imaginatively titled book – originally penned in French as ‘Nouvelle Histoire de I’Inde’ – by the former South Asian…
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Bookend - Where reading meets review
Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life – Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
(Image Credit: Netgalley.com) Jon Kabat-Zinn, an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the stress reduction program mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR),…
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(Photo by Matthew Brodeur on Unsplash) A behemoth palace sheltering statesmen and spies Thalassic in location and tenuous in affairs Conspiracies, chaos and camaraderie dance a…