As the final match of the FIFA World Cup approaches, we’re getting more and more excited! To keep the excitement going, we’ve put together a list of our friends from the world of Puffin who are into football as well! Here are excerpts from two books they feature in, that your child is bound to…
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James Bond: How It All Began!
M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. ‘We have no choice. We’re just going to bring forward this other chap you’ve been preparing. But you didn’t tell me his name.’ ‘It’s Bond, sir,’ the Chief of Staff replied. ‘James Bond.’ The sea keeps its secrets. But not this time. One body. Three bullets.…
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The Three Ghosts your Child will Love!
The Curious Case of the Sweet and Spicy Sweetshop by Nandini Nayar is a spooky story packed with curious characters, a hilarious hero and a super-fun plot. While reading this book, your child will be in for a double treat- witnessing witty family relations and discovering the magical world of sweets! Most ghosts are super…
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8 Things they Don’t Tell you about Buyer-Seller Relationships
Buyer-seller relationships develop over time and business has always been an endless series of games played by the two. In Games Customers Play, author Ramesh Dorairaj shows you how to spot such games and change the rules to your advantage. So that it doesn’t matter what the deal is, you will always win! Below we explore some…
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Storytelling as Life and Art – By Usha Alexander
Usha Alexander grew up in Pocatello, Idaho, as the second of three children. She has lived in four countries and continues to visit as many as she can. Her first novel, Only the Eyes are Mine, was selected as a Semi-Finalist in the Multicultural Fiction category for the 2006 Independent Publishers Book Awards. She is…
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The One Story and the Many – by Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan is the author of several books including Lunatic in My Head, The Cosmopolitans, Neti, Neti, Street on the Hill and Difficult Pleasures. Her latest book, A Day in the Life, is a collection of fourteen well-crafted stories that give us a sense of the daily life of a wide cast of characters. Her…
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Rain + Books = The Perfect Monsoon
This monsoon we have a great list of new books for you! Whether you enjoy literary classic, thriller, fiction or mythology, we’ve got you covered with books by authors such as Devdutt Pattanaik, Premchand, Alex Salkever and Vikram Sood – to name a few. So this summer, cuddle up with a cup of tea and…
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Under American Eyes: Mark Twain in Bombay
For 230 years, America’s engagement with India, Afghanistan and Pakistan has been characterized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has become a locus for American efforts-secular and religious-to remake the world in its image. Even as South Asia has undergone tumultuous and tremendous…
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6 Things you Need to Know about the Patterson-Clinton collaborative book, The President is Missing
President Bill Clinton and bestselling author James Patterson have teamed up to write the thriller of the year. It’s all top secret, of course, but here’s a quick peek behind the scenes… 1. The President is Missing is the story of a sitting president who disappears during an international crisis. What follows is the most dangerous, dramatic…
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6 Quotes You Must Read on Gender and Sexuality
While many use religion to justify why they are being unfair to a person’s gender and sexuality, Devdutt Pattanaik in his books The Pregnant King and Shikhandi And Other Queer Tales They Don’t Tell You shows how mythologies across the world appreciate what we deem as queer. Here are 6 quotes on gender and sexuality.…
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