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  A Gift Called Hope

  Eva Jordan

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  Six-year-old Jack is counting the days to Christmas. But his grandmother is just counting the days until it’s over. For Jill, the holiday comes with painful memories, and she wants only to escape the recent past and its tragedies. She’s moved and started a new life running a food truck in Widmore Bay, a quaint seaside town, in order to flee her agonising history. It’s only for little Jack’s sake that Jill tolerates the tree and decorations. She just wants to spend Christmas with the curtains drawn, reading a book and drinking coffee. But this season, she may stumble onto a miracle that restores joy—and hope—in her heart...

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  The Uncommon Prayer-book

  M. R. James

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  A sacred volume, a forgotten ritual, and the lingering presence of something not entirely gone—The Uncommon Prayer-book whispers of devotion turned to dread.
  M. R. James crafts a world where piety and peril overlap, where quiet study leads not to understanding, but to unease. This tale moves with the hush of cloisters and the rustle of ancient pages, all the while drawing the listener ever closer to an encounter best left unwritten.
  Dark, refined, and utterly disquieting.

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  Barefoot In The Head

  Brian W. Aldiss

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  A new savior emerges from a drugged-out dystopia in "the most ambitious psychedelic sci-fi novel of the era" from the Science Fiction Grand Master (Conceptual Fiction). 
   
   
   
  The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans are now suffering from delusions and are unable to tell the real from the imaginary. When a man named Colin Charteris tries to make sense of the drugged-out world, he is taken as the new messiah. As he descends into paranoid visions, he begins to believe this himself.

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  Threads of Hope

  Katie Winters

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  Twenty-five years ago, Oriana hid a devastating professional mistake—and now must face the consequences. 
   
   
   
  Oriana Coleman is one of the most sought-after art dealers on the east coast, renowned in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. She fought tooth and nail to get to the top—and didn't always play by the rules. 
   
   
   
  At the beginning of Oriana's career, her best friend and coworker swapped out a multi-million-dollar painting for a very convincing forgery. When she confessed to the crime, Oriana knew better than to tell anyone she hadn't noticed the painting was a fake. It would have destroyed her reputation and dropped her back on square one. 
   
   
   
  But Oriana was never really able to escape the past—and when someone blackmails her with information about what happened all those years ago, she's forced to reckon with her demons, before her career is destroyed forever.

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  பார்வதி பிஏ

  சி.என்.அண்ணாதுரை

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  The formative years of Anna's political and public life career were decided by the social and political context in which the early Dravidian movement was taking shape in Tamilnadu. On the social side, it was not the Brahmin and Non-Brahmin conflict that was the major thread in Annathurai’s perspective. This was not unlike that of his mentor E.V.Ramasamy Naicker. Annathurai’s social perspective was more inclusive. It addressed many social evils like casteism, the rich and poor divide, the attitude of the landed gentry towards the landless and the socially oppressed communities, the succumbing to a certain belief system not necessarily perpetrated by the Brahmins alone, the wit of games between the rich in particular and the people in general on the one hand and the manipulative Brahmins on the other, institutionalized low moral standards, nepotism and mismanagement of the government machinery including the police, and a few other such. On the political front, Provincial governments and the lack of credibility on their part, what appeared to be convincing about Communism as a political panacea, self-seeking politicians who wanted to exploit any vulnerable political ideology on the one hand and the possibility of inflaming the offended tilting them to conviction in a political revolution not necessarily pacifistic, extreme caution with which Gandhi’s almost established iconoclasm was seen, parallel political and freedom fighters with Gandhi’s nonviolence on the one hand and Subash Chandra Bose’s military mission on the other, the international political situation marked by the Japanese political ambitions. Annathurai’s literature in general and novels in particular have a reference back to all these social and political issues in explicit as well as veiled discussions. Parvathy B.A., is typical of the interplay of this complexity. At the same time, the novel maintains the flavor of imaginative literature.

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  War and Peace Book 4

  Leo Tolstoy

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  In Book 4 of War and Peace, personal dramas unfold against the backdrop of impending war. Natasha Rostova’s engagement to Prince Andrei Bolkonsky faces turmoil when he demands a year’s wait, leaving her vulnerable to Anatole Kuragin’s manipulations. Heartbroken, Natasha attempts to elope with Anatole, shattering her reputation and betraying Andrei. Meanwhile, Pierre Bezukhov grows restless, seeking purpose amidst societal superficiality. The Rostov family grapples with financial strain and Nikolai’s military aspirations. Tolstoy intertwines individual struggles with broader themes of honor, love, and betrayal, highlighting how personal choices echo within the larger tapestry of history.

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