Chocolate for a Woman's Soul: 77 Stories to Feed Your Spirit and Warm Your Heart by Kay Allenbaugh Treat yourself to 77 true stories that celebrate life and capture the essence of what it means to be a woman. Like chocolate, these stories soothe, satisfy, and delight -- better yet, they're good for you! Written by and for women, here are heartfelt insights on commitment, compassion, work, marriage, friendship, motherhood, love, courage, spirituality, passion, and dozens of other topics. Contributors share their most personal experiences -- funny, poignant, powerful, and uplifting -- as they inspire you to jump-start your own life, discover your talents and vocations, overcome old fears, find love, and let your dreams take flight. Like a box of chocolates, this book can be enjoyed in one sitting, or you can pick out treats at random and savor them one at a time. Whether you want a good laugh or need a good cry, the perfect "chocolate story" is right here, waiting for you!Read More...Hide Pages: 252
Three Cups of Tea is a New York Times bestselling book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin published by Penguin in 2006.The book describes Mortenson's transition from a mountain-climber to a humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and educating girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He did this by co-founding the Central Asia Institute, which has built over 78 schools in the most remote areas of the countries.
The book's title comes from a Balti proverb: "The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family..."Read More...Hide Pages: 349
The Angel of God by Jyothi Menon "I cannot wear the mask of decency ever. The world will continue to remind me of the gutter from where I rose. Never mind that. You will not become another Moosa Bhai. I will not let you do that. You are going to become the master and the brain behind a business empire. A completely legit one. Do you understand me, Bhaskaran"
Moosa looked like he was talking from somewhere deep beyond his being. His whole countenance was lit up, he was looking deep into Bhaskaran's eyes, poring into the young man's mind, touching a part of that young absorbing soul and creating all at once a moment of sheer beauty and absolute magic for the young boy. Once more it seemed to Bhaskaran that the Angel of God had touched him, sending goose pimples running down the length of his body, his eyes brimming with tears of gratitude, hope and a lack of words to thank this man whom so many feared as 'The Enemy'..Read More...Hide Pages: 320
The World's Best Inspiring Stories by G Francis Xavier This is one of the many inspiring stories from the renowned "Motivator" Dr. G. Francis Xavier. Evidently, this harvest of stories has been gleaned from lands he visited and books he read. Xavier, who conducts full-house personal growth courses has brought out this compendium in an interactive form, making the reader give the answers at the end of the story which is a novel approach. Stories and examples are the best way to inspire.
The book appeals to readers of all ages except the morose and irredeemable negaholics (negative thinking addicts) and anti-reading teenagers. It has stories to inspire and promises uninterrupted chuckles till the end. There are also quotations on success.Read More...Hide Pages: 164
In the Shadow of Mahatma: A Grand-daughter Remembers by Sita Gandhi Sita, Mahatma Gandhi's grand-daughter recounts with charming detail her childhood years at Phoenix Settlement, the farm which Gandhi started in South Africa. Her account provides a striking glimpse of the challenges faced by Gandhi's South African family in continuing his legacy. The longest surviving Indian newspaper of South Africa, the Indian Opinion was produced from the Phoenix Settlement where Sita worked.
Sita recalls encounters with racial discrimination. She also recalls her joys of growing up in Phoenix, and her time in India including a stint in Benaras Hindu University. We see from the eyes of one of the first of Indian-South Africans her reactions when she came to Indian from South Africa.
Gandhiji's letters to Sita and her parents form the second half of the book. The letters provide an extraordinary insight into Gandhi, the grandfather. Even as he was engaged in discussions with the British and with Indian political leaders in the Congress and the Muslim League, he found time to write short notes to his family members.
Gandhiji's life came to an abrupt end a little after India's independence. With that Indians lost their most charismatic leader ever. And the living links were nearly lost with South Africa where another spectacular movement of justice was to unfold."Read More...Hide Pages: 128
Learning from Gandhi by Anu Bandyopadhyaya Lawyer, tailor, cobbler, cook- and dozens of other jobs as well-Mahatma Gandhi did them all. No work was too low, no occupation too disdainful. Even the simplest of labours was carried out with humour, passion, care and zest. And to perfection. This is the reprint of an ancient classic on Gandhiji who always promoted the view that learning involves not just the head, but the heart and the hand as well.What better role model for this than the most influential individual of the twentieth century.Read More...Hide Pages: 142
The Funda of Mix-ology-What bartending teaches that IIM doesn't.... by Mainak Dhar The Funda of Mix-ology is a novel about a young man who is not unlike many of us. After spending his youth in the pursuit of academic excellence and admission into the 'right'institutes, he joins a multinational firm after graduating from an IIM.A few years down the line, once the sheen of Day One jobs and hefty pay packets has worn off, he realizes that nothing he has learnt at IIM can prepare him for the stress and drudgery that characterize his day-to-day life.
He finds himself thinking about work long after he has left office; finds that his schedule leaves him with little time and energy for his passions outside of work, and leaves him with little by way of a personal life. As he approaches his 30th birthday, he begins to wonder if there is any point to his life beyond competing in one rat race after another.
All that changes one week.
A week when he almost quits his job, almost gets killed, and learns that the secret to having a more fulfilling life lies not in any classroom but in mix-ology, the art of making a good cocktail. Through this voyage of self-discovery, he comes to realise that just as a cocktail comprises of many different ingredients with different individual tastes, similarly life has many facets beyond one?s career, such as one?s passions outside of work, family, one?s health etc.Read More...Hide Pages: 148
Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho Like the Flowing River is an intimate collection of Paulo Coelho's reflections and short stories. These are powerful tales of living and dying, of destiny and choice, of love lost and found. Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, but always profound, this book, like all of Coelho's work, explores what it means to be truly alive.Read More...Hide Pages: 232
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Pampered and lazy fifteen-year-old Harvey falls overboard into the sea and into a new life,the waves of which transforms his life top to toe.
A life of hardships and hard work,of labour and reward,of adversities,comradership and trustworthiness, turns an indolent teenager Harvery into a honest young man of prowess.Read More...Hide Pages: 200
A Gift of Wings by Richard Bach Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture the imagination and emotions of millions. Jonathan Livingston Seagull was such a book. Richard Bach's unique vision again shines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all its limitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.Read More...Hide Pages: 304
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