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Download The Taliban Cricket Club Online Book PDF ByTimeri N. Murari Total Download 32 “A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.” -W.H. Auden Synopsis “A moving, splendidly realized story of courage and grit in modern-day Kabul.” —Vikas Swarup, author of Slumdog Millionaire A harrowing yet tender novel—Bend It Like Beckham in a burka—The Taliban Cricket Club is a moving and unforgettable tale of one woman’s courage and guile in the face of terror and tyranny. Set in war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan, this extraordinary new fiction by Timeri N. Murari, acclaimed author of the international bestseller, Taj, is a sweeping story of love, family, resilience, and survival, featuring an unforgettable heroine determined to help her loved ones win their freedom with a bat and a ball. Book Preview Total Download 32

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Free Download Selection Day PDF ByAravind Adiga Total Download 31 “I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at people.” –Charles Bukowski Synopsis AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, a “ferociously brilliant” (Slate) novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their crazy, obsessive father to be star cricket players that “offers the sound of a serious and nervy writer working at the top of his form” (The New York Times). Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket—if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling, and is fascinated by curious scientific facts and the world of CSI. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn’t know. S...

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Get Download Eye of the Cricket PDF ByJames Sallis Total Download 39 “No two persons ever read the same book.” –Edmund Wilson Synopsis Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son - and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men. The fourth of James Sallis' sequence of much lauded crime novels to feature Lew Griffin. 'Classic American crime of the highest order'-Time Out Book Preview Total Download 39

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Get Download Netherland PDF ByJoseph O'Neill Total Download 27 If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Synopsis New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. As the two men share their vastly different experiences of contemporary immigrant life in America, an unforgettable portrait emerges of an |other| New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality. From the Trade Paperback edition. Book Preview Total Download 27

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