Reading - Five Point Someone

Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat

 

Five reasons why Hary, Ryan and Alok’s lives are a complete mess:
1. They’ve messed up their grades big time.
2. Alok and Ryan can’t stop bickering with each other.
3. Hary is smitten with Neha, who happens to be his professor’s daughter.
4. As students of IIT, they’re expected to conquer the world—something they know isn’t likely to happen.
5. They only have each other.

Welcome to Five Point Someone by bestselling author Chetan Bhagat. This is not a book that will teach you how to get into IIT or even how to survive it. Quite the opposite: it describes how bad things can get if you don't think straight.
Funny, dark and entertaining, Five Point Someone is the story of three friends whose measly five-point-something GPAs come in the way of everything—their friendship, their love lives, their future. Will they make it?

Reading - A Winter Dream

 

A Winter Dream by Richard Paul Evans

 

 

 

Joseph Jacobson is the twelfth of thirteen siblings, all of whom are employed by their father’s successful Colorado advertising company. But underneath the success runs a poisonous undercurrent of jealousy; Joseph is his father’s favorite and the focus of his brothers’ envy and hatred. When the father seems ready to anoint Joseph as his heir, the brothers make their move, forcing Joseph from the company and his Denver home, severing his ties to his parents and ending his relationship with his soon-to-be fianceé. Alone and lonely, Joseph must start a new life.

Joseph joins a Chicago advertising agency where his creativity helps him advance high up in the company. He also finds hope for a lasting love with April, a kind woman with a secret. However, all secrets hold consequences, and when Joseph learns the truth about April’s past, his world is again turned upside down. Finally, Joseph must confront his own difficult past in order to make his dreams for the future come true.

Reading - The Map of True Places

The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry

 

 

A respected Boston psychotherapist, Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats.  But the actions of a patient throw Zee into emotional chaos and take her back to places she thought she'd left behind.

 

What starts as a brief visit home to Salem begins a larger journey. Suddenly having to care for her ailing father after his longtime companion moves out,  Zee must come to terms with a strained and awkward relationship that has always been marked by half-truths and haunted by the untimely death of her mother.  Overwheimed by her new role, Zee must destroy the existing map of her life and chart a new course - one that will guide her not only into her future but into her past as well.

Reading - Promise Me

Promise Me by Richard Paul Evans

 

Beth Cardall has a secret. For eighteen years, she has had no choice but to keep it to herself, but on Christmas Eve 2008, all that is about to change.

For Beth, 1989 was a year marked by tragedy. Her life was falling apart: her six-year-old daughter, Charlotte, was suffering from an unidentifiable illness; her marriage transformed from a seemingly happy and loving relationship to one full of betrayal and pain; her job at the dry cleaners was increasingly at risk; and she had lost any ability to trust, to hope, or to believe in herself. Then, on Christmas Day, as she rushed through a blizzard to the nearest 7-Eleven, Beth encountered Matthew, a strikingly handsome, mysterious stranger, who would single-handedly change the course of her life.

Who is this man, and how does he seem to know so much about her? He pursues her relentlessly, and only after she’s fallen deeply in love with him does she learn his incredible secret, changing the world as she knows it, as well as her own destiny.

Reading - One Night at the Call Centre

One Night at the Call Centre by Chetan Bhagat

 

In the winter of 2004, a writer meets a young girl on an overnight train journey. To pass the time, she offers to tell him a story. However she has one condition: that he make it his second book. The writer hesitates, but asks what the story is about.

 

The girl replies that the story is about six people working in a call centre one night. It was the night they got a phone call. A phone call from god. One  Are you ready to take the call?

Reading - Hamish and the Worldstoppers

 

Hamish and the Worldstoppers  by Danny Wallace

 

A Junior Fiction

 

 

 

 

What would YOUdo... if the whole world just stopped?

Yes the WHOLE WORLD.

Birds in the air. Planes in the sky. And every single person on the planet - except you!

Because that's what keeps happening to ten-year-old Hamish Ellerby.

And it's being caused by TheWorldStoppers and their terrifying friendsTheTerribles! They have a PLAN! They want to take our world for their own . . . Oh, and they hate children. Especially if you're a child who knows about them. Hang on - You know now, don't you? Oh dear.

Can Hamish save us from the WorldStoppers? Only time will tell!

Reading - Beguiled

Beguiled by Deeanne Gist & J.Mark Dertrand

 

 

 

Rylee Monroe, a dogwalker in Charleston's wealthiest neighborhood, never feared the streets at night.  But now a thief is terrorizing the area and worse, some one seems to be targeting her.

 

Reporter Logan Woods is following the break-ins with the hope of publishing his coverage as a trun-crime book.  The more hedigs, the more he realizes theis beguiling dogwalker seems to be at the center of everything.

 

As danger draws ever closer, Logan must choose :

Chase the girl, the story, or plunge into the shadows after the villain who threatens everything?