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Contents of Book Peek dated March 14, 2013

Reviews
A Brief Hour of Beauty by Ammu Nair - Landmark What If They Knew? Secrets of an impressive woman by Lisa L. Payne Fix Your Problems: The Tenali Raman Way by Vishal Goyal Damn Good Advice (for people with talent) by George Lois 9 Things Successful People Do Differently by Heidi Grant Halvorson Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy: A journey to the heart of crickets underworld by Ed Hawkins

New arrivals

From Harper, Sage

Short snatches
Tales of a Journalist, Bureaucrat, Spy: From Partition to Operation Bluestar by Som Nath Dhar Harper Internal Communications: Insights, practices, and models by Aniisu K. Verghese - Sage You Can Change Your Life: Easy steps to getting what you want by Rob Yeung - Macmillan The Cripple and His Talismans by Anosh Irani Fourth Estate (Harper) Infinite Verse by Amit Khanna Harper The Hunger Angel by Herta Mller - Landmark

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Remembering Clint
Ammu Nairs A Brief Hour of Beauty (Landmark) is a poignant biography of Edmund Thomas Clint, who died before he was seven years old. But before bidding the final bye, Clint had drawn more than 25,000 pictures, many of which doyens of art hail as the work of a genius. As soon as he started crawling, Clint began to draw, narrates Nair. His parents eyes sparkle with delight and tender love when they relate the story of Clints debut drawing. He was about six months old and could crawl on his belly Using pieces of brick lying on the floor, Clint drew perfect circles on the floor, the parents reminisce. And soon, he would fill empty spaces with an astounding variety of shapes and shades His parents, Chinnamma and Joseph, used to take Clint for evening walks, at times all the way up to Venduruthi Palam, the bridge that stretches between Willingdon Island and mainland Kochi, the author recounts. Clint loved to gaze at the backwaters and listen to the gentle sloshing of water on the pillars below the pier. One day, Chinnamma and Clint hired a boat and went all the way to the port at the mouth of the river. Clint saw ships

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anchored along the port Clint came home and drew seagulls flying low over fishing boats, numerous ships, ferries, and the port. Those were days before the television made its appearance in Kochi and, so, Clints sources of knowledge were books, magazines such as World Magazine published by National Geographic Society, and nature. The glossy pages of the magazine with its stunning photographs gave him rare peeks into the wild. The untamed nature and its denizens aroused respect and an insatiable inquisitiveness in his heart. Life was beautiful and as perfect as the images that sprang from Clints inexhaustible imagination, notes Nair. But in the unfathomable depths of cosmic design, a cataclysmic change was taking place for this small, happy family. Two months short of his third birthday, Clint fell sick with diarrhoea, and Chinnamma took him to a nearby hospital, where the doctor gave him medicines. On the way back home, they stopped at Balus place. A mother of twelve children, Balus mother, commented, Dont rush him to the hospital for a minor ailment like this! Warm buttermilk with a pinch of crushed cumin and spluttered mustard seeds is the best remedy for diarrhoea. But Clint was already feeling better. With the kind of clarity and wisdom only hindsight grants, Chinnamma and Joseph regret ignoring her home remedy Poignant read.

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Authentic selves
When we throw out the masks that have been hiding our authentic selves, we also let go of the pain and misery they have caused, writes Lisa L. Payne in What If They Knew? Secrets of an impressive woman. That is the way to empowerment, she feels. Right now, I know who I am and what success means to me. I fully acknowledge my core values and incorporate them into my daily life as an expression of my authentic self. I am crystal clear about what I want my life to look like and I am committed to making the changes to how I am being and what I am doing so I create a life that inspires me every day. The book of confessions by different women, beginning with I am a liar, by Lucy, 32. The lying started at a very young age, just trying to be the best little girl, says Lucy. I figured out very early on that my parents would like a good girl much more than a bad girl and so I fashioned my entire life around pleasing them even if it meant telling lies. The thing is: once you start telling lies, it is much easier to keep going than to confess and speak the truth.

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And the habit continued at work, too, where Lucy would tell lies about her abilities, take on projects for which she was not qualified, and put on the face of the ultimate success story. In reality, she rues, she was fabricating a life that had no meaning to her, winning the favour of her bosses, at the expense of her own integrity and self-esteem. Sadly, she never felt worthy of praise that she received, even when it was clear in black and white that she had achieved particular goals; she did not feel worthy because a lifetime of lying had left her feeling like the real me could not possibly be good enough! In a chapter titled I am abused, you meet Abby, 29, who recounts how her husband first hit her when she came home an hour late after an evening hen party at one of her girlfriends houses. The straw that broke the camels back was the vacation that never happened. The first part of the book is about the negatives, ranging from the smoker to the shopaholic, procrastinator to thief. But the second part is all the positive side, starting with, I have courage, of Cathy, 36. After my marriage of 12 years ended, I look upon the clean slate that is my future and get very excited. Well, I was scared to death but only momentarily; the opportunity to tap into the reserve of courage that had been growing for 36 years is now upon me and I intend to follow through, says Cathy. Collection of sensitivities.

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New arrivals

Clifton Bridge: Stories of innocence and experience from Pakistan by Irshad AbdulKadir Harper Legends of Halahala by Appupen Harper

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New arrival: Business & Community

Business & Community: The story of corporate social responsibility in India by Pushpa Sundar Sage
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