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Design Your Career: Lead Self, Lead Others, Lead Change  By Pavan Soni ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Ratings 5/5 GO GRAB YOUR COPY VIA AMAZON NOW Synopsis Today, we are confronted with a lot of compelling career options, but with little guidance. The new age engagement models, such as working-from-home, freelancing, gig-workforce, moonlighting, co-working spaces, solopreneur and entrepreneur-in-residence, have ushered significant flux in both the formal and informal work settings. There are opportunities galore, and the democratization of technology has only exacerbated our quest for the most suitable career. Design Your Career is the distillation of Pavan’s 550 workshops at over 175 organizations across five countries where he infers that human talent is grossly underutilized. This book is a humble attempt in offering hope and clarity to individuals who feel helpless amid all the chaos and to give them the appropriate tools and frameworks to guide their careers towards fulfilment. My Thoug...

Faces in the Smoke  By Ruth Hallam ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Rating 4.5/5 GO GRAB YOUR COPY VIA AMAZON NOW Synopsis  A story of love, hate, murder and witchcraft. Strength and survival through generations, battling against a terrifying curse that will blight an entire bloodline. This is the story of a witch called Beatrice, whose curse upon her family’s bloodline has long reaching consequences for her descendants. Tess is the first to be the victim of her aunt’s curse, being that there will be no living male born to the bloodline. As the strong female characters of this story must survive this curse, lasting and loving relationships are developed. The story will take us back through Beatrice’s life, how through desperation and manipulation she turns to prostitution at the early age of 15, in the year of 1619. It will tell of her attachment to a young girl in very similar circumstances, who both cling to each other and become non-blood sisters. They will go through untold hardship a...

A Healer's Hymns  By Ved Vyas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Rating 4.6/5 GO GRAB YOUR COPY VIA AMAZON NOW Synopsis  Life, unpredictable, yields return for sacrifices made. Departing from the conventional path, I surrendered much to existence. Pain, a constant companion, birthed verse-each line a product of anguish turned art. In the ebb and flow of life's challenges, I found solace in writing. What emerged were rhythmic verses, transforming suffering into poetry. Some reflect, others introspect; some offer insight, and others observe. Regardless, each verse is a product of life's trials and emotions. Surprisingly, these verses multiplied over the years. Today, I share them not for accolades, but to be heard amidst the chaos. Some stories must be told, some silences shattered. I offer my rhymes openly, a reflection, a token of my journey. My Thoughts  In *A Healer’s Hymns*, Ved Vyas bares his soul in a collection of verses shaped by suffering, resilience, and quiet strength. This i...

Puttakappulu  By Parinaz Jokh ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Rating 4.5/5 GO GRAB YOUR COPY VIA AMAZON NOW Synopsis  Where lazy days drift by with the sea breeze, hopscotch grids and loose tiles tell their tales, and the fluttering pages of a book dance to the rhythm of a sweet bell welcoming smiling customers. Welcome to Puttakappulu, where Raman Pillai and his cozy bookshop by the sea weave lives together, much like the stories resting on its shelves. My Thoughts  In *Puttakappulu*, Parinaz Jokhi invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes quietly magical — a seaside town where time slows, stories breathe, and lives gently interlace beneath the scent of salt and old pages. At the heart of this gentle tale is **Raman Pillai**, the soft-spoken guardian of a humble bookshop nestled by the sea. His shop, with its creaky tiles, hopscotch-marked floors, and a bell that sings like a welcome song, isn’t just a setting — it’s a living character. Within its walls, the boundaries bet...

Ugly Botany  By Ralph Burton ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Rating 5/5 GO GRAB YOUR COPY VIA AMAZON NOW Synopsis  Aboard a steam train heading into the heart of Colonial Africa, scrawny botany student D.D. Roswell learns his professor's dark secret. Virgil Perkins and his wife Cecilia have been single-handedly sustaining the British Empire via unspeakable bedroom antics. Long ago Cecilia's father made a deal with the devil to ensure that if his daughter slept with her lover every night, the Empire would never die. If, however, she spent the night alone, all hell would break loose. It is then D.D. learns Cecilia is missing, and Virgil has come to Africa to find her. Though, outside, the sun is setting, the crocodiles in the lake are getting hungry, and D.D. knows what his professor must face: no Empire -- especially not this one -- should last forever. My Thoughts Ralph Burton’s *Ugly Botany* is what happens when colonial satire, dark magical realism, and absurdist humor crash headfirst ...

BLINK-BLINK: a dystopian love story  By J.P.S. Stalder ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Rating 4.4/5 GO GRAB YOUR COPY VIA AMAZON NOW Synopsis  What do I do then? What do I do in a world full of… darkness?” “Well, have you tried turning on some lights? A candle? A campfire? Anything? When you shine a little light, even in the darkest places, folks tend to stop banging their heads against the walls so much,” her mother laughed somberly. “And… what if that fire burns down everything around me? What if we’re all consumed by it?” Blair asked, searching for some kind of concrete reassurance everything would be well in the end. “Then it consumes us all,” Ayn answered. Then loudly she added, “Your father and I always believed it was better to be consumed by the flames than to live as beggars, pleading for our rights on our knees!” In the near future, AI powered wearable lenses, or “Blinks”, have replaced smartphones, allowing for all digital communication, searches, and transactions to be comple...