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Snowbound by Olivier Lafont

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What can Adam and Zach do to revive Christmas? Do read Snowbound by Olivier Lafont to find out. Print Length: 339 pages Publication Date: May 18, 2017 Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC Language: English Genre: Young Adult Adventure/Fantasy  Christmas is dying. The last Santa Claus had triplets who each inherited a portion of his father’s power, and that split is now tearing apart the soul of Christmas. Niccolo Vecchio, the eldest, has fortified the North Pole into a citadel of ice and metal. Santini, the middle brother, is in hiding somewhere in the Mediterranean. The youngest brother, Niccolo Piccolo, is raising legions to reclaim his inheritance. Two of the triplets will have to renounce their claim in the next forty-eight hours, or this Christmas will be the last one ever. And it’s up to Adam, underachieving teenager sub-ordinaire, and his brand new jock bully Zach to make that happen… It would be great if ...

Yours To Love Yours To Take

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Yours To Love Yours To Take by Reshma Ranjan A Heartwarming Saga of Love and Sacrifice Print Length: 202 pages Publication Date: July 21, 2017 Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC Language: English Available on Kindle Unlimited  Genre: Romance  As if losing her parents and her voice in a childhood accident wasn’t cruel enough, Anita Batra now has to come to terms with her twin’s death and help her sister’s partner get a new lease in life.  Adopted by the Verma Clan after his parents died in an accident, Dr. Salim Verma finally finds love and a chance to be happy only to lose it in an accident he himself survives.  When fate strikes a final blow and brings two strangers together, Salim can’t help but punish Anita and make her tread through the hell he himself was in, while all Anita wants is to help her sister’s partner start afresh, no matter what the cost.  Will Salim ever be able to ignore Anita’s resemblanc...
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Frankly Speaking - An Evening of Immersive Theatre Script: Kirthi Jayakumar   Direction: Samyuktha PC Performed by: Keerthi Pandian, Kirthi Jayakumar and Aparnaa Nagesh It was a performance that left its audience with goosebumps, a performance in which the stunned lookers-on played a pivotal part, as, in a dim-lit room, to the background of staccato gunshots, three young women played out a macabre repertoire of genocide in various war-ravaged countries in the world. As they spoke, intoned, sang and wailed, the horror of violence and the anguish of death were keenly felt in every heart. At intervals, however, the quotes of Anne Frank acted like a balm, much akin to an oasis in the midst of tremendous turmoil. Kirthi Jayakumar is much like Anne Frank herself, as she strives to come to terms with a world where "men have lost their reason". Maybe, this is why she put so much of herself into 'Frankly Speaking', a touching piece of writing which wa...