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Monday - Know about the Author: Wilhelm Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm was born on February 24, 1786, in Hanau, Germany. He and older brother Jacob studied German folklore and oral traditions, publishing a collection of stories eventually known as Grimms’ Fairy Tales which includes narratives like Briar Rose and Little Red Riding Hood. Wilhelm oversaw editorial work on future editions of the collection, which became more geared towards children.

Tuesday Inside - Know About The Book: B is For Burglar by Sue Grafton

Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's case goes from puzzling to sinister when a house is torched, an apartment is burgled of worthless papers, the lynx coat comes back without Elaine, and her bridge partner is found dead. Soon Kinsey's clues begin to form a capital M -- not for missing, but for murder: and plenty of it.

Winner of the 1985 Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award and the 1985 Anthony Award for Best Novel.

http://panditlibrary.com/b-is-for-burglar-by-sue-grafton.html

Monday - Know about the Author: Mick Inkpen

Mick Inkpen is one of the top-selling picture book artists and writers in the world. The Kipper and Wibbly Pig stories have millions of readers worldwide.

He has won the British Book Award twice for Lullabyhullaballoo and Penguin Small and the Children's Book Award for Threadbear. He has also been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Award three times, winning Bronze for Wibbly Pig's Silly Big Bear. In addition to this, Kipper won a BAFTA for best animated children's film in 1998.

His famous books:

Kipper

The Blue Balloon

Kipper's A to Z: An Alphabet Adventure

Kipper's Birthday

Kipper's Toybox

Kipper's Snowy Day

Is It Bedtime Wibbly Pig?

Nothing

Where, Oh Where, Is Kipper's Bear?: A Pop-Up Book with Light!

Kipper and Roly

Kipper's Monster

Honk!

Lullabyhullaballoo

Threadbear

Thursday : Nice Quote :)

http://bookshelfporn.com/post/49015602820/books-by-ryan-mcarthur-via-thekhooll

Wednesday - Information of Books and Authors:

SHORTLIST FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 ANNOUNCED

The Women's Prize for Fiction, the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, announced the 2013 Shortlist. Now in its eighteenth year - and known from 1996 to 2012 as the Orange Prize for Fiction - the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world.

Kate Atkinson: Life After Life

A.M Homes: May We Be Forgiven

Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behaviour

Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies

Maria Semple: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Zadie Smith: NW

For the first time, this year's shortlist includes two previous winners of the Orange Prize; Barbara Kingsolver who won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 for The Lacuna, and Zadie Smith who won in 2006 for On Beauty.

The winner will be presented with a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze statue known as 'the Bessie', created by artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed.

Tuesday Inside - Know About The Book: Till the Last Breath by Durjoy Datta

The death sentences of the patients in Room No. 509 have been written.

One of them is a brilliant nineteen-year-old medical student, suffering from an incurable, fatal disease hurtling her towards a slow, painful death. She counts every extra breath as a blessing. The other is a wasteful twenty-five-year-old drug addict whose every organ system is slowly shutting down. He can’t wait to get rid of his body–to him, the sooner the better.

Two reputed doctors, fighting their own demons from the past, try everything to keep these two patients alive, even putting their medical licenses at risk.

These last days in the hospital change the two patients, their doctors and all the other people around them in ways they had never fathomed.

Till the Last Breath is a heart-warming story about love, life and friendship that reminds us what it means to be alive.

Source : http://durjoydattabooks.com/the-books/till-the-last-breath/

Monday - Know about the Author: Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper was born in Stratford, Ontario, in 1968. He received a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from McGill University, as well as a law degree from the University of Toronto. Although called to the bar in 1996, he has never practiced.

His new novel, The Demonologist, will be published in Canada and the US by Simon & Schuster in March, 2013, and by Orion in the UK and Australia in April 2013. Film rights have been sold to Universal Pictures with Robert Zemeckis’ company, ImageMovers, producing. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Robert Schenkkan, is adapting.

The Guardians, Andrew’s fifth novel, was published in Canada (Doubleday Canada) in January 2011, the U.K. (Orion) in February 2011, and following this internationally in various territories. It was selected a Globe and Mail 100 Best Books of the Year.

His great novels:

The Killing Circle

Kiss Me

Lost Girls

The Trade Mission

The Wildfire Season

Source - http://www.andrewpyper.com/biography/

Monday - Know about the Author: Sandilyan

Well known author in Tamil:

Sandilyan or Chandilyan (Tamil: சாண்டில்யன்) is the Pen name of Bhashyam Iyengar, a noted Tamil writer of Historical fiction. He is known for his historical romance and adventure novels, often set in the times of the Chola and Pandya empires.

His Tamil Novels:

Alai Arasi (அலை அரசி)
Avani Sundari (அவனி சுந்தரி)
chandarmathi (சந்திரமதி)
chithranjanai (சித்ரஞ்சனை)
ilaya rani (இளைய ராணி)
indira kumari (இந்திர குமரி)
jala deepam (ஜல தீபம்) - III parts (1973)
jala mohini (ஜல மோகினி)
jeeva boomi (ஜீவ பூமி)
kadal rani (கடல் ராணி)
kadal vendhan (கடல் வேந்தன்)
madhahaviyin manam (மதஹவியின் மனம்)
malai arasi (மலை அரசி)
malai vasal (மலை வாசல்)
mangaladevi (மங்களதேவி)
manjal aaru (மஞ்சள் ஆறு)
manmalar (மன்மலர்)
mohana chilai (மோகன சிலை)
mohini vanam (மோகினி வனம்)
moongil kottai (மூங்கில் கோட்டை)
naaga deepam (நாக தீபம்)
naaga devi (நாக தேவி)
neel vizhi (நீள்விழி)
neela mangai (நீலமங்கை)
neela rathi (நீலரதி)
neelavalli (நீலவல்லி)
pallava peedam (பல்லவ பீடம்)
pallava thilagam (பல்லவ திலகம்)
pandiyan bhavani (பாண்டியன் பவனி)
raaniyin kanavu (ராணியின் கனவு)
raja thilagam (ராஜதிலகம்)
raja yogam (ராஜயோகம்)
rajyasree (ராஜ்யஸ்ரீ)
rana hammer (ராணா ஹமீர்)
seran chelvi (சேரன் செல்வி)
udhayabanu (உதயபானு)
vasantha kaalam (வசந்தகாலம்)
vijaya mahadevi (விஜய மகாதேவி) - III parts
vilai raani (விலை ராணி)

Monday - Know about the Author: Ashok Banker

Ashok Kumar Banker (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai, India) is an author and former journalist of mixed-race parentage. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction and mythological retellings.[1] The author of several well-received novels including a trilogy billed as "India's first crime novels in English",[2] he became widely known for his retellings of Indian mythological epics, starting with the internationally acclaimed and bestselling eight-volume Ramayana Series, which has been credited with the resurgence of mythology in Indian publishing. His books have sold 1.4 million copies and have been published in 12 languages in 56 countries. His Epic India Library is an attempt to retell all the myths, legends and itihasa of the Indian sub-continent in one massive story cycle comprising over 70 volumes, "an epic library of India.

Amazing Adventure at Chotta Sheher (1992)
The Iron Bra (1993)
Murder & Champagne (1993)
Ten Dead Admen (1993)
Vertigo (1993)
Byculla Boy (1994)
The Missing Parents Mystery (1994)
The Pocket Essential Bollywood (2001)
Ramayana Series
Collected as omnibus volumes
Krishna Coriolis Series
Mahabharata Series
Kali Rising

To know about this author... Please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok_Banker

Monday - Know about the Author: Piyush Jha

Piyush Jha is a film director and screenwriter and novelist of Indian origin, most known for his acclaimed films Sikandar (2009), King of Bollywood and Chalo America and his Bestseller crime-thriller novel, Mumbaistan

Feature Films

In 2000, he decided to take a plunge into the world of feature film making, and the Government of India's NFDC produced his first feature, ‘Chalo America’, a hilarious yet touching story of a group of three Indian college boys obsessed with the American dream, and how they concoct various schemes to find a way to the US. Although a laugh riot, the film addressed a serious issue sensitively, which is the obsessive aspirational desire for emigration. It was a selection at the prestigious Indian Panorama Section at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), and traveled wide to many international film festivals such as those in Shanghai, Cairo, San Diego, Dhaka, Atlanta, amongst others.

After continuing to make Ad films, Piyush Jha returned to the big screen in 2004, with the first Indian film in the "Mockumentary" genre, ‘King of Bollywood’, starring Om Puri and British supermodel Sophie Dahl. It tells the story of an ageing Bollywood Superstar, and the hilarity, colour and zany-ness of his many comeback attempts. Once again, an extremely funny film, yet was also regarded by critics as being a highly intelligent film, as was also selected at prestigious International Film Festivals in Bradford, UK; Tel Aviv, Israel; New York, USA; Toronto, Canada; Melbourne, Australia etc.

In 2009, after his extensive travels around India and the world, Piyush Jha decided to pick up on another serious issue; terrorism in Kashmir. Piyush’s unique idea was to show it in a light that brings out the humanity in that issue in a way that even a person who might not know or even be interested in a thing about Kashmir could find a connection. Sikandar, the film was a story was about a young boy, who only wanted to play soccer but, one day finds a gun on his way to school, and how that affects his life, and the life of the little village he lives in.

Sikandar was selected in the International Film Festivals, Dubai, IFFLA in LA, Edmonton in Canada, MIACC in New York, and Stuttgart in Germany, among others. Sikandar was highly acclaimed by critics, including those of the mainstream popular media (for example, Nikhat Kazmi, renowned film critic of the Times of India, India's largest selling English daily, gave it a 3.5 star rating.

Soruce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piyush_Jha

Wednesday Interesting Facts of Books:

6.New York Public Library

New York Public Library is one of the biggest and largest libraries in the world. It will take 80 miles if you extend all of the shelves. There are many book collections available. The favorite topics are astrology, witchcraft, drugs and Shakespeare.

7.Bible

Bible is a religious book for the Christian people. This book has been printed widely for about two and half billion copies. If all of the books are placed in a very long shelf, you can drive a motorcycle and hit the top speed 55 miles per hour to finish exploring the area for four months.

8.Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace from Leo Tolstoy was a phenomenal book. It was created by the writer before the invention of copying machines and computer. His manuscript was copied by his wife for seven times by hand.

9.Jonathan Swift

The ninth point of book facts is about Jonathan Swift. He is the author for the infamous Gulliver’s Travel. This novel is called as science fiction. In this book, he inked two moons were circling Mars. This man depicted the speed as well as the space of the orbit a hundred years before it was announced by the astronomers.

10.American book

In a day, you are served 125 new book titles sold every single day. In America, there are five million books were sold within a day.

Source: http://infactcollaborative.com/things/book-facts.html

Monday - Know about the Author: Ravinder Singh

Most of us know this author on his debut novel I Too Had a Love Story.

Ravinder Singh is a bestselling author. His debut novel I Too Had a Love Story has touched millions of heart. Can Love Happen Twice? is his second book. After spending most of his life in Burla, a very small town in Orissa, Ravinder has finally settled down in Chandigarh. Having worked as a software engineer for several years at some of India’s prominent IT companies, Ravinder has recently completed his MBA at the world-renowned Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Ravinder loves playing Snooker in his free time. He is crazy about Punjabi music and loves dancing to its beat. The best way to contact Ravinder is through his official fan page on Facebook.

Author website: http://www.ravindersinghonline.com

Ravinder Singh's interview at Infosys Chandigarh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkGHu5UB7s

The second novel "Can Love Happen Twice?"