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*Barber at the Zoo*
By *Pratibha Nath*

Badlu Singh - the barber, was no ordinary barber. He cut the hair of the animals at the zoo! Bear, rabbits, giraffe, baby elephant, chimp… and finally...the lion! What happens when Badlu Singh gives the lion a haircut?
Read this hilarious tale to find out! A CBT book with beautiful illustrations and beautiful storyline....one can actually imagine the Barber giving haircut to the animals....
Read aloud to the younger kids....they would love the story...
Reading level : 5 yrs and above
Pages: 24

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*हनुमान चालीसा*
*लेखक* : *देवदत्त पट्टनायक*
*अनुवाद* : *सरोज देशचौगुले*

सकारात्मक ऊर्जेसाठी सर्वात लोकप्रिय प्रार्थनांपैकी एक - हनुमान चालीसा

चारशे वर्षांपूर्वी संत कवी तुलसीदासांनी अवधी भाषेमध्ये हनुमान चालीसाची रचना केली. देवदत्त पट्टनायकांनी यातील दोह्यांची आणि चौपाईंची मांडणी अत्यंत सोप्या शब्दांत केली आहे. संगीतबद्ध रूपात हे दोहे हनुमानासंबंधी पौराणिक ज्ञान, ऐतिहासिक तथ्यं आणि रहस्यं यांवर प्रकाश टाकतात. हनुमानाच्या माध्यमातून वैदिक ज्ञान लोकांपर्यंत पोहोचतं.
हे छंद वाचताना ऐकताना आपले भयभीत आणि चंचल मन ज्ञानाने आणि अंतर्दृष्टीने प्रकाशमान होतं आणि मानवतेवरील आपला विश्वास अधिकच दृढ़ होतो.

*अटलजी*
*लेखक* : *सारंग दर्शने*

गीत नया गाता हूँ
टूटे हुए तारों से फूटे बासंती स्वर ,
पत्थर की छाती में उग आया नव अंकुर,
झरे सब पीले पात,
कोयल की कूक रात,
प्राची में अरुणिमा की रेख देख पाता हूं।
गीत नया गाता हूँ।
टूटे हुए सपनों की सुने कौन सिसकी?
अंतर को चीर व्यथा पलकों पर ठिठकी।
हार नहीं मानूँगा,
रार नहीं ठानूँगा,
काल के कपाल पर लिखता मिटाता हूँ।
गीत नया गाता हूँ।

-अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी

या आणि अशा अनेक सुंदर कविता लिहिणारे, राष्ट्रवादाने भारलेले... अजात शत्रू.....असे आपल्या सर्वांचे लाडके अटल बिहारीं वाजपेयीजी यांचा आज जन्मदिन....एकदा तरी वाचावेच असे हे त्यांचे चरित्र...
हे चरित्र आहे कविहृदयाच्या राष्ट्रनेत्याचे...
कसलेल्या संसदपटूचे आणि
लोकशाहीसाठी झुंजणाऱ्या लढवय्याचे...
समर्थ भारताचे स्वप्न पाहणाऱ्या राजनीतीज्ञाचे...
सत्ता सेवेसाठी असते,
हे जाणणाऱ्या दूरदर्शी नेत्याचे...
हिंदुत्त्वाचा हुंकार आणि विश्वबंधुत्त्व
यांत भेद न करणाऱ्या
उदारहृदयी राष्ट्रवाद्याचे...
संघर्षाचे आणि साफल्याचे...
चारित्र अटलजींचे आणि
भारताच्या विशाल राजकीय पटाचे...

*A Christmas Carol*
By *Charles Dickens*
A Christmas Carol opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
*Scrooge*, an ageing miser, dislikes Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred, the son of his dead sister Fan.
*That* night, Scrooge is visited at home by the ghost of Marley ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.It takes Scrooge on a journey through Christmases from his past.
*The* journey through time teaches Scrooge the error of his ways. When he wakes up on Christmas Day he is full of excitement, and buys the biggest turkey in the shop for the Cratchit family before spending the day with his nephew, full of the joys of Christmas.
Reading Level : 10 yrs & above
Pages: 160

*विस्म्रुतिचित्रे*
अरुणा ढेरे

एकोणिसाव्या शतकातील सुधारकांनी कल्पिलेले स्त्रीशिक्षण म्हणजे निव्वळ औपचारिक असे शालेय शिक्षण नव्हते. स्त्रीला तिच्याभोवतीच्या समाजाशी , राष्ट्राशी आणि एकूणच विराट विश्वाशी जोडून देण्याची ती सुंदर प्रक्रिया होती. या प्रक्रियेत
उतरलेल्या स्त्रीयांनी असह्य अशी दडपणे दूर् सारून आपल्या सहकारी पुरुषाचा हात धरून जगाकडे जाणतेपणाने पाहिले. त्यांनी आपणच आपली ओळख करुन घेतली , आपल्या मर्यादांशी झुंज दिली आणि सामर्थ्य कसाला लावले.
त्यांनी देश, भाषा, धर्म,वंश , जती या सर्वापलिकडची स्त्रीत्वाची खूण जाणून एकमेकींना हाक दिली.
सर्वात महत्वाचे म्हणजे त्यांना स्वतःच्याच आत्म्याला स्पर्श करता आला.
एक प्रकारे शिकणे आणि जगणे त्यांच्यासाठी इतक्या अवघडपणे आणि इतक्या रसरशीतपणे एकत्र झाले होते की, असे पूर्वीं कधी झाले नसेल आणि कदचित पुढेही होणार नाही...
या प्रवास आणि प्रक्रियेतील काही विस्म्रुतीत गेलेल्या स्त्रीव्यक्तिरेखांचे हे चित्रण....

Few more books added to the collection....
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*Mr Popper's Penguins*
By *Florence & Richard Atwater*
More than 60 years have now dated this wonderfully absurd story...which still makes kids (and parents) laugh out loud.

Poor Mr. Popper isn't exactly unhappy; he just wishes he had seen something of the world before meeting Mrs. Popper and settling down. Most of all, he wishes he had seen the Poles, and spends his spare time between house-painting jobs reading all about polar explorations. Admiral Drake, in response to Mr. Popper's fan letter, sends him a penguin; life at 432 Proudfoot Avenue is never the same again. From one penguin living in the icebox, the Popper family grows to include 12 penguins, all of whom must be fed. Thus is born "Popper's Performing Penguins, First Time on Any Stage, Direct from the South Pole." Their adventures while on tour are hilarious, with numerous slapstick moments as the penguins disrupt other acts and invade hotels. Classic chapter-a-night fun.
*Reading level : 5 to 10*

*The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1)*
by *Robert Galbrath* *(J K Rowling)*

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a su***de, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for
J K Rowling. She wrote the series Common Stike by this name.
Wonderful...engaging crime thriller....

Perfect book for the season.....

*Presents from Gran*
By *Jan Mark*
Grandma's presents are always clothes she has knitted - sweaters, scarves,gloves, hats.... but although she knits pictures and fancy designs into her presents for Mick's sister and the baby, she is convinced that boys only like "plain things". But what Mick longs for most, is a beautiful sweater with designs all over it....
He is too polite to say that he is disappointed in the plainness of the sweaters she knits for him, but clever enough to get what he wants eventually. And who wouldn't love a sweater like that!
A wonderful warm story with beautiful illistrations....
Reading level: 5 yrs and above
Pages: 12
Read it aloud to your younger kids. They would love this book....
JustBooks Sahakarnagar Pune
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*When Bholu comes back!!*
By *Kavitha Punniyamurthi*

Graa-aaa-aaa-ooo-oon! Every time Beni Ram tries to sell his camel, Bholu promptly trots back. “The villagers use vans now instead of camel-carts. Nobody wants to give your old man a job anymore,” says a gloomy Beni Ram. But fate has surprising plans for the out-of-luck Beni Ram and his beloved camel..
The illustrations beautifully capture the special bond between Beni Ram and his Camel. With a warm and vivid palette the pictures evoke the colours of Rajasthan, adding a rich layer to this delightful desert tale.
Another gem from Tulika.
Reading Level : 5 yrs and above
Read it to your younger kids who are or will be learning to read.
Pages : 24

Its Our 4th Anniversary!!!!

Its the 4th Anniversary of our Library today...
Though the library is not full of decorations this year...Our hearts are....Our hearts are fulllll of Joy, Happiness and the Gratitude towards all our members who stood by us all the way.... especially during the testing, difficult times this year.... Gratitude towards all those who supported us during our Journey of 4 years...Looking forward to many more such wonderful years together....
Thanks for being with us!!!!