INTRODUCTION According to recent studies‚ self-help books – non-fiction books that offer advice for behavior modification and make explicit promises for positive change – have doubled as a percentage of all book titles since the 1970s. The increasing popularity of self-help books is an indicator of the modern society’s quest to maximize personal happiness through a process of self-discovery. Self-help books are a response to a real and genuine hunger for psychological understanding and self-improvement
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The Name of This Book is Secret By: Anya Lee The Name of This Book is Secret was written by Pseudonymous Bosch. It is the first book in a series of five books called Secret Series. The story starts with a whole chapter x’ed out. In chapter 1 and a 1/2‚ the author explains that he won’t introduce the characters‚ won’t tell where and when the story takes place‚ and that he shouldn’t be telling the story at all. In fact‚ he says he can’t tell anything that would help the reader identify the people
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Two unwanted children…share a vitalizing secret… The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett Puffin Classics Rs. 180 Nine-year old Mary Lennox is a disagreeable orphan‚ who is sent to her uncle’s desolate mansion in England. Misselthwaite Manor‚ however‚ conceals plenty of secrets…which seem to be waiting to be discovered… On realising that she has nothing better to do‚ Mary spends all her time in the vast gardens surrounding her uncle’s mansion. It is not until the day when a friendly
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texts. The construction of identity of a character often reflects or challenges the dominant ideologies circulating at the time of a text setting. The Book Thief explores Nazi Ideology in war-torn Germany in the 1940’s‚ Hans Hubermann and Rudy Steiford openly and secretively defies and challenges the dominant ideologies of this time era. The Secret River is set in the 18th century and focuses on one man man’s journey through life and is progression to Australia were the audience is introduced to the
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Try --The Secret Garden book report After heroine Mary’s parents died of cholera in India‚ she was sent to her uncle Archibald in Yorkshire. Life began to change. Mary‚ a spoiled and bad-tempered girl‚ who even didn’t know how to dress‚ tried to dress herself for the first time the morning she awoke. She was so lonely‚ that‚ she kept trying to find the secret garden after the servant Martha told her about it by chance. The secret garden had been locked up for ten years because her aunt died
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Secret Books Many people think that reading is not important but I think it is. You might disagree with me because you do not think it is important‚ and you may think it is boring but after you read this I think you will change your mind. You should go to find a book to read because reading teaches about grammar and sentence skills‚ it improves your writing‚ and if you read more‚ you will be able to read faster. One reason why I think everyone should read more is because it helps your grammar
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Book Review on The Secret Garden Title: The Secret Garden Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Summary of the story Mary Lennox was a spoilt little girl and lived in India. Her parents were rich and she had maids working for her. But when her maids and parents died of a disease‚ 9 – year – old‚ Mary Lennox is sent to her Uncle’ s mansion on the Yorkshire Moors. But a tragedy happened ten years ago and her Uncle has never recovered from it. Miserable Mary started to explore the gardens of the house
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2001 Higher Level Stephen Edgar’s “The Secret Life of Books” is about the nature of reading and the power of literature to affect the reader. The poem personifies books‚ imagining how they silently plot to draw in their readers‚ and then moves to a discussion of how the readers are changed by their reading. Edgar structures his poem to illustrate the nature of this relationship between literature and its readers. “The Secret Life of Books” is divided into five stanzas‚ each six lines in
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Book Review | “The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic” | | “Sophie Kinsella” | | Book Review: The Secret Dream World of a Shopaholic: Introduction: The book‚ “The Secret Dream World of a Shopaholic” is written by “Sophie Kinsella”. The book was published by Black Swan in 2000. This book is the first of the ongoing shopaholic fiction series. Sophie Kinsella also writes under a different name and has numerous other award winning books. The book revolves around the dangers of addiction
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such as anectodes‚ thick descriptions‚ and counter histories. Vassanji‚ an influential third category immigrant Canadian writer has contributed worthy literary genres. The present paper entitled “The Historical Ellipses in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets” focuses on how Vassanji traces the metamorphosis of Tanzania from an acquiescent colony into an egalitarian country. Also‚ the writer has incorporated the various historical acts‚ events and situation by negotiating the world
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