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Marriage Card Game

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Marriage, brought to you by Bhoos.com, is a 3 deck, 21 cards rummy game popular in Nepal, Bhutan and...

Navitel Kazakhstan

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Navitel Navigator is unique and accurate navigation system, including a detailed map of Kazakhstan. ...

Beautiful Words: A Dictionary

David Tuffley

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As English has evolved over the past 1,500 years, words that were once in common usage have slipped...

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People

Farahad Zama

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Alexander McCall Smith meets Jane Austen in this delightfully charming Indian novel about finding...

ClareR (6157 KP) rated A Passage North in Books

Jun 21, 2022

A Passage North

Anuk Arudpragasam | 2021 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Travel

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A Passage North is a book rich in the description of a journey from the capital of Sri Lanka (Colombo) to the Northern Province, which is still affected by the Civil War.

Krishnan is on his way to the funeral of his grandmothers carer and companion. She had returned to visit her daughter in the North, and had died after tripping, falling down a well and breaking her neck. However, after we learn some of her background, there is some doubt that it’s actually accident. Rani had suffered a great deal during the war, and had been left with mental health problems. Krishnan thinks about how her losses affected her life.

Krishnan has experienced loss as well. His father during the war, and the breakup of a significant relationship that he had whilst studying in India.

There’s no dialogue in this novel, it’s all Krishnan’s thoughts about his past and present and Rani’s past. When I started reading, I honestly didn’t think I’d enjoy this. But I was happily mistaken. I’ve never been to Sri Lanka, but it sounds beautiful. The funeral was moving and was a reminder of the deaths of many, many innocents during the civil war, and also those who survived them.
This is a powerful novel, that I still think about after reading it.

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2544 KP) rated Michelangelo's Ghost (Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery, #4) in Books

Feb 4, 2026

Jaya’s on the Trail of an Obscure Italian Painter

Jaya Jones has gotten a tantalizing email from an old mentor. Dr. Lilith Vine has found an obscure Renaissance artist she thinks was not only a protege of Michelangelo, but someone who traveled to India, incorporating that culture into his work. His name and work have been lost to history, but Jaya can’t help but be intrigued at the possibility. After a death under suspicious – at least to Jaya – circumstances, she travels to Italy in hopes of finding the man’s long-lost work. But can she find a centuries old trail?

I let too long go between reading books in this series, but it was nice to be back in Jaya’s presence. The story grabbed me quickly and I was hooked the entire way through. This is different from a typical murder mystery, and I was on board for it. I loved how it all came together at the end and how some clues had been woven in early. The characters were interesting, and I need to read more soon to find out about what happens next to them. Fans of the author’s new Secret Staircase series will enjoy some references to those characters thanks to a crossover character. This is a fun book that will keep the pages turning.