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Vaishali's of Sanskar Teaching reading her favorite books

Vaishali's Favorite Books

Books allow me to escape reality, this is the way I unwind and destress. I pick the books based on the little blurb it says about it, sometimes I will read reviews and I also value the recommendations and feedbacks from people I admire. I can eat, drink and fill my cup with books all day long. The cover of the book sometimes plays a role, but not really. I like mysteries and self help books the most, but also books about living in the early settlers days or simpler times. 

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you are a badass book review
You are a badass book review

You Are a Badass helps you identify and change the self-sabotaging thoughts and behavior patterns that are stopping you from living up to your potential.

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susan jeffers book
feel the fear and do it anyway book review

Discover that fear is simply a fact of life, not a barrier to success. Get ready to take control and move ahead with your life. 

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gabrielle bernstein book
super attractor book review

Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential steps for living in alignment with the Universe--more fully than you've ever done before.

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medical medium book
life changing foods book review

Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods delves deeper into the healing power of over 50 fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods that can have an extraordinary effect on health

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Haroun and the sea of stories book review

Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore his father’s gift of storytelling by reviving the poisoned Sea of Stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers. 

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A Star is Bored review
A Star is bored book review

Charlie Besson begins working for a celebrity as an assistant. Laugh out loud funny, this novel is heartfelt and hopeful! 

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vikran seth desi book
a suitable boy book review

Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, this compelling story takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. 

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medical medium book review

Anthony William, the Medical Medium, has helped millions of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated or that doctors can't resolve on their own.

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Elizabeth Gilbert book review
big magic book review

This author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about living a creative life

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kate northrup book
do less book review

This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity

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cornelia funke book
Inkheart book review

Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. 

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Richard Carlson book review
Don't Sweat the small stuff book review

Put challenges in perspective, reduce stress and anxiety through small daily changes, and find the path to achieving your goals with this groundbreaking inspirational guide.

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shubhangi Swarup book
latitudes of longing book review

A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India

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don ruiz book
the four agreements book review

Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, 

true happiness, and love.

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jhumpa lahiri book
the namesake book review

Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world

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the fault in our stars.jpg

Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

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jhumpa lahiri sanskar teaching book
unaccustomed earth book review

These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. 

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way of the peaceful warrior.jpg

Follow Dan on a spiritual odyssey into realms of light and shadow, romance and mystery, toward a final confrontation that would deliver or destroy him.

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eckhart tolle book
the power of now book review

Eckhart Tolle offers simple language in a question and answer format to discover you are not your mind, you can find your way out of psychological pain, and authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now.

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beneath a marble sky.jpg

The story surrounding the construction of the Taj Mahal occurs against a war, rebellion, wealth, and religious fundamentalism opposing tolerance and coexistence between the disparate peoples in the empire.

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the other boleyn girl.jpg
the other boleyn girl.jpg

Riveting historical drama bringing to light a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who fell in love with Henry VIII, and survived a treacherous political landscape by following her heart.

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angela ashes.jpg

Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland in poverty, telling eloquent stories of humor and forgiveness.

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your best life now.jpg
your best life now.jpg

Pastor Joel Osteen asks everyone to examine what they really believes. Our beliefs will prove either a barrier or vehicle as we strive to rise above our obstacles, & to live in health, abundance, and victory.

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talking to strangers.jpg

Gladwell argues that something is very wrong with the strategies we use to make sense of strangers, which invites conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.

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nineteen minutes.jpg

Following a a school shooting, Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.

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the bluest eye.jpg

A young Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

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the great alone.jpg

A desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.

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the shadow of the wind.jpg

Daniel finds solace in a mysterious book. When he sets out to find the author’s other works, he discovers someone has been destroying every copy of every book the author has written, which opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--a story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

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the white tiger.jpg

The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society.

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do the work.jpg

Do the Work will show you that it's not about better ideas, it's about actually doing the work. Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance - a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door. 

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Wired to Create.jpg

Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking

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everything is figureoutable.jpg

While most self-help books offer quick fixes, Everything is Figureoutable will retrain your brain to think more creatively and positively in the face of setbacks.

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the mysterious benedict society.jpg

Four children are chosen for a challenge for the gifted: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete.

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the ministry of utmost happiness.jpg

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many people across the Indian subcontinent.

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autobiography of a yogi.jpg

A beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation

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start with why.jpg

Start With Why