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This is the Marathi translation of The Diary of a Young Girl - a compilation of diary writings of Anne Frank, a girl who had to resort to hiding along with her family because of the Nazi occupation. This book has received widespread publicity and is one of the most famous literatures of the Nazi era. This book has been translated in more than 60 languages and has received critical acclamation. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp and her diary was successfully retrieved by Miep Gies, who handed it to Anne’s father, the lone survivor from the family.

23½ Ways to Make a Girl Fall for You is arguably the most incorrect piece of work ever written. Eclipsing even Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, this book is a huge mathematical error. However, once you can bypass the glaring mistakes, which only end two minutes after the book is over, there is plenty of information to be gleaned by the novice male lover-to-be. Although very little of that information will be helpful, I'm sure you'll all join me in saying that the effort was there.

The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime’s death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. With intelligence and passion she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her.

Funny, poignant and reflective, The Weight of a Cherry Blossom is a fable of rootlessness and belonging in the modern world. It is equal parts a story of urban loneliness and self-discovery and of the healing powers of kinship and love. Revisiting the awkwardness of adolescence and the chaos of growing up, it looks the foibles of adulthood irreverently in the eye.

No one could have predicted even two years ago that an African American would take the oath of office as president of the United States in January of 2009. For many, the occasion marks the climax to the civil rights movement and the fulfillment of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream that Americans could be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin. This collection, with about 400 letters from Americans of all walks of life, is being created to stand as a symbol of this exciting moment in history.

Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature’s most important novelists, poets, and playwrights.

Bharat mein mahilaon ka yogdaan kisi bhi shetra mein purushon se kam nahin raha hai. Yahan tak ki unhone purushon se bhi aage badh-chadhkar khyati arjit ki hai. Prastut pustak 'Bharat ki Pratham Mahilaaye' mein chuni hui mahilaon ke baare mein chitraan hai, jinhone kisi kaarya shetra mein pratham mahila hone ka gaurav prapt kiya. Inmein khel, police, Raajneeti, banking aadi shetra shamil hain. Ye mahilaaye kisi bhi shetra mein bhartiye mahilaon ke liye aadarsh aur anukarniye hain. Yeh pustak humaare chaatra-chaatraon ke liye vishesh upyogi hai.

Songs and Lyrics are called as Music. Dance and Music are responsible for mixing happiness in one’s life. India has had a very proud tradition of dance and music since ancient times. Here the musicians have influence not only man, but also the roots and the immovables. The audiobook has presented such selected 21 dancers, 26 singers and 25 players whose characteristics and achievements have been enlightening and interesting.