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Wish you Well ~ David Baldacci Wish You Well is the story of Louisa Mae Cardinal, a precocious twelve-year-old girl living in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her acclaimed but sadly underpaid writer father, her compassionate mother, and her timid younger brother, Oz. For Lou, her family's financial struggles are invisible to her. Instead, she is a daughter who idolizes her father and is in love with the art of storytelling. Then, in a single, terrifying moment, Lou's life is changed forever, and she and Oz are on a train rolling away from New York and down into the mountains of Virginia. There, Lou's mother will begin a long, slow struggle between life and death. And there, Lou and Oz will be raised by their remarkable great-grandmother, Louisa, Lou's namesake. Suddenly a girl finds herself coming of age in a landscape that could not be more foreign to her. On her great-grandmother's farm, on the land her father loved and wrote about, Lou finds her first true friend; learns lessons in loyalty, tragedy, and redemption; and experiences adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches on their new home, Lou and her brother are caught up in another struggle -- a struggle for justice and survival that will be played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom. In Wish You Well David Baldacci has written a tale laced with touching passages evoking the charms of rural Virginia, imbued with graceful humor, and enriched by with unforgettable characters. The novel is a heart-wrenching yet triumphant story about family and adversity from times past that resounds forcefully today. Wish You Well is a breathtakingly beautiful achievement from an author who has the power to make us feel, to make us care, and to make us believe in the great and little miracles that can change lives -- or save them. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century : Loved this book especially since it talked about Bangalore :) The Beach House by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone's unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school…and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page. Eldest : ...He no longer believed that life possessed inherent meaning --- not after seeing men torn apart by the Kull, a race of giant Urgals, and the ground a bed of thrashing limbs and the dirt so wet with blood it soaked through the soles of his boots. So begins Christopher Paolini's "Eldest ", the second book of the Inheritance Trilogy, the continuation of Eragon's life as Dragon Rider. I can't believe I actually waited for a month to buy this book. The author was 15 when he wrote Eragon and 21 when he was finished with Eldest. He has borrowed quite a few ideas from LOR and Star Wars, but overall it was like a Hindi Film, all masala and no "spice". Christopher Paolini reminds me of one of my classmates, Mehmood Hussain. When I was in my 7th standard, our Mathematics teacher Mrs. Vaidyalingam used to ask Mehmood to tell us a story and keep us occupied in the free periods. He used to mesmerize us with his dramatic stories .Of course he couldn't keep track of all the loos characters and so he made up most of the stuff on the spot, including bringing a tractor to life. Christopher Paolini's Eldest falls short of all expectations. He tries to fill in the middle pages with day to day happenings which are outright boring and some instances when he himself is lost. I'm sure he'll mature as the years go by. ( Vc crosses his fingers). Interesting stuff you'll find in this book: 1. Eragon goes to the Elves to learn and master magic and is supposed to follow and respect their culture and rules. Elves don't eat meat; they are complete veggies like kk. So one fine Sunday, this dude who likes eating meat, gets really frustrated with the elves and so runs off with the Dragon into the dense forest.He hunts a rabbit, cooks the meat and is about to eat it when Boom ,he realizes that ... (cough cough).. that meat is bad .. something to do with “essence of life” and a lot of other creepy things that flew over my head. The Dragon Saphira listens to him patiently and then eyeing the meat, she says," So you won’t eat meat?". Its an emotional scene and Eragon with tears running down his cheeks replies "No". The Dragon does the only other thing to do, "gulum" eats the meat. (Burp). 2. I’m not going to comment on "the religion and existence of GOD talk “,that Eragon has with his teacher. Heavy stuff. 3.Eragon breaks his bow during his training session and the dragon looks at him and says, " Oh great! now you will need a new stick thrower". 4. Here's another shocker, although Eragon is human ,during a festival in which all the elves are making merry ( read: drinking alcohol) and are doing the "boogie woogie" , he is suddenly transformed into an Elf. Yep with pointed ears, long face and the elvish smile.