December 3,2015

New Arrival

Summary of The Book Scenes From A Writer’s Life: A Memoir starts off by highlighting Ruskin Bond’s early years, six of which were spent at Jamnagar. His memories of the place are quite bittersweet. He describes the time he spent playing with his sister Ellen at the Ram Vilas Palace grounds. The author also writes about the bitter relationship between his parents that left him with a lot of insecurity. His unhappiness worsens when his father passes away when he is only ten years old. He stays on with his mother and stepfather, who pay little or no attention to his needs and requirements. He keeps himself occupied with the help of books and some friends. Most of his time is spent on his own, during which he decides that he will walk the

August 1,2015

New Arrival

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to May comb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her fathers attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood. An instant classic.

December 23,2014

Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is back!! Books, journals, encyclopedias, games and many more will be available on sale at the Scholastic Book Fair. The Fair will on the 24th of December, 2014 in the school basement between 8:30 am and 1:00 pm.

August 4,2014

BOOK MARK MAKING COMPETITION 2014

Vivek High School Library is pleased to announce the winners of annual book mark making competition held on Friday 25july,2014 The following students entries were adjudged to be the best in class. IV- A Saanvi Singla, Rishika Sharda, Manya Sethi IV-B Kritika Sawhney, Aabia Kahai, Yasmin Sawhney IV-C Aditya Mahajan, Nishita Beri, Devraj Sigh, Rishita Gulati IV-D Aanya Vij, Ruhi Bishnoi, Saira Sehgal V-A Manveet kaur, Anisha Kumar, Raghav Kaushish V-B Bhav hunar Pannu, Varleen Kaur, Ardas Kaur Virdi, Arin Batheja V-C Mannasvi Jain, Mayush Kumar, Hargun Dhillon V-D Dhriti Jain, Aarav Monga, Mallika Handa VI-A Janvi Rattan Atre, Bani Bawa, Gul Bindra,Mehar VI-B Nehal Sharma, Kashish Seth ,Prachi Bhatia, Sania Chopra VI-C Ganya S

May 22,2014

New Arrivals

The story of the book revolves around Retd. Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his five daughters, all named in alphabetical order from A to E. Each daughter has their own opinions and way of life and come with their own set of eccentricities. Debjani, the fourth daughter and the protagonist of the novel gets a job as a news reader with DeshDarshan, the national channel. With the appearance of Dylan Singh Shekhawat, a christian-rajput and the son of her father’s closest friend, things take a whole new turn, with romance brewing in the backdrop. The other sisters, Anjini, Binodini, Chandrakanta and Eshwari make the book witty and spot-on funny.

May 22,2014

New Arrivals

I Am Malala tells the story of a young girl who survived the Taliban shooting in Swat Valley and stood for her right to education. The book focuses not only on Malala’s story but also her fight for the right to education of other girls. The book further focuses on how Malala’s family supported her and stressed on her education in a society which crowns sons. Not only is the book gripping, but inspiring as well and leaves you with a feeling of remorse for taking what we get easy for granted.

May 22,2014

New Arrivals

Elif Shafak’s compelling novel, The Forty Rules of Love, follows Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery as she examines her life and the concept of love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love. . . Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella’s life – an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and ve

May 22,2014

New Arrivals

The Dalai Lama's Cat and Art of Purring is about Dalai Lama, His Holiness and his cat, HHC (His Holiness Cat). The book is focused around happiness and what does it take to be truly happy from within. The book is based from the perspective of his Cat, and what really makes her purr?

May 22,2014

New Arrivals

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion,' she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kazanci men die in their early forties, so it's a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's cousin comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.

May 22,2014

New Arrivals

The book contains some of the most noted conversations that the author, Bagchi Sobroto, has had with the people he had interviewed for a column he wrote for Forbes almost three years ago. Some of the conversations from the Zen Garden that are included in this book are with the Dalai Lama, Ekta Kapoor, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Dr Devi Shetty, Nandan Nilekani and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. All of them talk about their success stories in their respective lines of business and how they managed to reach where they have today. The book is an inspirational read for every youth today.