Bookrack for the week (March 28 to Apr 3)

New releases of the week (March 28 to April 3)

The Bomber Mafia

Malcolm Gladwell

Allen Lane, pp 256, Rs 799

This book follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius, Winston Churchill’s forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot, and the bomber commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would order the bloodiest attack of the Second World War.

Ganesha’s Temple

Rohit Gaur

Penguin, pp 280, Rs NA

This fantasy book for middle graders presents Ganesha and Garuda in an entirely new light, while subtly conveying themes of truth, good versus evil, faith and duty. It is the first book in the Temple Wars series.

Homework

Lavanya Karthik

Duckbill, pp 40, Rs 175

Children’s author Lavanya Karthik returns with a warm, funny book about that dreaded word ‘homework’. The ‘miss’ gives some homework: collect an egg, keep it warm, keep it safe and watch it hatch. How could it turn out so badly?

The Art Of A Happy Exit

K Srikrishna

HarperBusiness,
pp 296, Rs 499

This book helps entrepreneurs get prepared for all that selling their business entails. The book covers not just the outside game — positioning, prospecting and executing, but the critical inside game — the mental and emotional preparation needed.

Mr Humble And Dr Butcher

Brandy Schillace

S&S, pp 320, Rs 899

This book follows the author’s decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, global politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death.