Every line below lives inside a real book by a Pakistani author. Read the quote, meet the book — and take the story home.
“The father inseft and his mates and the mother inseft’s friends and now the village children all looked for a week and three days after that but they did not succeed in finding the lost kid.”

“Later, when she and her husband were alone in their room and Waleed had tried to touch her, she had almost gone into hysterics.”

“All of a sudden, his wings started fluttering feebly, like a fish does when taken out of water, like a hen does when her head is cut away.”

“In the name of Allah, live, work, breath, walk, sleep, eat, never spend a day without being thankful son, all will work out by Allah.”

“Spring found him very strange because he was wearing headphones in a party pumped up with loud music.”

“Life is a blessing and it is rich in surprises, do not disappoint yourself or the Creator by not living it the way you are supposed to live it.”

“Now an old man, it seemed as though Hugo had long forgotten what it felt like to have joints that moved freely, without pain.”

“All other lights in my room are switched off and just a little bit of light is coming from the street through the window from where mama is looking out of it in stillness.”

“At night, when the dinner was going to start, I thought that the food would be good but it was not, they were servingshrimps!”

“Had he been overflowing with valiance and honor at that point in time, he would have laid down his life for the sake of relinquishing his honor.”

“The music hummed a gentle tune as the dancer continued her dance, fading with the lights that came from the sky, and filled with essence of life itself.”

Our authors, in their own words and in the press.
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سلمان کا شعری اسلوب بےحد رواں اور منفرد ہے۔ اس کتاب میں ان کی یہی خوبی نمایاں ہے۔ انھوں نے بہت سے موضوعات پر قلم اٹھایا ہے اور ان کے ہر شعر میں شاعری سے محبت جھلکتی ہے۔یہی نہیں بلکہ وہ کمال کی منظرنگاری پیش کرنے کا بھی ہنر جانتے ہیں
ماریہ شہزاد کا تعلق لاہور سے ہے۔ انھوں نے دنیاوی تعلیم کے ساتھ ساتھ دینی تعلیم بھی حاصل کی اور وفاق المدارس سے منسلک رہیں۔ ماریہ نے ناول نورِ سحر کےعلاوہ بہت سے افسانے اور ناولٹ بھی لکھے۔ وہ جذبات کو الفاظ کی صورت میں پرونے کے ہنر سے خواب واقف ہیں۔ مصنفہ کو منظر […]
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ہ ایک ایسی لڑکی کی کہانی ہے جس کی خوش و خرم زندگی میں اچانک ہی سماعت سے محرومی داخل ہو جاتی ہے اور مشکلات اور آزمائشیں اس کے گھر کی راہ دیکھ لیتی ہیں۔ سماعت کی محرومی کا ہمت و حوصلے سے مقابلہ کرنے کی کہانی آپ میں بھی امید کی ایک نئی روح پھونک دے گی۔ اس باہمت لڑکی کی کہانی کے ساتھ ساتھ یہ کتاب اپنے اندر سماعت کے نقائص اور اس کے علاج سے متعلق بھی بیش بہا معلومات رکھتی ہے۔ اس کے علاوہ سماعت کے نقائص سے متعلق لوگوں کی کئی غلط فہمیوں کا بھی ازالہ کرتی ہے۔