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The patients of the sacred heart hospital for all ailments need a miracle, and alice bhatti may be just. Alice is a christian in an islamic world, ensnared in the red tape of hospital bureaucracy, trapped by the caste system, torn between her duty to her patients, her father and her husbandwho is a former bodybuilding champion, now an apprentice to the nefarious gentlemans squad of the karachi police, and about to drag alice into a situation so dangerous that perhaps not even a miracle will be able to save them. Our lady of alice bhatti by mohammed hanif overdrive rakuten. Allah almighty accepted all her prayers and blessed her with a bright future. A case of exploding mangoes kindle edition by hanif, mohammed.
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