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Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This is the last thing Helen, young, impetuous, Californian, wants to hear from her Sikh lover Tej, whom she is determined to marry against all opposition. After the initial shock, however, Helen's innate optimism reasserts itself and she carries on with her preparations to follow Tej back to India, a country she has known only through history texts. During the long voyage by ship to India, the various fears she has managed to suppress begin to gnaw...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay."-- Washington Post Book World "Bracingly honest." --New York Times Book Review The author of Bombay Time , If Today Be Sweet , and The Weight of Heaven , Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us --vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, addictively readable novel of honor, tradition,...
Author
Series
Tiger's curse volume 4
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
With three of the goddess Durga's quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tiger's curse. But the trio's greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Adaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. It's a race against time--and the evil sorcerer Lokesh--in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume of the bestselling Tiger's Curse series,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fantastical... Through the thoughts of a rare black goat and the couple who adopt it, readers witness famines, death, and moments of beauty." -- National Geographic Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country's farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist - and confidante - to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own...Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Return to a world of Victorian mystery and magic with New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn's fan-favorite Lady Julia Grey historical series Lady Julia Grey and her husband, detective Nicholas Brisbane, are ready to put their investigative talents to work again. At the urging of Julia's eccentric family, they hurry to India to aid an old friend, the newly widowed Jane Cavendish. Living on a tea plantation with the remnants of her husband's...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A troubled European family struggles to make a life in India during WWII in this "absorbing" novel from a New York Times -bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Eight years ago, Louise Pool left her husband, Charles, in India, fleeing a marriage marked by anger, disillusion, and mistrust. Now, with Europe engulfed in the flames of World War II and Germany's Nazi juggernaut rolling through occupied France, Louise is reluctantly returning to East Bengal,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl and a shape-shifting tiger find romance, adventure, and a dangerous quest in this New York Times bestselling fantasy series debut.
When Oregon teenager Kelsey Hayes took a summer job with a local circus, she expected to make some extra money. She never thought she'd be heading to India with a mysterious white tiger named Ren-or trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. But that's exactly what happened.
Now she's face-to-face...
Author
Series
Tiger's curse volume 2
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to pick up the pieces of her life and push aside her feelings for Ren. But danger lurks around the corner, forcing her to return to India where she embarks on a second quest-this time with Ren's dark, bad-boy brother Kishan, who has also fallen prey to the Tiger's Curse. Fraught with danger, spellbinding dreams, and choices of the heart, TIGER'S QUEST brings the trio one step closer to breaking the spell that binds them....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Powerful ... Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, The Weight of Heaven packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level ... Umrigar ... is a descriptive master." -- Christian Science Monitor From Thrity Umrigar, bestselling author of The Space Between Us , comes The Weight of Heaven . In the rich tradition of the acclaimed works of Indian writers such as Rohinton Mistry, Akhil Sharma, Indra Sinha, and Jhumpa Lahiri, The Weight...
11) Siddhartha
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Series
Language
English
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Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's most lauded book: The enchanting story of one man's journey in search of enlightenment Born into the privileged life of a Brahmin, young Siddhartha came of age surrounded by the teachings of the Buddha. But despite his earnest pursuit of enlightenment, Siddhartha is left unfulfilled. Determined to find his own path to the nirvana, Siddhartha leaves home to embark on a spiritual voyage, spurning the comforts of his...
12) Soul Survivor
Author
Publisher
ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Have you ever felt that you've lived a past life? On a sunny Kansas afternoon, six-year-old Skylar Robbins experiences her first flashback and claims to have once been Radha Joshi, a young woman who lived in India. As Skylar's nightmares and flashbacks worsen, her child-psychologist and past-life regressonist are convinced Skylar is recalling a genuine former lifetime with a tragic end. Hoping to find relief for their daughter and to patch up their...
13) Wives to Burn
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Desire and deceit bring an American detective to colonial India, where the sweltering heat gives way to cold-hearted murder in this Golden Age mystery.
William Shakespeare Gabriel once thought he would try and fulfill his middle name's potential, but he was whisked from journalism to the pursuit of crime. Now, the private detective is in India on the eve of World War II. He's been hired to find Fred Oaks, the black sheep son of an American sugar...
Author
Series
Tiger's curse volume 3
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The third book in the gripping Tiger's Curse series! With the head-to-head battle against the villainous Lokesh behind her, Kelsey confronts a new heartbreak: in the wake of his traumatic experience, her beloved Ren no longer remembers who she is. As the trio continues their quest by challenging five cunning and duplicitous dragons, Ren and Kishan once more vie for her affections-leaving Kelsey more confused than ever. Fraught with danger, filled...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Corporate hijinks mar the breathtaking scenery of the Himalayas-and set the stage for murder-in this Golden Age mystery from the author of Bengal Fire.
A construction overseer for Blenn Engineering Works, Paul Woodring, thinks he's below the notice of Calcutta business mogul Alexander Blenn, but his singular skills are needed for a delicate mission: renewing a twenty-year-old concession that gives Blenn exclusive rights to develop mechanical...
17) The Dark Horse
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The disappearance of a majestic Thoroughbred unites a community in 1930s India in "one of the greatest horse books ever written.... Moving, and highly original" (Lauren St. John, author of The White Giraffe). In Calcutta, India, John Quillan cares for racehorses belonging to wealthy owners, and Mother Morag, who lives just down the road and leads a group of nuns working with Calcutta's poor, loves to watch these beautiful animals in action. Now,...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A new empire is rising It is 1744, and Nicholas Ballantyne, a young Scotsman dreaming of a life as laird of his ancestral estate finds himself quite unexpectedly on the Winchester , a ship bound for Hindustan, seeking to begin a new life as a 'writer' on the rolls of the British East India Company. On board, he meets the spirited and mercurial Robert Clive, determined -- at whatever cost -- to make a fortune in a land of opportunity. Over the years,...
19) Bombay Mail
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Death and fast action take place on the crack Trans-Indian Express . . . Inspector Prike . . . encounters rubies, secretaries, cobras, priests, spies." -Time
The assassination of the Governor of Bengal propels a Golden Age mystery that introduces readers to shrewd British CID Insp. Leonidas Prike. Set on a train from Calcutta to Bombay, Lawrence G. Blochman's debut novel races through the Indian landscape, giving Inspector Prike twenty-seven...
Author
Series
Word travelers volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A new chapter book series from bestselling author Raj Haldar that explores etymology and world cultures using an exciting, action-packed mystery story!
Eddie and Molly-Jean are next-door neighbors and best friends. One Saturday, Eddie's mom sends him up to the attic to get his great-grandpa's most prized possession (a book, of course). Eddie and Molly-Jean are suddenly transported to India, where they must use their word knowledge to solve a mystery...
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