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81) The 86th village
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Reshma's coming to Nilgi was neither accident nor coincidence. Nilgi was a village easily avoided, set as it was at the end of a road, on the banks of the Krishna River. If If you came to Nilgi, it was because you were meant to.
Throughout Southern India, eighty-six villages are set to completely submerge due to a government-sanctioned dam across the Krishna River.
Nilgi, one such village on the banks of the mighty River Krishna, has so far escaped...
82) Naming Maya
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter-her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call "journalism." As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed author Indu Sundaresan returns to seventeenth-century India as two princesses struggle for supremacy of their father's kingdom. Trapped in the shadow of the magnificent tomb their grief-stricken father is building for his beloved deceased wife, the emperor's daughters compete for everything: control over the imperial harem, their father's affection, and the future of their country. They are forbidden to marry and instead choose...
88) The glass house
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch's life hasn't gone the way she planned. She and her husband, Malcolm, have drifted apart; her burgeoning art career came to nothing; and when she looks in the mirror, she sees disappointment. But at least she will always have Balmarra, her family's grand Scottish estate. When her estranged brother's wife arrives unannounced, Antonia is instantly suspicious. What besides an inheritance dispute could have brought her...
89) Monsoon summer
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First US edition, Reinforced trade edition.
Language
English
Description
"When she learns about the climate crisis at school, Sona decides to take it upon herself to convince her whole suburban Indian neighborhood to take action, making plans for big changes that not everyone is on board with--at first"--
92) Jasmine skies: 2
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
""Fourteen-year-old Mira Levenson travels from London to Kolkata to meet her aunt and her cousin and to find out why the families haven't spoken in years."--
93) Line of descent
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A classic crime narrative in the backdrop of Delhi merges a mafia family at war with each other as an undercover officer assists in their downfall.
96) Blue jasmine
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she...
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