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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy |
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down … |
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The Volcano
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Sawarana Candana |
Based on the partition of India in 1947. |
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The grandmother's tale and selected stories
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Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan |
Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love-stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered child wh… |
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The insider
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P. V. Narasimha Rao |
Novel set against the contemporary political situation in India. |
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Bollywood nights
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Shobha Dé |
Bollywood is no place for a vulnerable, small-town girl like Aasha Rani. But that doesn't stop her mother from pushing her into a world of exploitation and bedroom casting calls. Aasha has no choice … |
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The story of little Babaji
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Helen Bannerman |
A retelling of the well-known tale in which a little Indian boy finally outwits the succession of tigers that want to eat him. |
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Foreign body
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Robin Cook |
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic UCLA medical student on a desperate search for answers, in this chilling tale from the master of the medical thriller.
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Veils of Silk
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Mary Jo Putney |
Gaunt and wearing an eye patch, Major Ian Cameron returns to India after being freed from horrendous captivity in Central Asia. Thoughts of his beautiful fiancée helped him survive his imprisonment, … |
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The case of the missing servant
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Tarquin Hall |
Light-hearted cosy mystery set in Gurgaon and Lutyens's New Delhi. Satiric but kind. |
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Bengal's Heart
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Lora Leigh |
Reporter Cassa Hawkins has always supported Breed rights—especially in light of a specimen like Cabal St. Laurents, the epitome of the male animal. But when the Breeds are incriminated in a series of… |
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The Sari Shop Widow
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Shobhan Bantwal |
Pungent curry...sweet fried onions...incense...colorful beads...lush fabrics. Shobhan Bantwal's compelling new novel is set on the streets of Edison, New Jersey's Little India, where a young business… |
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Where the serpent lives
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Ruth Padel |
Why is Rosamund so paralyzed by Tyler and his secrets? The whole world was once in love with her. Now, married to the dangerously charismatic Tyler, estranged from her conservationist father, despair… |
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Hot, hot roti for Dada-ji
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F. Zia |
Aneel and his grandfather, Dada-ji, tell stories, use their imaginations, and make delicious roti, a traditional Indian flatbread. |
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The wedding
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Imraan Coovadia |
Ismet Nassim, a clerk from Bombay, impulsively marries a beautiful women he saw standing next to a village well. Ismet soon learns that even after a move to South Africa, his marriage will not be a h… |
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Guardian of the dawn
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Richard Zimler |
In late-sixteenth-century Goa, young Tiago Zarco confronts the long reach of the Inquisition as he fights to save his family and preserve his relationship with the Hindu girl he loves. |
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Homeless bird
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Gloria Whelan |
From the Publisher: Gloria Whelan's National Book Award-winning novel chronicles the breathtaking story of a remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen… |
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Souls of angels
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Tom Eidson |
Sister Ria made a promise on her mother's deathbed that she would care for her wayward father. And, when he is charged with the murder of a prostitute, she is called upon to act on her word. Reluctan… |
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A beautiful lie
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Irfan Master |
In the days leading up to the partition of India in 1947, thirteen-year-old Bilal devises an elaborate scheme to keep his dying father from hearing the news about the country's division. |
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The hope factory
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Lavanya Sankaran |
Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that's how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of th… |
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No country
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Kalyan Ray |
Traces the experiences of a young freedom fighter in mid-nineteenth-century Dublin whose best friend and daughter escape the potato famine by moving to America before their respective descendants mov… |
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