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Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
India, 1920. The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines, and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven with suppressed conflict. Prince Adhir was a modernizer whose attitudes--and romantic relationships--may have upset the more religious elements of his country,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings readers intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India in the midst of social and political upheaval. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow's whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she ventures outside her family compound only three times. She...
64) Monsoon
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child describes waiting for the monsoon rains to arrive and the worry that they will not come.
66) Animal's people
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Ever since That Night, the residents of Khaufpur have lived a perilous existence. Their world is poisoned. Nobody has received compensation or help for the chemical leak, least of all Animal, as he is known, whose spine twisted at a young age, leaving him to walk on all fours. Though he inhabits a dark kind of half-life, he knows what love is. He has long harboured feelings for his friend Nisha but since she is enamoured of his friend Zafar he cannot...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The sequel to Shantaram continues Australian fugitive Lin's search for love and faith in a Bombay that has come under the rule of a new generation of mafia dons and where Lin becomes trapped by his married soulmate and an increasingly violent mission.
70) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traveling to the southern tip of India, Sejal, Mommy, and Pati find their way to Kanyakumari, where three oceans meet, and delight in making it to the end of the earth together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Munhak Tongne
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Korean
Description
Seven years ago, Vivek "Vicky" Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered bartender Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi, simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai has been killed at the party he was throwing to celebrate his acquittal. The police recover six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi; an American tourist infatuated with...
80) Pájaro sin hogar
Author
Series
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
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