Rajurkar, Anuradha D.
Summary: Rani Kelkar never lied to her parents-- until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in-- his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art-- make him her mother's worst nightmare. When Oliver's troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAJMukherjee, Oindrila
Summary: "After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing--and no one--here is as it appears. Ultimately, it will take an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKGupta, Ruchira
Summary: Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GUPJames, Tania
Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMPatel, Reema
Summary: "A savvy former street child working at a human rights law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival"-- Rakhi is a twenty-three-year-old haunted by the grisly aftermath of an incident that led to the loss of her best friend eleven years ago. Constantly reminded she doesn't belong, Rakhi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATWright, Camron Steve
Summary: "Based on the true story of Taj Rowland, who was kidnapped as a child from his village in Southern India, sold to an orphanage, and then adopted by an American couple."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WRIMurali, Ram
Summary: "The White Lotus meets Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel: both a sophisticated locked-room mystery in the tradition of Agatha Christie, and a provocative literary whodunit for the twenty-first century. Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London's poshest clubs and on the squash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MuraliMassey, Sujata
Summary: "India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire--but a servant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASNayak, Hemant
Summary: In a South Indian jungle, Adya, who possesses the rare and coveted ability to wake electric machines, reluctantly teams up with a charming thief in a quest to rescue her lost sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NAYRushdie, Salman
Summary: "In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. After speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, she was cruelly fired. Searching for some other way to support herself and her granddaughter, Maya, Bhimi's path intersects with Parvati, a bitter, taciturn older woman. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC UMRSindu, SJ
Summary: "In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child's blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.Kalki is confronted with three trials in his tenth year-tests of his power that will prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINMassey, Sujata
Summary: "India, 1922. Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing when the grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire--but a servant, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly putting herself in harm's way. Perveen learns that Sunanda, who's still ailing from her burns, has been arrested on trumped-up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MASSahota, Sunjeev
Summary: "A transfixing novel about two unforgettable characters seeking to free themselves-one from the expectations of women in early 20th century Punjab, and the other from the weight of life in the contemporary Indian diaspora Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she and her now-sisters spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAHBajaj, Varsha
Summary: "A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAJCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BajajRazak, Melody
Summary: "The saga of one family's trials through India's tumultuous partition-when Pakistan split from India-exploring its impact on women, what it means to be othered, and the redemptive power of family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAZAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: In Rajasthan with her archaeologist parents Reeya Rai finds an ancient stepwell, with an underwater door bearing a mysterious symbol which may be the key to a legendary treasure--if she can come up with an invention and find it before her rival Elsie Acker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIBaljeet Basra, Celina
Summary: In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BALJoshi, Alka
Summary: Back in the Pink City where he was once a wily street urchin, Malik, assigned to help Samir Singh's feckless son Ravi build the new public cinema, finds his livelihood, reputation and the people he loves most threatened after Ravi implicates him in a ruthless scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOSDavies, Carys
Summary: Taking refuge in a mission house in a remote hill town in India, an Englishman fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life bonds with a Padre's daughter against a backdrop of escalating religious tensions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAVBasu, Samit
Summary: "The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large-yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future. "They'd known the end times were coming but hadn't known they'd be multiple choice." Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom/A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASVerghese, Abraham
Summary: From the New York Times--bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC VERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction VergheseUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: "Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UMRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UMRJoshi, Alka
Summary: After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 0000