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"A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is murdered, bringing chaos to their curated idyll. She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it... Ciara Murphy has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success - a picture perfect...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Children's New Books: October 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
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"Sona Sharma's house is full of people who joke often and argue sometimes. Relatives come unannounced, the phone rings frequently and friends drop in all the time. Then one day Amma tells Sona she is going to have a baby. Is that good? Sona isn't sure -- she has always enjoyed being an only child -- and straight away she has a word with her best friend, Elephant. When Sona learns that there will be a baby naming ceremony, she is determined to find...
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The elements which make up The Moonstone--a purloined Indian jewel which carries with it a mysterious curse, a stolid British police sergeant, a drama of theft and murder in a spacious country home--have been repeated, in slightly varying guises, throughout much of the detective fiction to which Wilkie Collins' popular 1868 novel gave birth.
7) Bindi babes
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Series
Bindi babes trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
Three Indian-British sisters team up to marry off their traditional, nosy aunt and get her out of the house.
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Series
Ash Mistry chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
When British schoolboy Ash Mistry goes to India for a vacation, he quickly falls into a world of rakshasas, or demons, overseen by the evil Lord Alexander Savage.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Over the course of her glittering literary career, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote some of the most wonderful novels of the twentieth century and screenplays to some of the most beloved films - but she was also a master of the short story form. This stunning new collection brings together the jewels in the crown of her writing: it is a showcase of astonishing storytelling power.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges...
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Growing up with her family in Mumbai, India, sixteen-year-old Jeeta disagrees with much of her mother's traditional advice about how to live her life and tries to be more modern and independent.
14) Bhangra babes
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Series
Bindi babes trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
As their auntie's wedding day approaches, the Indian-British Dhillon sisters try to rescue her from her fiancé's meddling aunt while also competing against one another for the affections of the new, handsome boy at school.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed Pival Sengupta books a trip Kolkota to New York and then on a cross-country journey to California, where she hopes to uncover the truth about her beloved son, Rahi. A year ago Rahi told his parents he was gay. As far as her husband Ram was concerned, Rahi died that day. But the tour guide, Satya, has never left the five boroughs. And the two will be accompanied by Rebecca Elliot, a young actress, is along for the ride as a chaperone....
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On a small Pacific island, a brother and sister tune in to a breaking news radio bulletin. It is 1985, and an Indian grocer has just been attacked by nativists aligned with the recent military coup. Now, fear and shock are rippling through the island's deeply-rooted Indian community as racial tensions rise to the brink. Bhumi hears this news from her locked-down dorm room in the capital city. She is the ambitious, intellectual standout of the family--the...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a British Indian woman's life hits rock bottom, she decides to change her stars by falling in love...with herself--a hilarious, heartfelt story from outrageously funny novelist Radhika Sanghani. Nina didn't plan to spend her thirtieth birthday in jail, yet here she is in her pajamas, locked in a holding cell. There's no Wi-Fi, no wine, no carbs, and no one to celebrate with. Unfortunately, it gives Nina plenty of time to reflect on her screwed-up...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spies about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another--a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love. The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means...
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Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
20) Bollywood babes
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Series
Bindi babes trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Indian-British Dhillon sisters open their home to a down-on-her-luck former movie star from India and employ her talents to raise money for their school.
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