Summary: Trying to add some spice to her marriage, Ila prepares a special lunchbox for her husband at work. Unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another worker, Saajan. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a note in the next day's lunchbox. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the communication soon evolves into an unexpected...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN LUN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LUN
Summary: "Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoDwivedi, Avani
Summary: "It's Friday night, and on the bustling streets of Mumbai, a girl heads out with her family to the cinema. As she rides through the winding blocks with her maa, baba, and bhai, old melodies fill the car. And as she captures the sights and sounds of the city with her camera, she imagines a movie unfolding before her eyes. A choreographed dance sequence atop a long line of cars! When they arrive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DWIPatterson, James
Summary: When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky, he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million, he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women - seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2014
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Summary: In a Mumbai market, twin detectives Ethan and Ella investigate why a spice seller's spices have suddenly gone bad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PARV, Ram
Summary: Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. The avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VRoy, Saumya
Summary: All of Mumbai's memories and possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains at the city's outskirts. In this graveyard of castaway belongings, among the vast, teetering piles of discarded items--medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass, and twisted metal--lives a small, forgotten community of ragpickers. In this sweeping narrative, Saumya Roy follows the life of Farzana, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House, a division of Astra Publishing House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.728 ROYKelman, Stephen
Summary: John Lock has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England--decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss, and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife--and has come to India to meet his destiny. A destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. John has come to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kelman 2016Patterson, James
Summary: When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women - seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2014Bajaj, 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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Summary: Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 305.5 BOOFlock, Elizabeth
Summary: "In twenty-first-century India, tradition is colliding with Western culture, a clash that touches the lives of everyday Indians from the wealthiest to the poorest. While ethnicity, class, and religion are influencing the nation's development, so too are pop culture and technology--an uneasy fusion whose impact is most evident in the institution of marriage. The Heart Is a Shifting Sea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 FLOScott-Clark, Cathy
Summary: Describes what took place during the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai when terrorists assailed the luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and how the combined efforts of courageous staff and guests helped keep the death toll down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 SCOMassey, 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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Summary: Ria Parkar is Bollywood's favorite Ice Princess--beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof--until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin's wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVFranqui, Leah
Summary: When Rachel Meyer, a thirtysomething foodie from New York, agrees to move to Mumbai with her Indian-born husband, Dhruv, she knows some culture shock is inevitable. Blessed with a curious mind and an independent spirit, Rachel is determined to learn her way around the hot, noisy, seemingly infinite metropolis she now calls home. But Rachel's sense of adventure is sorely tested when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Franqui 2020Massey, 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 MASPatel, 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 PATSheth, Kashmira.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHESwamy, Shruti
Summary: 'A young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya's childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the stifling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAMassey, Sujata
Summary: "November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: The bestselling author of The Space Between Us and Reese's Book Club pick Honor delivers a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the importance of forgiveness. 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 from a young pregnant girl--and to see his elderly mother for the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024