LaRocca, Rajani
Summary: When his grandfather, who makes masala chai each morning for the family, sprains his ankle, impatient Aarav decides to make the chai himself, but when his rushing causes him to miss some crucial steps, he must learn to slow down to get the recipe right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: When Zimdalamashkermishkada starts a new school, he decides to shrink his name to the shorter, simpler Zim, but when his new friend Elly sees him for who he truly is, Zimdalamashkermishkada finds the confidence to step proudly into his long name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARChouhan, Anu
Summary: Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEKCharaipotra, Sona
Summary: At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHABaljeet 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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Summary: 1985. An Indian grocer has just been attacked by nativists aligned with the recent military coup. Now, fear and shock are rippling through Indian community on a small Pacific island as racial tensions rise to the brink.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022
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Summary: Grief is a creature of many faces as Simran discovers when her mother, the lynchpin of her family, dies. Faced with the disintegration of her marriage and her estrangement from her own daughter, she struggles to make sense of her world and how things have come to be. With her mother’s death, Simran is haunted by memories and questions for which she has no answers. As the life she has carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
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Summary: 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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Summary: Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up andmove out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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Summary: Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEEHemnani, Ritu
Summary: Twelve-year-old Raj is happiest flying kites with his best friend, Iqbal. As their kites soar, Raj feels free, like his beloved India soon will be, and he can't wait to celebrate their independence. But when a British lawyer draws a line across a map, splitting India in two, Raj is thrust into a fractured world. With Partition declared, Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim families are torn apart--and Raj's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEMAdiga, Aravind
Summary: A young illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between risking deportation and reporting the murder of a female client.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Adiga 2020Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Summary: When nine disparate characters are trapped together after an earthquake, each of them takes a turn telling "one amazing thing" about his or her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIVRushdie, Salman.
Summary: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, fall earthward from a bombed jet toward the sea, singing rival verses in an eternal wrestling match between good and evil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSDivakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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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, Call number: FIC DEVKaur Deo, Jesmeen
Summary: High school debater TJ Powar, after she and her cousin become the subject of an ugly meme, makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking, and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful... but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DEOUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: Tehmina Sethna's beloved husband has died this past year and she is visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home. Now Tehmina is being asked to choose between her old, familiar life in India and a new one in Ohio with her son, his American wife, and their child. A middle-aged Parsi woman, Tehmina is also confronted with another choice: whether to live in America as a stranger or as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UmrFarooki, Roopa.
Summary: Follows the machinations of a Bangladeshi-Pakistani family whose penchant for telling lies shapes the destinies of every member, from Henna, who lies her way into a marriage to a wealthy romantic, to her daughter Shona, who struggles with the superficialties binding her loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARLalli, Sonya
Summary: "Acclaimed author Sonya Lalli is back with a delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide. Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knitIndian community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai must now start from the beginning: learning who she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LALAhmad, A. X.
Summary: A gripping, evocative thriller about a disgraced Sikh Indian Army captain who works as the caretaker for a U.S. Senator's Martha's Vineyard estate, and becomes ensnared in the Senator's shadowy world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013