Kamaleśvara
Summary: कमलेश्वर का यह उपन्यास मानवता के दरवाजे पर इतिहास और समय की एक दस्तक है... इस उम्मीद के साथ कि भारत ही नहीं, दुनिया भर में एक के बाद एक दूसरे पाकिस्तान बनाने की लहू से लथपथ यह परम्परा अब खत्म हो...
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Publisher / Publication Date: राजपाल 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.4 FIC KAMNainy, Mamta
Summary: "Ammi weaves the most beautiful saris but never gets to wear any of them. Her two little daughters decide to do something about it--break their piggy bank! But when there isn't enough money to buy Ammi a sari, the two girls must work together to find a solution. Will they be able to buy Ammi the gift she so deserves? With a text full of heart, and bright, cheerful artwork, this story brings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAIMassey, 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: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018Razak, 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 RAZSriram, Meera
Summary: "Asha travels with her parents from America to India to mourn her grandmother's passing. Asha's grief and anger are compounded by the empty yellow suitcase usually reserved for gifts to and from Grandma. What memories will Asha's yellow suitcase hold now that grandmother is gone?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penny Candy Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SRIYashpal.
Summary: Novel based on the fearful experiences undergone by some residents of Lahore during and after the partition of India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lokabhāratī Prakāśana 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.4 FIC YASŚukla, Śrīlāla.
Summary: Novel on deteriorating values in the cities of India as compared to the village life, awarded Sahitya Academy Award.
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Publisher / Publication Date: राजकमल प्रकाशन 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Novel based on the fearful experiences undergone by some residents of Lahore during and after the partition of India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lokabhāratī prakāśana 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.4 FIC YASStuart, V. A.
Summary: With the Sepoy Mutiny still threatening British lives in India, Commander Phillip Hazard volunteers to accompany a special army force to rescue the besieged British garrison at Ghorabad. Hazard and the men of the Shannon's Naval Brigade are put under the command of Colonel Cockayne, a cavalry officer whose own wife and daughter are among those caught in the siege.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUMukherjee, Neel
Summary: What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Five characters in very different circumstances-- from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city-- find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKDivakaruni, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIVStuart, V. A.
Summary: 1857: war is raging in China and from India comes the alarming news of a sepoy mutiny which threatens thousands of British lives in the Bengal Presidency. This is especially alarming news to Commander Phillip Horatio Hazard, for two of his sisters are in India. Anxious for their safety, as well as that of his fellow countrymen, Hazard boards the HMS Shannon, bound for Calcutta. Closely based on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUKipling, Rudyard
Summary: The Jungle Book is a collection of stories. The most famous of these stories include a young boy named Mowgli and his friends Baloo, a sloth bear, and Bagheera, a black panther.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD JFIC KIPKipling, Rudyard
Summary: The animal friends of the boy raised by wolves escort him out of the jungle to keep him safe from the tiger who seeks to kill him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 1986
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Summary: "In this Indian folktale, a young turtle shares a shallow lake with unlikely friends--two geese. But when the lake starts drying up, the stubborn turtle must follow his winged friends' advice, or he'll be left out to dry."--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SOU (Graphic Novel)Riley, Lucinda.
Summary: "From #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILAllen, Nancy Campbell
Summary: "Anthony Blake is in love with his best friends sister, Sophia Elliot. But his plans to court her are put on hold when he is forced to resume his role as an undercover spy for the Crown. A secret document listing the names of the entire network of British spies-including his own has been stolen. To protect Sophia, Anthony cuts off all ties to her and exchanges his life as an honorable earl for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: When a life-saving procedure gives Kimi a new lease on life, she and Rahul, the boy she befriended in her illness, must navigate their undeniable attraction, their lost friendship, complicated family dynamics, and a web of lies to learn the real meaning of courage, loss, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DEVKipling, Rudyard
Summary: Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIPBarker, Nicola
Summary: "From Man Booker-shortlisted, IMPAC Award-winning author Nicola Barker comes an exuberant, multi-voiced new novel mapping the extraordinary life and legacy of a 19th-century Hindu saint. He is only four years older, but still I call him Uncle, and when I am with Uncle I have complete faith in him. I would die for Uncle. I have an indescribable attraction towards Uncle. It was ever thus. To the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARRoy, Arundhati
Summary: "A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYWalt Disney Productions
Summary: The animal friends of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, escort him out of the jungle to keep him safe in Disney's version of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier Enterprises 1993