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Summary: Recognizing ritualistic injuries on a murder victim from a memory compromised by his opium addiction, Captain Sam Wyndham, aided by sidekick Surrender-Not Banerjee, struggles to solve two mysteries while hiding his personal demons from the Calcutta police force.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMassey, 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: 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 STUStuart, 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 STUCleverly, Barbara.
Summary: When his traveling companion is killed at his side while they drive through the Indian countryside, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands investigates and finds himself digging into another related murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CleveRaybourn, Deanna.
Summary: Lady Julia and her detective husband, Nicholas Brisbane, join Julia's siblings in tracking down a murderer in India. Set in 1889, the mystery explores India's colonial tensions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P RAYWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHECornwell, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORMassey, 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 MASSlaughter, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLACleverly, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEMukherjee, Abir
Summary: Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-Not Banerjee, are back for another exotic adventure set in 1920s India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKJames, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOTTScott, Paul
Summary: The decline of British power in India in its last two years of Imperial rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOOza, Janika
Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZAKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Waking up in Morocco with no memory of her identity, Mary Russell is enmeshed in the political and military uprisings of Europe, while Sherlock Holmes taps the assistance of T. E. Lawrence to restore Mary's memory and prevent a full-scale war that threatens countless lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KINTodd, Charles
Summary: "Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed an inseparable bond on the dangerous Northwest Frontier where her father's Regiment held the Khyber Pass against all intruders. It was Simon who taught Bess to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODRazak, 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 RAZKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Waking up in Morocco with no memory of her identity, Mary Russell is enmeshed in the political and military uprisings of Europe, while Sherlock Holmes taps the assistance of T. E. Lawrence to restore Mary's memory and prevent a full-scale war that threatens countless lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction King 2012Massey, Sujata
Summary: "India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASHemnani, 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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Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSmith-Llera, Danielle
Summary: In 1493, eleven-year-old Cocuyo endeavors to find her place within the Taíno community on the island of Quisqueya, but when Europeans arrive bringing the threat of invasion, disease, and enslavement, she is determined to help preserve the culture she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024