Massey, 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 MASJames, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Cleverly, 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 CleveCleverly, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLERaybourn, 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 RAYMassey, Sujata
Summary: "Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay. Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Massey, 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 MASPariat, Janice
Summary: One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARRushdie, Salman
Summary: "In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUSJamyang Norbu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCornwell, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORDivakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Summary: "India, 1947. In a village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor. Priya: intelligent and idealistic, resolved to follow in her father's footsteps and become a doctor though society frowns on it. Deepa: the beauty, determined to make a marriage that will bring her family joy and status. Jamini: devout, sharp-eyed, and a talented quiltmaker, with deeper passions than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIVJoshi, Alka
Summary: "Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist--and confidante--to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own. Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Joshi 2020Roy, Anuradha
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter, The Folded Earth, and An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present-day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small-town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYWhelan, 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, Call number: JFIC WHEStuart, 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 STUMassey, 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: "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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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 RAZRiley, 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 RILStuart, 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 STUGhosh, Amitav.
Summary: Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOJoshi, Alka
Summary: Back in the Pink City where he was once a wily street urchin, Malik, assigned to help Samir Singh's feckless son Ravi build the new public cinema, finds his livelihood, reputation and the people he loves most threatened after Ravi implicates him in a ruthless scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOSGhosh, Amitav
Summary: On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2008