Whelan, 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 WHEBadani, Sejal
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 2018Whelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEMassey, 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: When New York journalist Jaya suffers her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage, she is desperate to assuage her deep anguish. Going to India to uncover answers to her family's past, she is intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences. Ravi, her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant, reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BADTodd, 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 TODCornwell, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 1998
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Summary: The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines, and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven with suppressed conflict. Prince Adhir was a modernizer whose attitudes--and romantic relationships--may have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: "Surviving the infamous battle of Assaye, Richard Sharpe has been promoted for his gallantry and skill assisting Sir Arthur Wellesley - the future Duke of Wellington - in overcoming the rebellious Mahratta confederation. But though the war with the Mahratta seems near its end, Sharpe, now an officer in Wellesley's army, faces a battle of a different kind among his own ranks"--Print ed. jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Audio Books 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COROza, 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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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, 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 MASCleverly, Barbara.
Summary: Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is sent to help a Maharahah hunt a tiger that has been terrorizing the countryside, but Joe's suspicions are raised when the choice of weapons for the expedition seems more appropriate for hunting humans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2005
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Summary: In the days of the British Raj in 1919, Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard detective newly arrived in Calcutta, is confronted with the murder of a British official who was found with a note in his mouth warning the British to leave India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKStuart, 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 STURaybourn, 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 RAYCleverly, 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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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 MASMassey, Sujata
Summary: "India's only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay's streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third instalment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 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 SLAMukherjee, 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 MUKPatel, Shona
Summary: Despite being born under an unlucky star, things begin to change for Layla in the spring of 1943. Powerful changes sweep through India following the second World War, and Layla finds that her life in colonial India is rapidly disintegrating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATKelkar, Supriya
Summary: Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when ten-year-old Anjali's mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother's work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KELSummary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007