L’été des dix-huit ans de Kelsey Hayes fut complètement fou. Le genre de folie à laquelle personne ne croirait jamais. En plus de se battre contre des singes d’eau immortels et de traverser péniblement les jungles de l’Inde, elle est...
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- Author:Houck, ColeenSummary:
- Author:Victor, DivyaSummary:
kith [noun] one's friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations.In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'kith'...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
The novel takes place at a time contemporary to the book’s publication; its setting is India under the British Empire. The title character is a boy of Irish descent who is orphaned and grows up independently in the streets of...
- Author:Campbell, WandaSummary:
This collection “spattered diversely by the trades that we live by” as Pablo Neruda puts it, reflects the variety of influences that have shaped the poet’s craft. Kalamkari (from the Persian for “pen craft”) refers to the hand-painted...
- Author:Tharoor, ShashiSummary:
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from...
- Author:Trautmann, Thomas R.Summary:
India: A Brief History of a Civilization provides a brief overview of a very long period, allowing students to acquire a mental map of the entire history of Indian civilization in a short book. Most comprehensive histories devote a few...
- Author:Rajakumar, MohanalakshmiSummary:
- Author:Rushdie, SalmanSummary:
Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the world’s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island...
- Author:King, 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...
- Author:St. Clair, AnthonySummary:
Travel. Destiny. Beer. When an evil as old as the world awakens, only three wanderers can prevent the annihilation of all life. Nobody in Agamuskara, India, remembers why the river and the ancient city both carry the name "smiling fire...
- Author:Cook, RobinSummary:
During a study break, UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez is shocked to learn that her grandmother died during surgery in New Delhi. Desperate to find out why, she uncovers several other unexplained deaths.
- Author:Young, BerylSummary:
What thirteen-year-old boy wants to travel on a hopeless quest to India with his grandmother? Not Ben Leeson, whose anger about his father’s recent death has led him to escape into the isolated world of computer games. India is the last...
- Author:Begamudré, VenSummary:
In Extended Families: A Memoir of India, award-winning author Ven Begamudre traces the history of both sides of his family, telling a story that is both timeless and universal.
Winner, Regina Public Library Book of the...
- Author:Patterson, James, Sanghi, AshwinSummary:
Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency, needs him back. Jack is setting up a new office in Delhi...
- Author:Singh, JaspreetSummary:
Kirpal Singh is riding the slow train to Kashmir. With India passing by his window, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years. Kirpal, called Kip, is shy and...
- Author:Mishra, VijaySummary:
- Author:Boo, KatherineSummary:
The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a...
- Author:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSummary:
The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her...
- Author:Ghatage, ShreeSummary:
It is the mid-seventies, and Shaila has returned to Bombay for her father's sixtieth birthday party. In the linked stories that follow, Shree Gatage renders an India that can only be revealed by first leaving, and then returning again...
- Author:Shrivastava, MeenalSummary:
As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma's unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents'...